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General Knowledge MCQs

 Islmait – Complete Notes

 Everyday Science (Chemistry, Biology & Phyiscs)

 Measuring Units

 Muslim Scientists

 Facts About the Universe

 Most Repeated Questions in Previous Exams

 Solved Past Paper of Five Years (G.K & Pakistan Affairs)

 World Events Timeline 2012

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ISLAMIAT

• Istalam is kissing of Hajr Aswad.


• There are 5 fundaments of Islam.
• Tehlil means the recitation of Kalima.
• Deen-e-Hanif is an old name of Islam.
• First institution of Islam is Suffah.
• Haq Mahar in Islam is fixed only 400 misqal.
• Ijma means ageing upon any subject.
• Qayas means reasoning by analogy.
• There are four schools of thought of Islamic Law.
• Janatul Baki is situated in Madina.
• Masjid-e-Hanif is located in Mina.
• JANAT UL MOALA is a graveyard in MECCA.
• Qazaf: false accusation of adultery punishable with 80 lashes.
• Lyla-tul-Barrah means the Night of Forgiveness.
• Karam-un-Katibin means Illustrious writers.
• Oldest mosque on earth is Kaabatullah.
• 1st Kalima=Tayyab, 2nd =Shahadat, 3rd =Tamjeed, 4th =Tauheed, 5th =Astaghfar, 6th =Rad-e-Kufar
• Qiblah means anything in front.
• Saabi is one who changes his religion.
• Sidrat-ul-Mantaha means last tree of the Eternity.
• Jaabi is one who collects Zakat.
• First collection of Ahadith is Sahifah-e-Saadiqa.
• Saying of Prophet is called Wahi Ghair Matlloo.
• In iman-e-Mufassal essential beliefs are 7 in number.
• The most exalted angels are four.
• Greatest angel as per Islam is Jibra’eel.
• Each human being is attended permanently by two angels.
• Barzakh: time period between death and Day of Judgment.
• Another name of surah Ali-Isra is bani Israel.

PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH)


• Holy Prophet was born in 571 A.D 22nd April.
• Father’s name, Hazat Abdullah.
• Mother’ Name, Hazrat Amna.
• Maternal Grand Father’s name Wahib bins Abdul Munnaf.
• Maternal Grandmother, Batarah.
• Real name of Abdu Mutalib was Shaba.
• Grandmother name, Fatima.
• 10 is the number of Uncles and 6 aunts.
• Prophet journeyed to Syria with Abu Talib at 12 years.
• At 25 Prophet married to Hazrat Khadija.
• Hazrat Khadija accepted Islam first in Women and in all.
• Hazrat Abu Bakar accepted first in Men.
• Hazrat Ali accepted first in Children.
• Varqa Bin Naufal verified Prophet for the first time.
• Holy prophet had 4 daughters and 3 sons.
• At age of 40 holy Prophet received first Wahy.
• Hazrat Zubaida (RA) was the second wife of Holy Prophet.
• In 622 A.D Holy Prophet migrated to madina.
• Hazrat Haleema was the foster mother of Holy Prophet.
• Besides Hazrat Haleema (RA) Holy Prophet (PBUH) said that Umme-e-Aemon is also my mother.
• Name the foster mother(s) of the Holy Prophet (SAW) Hazrat Halema (RA), Hazrat Sobia (RA) and Hazrat hola (RA)
• How many years after the birth of Holy Prophet (SAW), Hazrat Aamina died? Six years
• Sheema was the foster sister of Holy Prophet.
• Abduallh Bin Abu Sheema was the foster brother of Prophet.
• Hazrat Haleema looked after the holy prophet for 6 years.
• 35 was the age at the time of Hajr-i-Aswad incident.
• Hazrat Bilal Habshi was the first slave to accept Islam.
• Wife of Abu Lahab used to spread throne in the way of prophet in 4th year of prophethood.
• Home of Hazrat Arqam (RA) used as the centre of secret preaching by the holy prophet.
• In 7th Nabvi boycott of Banu Hashim began.
• Hazrat Adam met with Holy Prophet on the first heaven.
• Hazrat Isa and Hazrat Yahya on 2nd.
• Hazrat Yaqub on 3rd.
• Hazrat Idrees on 4th.
• Hazrat Harron on 5th.

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• Hazrat Musa on 6th.
• Hazrat Ibraheem on 7th.
• Al-Kaswa is the name of Camel on which prophet traveled.
• Prophet purchased mosque land at medina from two orphans.
• 45 Companions were with Prophet in migration to madina.
• Charter of Madina was issued on 1 A.H it had 53 Articles.
• Transfer of Qibla was ordered in 2nd A.H.
• 27 total no of Ghazwas.
• First Ghazwah of Islam was Widan, fought in 12th month of First Hijrah.
• Jang Badr occurred in 2 A.H. 313 Muslims fought in battle.
• Types of Hadith are 10.
• Imam Zuhri (RA) became the first to consolidate Ahadith.
• No of Hadith Collected by Abu Huraira (RA) 5374.
• Prophet Hazrat Noah (AS) known as Shaikh al Anbiya.
• Aby Ubaiduh Bin Jiirrah was entitled Ameen-ul Ummat.
• Hazrat Umar proposed Azan for the first time.
• The dome over the sacred Grave of the holy prophet is known as Dunbade-Khizra.
• Baitul Mamur is a place where seventy thousand angles were circumambulating during the Holy Ascension.
• Baitul Mamoor is on 7th Heaven.
• 4 kings accepted Islam when holy prophet sent them letters.
• Mosque of Zarar was demolished by prophet.
• Ume Salma was present at the time of the battle of Khyber.
• Hazrat Ali Conquered the fort of Qamus.
• Lady named Zainab tried to poison the Holy Prophet.
• Prophet recited surah Al-Fatha at the conquest of Makkah.
• Hashim was grand father of prophet & brother of Muttalib.
• The name Muhamammad was proposed by Abdul Muttalib while the name Ahmed was proposed by Bibi Aminah.
• Migration from Mecca to Abyssinia took place in the 7th month of the 5th year of the mission i.e 615 A.d. The total
number of migrated people was 15
• Second migration to Habshah took place in 616 A.D.
• Second migration to Abyssinia 101 people with 18 females.
• After Amina’s death, Ummay Aimen looked after Prophet.
• After Harb-e-Fajjar, Prophet took part in Halaf-ul-Fazul.
• Prophet made second business trip to Syria in 24th year of elephant.
• Friend of Khadija Nafeesa carried message of Nikah.
• Surname of Haleema Sadia was Ummay Kabtah.
• Surname of Prophet was Abu-ul-Qasim.
• Da’ia of the Prophet was Shifa who was mother of Abdul Rehman bin Auf.
• Abdul Mutalib died in 579 A.D.
• Masaira a slave of Khadija accompanied Prophet to Syria.
• Foster mothers of Prophet were Haleema, Sobia & Khola.
• First forster mother was Sobia who was mother of Hamza.
• For six years Haleema took care of Prophet.
• For two years Abdul Mutalib took care of Prophet.
• Prophet had two real paternal uncles i.e Zubair & Abu Talib.
• Zubair died before Prophethood.
• After 7 days the Aqeeqa ceremony of Prophet was held.
• Prophet belonged to Banu Hashim clan of Quraish tribe.
• Among uncles Abbas & Hamza embraced Islam.
• Amina was buried at Abwa b/w Makkah & Madina.
• Six months before the Prophet’s birth his father died.
• Prophet had no brother and no sister.
• Abdullah died at Madina.
• Prophet had six aunties.
• Foster father of Prophet was Haris.
• At the age of 15, Herb-e-Fajjar took place.
• Herb-e-Fajjar means war fought in the probihited months.
• First father-in-law of Prophet was Khawalid.
• Aamina belonged to Bani Zohra tribe.
• Umar accepted Islam in 616 A.D.
• Social boycott of Banu Hashim took place in 7th Nabvi.
• Shi’b means valley.
• Social boycott continued for 3 years.
• A group of Madina met Prophet in 11th Nabvi.
• Uqba is located near Makkah.
• The group of Madinites belonged to Khazraj tribe.
• Accord of Uqba took place in 13th Nabvi.
• On 27th Rajab, 10 Nabvi the event of Miraj took place.

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• 10th Nabvi was called Aam-ul-Hazan (year of grief).
• Name of the camel on which Prophet was riding in migration was Qaswa.
• Omaar bin Hisham was the original name of Abu Jehl.
• Abu-al-Hikm is the title of Abu Jehl.
• Hazrat Hamza (RA) embrace Islam Fifth Nabavi.
• Persons included in Bait-e-Uqba Oola 12 and in Bait-e-Uqba Sani 75.
• Cave of Hira is 3 miles from Makkah.
• Hijra took place in 13th Nabvi.
• Second convent of Al-Aqba arrived at Makkah in 12th Nabvi.
• Medina is 448 Km from Makkah. (250 miles)
• Makkah conquest occurred in 8th year of Hijra.
• Prophet performed Hajj in 10th Hija.
• Prophet was buried in the hujra of Ayesha.
• Prophet was born in 1st Year of Elephant.
• Ambassadors sent to Arab & other countries in 7th Hijra.
• King of Iran tore away the message of Prophet.
• King of Byzantine in 7th Hijra was Hercules.
• After 6 years of the birth of Holy prophet Bibi Aamna died.
• After 8 years of the birth of Prophet Abdul Muttalib died.
• 632 A.D Charter of Madina.
• Holy Prophet demised at the age of 63.
• Hijrah year began with 14th Nabvi.
• 10th year of prophet hood is known as year of grief.
• First Azan was called out in 1 A.H.
• Bahira Syrian Christian saint recognized prophet as last prophet.
• Harb-i-Fajjar was a war fought b/w Quraish and Bani Hawazin Prophet was of 15 years and participated in it.
• Prophet visited Taif in 10th Nabvi.
• Tribe of Taif was Saqaif.
• Prophet with Zaid bin Haris, went Taif & stayed for 10 days.
• Bibi Amna suckled Prophet for 3 days.
• After 18 month at Madina of change of Qibla occurred.
• Old name of Zu Qiblatain is Banu Saleem.
• Prophet prayed 2 years in cave Hira before first revelation.
• The name of Ibadat done by Prophet in Hira was Tahanas.
• Cave of Hira is in Jabal-e-Noor Mountain.
• At Masjid-e-Hanif (Madina) almost 70 prophets are buried.
• Masjid-e-Hanif (Mina)
• Month of migration was Rabiul Awal
• Qibla changed in 2nd Hijra.
• Qiblah now-a-days is called Khana-e-Kaba.
• Prophet addressed Khutba-e-Jum’aa for first time in 1st Hijra
• Azan for prayer was adopted in 1st Hijra.
• Inhabitants of Taaif accepted Islam in 9th Hijrah.
• Year of Deputation is 9th Hijrah.
• Moawakhat (the brotherhood ) took place in 2nd Hijra.
• Jehad was allowed in 2nd Hijrah.
• Ashaab-e-Sufah: Muhajirs who stayed near Masjid-e-Nabvi.
• Hurrirah means a cat.
• Bait-e-Rizwan took place in 6th Hijrah.
• Jewish tribe of Banu Nuzair expelled from Madina in 4th H.
• Bait-e-Rizwan is also known as Bait-e-Shajra made under Keekar tree.
• Companions of Prophet at Hudabiya were 1400.
• Prophet stayed at Makkah for 15 days after its conquest.
• 1 Lac companions accompanied Prophet at last Hajj.
• Prophet spent his last days in Ayesha’s house.
• Cave of Soar is located near Makkah 5 miles.
• Quba is 3 miles away from Madina.
• In sixth year of Hijrah, Prophet intended for Umrah.
• Aam-ul-Wufood is 9th A.H..
• Prophet stayed in Ayyub Ansari’s house for 7 months.
• Prophet performed Umrah in 7th A.H.
• Hazrat Haleema looked after the Holy Prophet for 3 years.
• Zaid Bin Haris (R.A) was the adopted son of the Holy Prophet.
• Kuniyaat of the Holy Prophet was Abul Qasim.
• Holy prophet made first trade journey at the age of 9.
• Nafeesa carried Khadija’s message of marriage to Prophet.
• Year 570 known as year of Elephant or Amal Fil.
• Hazrat Khadija and Hazrat Abu Talib died in 619.

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• First place from where Prophet openly started his preaching Jabl Faran or Mount Safa.
• Prophet did covert messaging at House of Arkam upto 3 Nabvi. (i.e for 3 years)
• Prophet preached openly in 4th Nabvi.
• Prophet narrated the event of Miraj first of all to Umm-e-Hani (real sister of Ali)
• Prophet was staying at the house of Umme-e-Hani on the night of Miraj.
• In miraj Prophet traveled from Baitul Muqadas to Sidratul Mantaha.
• During Hijrat Saraqa bin Sajjal spied.
• In Miraj Jibrael called Aazan in Baitul Muqadas.
• Prophet led all the prophets in a prayer in miraj at al-Aqsa
• Fatima died after 6 Months (age=31,11 A.H) Prophet.
• Youngest daughter Fatima.
• Islamic official seal started on 1st Muharram, 7 A.H
• Seal of Prophet was made of Silver.
• What was written on the Holy Prophet (SAW) seal? Allah Rasool Muhammad
• Prophet performed 1(in10 A.H) Hajj and 4(in7 A.H) umras.
• Change of Qibla occurred on 15 Shaban,2 A.H(Monday)(during Zuhr)
• Construction of Masjid-e-Nabvi started Rabiulawal, 1 A.H.
• Namaz-e-Juma became Farz in Medina.
• First man to embrace Islam on the eve of Fatah-e-Makka was Abu Sufyan.
• Second woman to embrace Islam Lababa bint Haris (chk Ummay Aiman) (chk Nafeesa)
• First to migrate to Madina (first muhajir) Abu Salam.
• Last to migrate to Madina was Abbas.
• First non-arab to embrace Islam Farwah bin Umro
• Facsimile of the Prophet Mus’ab bin Umair.
• Kalsoom bin al_Hadam gave land for Quba mosque
• The title of ammenul ummat is of Abu Ubaidah bin Jarrah.(conqurer of Damascus)
• Prophet offered congregational prayer in Kaaba in 6th Nabvi.
• The day when Prophet delivered his last Khutab was Juma.
• Idols in Kaba before Islam numbered 360.
• The largest idol named Habal.
• Prophet preached Islam openly in 4th Nabvi.
• Year of deputation was 9th.
• Bilal called first aazan of Fajr prayer.
• The Hadith, which is transmitted with continuity and enjoys such abundance of narrators that their
statement becomes authentic, is called Matwatar.
• The grave of the Prophet was prepared by Hazrat Abu Talha
• Qasim was first of the Holy Prophet's children to be born.
• The first Namaz-e-Janazah performed by Rasoolullah was that of Asad bin Zaraara (radi Allahu anhu).
• The first Namaaz to be made Fardh was Tahajjud Namaaz, which was later made Nafil.
• At Masjid-e-Nabvi first Muslim University was established.
• Holy prophet labored in the formation of Masjid-e-Quba.
• Masjid-e-Zara was built by Hyporcrites at Madina.
• Nabvi Mosque constructed in 1 A.H Rabi-ul Awwal.
• 25 Doors are in Masjid –e-Haram, the most important door of Kaaba is Babul Salam.
• Qibla change order came in Mosque Zul Qiblatain
• The flag colour of the Holy Prophet was white and yellow at the time of conquest of Makkah.
• Friday is known as Sayeed Ul Ayam.
• Shab-e-Barat is celebrated on the 15th night of Shuban.
• 26th night of Rajab is the night of Accession.
• In 256 Imam Bukhari died.
• 6 Lac Ahadith collected by Imam Bukhari.
• The camel driver of Prophet at the fall of Mecca was Usama bin Zaid bin Haris.
• Prophet issued order of killing Abdul Uza bin Khatal at the fall of Mecca.
• At Koh-e-Safa, Prophet addressed after conquest of Makkah.
BATTLES OF ISLAM
• First Ghazwa is Widdan or Abwa in 1 A.H
• 624 Battle of Badr.2hij
• 625 Battle of Uhad. 3hij
• 626 Battle of Rajih.4hij
• 627 Battle of Khandaq (Ahzab).5hij
• 628, Treaty of Hudaibiya, Hazrat Khalid bin Walid Accepted Islam, Conquest of Khyber.6hij
• 629, Battle of Mutah, Preaching of Islam to various kings.7hij
• 630, Battle of Hunain, Conquest of Makkah.8hij
• 631, Battle of Tabuk. 9hij
• 632, Hajjat-ul-Wida.10hij
• 680, Tragedy of Karballah.61hij
• Badr is a village.
• Battle of Bard was fought on 17th Ramzan.

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• Battle of Uhd was fought on 5th Shawal.
• Battle Badar Ghazwa is named as Furqan.
• Uhd is a hill.
• Yom-ul Furaqn is called to Yom ul Badar.
• Fath Mobeen is called to Sulah Hudaibiah.
• Number of soldiers in Badar, Muslim 313 Kufar 1000
• After Badr conquest, Prophet stayed for 3 days there.
• Badr was fought for 3 times.
• Martyr of Badr: Muslims 14 Kufar 70
• Leader of the Kufar in this battle was Abu Jahl.
• Number of Muslim martyrs in the battle of Uhad 70
• In Uhad quraish were laid by Abu Sufwan.
• In Uhad number of Muslim soldiers 1000 kufar 3000.
• Ahzab means Allies.
• Ditch dug on border of Syria with help of 3000 companions in 2 weeks.
• Muslim strength 1600.
• Khyber was captured in 20 days.
• During Ghazwa Bani Nuzair wine was prohibited.
• The battle of Khandaq is also known an battle of Ahzab.
• Conquest of Makkah was took place on 20 Ramzan.
• Battle in which prophet not participated is known as Saria.
• Hazrat Hamza was the first commander of Islamic Army.
• In Uhd battle Muslim women participated firstly.
• Battle of Mauta was the first non Arab War.
• 3000 was the number of muslims at the battle of Ditch.
• 10,000 was the number of Muslims at the conquest of Makkah.
• 30,000 at the time of Tabuk.
• Last Ghazwa- Tabuk.
• For 20 days Prophet stayed at Tabuk.
• Total number of Sarias is 53 or 56.
• Porphet was the commander in the expedition of Tabuk.
• First Islamic Non Arab was battle of Mautta 8. A.H..
• The person killed by the Holy Prophet was Ubay Bin Kalf.
• In Battle of Uhad, the teeth of Holy Prophet were martyred.
• Khalid bin Walid was titled Saif-ul-Allah in battle Moata.
• Abu Jahal was killed in Battle of Badr by Maaz (add)
• In Hudabiya Sohail bin Amru represented Quraysh.
• Battle of Hunain fought b/w Muslims and Hawazin Tribe.
• Batttle of Tabuk was against the Roman Emperor Heraclius.
• The first Shaheed (Martyr) was Amaar bin Yaasir
• First female martyr: Summaya (mother of Amaar bin Yaasir)
• The first person to be martyred in the Battle of Badr was the freed slave of Hazrat Umar : Muhaj’jah
• Khalid bin Walid was removed from the service in the reign of Hazrat Umar Farooq (RA). He was removed in 17 A.H.
• Battle of chains was fought b/w Persians and the Muslims.
• Umar bin Abdual Aziz is considered as the 5th Khalifa.
• Abdul Malik was the poet ruler of Ummaya.
• Karballa took place on 10th Muharram 61 A.H/ 680 A.D
• Salahuddin Ayubi was of Abbasid dynasty.
• Halaku Khan came to power after Abbasids.
• Al Qanun was written by Ibn-i-Sina.
• Ibn Khuldun is called founder of sociology.
• Tahafut-al-Falasifah was written by Al-Khazali.
• Halaku Khan sacked Baghdad in 1258 A.D.
• Al Shifa a book on philosophy was written by Ibn Sina.
• prophet stayed at Makkah for 53 years & in Medina 10 years
• Mubha: an act which brings neither blessings nor punishment.
• Naval Commander of Islam, Abu Qays under Hazrat Usman
• Battle of Camel was fought b/w Ali and Hazrat Aysha.
• Hazrat Khalid bin Walid accepted Islam in 8th A.H.
• Hazrat Ali established Bait-ul-Maal.
• During the caliphate of Umar (RA) Iran was conquered.
• Abu Hurairah has reported largest number of Ahadith.
• Masjid Al Aqsa is the first Mosque ever built on the earth.
• Sindh was conquered during the reign of Walid 1.
• Kharajit is the earliest sect of Islam.
• Battle of Yermuk was fought in 634 A.D.:
• Khyber conquest made in 7th Hijra (628 A.D)
• The Ghazwa in which the Holy Prophet Pbuh missed four prayers was Ghazwa Khandaq.

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• First woman martyr Samiya by Abu Jahl.
• First man martyr Haris bin Abi Hala.
• Jihad means to strive hard.
• Jihad made obligatory in 2nd A.H.
• The battle was forbidden in Arabs in the month of Muharam.
• Ghazwa Badr is named as Furqan.
• Ohad is located near Madina.
• Ohad is 3 miles from Madina.
• Abdullah bin Ubai accompanied with 300 men.
• 50 archers were posted to protect the pass in Ohad mountain.
• Ummay Hakeem was grand daughter of Abu Jehl.
• Banu Nuzair tribe settled in Khyber after expelled from Madina.
• Prophet dug a trench along the border of Syria.
• 3000 men dug the ditch.
• In battle of Ahzab a piercing blast of cold wind blew.
• Khyber is located near Madina at 200 km distance.
• The centre of Jewish population in Arabia was Khyber.
• Against Khyber Muslim army was 1600 men strong.
• Khyber was captured in 20 days.
• Khyber is located near the border of Syria.
• Moata was situated in Syria.
• Army of 3000 men was sent to Moata under Zaid bin Haris.
• After the death of Zaid bin Haris Hazrat Jaafiar was made the army leader at Moata.
• Under Khalid’s leadership, battle of Moata was won.
• Battle of Moata took place in 8 Hijra.
• Tribe of Khuza joined Muslims after Treaty of Hudaibia.
• Battle of Hunain fought in 8 Hijra.
• Muslim army for Hunain was 14 thousand.
• Siege of Taif was laid in 9 A.H.
• Tabook expedition took place in 9 A.H.
• In 9 A.H there was famine in Hijaz.
• In 9 A.H there was scarcity of water in Madina.
• In Quran Tabook expedition is called expedition of straitness.
• Conquest of Makkah is called Aam-ul-Fatah.
• Ghazwa-e-Tabook was fought in 9 A.H.
• Hazrat Abbas was made prisoner of war in Badr.
• Abu Jehl was killed by Ma-ooz and Ma-aaz.
• The leader of teer-andaz at Jabale-e-Yahnene in the battle of Ohad was Abdullah bin Jabeer.
• Comander of infidels in Ohad was Abu Sufyan.
• Battle of Tabook came to an end without any result.
• 2 weeks were spent to dig the ditch.
• In a battle of Trench Hazrat Safia killed a jew.
• Qamoos temple was conquered by Ali during Khyber war.
• For battle of Tabook, Abu Bakr donated all his belongings.
• In the battle of Ditch, the wrestler named Umaro bin Abad-e-Wad was killed by Ali.
• In Hunain Muslims were in majority than to their enemy:
• Hazrat Jaafar was martyred in Moata war.
• In Tabook ghazwa muslims returned without a fight.
• Gazwa Widdan was fought in the month of Zil-Hajj 1 A.H.
• In Hunain battle Prophet was left alone.
• The participants of Battle of Badar were bestowed with highest reward by Allah.
• In Badr martyrs were Muhajirs=6 & Ansars=8.
• In the battle of Taaif, catapult was used first time by Muslims.
• Against the Syrian tribe the battle of Al-Ghaba was waged.
• First Sariya Ubaidah bin Haris was fought at Rabakh in 1 A.H.
• Last Sariya Hazrat Saad bin Abi Waqqas was fought at Syria in 11 A.H.
SALAAT
• 48 total numbers of Rakats are in Farz prayer.
• Namaz-e-Khasoof is offered for Moon Eclipse.
• Namaz-e-Kasoof is offered for Solar Eclipse.
• Namaz-e-Istasqa is offered for Rain.
• Holy Prophet offered Jumma Prayer in 1. A.H.
• Namaz-e-Istasqa is offered with backside of hands upward.
• Holy prophet offered first Eid Prayer in 2. A.H.
• Eid Namaz is Wajib.
• Madurak is the person who starts prayer with Immam.
• Musbaq is the person who comes after one rakat.
• Fajar and Isha were essential in the early period of Islam.

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• Tahajud mean abandon sleep.
• Qaada is to sit straight in Salat.
• Jasla is short pause between two sajdas.
• Qaumaa is standing straight during Rukus.
• A person who performs prayer alone is Munfarid.
• Farz in wuzu=4, Sunats=14.
• Farz in Ghusual=3, Sunats=5
• Types of Sunnah prayer are of two types.
• In Fajr, Maghrib & witr no chage in farz rakaat in case of Qasr.
• Takbeer-e-Tashreeq is recited in Eid-ul-Uzha.
• Jumma prayer is Farz salat.
• Conditions of Salat are Seven.
• takbeer-e-Tehreema are to be said in the salat: one.
• Jasla is wajib.
• To sit straight in Salat is called Qa’ada.
• Qa’ada is farz.
• Two persons are required for a Jamat prayer.
• Salat Juma became Farz in Madina.
• Five salat made compulsory in 10th Nabvi.
ZAKAT
• Zakat means to purify.
• Zakat was made obligatory in 2. A.H.
• 7-1/2 is the nasab of gold and 52-1/2 tolas for silver.
• Injunction of utilization of zakat is in Surah-al Tauba.
• Number of heads for distribution of zakat are 8.
• Zakat mentioned along with Namaz in the Quran 22 times.
• 5 Camels, 40 goats, 3 cows and buffaloes is nisab for zakat.
• 1/10 is the nisab of irrigated produce.
• Zakat is treasure of Islam; it is the saying of holy prophet.
• Usher means 1/10.
• Khums means 1/5.
• Word Zakat occurs in Quran for 32 times.
• In 2nd A.H the rate and method of distribution of Zakat was determined at Madina.
• Kharaj is spoils of war.
• Fay is income from town lands.
• Zakat on produce of mines is 1/5th.
• Ushr on artificially irrigated land is 1/20th.
• Al-Gharmain means debtors.
• There are two types of zakat.
• Holy Prophet (pbuh) appointed Hazrat Muaz Bin Jabal as governer of yeman for collection zakat
• Nisab in silver is 612.32 gram

SAUM / FASTING
• Fast means to stop.
• Fasting made obligatory in 2nd A.H.
• Fasting is commanded in al-Bakarah.
• Feed 60 people is the atonement for breaking the fast or sixty sontinuous fasts..
• Bab-ul-Riayn is the door for fast observing people.
• Tarrawih means to rest.
• Battle of Badr was fought in very first of Ramzan on 17th.
• Umar arranged the Namaz-e-Tarrawih.
• Month of Ramzan is known as Sayeed us Shahoor.
• Five days are forbidden for fasting throughout the year.
• Wajib means ordained.
• 1st Ashra of Ramzan=Ashra-e-Rehmat.
• 2nd Ashra=Ashra-e-Maghfirat.
• 3rd Ashra=Ashra-e-Nijat.
HAJJ
• Hajj means to intend.
• Hajj made compulsory in 9 A.H.
• First Hajj offered in 9 A.H.
• Hajj ordained in Surah Bakr.
• The holy prophet performed only 1 Hajj in 10th A.H.
• There are 3 types of Hajj.
• One tawaf of Kaaba is known as Shoot.
• Tawaf begins from Shoot.
• Number of Jamarat is 3.
• Mosque located in Mina is Kheef.

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• At Meekat, Hujjaj assume the state of Ihram.
• Kalima Tauheed is recited during Hajj.
• At Mina the ritual of offering sacrifice is performed
• Jamart-throwing of pebbles, it is performed on 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th of Zul Hajj.
• Maghrib and Isha both prayers are offered together at Muzdalifa on 9th Zil Hajj.
• Yome-Afra is called to Hajj day.
• Name of the place where the pilgrims go from Arafat: Muzdalfa.
• First structure of Kaaba was built by Adam.
• Ibrahim & Ismail rebuilt Kaaba 4500 years ago.
• Yum-e-Nahar is called to the Day of Sacrifice.
• Yum e Arafat is 9th Zul Hajj.
• One khutba is recited during Hajj.
• Al-Imarn is the surah in which Hajj is commanded.
• Holy prophet sacrificed 63 camels during hajj.
• Adam and Hazrat Hawa performed the first ever Hajj.
• Running b/w Safa & Marwa seven times is called Sayee.
• Most important step of Hajj after assuming Ahram is Wuquf.
• Waqoof-e-Arfah is the Rukn-e-Azam of Hajj
• With the performance of Rami on the 10th Zil-Hajj, the most of the bindings of Hajj on the pilgrim are released.
• Three upright stones are called Jamarat.
• After Waquf the most important step is Tawaf.
• In Hajj there are three obligations (Farz).
• Umrah can be performed at any time throughout the year except 9th to 11th Zil-Hajj.
• Hujjaj stat at Mina for one day, the second day at Arafat and the final day, encampment is done for a night at
Muzdalfah, it is called Wuquf.
• Who said that Hajj is greatest of all worships:Imam Malik.
• How many undesirable acts of Ihraam are there: six.
• How many permitted acts of Ihraam are there:Four.
• Prohibitions and restructions of Ihram are 8.
• The first and the foremost Farz of Hajj and Umrah is Ihram.
• The first and inner most circle around Ka’ba is Masjid-e-Haram.
• The second circle around Kaba is Makkah Mukaramah.
• The third circle around Kaba is Haram.
• Who firsly fixed boundaries of Haram, the third circle around Kaaba: Adam.
• The fourth cirle around Kaba is Mowaqeet.
• The place where no one can advance without putting on Ihram is Mowaqeet.
• Two thousand years before the creation of Adam, Kaba was constructed.
• Angels built Kaba firstly in the universe.
• During the Noah’s time Kaaba disappeared due to flood.
• The gate which is the best for the pilgrims to enter in Kaba is Bab-e-Salam.
• Hajr-e-Aswad means black stone.
• Actual color of Hajr-e-Aswad was white.
• The small piece of land b/wk Rukn-e-Islam and Rukn-e-Yamani is called Hateem.
• The place where offering prayer is just like offering prayer inside Kaba is Hateem.
• There are five types of Tawaf.
• Hajji go to Al-Multazim after completing the seven rounds.
• Al-Multazim means the place of holding.
• The portion of the wall of Kaba which is b/w its door and Hajr-e-Aswad is called al-Multazim.
• Sayee is commenced from Safa and ends at Marwa.
• After performing Say’ee Hujjaj go to Mina.
• Muzdalfa is a plain.
• Muzdalfa is located b/w Mina & Arafat.
• Muzdalfa is located six miles from Makkah.
• From Mina Muzdalfa is three miles away.
• Muzdalfa is called Sacred Monument in Quran.
• At Muzdalfa Maghrib & Isha prayers are offered together.
• Pebbles are collected from Muzdalfa.
• Jamarat which is nearest to Makkah is called Jamarat-ul-Uqba.
• Smallest Jamarat is Jamarat-al-Sughra.
• Rami is held at Mina.
• Talbiah is stopped after Rami.
• Afrad, Qar’ran and Tamatae are the types of Hajj.
• Dhulhulaifah is the Meeqat for the people of Pakistan.
• Dhulhulaifah is a point six mile from Madina.

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PROPHETS OF ISLAM
• Adam was created on Juma day.
• Adam landed in Sri Lanka on Adam’s Peak Mountain.
• Adam is a word of Syriani language.
• Adam had 2 daughters.
• Kabeel killed Habeel because he wanted to marry Akleema.
• The first person to be put into Hell will be Qaabil.
• Adam had 3 sons.
• Shees was youngest son of Adam.
• Age of Adam at Sheesh’s birth was 130 years.
• Adam walked from India to Makkah and performed forty Hajj.
• Adam knew 100 000 languages. (Roohul Bayaan)
• Abul Basher is called to Hazrat Adam.
• Hazrat Adam built first mosque on earth.
• Height of Adam was 90 feet.
• Age of Adam at the time of his death 950 years.
• Hazrat Adam’s grave is in Saudi Arabia.
• Second prophet is Sheesh.
• Sheesh passed away at the age of 912 years.
• Noah got prophethood at the age of 40
• Noah’s ark was 400 x 100 yards area.
• Ark of Noah stopped at Judi Mountain (Turkey).
• Noah preached for 950 years.
• Nation of Noah worshipped 5 idols.
• Nation of Noah was exterminated through the flood.
• Pigeon was sent for the search of land by Hazrat Nooh.
• Noah was sent to Iraq.
• 2242 years after Adam, Toofan-e-Noah occurred.
• About 80 people were with him in the boat.
• Duration of storm of Noah was for 6 months.
• Noah lived for 950 years.
• Nooh is called predecessor, Naji Ullah; Shaikh ul Ambiya.
• Abu ul Bashr Sani is title of Noah.
• After toofan-e-nooh , the city establish was Khasran
• Ibrahim was thrown into the fire by the order of Namrud.
• Hazrat Ibraheem intended to sacrifice Ismaeel at Mina.
• Ibrahim was born at Amer near Euphrate (Iraq)
• Ibraheem was firstly ordered to migrate to Palestine.
• First wife of Ibraheem was Saarah.
• Second wife of Ibraheem was Haajirah.
• Azaab of mosquitoes was sent to the nation of Ibrahim
• Abraham is called khalilullah, father of prophets and Idol Destroyer.
• Age of Abraham at the time of his death 175 years.
• Grave of Abraham is in Israel.(Syria chk it).
• Ibrahim is buried at Hebron in Jerusalem.
• Abrahem invented comb.
• Hazrat Loot was contemporary of Hazarat Ibraheem
• Abraham remained in fire 40 days.
• Terah or Aazer was the father of Ibraheem.
• Grave of Lut is in Iraq.
• Luut died at Palestine and is buried at Hebron.
• Ibraheem was the uncle of Luut.
• Loot was maternal grandfather of Ayub.
• Hazart Loot was the first to migrate.
• Luut resided at Ur near Mesopotamia.
• Luut migrated to Sodom and Gomorrah
• Ismaeel is called Abu-al-Arab.
• Mother of Ismaeel was Haajrah.
• Ishaaq built boundaries of Masjid-e-Aqsaa.
• Ishaaq was sent to Jews.
• At Muqam-e-Ibraheem, there are imprints of Ibraheem.
• Ibrahim was first person to circumcise himself and his son.
• Sara wife of Ibrahim and mother of Ishaq was sister of Loot.
• Hajra the wife of Ibrahim was daughter of Pharoah of Egypt.
• Ibrahim was 86 years old when Ismael was born.
• Ibrahim was ordered to migrate along with family to valley of Batha meaning Makkah.
• Ibrahim was sent to Jordan after leaving Haajrah and Ismaeel
• Age of Ibraheem at the birth of Ishaq was 100 years and of Saarah was 90 years.

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• First wife of Ibrahim resided at Palestine.
• Ibrahim intended to sacrifice Ismaeel at Mina on 10th Zul Hajj.
• As a result of sacrifice of Ismael, Ibrahim was gifted a baby from Saarah named Ishaq.
• Zam Zam emerged from beneath the foot of Hazrat Ismaeel in the valley of Batha (Makkah).
• Hazrat Ismail discovered Hajar-e-Aswad.
• Ismaeel had 15 sons.
• Zabeeullah and Abu al Arab are called to Hazrat Ismaeel.
• Ismael divorced his wife being discourteous.
• Jibrael brought sacred stone to Ismael.
• Original colour of the sacred stone was white.
• Gabriel gave the news of Ishaaq to Ibrahim.
• Ishaq married Rebecca.
• Old name of Makkah was Batha.
• Hazrat Idress was expert in astronomy.
• Uzair became alive after remaining dead for one hundred years.
• Whale Swallowed Hazrat Younus (AS).(chk)
• Hazrat Yaqub has the title of Israel
• 1 Lac 24 thousand- total number of prophets.
• Hazrat Idrees was the first who learnt to write.
• How many Sahifay were revealed to Hazrat Idrees (AS)? 30
• Prophet Yahya A.S was sent to people of Jordan.
• Hazrat Idrees (A.S) set up 180 cities.
• Prophet Ishaq A.S lost his eye sight in old age.
• Hazrat Dawood could mould iron easily with his hand.
• The event of ring is related to Hazrat Sulaiman.
• Hazarat Moosa(A.S) had impediment in his tongue
• Moosa was granted 9 miracles.
• Musa crossed the Red Sea.
• The prophet mentioned in Quran for most of times is Moosa.
• Ten commandments were revealed on Moosa.
• Moosa died on Abareem mountain.
• Grave of Musa is in Israel.
• Teacher of Moosa was Shoaib.
• Moosa was brought up by Aasia Bint Mozahim.
• Elder brother of Moosa was Haroon.
• Moosa had only one brother.
• In Toowa valley Moosa was granted prophethood.
• An Egyptian was killed by Moosa.
• Haroon was an eloquent speaker.
• Haroon is buried at Ohad.
• Haroon & Musa both were prophets and contemporaries.
• Prophet Ayub suffered from Skin Disease.
• Hazrat Ayub was famous for his patience.
• The miracle of Dromedary (camel) is concerned with Saleh
• 4 prophets were sent to Bani Israeel.
• 722 languages were understood by Hazrat Idrees.
• Hazrat Saleh invented Soap.
• Kalori: hill, from where Isa was lifted alive.
• Zikraiya was carpenter.
• Harzat Zikraiya was cut with the Saw.
• Adam & Dawood are addressed as Khalifa in Quran.
• Sulaiman & Dawood understood language of the birds.
• The tree of date palm grew on the earth for the first time.
• At Hanif mosque at Mina almost 70 prophets are buried.
• Prophets attached with the profession of weaving are Adam, Idrees & Shaeet.
• Hazrat younus was eaten by shark fish.
• Younus prayed LAILAH ANTA SUBHANAK INI KUNTUM MINAZALIMIN in the belly of fish.
• Grave of Dawood is in Israel.
• Yahya’s tomb is in Damascus.
• Bilal Habshi is buried in Damascus.
• Prophet with melodious voice Dawood.
• Alive prophets are Isa & Khizr.
• Zunoon (lord of fish) & Sahibul Hoot : Younus.
• The prophet whose people were last to suffer divine punishment Saleh.
• Suleiman died while standing with the support of a stick.
• Ashab-e-Kahf slept for 309 years.
• The number of Ashab-e-Kahf was 7.
• Saleh invented soap.

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• Idrees was expert in astronomy.
• Prophet before Muhammad was Isaac.
• Hazrat Essa (A.S) was carpenter by profession.
• Besides Essa, Yahya also got prophet hood in childhood.
• Baitul Laham is the birth Place of Hazrat Essa (AS) is situated in Jerusalaem.
• Isa would cure the victims of leprosy.
• Zakria was contemporary of Isa.
• Isa was the cousin of Yahya.
• Romans kingdom was established in Palestine at Esa’s birth.
• Romans were Atheists.
• Ruler of Palestine at the birth of Esa was Herod.
• Maryum grew up in the house of Zakaiyya.
• Besides Esa , Adam was also a fatherless prophet.
• Esa born at Bethlehem.
• Esa was born in 4 B.C.
• Yahaya was the precursor of Eessa.
• Contemporary of Yahya was Eessa.
• Yahya is buried at Syria.
• Our prophet has the title Habibullah.
• Prophet Dawood has the title Najeeb Ullah.
• Prophet Jesus crist is called Rooh-ul-Ullah.
• Tur-e-Sina was the mountain where Hazrat Musa (AS) received Allah’s message.
• Hazrat Musa was Kalimullah.
• Science, astronomy, writing with pen, sewing and weapons were made by Idrees first of all.
• 30 Sahifay was revealed to Idrees.
• Aad was the nation of Hood.
• After seven day’s continuous rain and storm the nation of Hood destroyed.
• Nation of Samood was preached by Salih.
• Miracle of pregnant female camel was sent to Samood.
• 3 Sahifay were revealed to Ibrahim.
• Israel was the son of Ishaq.
• Israel was 147 years old when Ishaq died.
• Mountains would break by the miracle of Yaqoob.
• Musa married the daughter of Shoaib.
• Due to Zakria’s prayer Yahya was born.
• Yousuf remained in jail for 10 years.
• Yousuf and Yaqoob met each other after 40 years.
• Yousuf was the son of Yaqoob.
• Yousuf’s family was called the Israeelites.
• Real brother of Yousuf was Bin Yamen.
• Yousuf was sold as a slave in Egypt.
• Yousuf had 12 brothers.
• Yousuf was famous for his beauty & knew facts of dreams.
• Mother of Yousuf was Rachel.
• Yaqoob lost his eye-sight in memory of Yousuf.
• Nation of Shoaib committed embezzlement in trusts.
• Shoaib called Speaker of the Prophets.(Khateeb ul ambiya)
• Shoaib got blinded for weeping over destruction of his nation.
• Ilyas prayed for nation it rained after a period of 312 years.
• Uzair reassembled all copies of Taurait.
• Taloot was the father-in-law of Dawood.
• Dawood was good player of flute.
• Fountain of Copper flowed from Sulayman.
• Woodpecker conveyed Sulayman’s message to Saba queen.
• Younus remained in fish for 40 days.
• King Herodus ordered the execution of Yahya.
• Politus on Roman governor’s orders tried execution of Isa.
• Dawood is called as Najeeb Ullah.
• In quran ten commandments are named Awamir-i-Ashara.
• Teacher of Hakeem Lukman was Dawood.
• Prophets lifted alive Isa,Idrees&Ilyas.
• Idrees was directed to migrate by Allah to Egypt.
• Idrees was the first man to learn to write.
• Idrees was taken alive to Heavens at the age of 365 Y.
• Gnostics regarded Sheesh as a divine emanation.
• Gnostics means Sheesinas and inhabited Egypt.
• Idrees was sent to Gnostics.
• Idol worship was forbidden by Idress to people.

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• Idress was special friend of one of the angels.
• Idrees remained in 4th heaven.
• Idreess died in the wings of the angel.
• Pigeon was sent for the search of land by Noah.
• Sam, Ham & Riyyafas were the children of Noah.
• Bani Aad settled in Yemen.
• Shaddad was famous king of Bani Aad.
• Glorious palace near Adan built by Bani Aad was known as Garden of Iram.
• Shaddad kingdom was extended to Iraq.
• A violent storm was sent to Bani Aad.
• Grave of Hood is at Hazarmoat.
• Oman, Yemen & Hazarmoat are in Southern Arabia.
• In Rajab, Arabs visit the grave of Hood.
• Bani Samood lived in Wadi al-Qura & Wadi al-Hajr.
• Wadi al-Qura, Wadi al-Hajr are in Syria & Hijaz.
• Volcanic eruption was sent to Bani samood.
• Contemporary of Ibrahim was Lut.
• Hood was the uncle of Ibraheem.
• A dreadful earthquake was sent to people of Luut.
• Native area of Ibraheem was Mesopotamia.
• Surname of Terah was Aazar.
• Father of Yaaqoob and Esau was Ishaq.
• Father-in-law of Ayyoob was Yaqoob.
• Ishaq is buried in Palestine.
• Age of Ishaq when he was blessed with twins was 60 Y.
• Yunus was the twin brother of Yaaqoob.
• Prophet bestowed with kingship of Allah: Dawood.
• Dawood was a soldier of Talut.
• Dawood lived in Bait-ul-Lahm.
• Talut was also known as Saul.
• Dawood is buried at Jerusalem.
• Youngest son of Dawood was Sulaymaan.
• Mother of Sulayman was Saba.
• Sulayman ascended the throne of Joodia.
• Sulaymaan was a great lover of horses.
• The ruler of Yemen in the time of Sulayman was Saba.
• Hud Hud informed Sulyman about the kingdom of Yemen.
• Saba means Bilqees.
• Whose kingdom came under a famine in the times of Ilyas: King of Ahab.
• Ilyas’s nation worshipped idol namd Lal.
• Ilyas disappeared mysteriously.
• Successor of Ilyas was Al-ya-sah.
• Cousin of Al-ya-Say who was prophet was Ilyas.
• Uzair remained died for 100 years.
• For 18 years Ayyoob suffered from skin disease.
• Real name of Zull Kifl is Isaih and Kharqil bin Thauri.
• Yunus died in Nineveh.
• Father of Yahya was Zakariyya.
• Trustee of Hekal was Zakiriyya.
• Zakariya hid himself in the cover of the tree and was cut into two pieces by Jews.
• Maryum lived at Nazareth before Esa’s birth.
• Maryum migrated to Egypt after Esa’s birth.
• Number of Hawarin of Moosa was 12.
• Jews and Romans were worried about Esa’s influence.
• First prophet to demarcate Masjid-e-Aqsaa was Ishaaq.
• Dawood’s real name was Abar.
• Ahsan ul Qasas is the life history of hazrat Yousif.
• Nebuchadnezzer was ruler of Babylon, he founded Hanging garden which is one of the wonders of the world.
• Qaidar was one of the sons of Ismail who stayed at Hijaz.
• Idrees used the first pen.
• Four Ambiyah are still physically alive they are Esa and Idrees in the skies and Khidr and Ilyaas are on the earth.

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Al-Quran
• Kalima Tayyaiba is mentioned in Quran for 2 times.
• The word Quran means “read one”.
• 114 total number of Surah
• Surah means city of Refuge.
• 86 Makki Surah.
• 28 Madine Surah.
• 558 Rukus.
• Al-Baqrah is the longest Surah.
• Al- Kausar is the shortest Surah.
• Al-Nass is the last surah.
• 14 bows are in Quran.
• First bow occurs in 9th Para i.e Al-Inaam Surah.
• Al-Faitha is the preface of the holy Quran.
• Five verses were reveled in the first wahy.
• Namaz commanded in quran for 700 times.
• Al-Imarn is the surah in which Hajj is commanded.
• Al-Mudassar-2nd Revealed Surah.
• Al-Muzammil- 3rd Revealed Surah.
• Al-Tauba does not start with Bismillah.
• Al-Namal contains two Bismillahs.
• Three surah starts with curse.
• 6666 is the number of Ayats.
• 29 total number of Mukata’t.
• Hazrat Usman was the first Hafiz of the Holy Quran.
• Hazrat Khalid Bin Saeed, the first writer of Wahy.
• Gap between first wahy and second wahy was 6 months.
• 12 Ghazawahs described in Holy Quran.
• Abdullah Ibn Abbas, the first commentator of the Quran and also known as interpreter of the Quaran.
• In surah Al-Saf, Hoy prophet is addressed as Ahmed.
• Ghar-e-Sor is mentioned in Surah Al-Tauba.
• 4 Surhas start with Qul.
• Hazrat Umar proposed the compilation of Holy Quran.
• Al- Nasr is known as Surah Widah.
• First annulled order of holy quran was the transfer of Qibla.
• The word Islam occurs 6 times in the Quran.
• Abdul Malik Marwan applied the dots in the Holy Quran.
• Hajjaj bin yousuf applied diacritical points in Quaran.
• 8 Siparas starts with Bismillah.
• 37 total number of surah in last parah.
• Al- Baqrah and Surah Al-Nissa is spread over 3 Parahs.
• Al-Falq and Al-Nas revealed at the same time.
• 3 Surah stats with “Ya Ayananabiyau”.
• City of Rome is mentioned in Holy Quran.
• Surah Yaseen is known as Heart of Quran.
• Surah Rehman is known as beauty of Quran.
• Tafseer Ibn Kaseer was written by Hafiz Ismaeed Bin Umar-Imam Ud Din.
• First revealed surah was Al Alaq, 96 in arrangement
• Complete revelation in 23 years.
• Subject of Holy Quran is Man.
• Last Surah reveled in Al-Nasr.
• Risalat means to convey message.
• 25 prophets mentioned in holy Quran.
• Holy Quran consist 105684 words and 3236700 letters.
• Longest Ayat of Holy Quran is Ayatul Kursi.
• 6 Surah start with the name of prophets.
• Surah maryam wholly revealed for a woman.
• In Bani Israeel and Al-Najaf the event of Miraj is explained.
• Last revelation descended on 3rd Rabi-ul Awal and it was written by Abi Ibn Kaaf.
• Language of Divine Books. Taurat Hebrew, Injil Siriac, Zubur Siriac, Holy Quran Arabic.
• Taurat was the first revealed book.
• Holy Quran was reveled in 22y 5m 14 days.
• There are 7 stages in Holy Quran.
• Abdullah Ibn Abbas is called as leader of commentators.
• Apollo 15 placed the copy of the Holy Quran on the moon.
• Tarjama-ul-Quaran is written by Abdul-Kalam Azad.
• Theodore Bailey in 1143 translated Holy Quran in Latin, for the first time.
• First Muslim interpreter of Quran in English is Khalifa Abdul Hakeem.

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• Shah Waliullah Translated Holy Quran in Persian and Shah Rafiuddin in Urdu in 1776.
• Hafiz Lakhvi translated Holy Quran in Punjabi.
• Ross translated the Holy Quran in to English.
• The first revelation is Surah Alaq (first five ayats).
• Number of Aayats in al-Bakar is 286.
• Longest Makki Surah is Aaraf.
• Second longest Surah is Ashrah/Al-Imran.
• Surah Kausar has 3 Aayats.
• First Surah compilation wise is Surah Fatiha.
• Fatiha means opening.
• Fatiha contains 7 aayats.
• Fatiha is also called Ummul Kitab.
• First surah revealed in Madina was surah Fatiha.
• Surah Fatiha revealed twice-in Makkah & Madina.
• Angles mentioned in Quran are7.
• Meaning of Aayat is Sign.
• Meaning of Hadith is to take.
• Stone mentioned in Quran is ruby (Yaakut).
• First Sajda occurs in 9th Para, Al-Inaam Surah.
• Longest Surah (al-Bakr) covers 1/12th of Quran.
• Madni Surahs are generally longer.
• Madni Surahs consist of1/3rd of Quran.
• Makki Surahs consist of2/3rd of Quran.
• Surah Ikhlas is 112 Surah of Quran.
• First complete Madni Surah is Baqarah.
• Names of Quran mentioned in Quran is 55.
• Surahs named after animals are 4 in number.
• Namal means Ant.
• Surah Inaam means Camel.
• Surah Nahl means Honey bee.
• Surah Ankaboot means spider.
• The major part of Quran is revealed at night time.
• Generally aayats of Sajida occur in Makki Surahs.
• 10 virtues are blessed for recitation of one word of Quran.
• Surah Anfal means Cave.
• In Naml two bismillah occur (2nds one is at aayat no:30)
• Surah Kahf means the cave.
• Muzammil means Wrapped in garments.
• Kausar means Abundance.
• Nasr means Help.
• Ikhlas means Purity of faith.
• Falak means Dawn.
• Un-Nass means Mankind.
• Al-alq means Clot of blood.
• Alm Nashrah means Expansion.
• Uz-zukhruf means Ornaments.
• Surah Rahman is in 27th Para.
• Bride of Quran is Rahman Surah.
• Surah Yasin is in 22nd and 23rd Para.
• Present shape of quran is Taufeeqi.
• Quran is the greatest miracle of Prophet.
• Word surah has occurred in Quran 9 times.
• First seven aayats of quran are called Tawwal.
• The alphabet Alf comes most of times and Alf, Zuwad Alphabet comes least number of times.
• Quran is written in Prose & Poetry.
• Quran is also regarded as a manual of Science.
• Surah Alq is both Makki and Madni.
• Name of Muhammad is mentioned in Quran for 4 times.
• Adam is mentioned in Surah Aaraf.
• First Sindhi translation of Quran by Aakhund Azizullah Halai
• Torat means light.
• Zaboor means Pieces/ Book written in big letters.
• Injeel means Good news.
• 99 number of aayats describe Khatam-e- Nabuwat.
• Command against Juva & amputation of hands came 8th A.H
• Laws about orphanage revealed in 3 A.H.
• Laws about Zina revealed in 5 A.H.
• Laws about inheritance revealed in 3 A.H.

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• In 4th A.H wine was prohibited.
• The order of Hijab for women reveled in 4th A.H.
• Ablution made obligatory in 5th A.H.
• In Surah Al-Nisa the commandment of Wuzu is present.
• Procedure of ablution is present in Surah Maidah.
• In 4 A.H Tayammum was granted.
• Interest was prohibited in 8th A.H.
• The order of Hijiab reveled in 4 A.H.
• During ghazwa Banu Mustaliq the command of tayamum was reveled.
• Quran recited in Medina firstly in the mosque Nabuzdeeq.
• Quran verse abrogating a previous order is called Naasikh.
• First man to recite Quran in Makkah: Abdullah bin Masood.
• Forms of revelation granted to Prophet were 3 (wahi,Kashf,dream)
• First method of revelation of Quran Wahi.
• Kashf means Vision.
• Initially Quran was preserved in memory form.
• After Umar’s death, copy of quran was passed on to Hafsa.
• Only Sahabi mentioned in Quran Zaid bin Haris.(surah ahzab)
• Paradise is mentioned in Quran for150 times.
• Section of Paradise in which Prophets will dwell Mahmood.
• Doors of Hell are 7.
• Subterranean part of hell is Hawia.
• Number of angles of hell 19.
• Gate-keeper of hell Malik.
• Gate-keeper of heaven Rizwan.
• Place of heaven at which people whose good deeds equal bad deeds will be kept in Aaraf.
• A tree in hell emerging from its base is Zakoon.
• Name of the mountain of hell is Saud.
• Heaven on earth was built by Shadad.
• The word Islam has been used at 92 places in the holy quran.
• First revelation written by Khalid bin Saeed
• Last wahi came on 3rd Rabiul Awal 11 A.D
• In 15th Para the event of Miraj is mentioned.
• Except the name of Maryam the name of no other woman has come explicitly in the Quran.
• Iblees will not be punished with fire but with cold.
• Iblees’s refusal to prostrate before man is mentioned in Kuran for 9 times.
• Iblees means “disappointed one”.
• Al-Kausar relates to death of Qasim and Hazrat Abdullah
• Jibrail came 24 000 times into the court of the Prophet.
• Quran has been translated into fifty languages to date.
• If a woman marries the second time, she will be in Jannah with the second husband. (Hadith)
• The Earth and the Heaven were created by Allah in 6 days, it is described in Surah Yunus.
• Zaid bin Thabit collected the Quran in the form of Book.
• Tarjumanul Quran Abdullah bin Abbas.
• In Surah Muzzamil verse 73 reading quran slowly and clearly is ordained.
• 4 Mosque mentioned in Holy Quran.
• Jibraeel is referred in Quran as Ar-rooh.
• In Quran Rooh-al-Qudus is Jibrael it means Holy Spirit.
• In Quran Rooh-al-Ameen is Jibrael.
• Incharge of Provisions is Mekaeel.
• The angel who was sent to Prophets as a helper against enemies of Allah was Jibraeel.
• The Angel who sometimes carried Allah’s punishment for His disobedients was Jibraeel.
• Jibrael is mentioned in Quran for three times.
• Old Testament is the Torait.
• New Testament is Injeel.
• Psalms is Zuboor.
• Gospal is Injeel.
• Prophet is called Farqaleet in Injeel.
• Taharat-e-Sughra is Wuzu.
• There are two types of Farz.
• Saloos-ul-Quran is Surah Ikhlas.
• Aroos-ul-Quran i.e bride of Quran is Al-Rehman.
• Meaning of Baqarah: The Goat
• In Surah Waqiya the word Al-Quran ul Hakeem is used.
• First Wahi was revealed on 17 Ramzan.
• Two Surahs are named with one letter heading.
• Surah Baqara & Ale Imran are known as Zuhraveen.
• Wine is termed in Quran as Khumar.

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• There are 39 ruku in 30th Paara of Quran.
• The first authority for the compilation of Ahadis is.
• Sahih Bukhari contains 7397 ahadis.

UMMUL MOMINEEN
• Umat-ul-Momineen is called to Wives of Holy prophet.
• Zainab bint Khazeema is known as Ummal Masakeen.
• Hazat Umme-e-Salma the wife of holy prophet died in last.
• Abu Bakar gave the collection of Quran to Hazrat Hafsa.
• Khadija died on the tenth of Ramadan 10 Nabvi.
• Khadija was buried in Hujun above Makka
• In the Cottage of Hazrat Ayesha, prophet spent his last days.
• Khadija died at 65 years age.
• Last wife of Prophet Um Maimoona.
• Khadija belonged to the tribe of Banu Asad.
• First woman to lead an Islamic army Ayesha: Jange Jamal
• Ayesha narrated maximum number of ahadith.
• The second wife named Sauda.
• Zainub bint Jaish (Surah Ahzab) was married to the Prophet though Allah’s revelation or will.
• Daughter of Umer who married to Prophet was Hafsa.
• Ummmul momineen died last was Umaay Salma.
• Hazrat Khadija was the first person to read Namaz amongst the Ummah of the Prophet.
• Umm-e-Salma was alive at Karbala tragedy. She was the last of the wives of Prophet to die.
• Ummul Momineen Ummay Habiba was daughter of Abu Sufyan.
• Ummul Momineen Ummay Habiba migrated to Abyssinia and Madina as well.
• Ummul Momineen Hazrat Safia was the progeny of Hazrat Haroon.
• After the victory of Khyber, Prophet married Hazrat Safia.
• Hazrat Maria Qibtiya gave birth to Hazrat Ibrahim, son of Prophet.
• Hazrat Khadija was buried at Jannat-e-Moalla in Macca.
• Najashi was the king through which Prophet married to Ummay Habiba.
• The Umm-ul-Momineen Javeria’s actual name was Barrah.
• Hazrat Khadija received salutation from Allah.
• Third wife of Prophet was Hazrat Ayesha.
• Sauda said about Ayesha “My soul might be in her body”
• Hazrat Khadija was the only Ummul Momineen who was not buried in Jannatul Baqi.
• Prophet not offerd funeral prayer of Khadija due to Allah’s will.
• Ayesha is called Al-Tayyabeen.
• The eldest daughter of Prophet was Zainab.
• Grand daughter of Prophet was Ummamah.
• Hazrat Ruqia died on the day of the victory of battle of Badr she was the wife of Usman.
• After Ruqia’s death Ummay Kalsoom married Usman.
• Qasim was born in 11 years before Prophethood.
• Hassan is known as Shabbar which means handsome.
• For 14 months Hasan remained Khalifa.
• Hasan is buried at Jannat-ul-Baq’ee.
• Total number of sons of Prophet was 3.
• Eldest son of the Prophet Qasim.
• Third son-in-law of Prophet was Abul A’as.

COMPANIONS OF PROPHET
• Hazrat Asad died first among the Sahabah.
• Hamza & Hussain are known as leader of Martyrs.
• Hazrat Usman Bin Talha was the Key holder of Kaaba.
• Hazrat Saad bin Ubi waqas conquered Persia firstly.
• Qabeela bin Qais is known as cup bearer of Zam Zam.
• Abbas was instrumental in bringing abu Sufiyan in Islam.
• Periods of Caliphs
• Abu Bakar 632-634
• Hazrat Umar 634-644
• Hazrat Usman 644-656
• Hazrat Ali 656-661
• Abu Bakar 2 years 3 months.
• Hazrat Umar 10 years 5 months 21 days.
• Hazrat Usman 12 years.
• Hazrat Ali 4 years 9 months.
• Hazrat Abu Bakar was the merchant of cloth.
• Real name of Hazrat Abu Bakar was Abdullah.
• Apostasy movement took place in the khilafat of Abu Bakar.

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• Hazrat Abu Bakar died in 22nd of Jamadi-us-Sani 13 AH.
• Hazrat Umar embrace Islam at the age of 33 or 27.
• Abu Lulu Feroz, the slave martyred Hazrat Umar Farooq.
• Hazrat Umar Farooq was martyred on 1st Muharram 24 A.H.
• Hazrat Umar introduced Hijra Calender.
• Hazat Usman is known as Zul Noorain because he wedded with two daughters of Prophet: Rukya+Umme Qulsoom.
• Usman accepted Islam at the instigation of Abu Bakar.
• Asadullah & Haider-e-Karar were the epithets of Hazrat Ali.
• Ali married Fatima in 2nd Hijra.
• Hazrat Ali was born at Khane-e-Kaaba.
• Hazrat Ali was martyred on 21st Ramzan 40 A.H.
• In Ghazwa Uhad Hazrat Ali was awarded with Zulifqar.
• Hazrat Umar established the office of Qazi.
• Hazrat Umar added As Salato Khairum Min Noum.
• Hazrat Umar embraced the Islam at the age of 34.
• Usman migrated to Habsha
• Hazat Usman participated in all battles except Badr.
• In the reign of Usama, Muwaviah established naval fleet.
• Only sahabi without seeing Prophet Awais Karni.
• Umar levied zakat on horses.
• Ali lifted zakat on horses.
• Abu Bakr had knowledge of dreams.
• Usman added 2nd Azan for Friday prayers.
• Atique is the title of Hazrat Abu Bakr.
• Hazrat Umar established Department of Police.
• Hazrat Umar formed a parliament, namely Majlis-e-Aam.
• Ghani was the title of Hazrat Usman (RA).
• Hazrat Ali has the title the gateway to knowledge.
• Hazrat Ali remained Caliph for 4 years and 9 months.
• Hazrat Ali is buried at Najaf.
• Ameer Mavia established the postal system.
• Amer bin Aas embraced Islam in 7th Hijra.
• Khalild bin Waleed embraced Islam in 7th Hijra.
• First Moazin of Islam, Hazrat Bilal.
• The home of Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansaari was the first place where the Prophet stayed in Madina Shareef.
• The first person sent to spread Islam under the instructions of the Prophet was Mus'ab bin Umair who was sent to
Madinah.
• The first person to make Ijtihaad was Abu Bakr Siddique
• Hazrat Abu Zirr Ghaffari is known as the first Dervish.
• Abdullah ibn Maz’oom: first person buried in Jannatul Baqi.
• Hazrat Umar was the first person to perform Janazah Salaah in Jamaat with four Takbeers.
• First census of Islamic world in Umer’s period.
• The first person to become murtad (out of the folds of Islam) was either Muqees bin Khubaaba or Ubaidullah
bin Jahash.
• Salah-udin Ayubi conquered Bait ul Muqadas.
• Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani is buried at Baghdad.
• Shah Jahan Mosque is at Thatta.
• Indonesia is the biggest Islamic Country Population wise.
• Maldives is the smallest Islamic country area wise.
• Hazrat Data Ganj Bux is buried in Lahore.
• Abyssinia is an old name of Ethiopia.
• Mesopotamia is the old name of Iraq.
• Constantinople is and old name of Istanbul.
• Persia is an old name of Iran.
• Albania is Europe’s only Islamic country.
• Sinai Peninsula is only land bridge between Asia and Africa.
• Egypt connects Africa with Europe continent.
• Al Azhar University is in Cairo.
• Shah Faisal Mosque is in Islamabad.
• Jibraeel will be first person questioned on Day of Qiyamah.
• From amongst the animals, the first animal to be brought back to life will be the Buraaq of Prophet Muhammad.
• The first meal in Jannah will be fish liver.
• The first Ibaadat on earth was Tauba (repentance).
• The first Mujaddid of Islam is Hazrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz.
• First book of Hadith compiled was Muata by Imam Malik.
• Mosque of Prophet was damaged due to fire in the reign of Motasim Billah.
• Jamia mosque of Damascus was built by Walid bin Malik.
• Badshahi mosque Lahore was built by Shah Jahan.

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• Faisal mosque was opened for public in 1987.
• Umm-us-Saheehain is Imam Malik: Mauta.
• Mohd: bin Ismael Bukhari comprised of 4,000 hadiths
• Bukhari Sharif & Muslim Sharif are called Sahihain.
• Imam Tirmazy was a student of Abu Dawood.
• Imam Nisai=Ahmed bin Shoaib.
• Kitab-ul-Kharaj was written by Imam Abu Yousuf.
• Mahmood Ghaznavi called kidnapper of scholars.
• Dara Shakoh was a mystic.
• Mullana Nizam-ud-Din founded the school of Dars-e-Nizamia.
• Rabia Basry was born in 95 A.H.
• Baqee Billah revolted against Akbar’s deen-e-Ilahi firstly.
• Shaikh Ahmed Sirhandi was given the title of Mujadid alf Sani by Mullana Abdul Hakeem.
• Baba Fareed Ganj Shakr married to the daughter of Balban.
• Toosi built Margha astronomical observatory.
• Mamoon of west is al-Zahrawi.
• Shah Waliullah wrote Mawahb-ur-Rehman.

Important Events of Islam

545: Birth of Abdullah, the Holy Prophet's father.


571: Birth of the Holy Prophet. Year of the Elephant. Invasion of Makkah by Abraha the Viceroy of Yemen, his retreat.
577: The Holy Prophet visits Madina with his mother. Death of his mother.
580: Death of Abdul Muttalib, the grandfather of the Holy Prophet.
583: The Holy Prophet's journey to Syria in the company of his uncle Abu Talib. His meeting with the monk Bahira at
Bisra who foretells of his prophethood.
586: The Holy Prophet participates in the war of Fijar.
591: The Holy Prophet becomes an active member of "Hilful Fudul", a league for the relief of the distressed.
594: The Holy Prophet becomes the Manager of the business of Lady Khadija, and leads her trade caravan to Syria
and back.
595: The Holy Prophet marries Hadrat Khadija. Seventh century
605: The Holy Prophet arbitrates in a dispute among the Quraish about the placing of the Black Stone in the Kaaba.
610: The first revelation in the cave at Mt. Hira. The Holy Prophet is commissioned as the Messenger of God.
613: Declaration at Mt. Sara inviting the general public to Islam.
614: Invitation to the Hashimites to accept Islam.
615: Persecution of the Muslims by the Quraish. A party of Muslims leaves for Abyssinia.
616: Second Hijrah to Abysinnia.
617: Social boycott of the Hashimites and the Holy Prophet by the Quraish. The Hashimites are shut up in a glen
outside akkah.
619: Lifting of the boycott. Deaths of Abu Talib and Hadrat Khadija. Year of sorrow.
620: Journey to Taif. Ascension to the heavens.
621: First pledge at Aqaba.
622: Second pledge at Aqaba. The Holy Prophet and the Muslims migrate to Yathrib.
623: Nakhla expedition.
624: Battle of Badr. Expulsion of the Bani Qainuqa Jews from Madina.
625: Battle of Uhud. Massacre of 70 Muslims at Bir Mauna. Expulsion of Banu Nadir Jews from Madina. Second
expedition of Badr.
626: Expedition of Banu Mustaliq.
627: Battle of the Trench. Expulsion of Banu Quraiza Jews.
628: Truce of Hudaibiya. Expedition to Khyber. The Holy Prophet addresses letters to various heads of states.
629: The Holy Prophet performs the pilgrimage at Makkah. Expedition to Muta (Romans).
630: Conquest of Makkah. Battles of Hunsin, Auras, and Taif.
631: Expedition to Tabuk. Year of Deputations.
632: Farewell pilgrimage at Makkah.
632: Death of the Holy Prophet. Election of Hadrat Abu Bakr as the Caliph. Usamah leads expedition to Syria. Battles
of Zu Qissa and Abraq. Battles of Buzakha, Zafar and Naqra. Campaigns against Bani Tamim and Musailima, the Liar.
633: Campaigns in Bahrain, Oman, Mahrah Yemen, and Hadramaut. Raids in Iraq. Battles of Kazima, Mazar, Walaja,
Ulleis, Hirah, Anbar, Ein at tamr, Daumatul Jandal and Firaz.
634: Battles of Basra, Damascus and Ajnadin. Death of Hadrat Abu Bakr. Hadrat Umar Farooq becomes the Caliph.
Battles of Namaraq and Saqatia.
635: Battle of Bridge. Battle of Buwaib. Conquest of Damascus. Battle of Fahl.
636: Battle of Yermuk. Battle of Qadsiyia. Conquest of Madain.
637: Conquest of Syria. Fall of Jerusalem. Battle of Jalula.
638: Conquest of Jazirah.
639: Conquest of Khuizistan. Advance into Egypt.
640: Capture of the post of Caesaria in Syria. Conquest of Shustar and Jande Sabur in Persia. Battle of Babylon in
Egypt.
641: Battle of Nihawand. Conquest Of Alexandria in Egypt.

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642: Battle of Rayy in Persia. Conquest of Egypt. Foundation of Fustat.
643: Conquest of Azarbaijan and Tabaristan (Russia).
644: Conquest of Fars, Kerman, Sistan, Mekran and Kharan.Martyrdom of Hadrat Umar. Hadrat Othman becomes the
Caliph.
645: Campaigns in Fats.
646: Campaigns in Khurasan, Armeain and Asia Minor.
647: Campaigns in North Africa. Conquest of the island of Cypress.
648: Campaigns against the Byzantines.
651: Naval battle of the Masts against the Byzantines.
652: Discontentment and disaffection against the rule of Hadrat Othman.
656: Martyrdom of Hadrat Othman. Hadrat Ali becomes the Caliph. Battle of the Camel.
657: Hadrat Ali shifts the capital from Madina to Kufa. Battle of Siffin. Arbitration proceedings at Daumaut ul Jandal.
658: Battle of Nahrawan.
659: Conquest of Egypt by Mu'awiyah.
660: Hadrat Ali recaptures Hijaz and Yemen from Mu'awiyah. Mu'awiyah declares himself as the Caliph at Damascus.
661: Martyrdom of Hazrat Ali. Accession of Hazrat Hassan and his abdication. Mu'awiyah becomes the sole Caliph.
662: Khawarij revolts.
666: Raid of Sicily.
670: Advance in North Africa. Uqba b Nafe founds the town of Qairowan in Tunisia. Conquest of Kabul.
672: Capture of the island of Rhodes. Campaigns in Khurasan.
674: The Muslims cross the Oxus. Bukhara becomes a vassal state.
677: Occupation of Sarnarkand and Tirmiz. Siege of Constantinople.
680: Death of Muawiyah. Accession of Yazid. Tragedy of Kerbala and martyrdom of Hadrat Hussain.
682: In North Africa Uqba b Nafe marches to the Atlantic, is ambushed and killed at Biskra. The Muslims evacuate
Qairowan and withdraw to Burqa.
683: Death of Yazid. Accession of Mu'awiyah II.
684: Abdullah b Zubair declares himself aS the Caliph at'Makkah. Marwan I becomes the Caliph' at Damascus. Battle
of Marj Rahat.
685: Death of Marwan I. Abdul Malik becomes the Caliph at Damascus. Battle of Ain ul Wada.
686: Mukhtar declares himself as the Caliph at Kufa.
687: Battle of Kufa between the forces of Mukhtar and Abdullah b Zubair. Mukhtar killed.
691: Battle of Deir ul Jaliq. Kufa falls to Abdul Malik.
692: The fall of Makkah. Death of Abdullah b Zubair. Abdul Malik becomes the sole Caliph.
695: Khawarij revolts in Jazira and Ahwaz. Battle of the Karun. Campaigns against Kahina in North Africa. The'
Muslims once again withdraw to Barqa. The Muslims advance in Transoxiana and occupy Kish.

1) Which Surah starts without Bismillah:


a) Al-Baqara
b) Al-Nisa
c) Al-Toba
d) Al-Ikhlas

2) A male is coffined/wrapped in ____ dressed sheets:


a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

3) Amount of zakat cannot be used in _____ .


a) Madrassah
b) Mosque
c) Hospital
b) Mosque

4) What is Sahihain:
a) Mishkat
b) Bukhari
c) Bukhari and Muslim
d) Ibne Majah

5) Jehad become mandatory in ___Hijra:


a) 1 AH
b) 2 AH
c) 3 AH
d) 4 AH

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6) Which one is called Masha’ar-ul-Haram:
a) Mina valley
b) Muzdalifa valley
c) Arafat
b) Muzdalifa valley

7) Who was the first martyre in Islam:


a) Hazrat Hamza (RA)
b) Hazrat Yasir (RA)
c) Hazarat Sumaya (RA)

8) Who first embraced Islam among women:


a) Hazrat Fatima (RA)
b) Hazrat Zainab (RA)
c) Hazrat Khadija (RA)
d) Hazrat Ayesha (RA)

9) What is Istelam:
a) Salam to Kaaba
b) Salam to Hajre Aswad
c) Kissing Hajre Aswad
d) Praying at Muqam –e-Ibrahim

10) Who collected Quranic verses in one place:


a) Hazrat Umar (RA)
b) Hazrat Abdullah ibne Abbas (RA)
c) Hazrat Abdullah ibne Masud (RA)
d) Hazrat Usman (RA)

11) Jehad become mandatory in ___Hijra:


a) 1 AH
b) 2 AH
c) 3 AH
d) 4 AH

12) Who collected Quranic verses in one place:


a) Hazrat Umar (RA)
b) Hazrat Abdullah ibne Abbas (RA)
c) Hazrat Abdullah ibne Masud (RA)
d) Hazrat Usman (RA)

13) How much Surah the Quran contains:


a.124
b.109
c. 114
d. 220

14) Makka was conquered in:


a. 5 A.H
b.10 A.H
c. 2 A.H
d. 8 A.H

15) Jami-i-Quran is taken for:


a. Hazrat Ali (R.A)
b. Hazrat Saad (R.A)
c. Hazrat Usman (R.A)
d. Hazrat Masood (R.A)

16) Who was the first writer of “Wahi” in Quraish?


(a) Harat Abdul Rahman bin Auf (RA)
(b) Hazrat Zaid bin Sabit (RA)
(c) Hazrat Abdulla bin Zubair (RA)
(d) Hazrat Ibn Masuod (RA)
17) What was the name of foster sister of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)?

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(a) Hazrat Salmah (RA) (c) Hazrat Mariah (RA)
(b) Hazrat Raqiyyah (RA) (d) Hazrat Shima (RA)

18) What is the number of Ramzan in the Islamic Calender?


(a) 8th
(b) 9th
(c) 10th
(d) 11th

19) Who are the “Sahibain”?


a. Abu Hanifah and Abu Yusuf
b. Abu Hanifah and Imam Shaibani
c. Abu Yusuf and Imam Shaibani
d. Abu Hanifah and Imam Shafi

20) “Kitab-al-Umm” is written by:


a. Abu Hanifa
b. Imam Malik
c. Imam Shafi
d. Ahmad bin Hambal

21) The word Muhammad (SAW) as a name has been mentioned in Quran only:
(a) Two times
(b) Four times
c) Six times
d) Seven times

22) A Verse of the Holy Quran indicates the name of:


(a) Hazarat Muaaz (RA)
(b) Hazrat Bilal (RA)
(c) Hazrat Saad (RA)
(d) Hazrat Zaid (RA)

23) Which Surah of Quran has Bismillah twice:


(a) Al Nehal
(b) Al Namal
(c) Al Ahzaab
(d) Al Noor

24) Sadaq-e-Eid-ul-fitr has been proclaimed in the year:


(a) 2 Hijri
(b) 3 Hijri
(c) 4 Hijri
(d) 5 Hijri

25) Arafat gathering is held on:


(a) 8 Zil hajj
(b) 9 Zil hajj
(c) 10 Zil hajj
(d) 12 Zil hajj

26) The longest Surah of the Qur’an is:


a) Surah al Baqarah
b) Surah al Imran
c) Surah al Tauba
d) Surah Yunus

27) “Arbaeen” is the book of Hadith in which there are:


a) 40 Ahadith
b) 50 ahadith
c) 30 Ahadith
d) 20 Ahadith

28) QUBA mosque has been mentioned in:


a) Surah al Tauba
b) Surah Anfal

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c) Surah Dhuha
d) Surah Al-Muzammil

29) The “IFK” event is described in the Qur’an in:


a) Surah Baqarah
b) Surah Tauba
c) Surah Noor
d) Surah Yaseen

30) The heads of Zakat are:


a) Eight
b) Nine
c) Seven
d) Five

31)Mention the religious book(s) of Buddism:


(a) Weena pataka
(b) Sata pataka
(c) Abhi dhaman pataka
(d) Tripitaka

32) Which book is called old testament?


(a) zuboor
(b) torait
(c) injeel
(d) quran

33) What was the total number of idols which were fixed around the Kaaba?
(a) 260
(b) 360
(c) 460
(d) 560

34) When Hazrat Umer (R.A) embraced Islam?


(a) 600 A.D
(b) 608 A.D
(c) 612 A.D
(d) 616 A.D

35) 9th Zil-Hajja is also called:


(a) Yaum-e-Arfat
(b) Waquf-e-Arafat
(c) Yaum-e-Mina
(d) Waqufe-e-Mina
(e) None of these

36) To which tribe did Hazrat Khalid-bin-Waleed (R.A) belong?


(a) Banu Ummayya
(b) Banu Asad
(c) Banu Zuhra
(d) Banu Makhzoom

37) Which country is known as the “Land of Prophets”?


(a) Iraq
(b) Saudi Arabia
(c) Palestine
(d) Syria

38) Name of the son of Hazarat Yaqoob (A.S) whose off-springs are the Jews.
(a) Tibrani
(b) Yahooda
(c) Ishaq (a.s)
(d) Yousaf (a.s)

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE INCLUDING EVERYDAY SCIENCE

FACTS ABOUT HUMAN BODY


• Normal temperature of body is 98.4 deg: F = 37 deg: C
• Corrine is used as paralyzing agent
• A nerve cell is called neuron. Each neuron has several inputs called dendrites and a single output called axon
• Weakest bone is clavicle bone
• Hardest bone is collar bone
• The part of small intestine that joins large intestine is colon
• Hardest part of body is tooth
• Most abundant element in human body is carbon (chk Oxygen or calcium)
• Systole is heart contraction
• Diastole is heart relaxation
• Dendrites are connected with neurons
• Epidermis = outer skin is called the True skin, it is free from blood vessels and its cells are nourished by lymph
• Muscles are held to the bones by Tendons.
• The largest part of the human brain is the Cerebrum
• Blood fails to clot in the absence of Calcium
• the two most abundant elements by mass found in Earth's crust are Oxygen and Silicon
• Eardrum helps in keeping balance of the body
• In general, the probability of flooding decreases when there is an increase in the amount of infiltration
• Where is the 'Atlas' bone in the human body located? Neck
• What does intelligent people have more in their hair? zinc and copper
• Which base differentiates DNA and RNA? Uracil
• Eye is filled with two liquids
• What is the name of bones of human finger? Phalanges
• Pons varolii is found in brain
• Human brain contains 4/5th of water
• % of water in body is 70%
• Carbon in human body is 18%
• Heart is conical in shape
• Weight of heart is 9 ounces with 4 cavities
• Weight of kidney is 41/2 ounces
• Weight of brain is 1.4 kg and it consists of 14 billion nerve cells
• Right kidney is shorter and little lower than left
• Kidneys are supplied blood though renal arteries
• Liver receives blood from the alimentary canal through Heptic Portal vein
• Coronary artery supplies blood to heart
• Each kidney contains about one million nephrons
• Eye ball is moved by six muscles
• Most active muscle of human body is eye muscle
• Digestion of food takes 3 to 4 hours in stomach
• Capacity of stomach is one and a half kilo of food
• Clavicle is the collar bone
• Scapula is the shoulder bone
• Sternum is the chest bone
• There are 24 ribs
• Spinal cord has 33 disks
• Bones in hand are 27
• Ulna is the bone of forearm
• Radius is the second bone of forearm
• Carpal are 8 small bones of wrist
• Tarsal is the ankle bone
• Femur and patella (knee cap), tibia and fibula are bones of lower limbs
• Femur is the longest bone
• Head or skull has 29 bones
• Total bones are 206
• Total muscles are 600 (chk 650)
• 60 thousand miles of capillaries of blood
• Chemically finger nails are made of protein
• Nails are made of a tough material called keratin
• Average body has 2 square yards of skin
• Weight of skin is 6 pounds
• Smallest bone is stirrup in the ear about 1/10th of an inch

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• A newborn baby has 300 bones
• In 22 weeks baby is formed completely
• Ovum is a female germ cell
• The sensation of skin is perceived by epidermis
• Number of systems in body are of 7 types
• Man breathes 20,000 times in a day
• Root of hair is called follicle
• More than 2/3rd of body weight is made of fluids/water
• Messages sent in brain at 240 miles/hour
• Weight of eyes is 1 ½ ounces each
• There are 100,000 hairs
• Muscle of jaw exerts 219 kg weight
• Circadian rhythm is a medical term of heart beat
• Atmosphere exerts a pressure of 15 pounds per square inch on human body
• Iris of eye regulates the quantity of light admitted into the eye ball
• Outer layer of eyeball is called sclerotic
• The front portion of sclerotic is called cornea
• In eye a convex lens is placed
• Cornea is the only part of body without blood supply
• In front of eye is Cornea which bends light as it passes into the eyeball. It is covered by a thing membrane called
Conjunctiva.
• Image made on ratina is upside down, but our brain turns it right.
• Behind the Cornea is a sheet of muscles called the Iris with the small hole in the middle called the pupil.
• Iris manages the amount of light entry into eye. In dark it relaxes to let pupil enter light as much as possible and in
bright light it contracts.
• The muscles attached to the lens are Ciliary muscles. These muscles can contract the lens thin to see distant objects
and for close objects these muscles relax.
• Retina contains cone shaped cells that can detect colors.
• Retina contains rod shaped cells that can see dim light.
• In the centre of retina is a small yellow area called the fovea where each cell has its own connection to the brain.
• Skeleton word comes from a Greek word meaning dried up.
• The defect of vision because of which a person cannot see distant objects clearly : Myopia or Short sightedness
• Where on your body are the most sweat glands-Feet
• Your eyeballs are 3.5% what-Salt
• The human bodies got 45 miles of them – what-Nerves
• Where is your zygomatic bone-Cheek
• Pancreas lies partly on the left side and partly on the right side of the body.
• Development of calf muscles in ladies who wear high heels is a common example of: Use and disuse of organ
• Cerumen is the technical name for what body part-Earwax
• Skin does not excrete oil.
• Male child is born if xy chromosomes are united.
• Liver receives blood from the alimentary canal through hepatic portal vein.
• For short-sightedness (man cannot see distant objects) a concave lens is used
• For long-sightedness (man cannot see near objects) a convex lens is used
• Concave mirrors are used as shaving mirrors, doctors use concave mirrors for the examination of ear, nose or eyes
of a patient
• Concave mirrors are used to focus light in case of search lights and headlights of automobiles.
• Cerebellum co-ordinates movements, conscious control and balance, allowing you to move smoothly.
• The largest and most complicated part of brain is cerebrum. It controls conscious actions, speech and all your
senses. It also does all your thinking and is the centre of memory and learning. It has two halves linked by bundles of
nerve fibres. Its right side does artistic, creative tasks while the left is responsible for understanding, reading and
thinking
• A reflex action is controlled by the nerves of the spinal cord without involving brain.
• Skeleton word comes from a Greek word meaning dried up
• Most abundant mineral in human body is calcium
• Strongest muscle is Thigh muscle (chk Heart muscle and cheek muscle)
• Iris in the eye contracts on the entry of light.
• Retina acts as a lens in the entry of light.
• Weight of heart is 300 gram.
• Water in human body is 85%
• A human being drinks 27 tons of water in a year
• Peritoneum is a membrane
• Unused fat in body is converted into animal fat and stored in different parts of body
• Substances which bring down body temperature are Antipyretics
• Antibodies are proteins
• Most easily breakable bone of body is Collar bone
• There is 21/2 pounds of calcium in human body
• A human body has 236 joints

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• Dental enamel is the hardest thing present in human body
• A man breathes 18 times in a minute
• A 9 inch nail can be made from the iron available in a body
• Average weight of man’s brain is 4.8 ounces and femal’s 4.4 ounces
• About 900 pencils can be made from the carbon preserved in human body
• Skin does not excrete oil.
• New varieties of organisms can be brought about by hybridization.
• Male child is born if xy chromosomes are united.
• Total teeth = 32, eight flat incisors at the front, fount pointed canine and 20 flat-topped pre-molars and molars at
the back of the mouth.
• Tooth is covered by tough white enamel
• Enamel is the hardest substance in the body and resists almost everything except the acid produced by certain
bacteria
• Liver is the body’s chemical factory.
• Liver is the largest organ in the body.
• Liver carries out more than 500 different tasks.
• Liver recycles old red blood cells.
• Liver takes up and stores glucose from blood.
• Liver also absorbs and stores fat and some vitamins.
• Liver uses vitamin B12 for making new red blood cells.
• Nearly two third of our body is water.
• We loose about a liter and a half of water each day in sweating, breathing and urination.
• Each kidney is made up of millions of tiny filtering units called Nephrons.
• The nephrons can filter about 4 liters of blood every 5 minutes.
• Each day about 200 liters of water leaves the blood and passes into the filters most of it is then reclaimed and
return to the blood.
• Only about a liter of water per day stays in the nephrons to leave the kidney and flow into the bladder as urine.
• Urea is poisonous so the kidneys remove all of it from the blood.
• The liquid which leaves the kidney as urine is about 96% water and just 4% salts and urea.
• The urinary bladder can hold about half a liter of urine before we must empty it.
• Amniotic sac is a protective bag of fluid in which the baby floats.
• A baby is attached to the side of the womb by placenta.
• Homo erectus means upright man
• Homo sapiens mean wise man
• Cells in intestine are easily worn away and live for only a few days.
• Bone cells can last for 30 years.
• The left ventricle pumps blood all round the body.
• Capillaries are so small that they can fit between cells.
• A living bone has layers of hard calcium phosphate on the outside and a heycomb of hard bone of living cells inside
• Bone marrow supply blood cells over 2 millin every second
• In the inner chamber of ear called cochlea, the vibrations send waves of movement through a fluid.
• The cochlea is liked with thousands of sensitive hairs.
• Thumping of heart or break out of sweat are caused by adrenaline.
• From the age of about 5 years a child’s body grows steadily
• Protein is a natural polymer
• Muscles along the digestive system contract in a sequence called peristalsis to squeeze food along
• Nutrients of food are absorbed in blood in a long section of intestine called ileum. If uncoiled, ileum is 5-6 meters
long
• Eye contains only three types of color-sensitive cells. These cells (called cones) are on retina. The cones respond to
red, green and blue light. Brain makes out other colors by combining the signals from these cells.
• Ophthalmology deals with Eyes
• ORBIS is mobile eye hospital
• Synovial fluid is the “joint oil” between bones
• The smallest bone in human body is stapes or stirrup bone. It is one of the three auditory ossicles in the middle ear.
Its length is 0.10 to 0.13 inch.
• Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
• You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
• A living bone has layers of hard calcium, phosphate on the outside and a honeycomb of hard bone are living cells
within.
• Every second, hundreds of tiny pulses of electricity shoot through your body along living wires called nerves.
• There is a place in the retina where the light sensitive cells are interrupted by the presence of the optic nerve head.
It is known as The Retinal Neural Transmission Layer_
• The cavity of Ascaris is known as Coelom.
• The membranous labyrinth of the ear is filled with Endolymph.
• Crura-cerebri is found in Mid-brain.
• The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw. (Chk)
• Muscles account for 40 percent of one's body weight.
• There are 230 joints in the body.

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• Kids have 20 first teeth. Adults have 32 teeth.
• The small intestines are about 25 feet long.
• The large intestines are five feet long and are three times wider than the small intestines.
• Most people shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
• Your body is 70 percent water.
• Normal body temperature is 98.6° Fahrenheit.
• When you sneeze, air rushes through your nose at a rate of 100 mph.
• An eyelash lives about 150 days before it falls out.
• Your brain sends messages at the rate of 240 mph.
• About 400 gallons of blood flow through your kidneys in one day.
• You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.
• Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day.
• Humans breathe 20 times per minute, more than 10 million times per year and about 700 million times in a lifetime.
• You have about 100,000 hairs on your head.
• There are 10 million nerve cells in your brain.
• Each of your eyes has 120 million rods, which help you see in black and white.
• Each eye has six million cones, which help you see in color.
• One in 12 men is color blind.
• Brain of a normal human adult weighs about 3lb
• For an adult blood pressure of 120/80 is regarded as ideal and pressure of up to 140/90 is normal.
• Iris in the eye contracts on the entry of light.
• Retina acts as a lens in the entry of light.
• In your body where is the macula- Eye centre of the Retina
• Weight of heart is 300 gram.
• Heart pumps five liters of blood in 1 minute.
• Colon is mainly responsible for water absorption from the undigested residue.
• Right kidney in man is slightly lower in position than the left kidney
• The movement of food through esophagus is by the muscular action known as : peristaltic
• In the human body what is replaced every three months Eyelashes
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
• The thickness of your skin varies from 1/2 to 6 millimeters, depending on the area of your body
• the temperature of the dead human body on Celsius scale is __25 c_ normally room temperature
• Where in your body is the labyrinth- Ear
• What does a hypodermic literally mean-Under skin
• In the body where would you find your villus Small Intestine
• Where is the dirtiest skin on your body- The face
• the number of the spinal nerves in the man is 31 pairs
• Part of the human body can expand 20 times its normal size: Stomach 0.5 litres to 5 litres
• In the human body where is your occiput: Back of head
• Central nervous system controls the reflex action in the body.
• The terminal part of vertebral column in man is called Coceyx
• The "Urinary system" of the body consists of 3 organs.
• Haryersion canals are present in Bone.
• The heart bear is initiated and regulated by nodal tissue made of specialized cardiac muscles called Purkinje tusse.
• The gestation period of human being is Nine months.
• The first heart sound is produced when Diastole begins.
• Where would you find Lunate Triquetral and Hamate-Bones in Wrist
• Which part of the human body contains the most gold: Toenails
• In the body luteinizing hormone is produced by what gland Pituitary
• Due to buffer system, human blood has a ph of 7.4.
• The normal temperature of human body is 98.6 F.
• chemical elements most % human body O 65% C 18% and Hydrogen 10%
• Cell membrane is made up of protein and lipid molecules forming a semi permeable membrane.
• Carbohydrates in the cell are in from of glycogen.
• An epithelium is a collection of cells.
• Exoskeleton lies external to the muscles.
• Exoskeleton is commonly found in anthropoids and mollusk.
• Exoskeleton is composed of dead substances secreted by the cells.
• Endoskeleton lies internal to muscles of the body. It is found in all vertebrates. It is formed of bones and cartilages.
• Endoskeleton is composed of living cells.
• Ear has 6 bones- Malleus bone (2), Incus bone (2) & stapes (2).
• Human skull has 22 bones.
• There are 26 vertebrae in the human body.
• Total number of ribs are 24- True Ribs (14), False Ribs (6) and floating ribs (4)
• Sternum is that bone where the ribs meet medially.
• Collar bone are 2, Shoulder bone are 2.
• Carpal bones are those bones which form the wrist numbering 8.
• Small forearm bone is radius and main forearm bone is Ulna. Humerus is upper arm bone.

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• Metacarpal bones are found in hand numbering 5.
• Phalanges are small bones present in fingers also called digits. These are 14 in number.
• Each leg is composed of 29 bones.
• Tarsal bone is also known as the ankle bone. These are seven in number.
• Phalanges are toe bones numbering 14.
• Vertebrae are 33 in number. Vertebral column covers spinal cord and protects it from injury.
• Clavicle bones are also known as collar bones. These are two bones.
• Scapula are called shoulder bones.
• Sternum is called chest bone.
• Patella acts like a knee-cap and protects the knee joint.
• Tibia is the main large bone of the lower leg also known as calf-bone.
• Fibula is the smaller part of lower leg.
• Femur bears the weight of the body. It is in upper leg.
• Muscles are composed of threadlike protein structure called myofibril.
• The cardiac muscle continues to contract rhythmically even when it is disconnected from the nervous system.
• Trapizius muscle is responsible for movement of shoulder.
• Sternocleidomastoid muscle is the longest muscle of the body. It bends head and neck.
• Brachialis anticus muscle is responsible for bending forearm to the upper arm.
• Heart is enclosed in a tough membrane called Pericardium.
• There are four chambers of heart.
• Heart is surrounded by a fluid called as pericardial fluid.
• The weight of the heart in females is 25% lesser than in males.
• Excitability and contractility of the heart id due to the presence of myofibrils of actin and myosin.
• Purkinjee fibres are tissues of heart.
• S.A Node and A.V Node are special conducting tissues of the heart.
• S.A. Node was discovered by Keith and Flack in 1907.
• A.V Node functions as Pace-maker.
• Right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from body collected by Superior Vena Cava from head and upper parts
while from the lower parts by inferior vena cava.
• Right atrium opens into right ventricle through right atrioventricular aperture guarded by bicuspid valve allowing one
way flow of blood.
• When right ventricle contracts, the blood is pushed by the way of pulmonary arteries to the lungs for oxygenation.
• The left atrium is that chamber which receives the oxygenated blood from lungs by pulmonary veins.
• Left atrium opens into left ventricle from there blood is pumped into aorta which distributes blood to body.
• Cardiac cycle consists of three events- Auricular Systole, Ventricular Systole and Diastole.
• Each cardiac cycle takes 0.8 seconds.
• Aorta is the largest vessel of the body.
• The biggest artery is aorta with a diameter of one inch.
• Arteries carry blood away from the heart except pulmonary arteries.
• Arteries carry oxygenated blood except pulmonary arteries.
• The smallest artery is called arteriole.
• The walls of veins are much thinner that the arteries.
• Coronary arteries supply blood to heart.
• Carotid arteries supply blood to head.
• Subclavian arteries supply blood to shoulder and forelimbs.
• Coelic artery supplies blood to digestive system.
• Renal artery supplies blood to kidneys.
• Iliac artery supplies blood to legs.
• The most important function of perspiration is to regulate the body temperature.
• The number of chromosomes in the human body is 46.
• First tissue culture was grown in space on Dec: 17, 1997.
• The tiny air sacs in the lung tissues are called alveoli.
• Farmer's lung is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• Otalgia is what condition-Earache
• Scurvy is a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C, which is required for the synthesis of collagen in
humans.
• Scorbutic gums, a symptom of scurvy
• Scurvy leads to the formation of spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from the mucous membranes. The
spots are most abundant on the thighs and legs, and a person with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is
partially immobilized. In advanced scurvy there are open, suppurating wounds and loss of teeth. It was described by
Hippocrates
• Shortsightedness can be corrected with the use of Concave.
• Pancreas lies partly on the left side and partly on the right side of the body.
• In total 25 elements are present in human body.

HUMAN BLOOD
• Universal donor group is O group
• Total volume of blood in human body is 5.5 liters (chk 6 liters)

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• Life span of red blood cells is 120 days
• Life of RBC is 115 days.
• The total quantity of blood in a human body is 7-8 liter.
• 80 % water is found in pure blood
• The pH of normal human body is Arteries 7.4
• 60% of blood plasma consists of protein.
• Which one of the following substances is obtained by the fractionation of human blood? Gamma globulin
• In the human circulatory system blood returns to the heart from the lungs through Pulmonary Veins.
• First blood transfusion carried out in London
• pH value of water is 7, blood is 7.4 and urine is 5.5-6.5
• when iron is less in body the quantity of RBC decreases
• Leococytosis is the increase in number of white blood cells.
• it takes 30 seconds to blood for a complete circulation in human body
• Blood travels 1000 times through the whole body
• Hemoglobin is chromo-protein
• In lymph main cells are lymphocytes
• Blood has 83% of water
• Blood has 60% plasma, 40% corpuscles
• During sleep a man’s blood pressure fluctuates.
• Fat is a Lipid
• Human blood is 6 times thicker than water
• Heart pumps five liters of blood in 1 minute.
• Antigen is a substance that destroys harmful bacteria
• Blood typing is the way of determine the blood group.
• Platelets help to seal cuts in the skin.
• Almost half of the blood in a body is made up of red blood cells.
• White cells are about one for every 500 red cells.
• A blood donor gives about 500 ml of blood.
• RBC and WBC is bloods are counted by Hemocytometer.
• Of the blood groups A, B, AB and O, which one is transfused into a person whose blood group is A? Group A and O
• Your body contains eight pints of blood.
• Kari Landsteiner discovered the blood groups of man.
• Prothrombin which helps in clotting of blood is released by Blood platelets.
• The main function of white blood cells in the body is to protect the body against diseases.
• In which liquid component do the blood cells move about? Plasma
• Blood can be classified into how many main types of groups? Four
• The fluid portion of blood is known as the plasma.
• Blood contains 91 to 92% waster.
• Blood contains proteins like Serum Albumin, Serum Globulin, Prothrombin and Fibrinogen.
• RBCs in venous blood have bigger size than in arterial blood.
• RBCs due to their Hb content act as O2 carrier.
• RBCs are also known as Erythrocytes.
• WBCs are known as Leucocytes and act as police force of the body.
• WBCs are larger in size as compared to RBCs.
• Life span of WBCs is a few days to a few weeks.
• Platelets have no nucleus.
• Platelets are formed in red bone marrow.
• Life span of platelets varies from 4 to 10 days.
• Platelets are very rich in catecholamine.
• Blood grouping is based on the presence of blood group antigen (agglutinates) on RBCs which are inherited.
• O group comprises of 47% of population while A with 41% is second.
• Hemoglobin is a conjugated protein composed of heme and globulin.
• Quantity of hemoglobin is 16 gms/100 ml of blood in Males and 14 gms/100 ml of blood in females.
• Hemoglobin is basically from acetic acid and glycine.
• Platelets are essential for blood clotting.

GLANDS AND SECETIONS IN HUMAN BODY


• Blood clotting factor is produced by Liver
• Chemical factory of human body is liver
• Urea is produces in liver
• Maximum quantity of water is in eyes
• Largest secretary gland is Liver
• Insulin is produced by pancreas, Insulin is a protein which acts as a hormone
• Amino acids are a product of the digestion of proteins.
• Ptyalin is starch digesting enzyme.
• Bile secretion does not contain enzymes.
• Pepsin, a digestive enzyme is produced in stomach.

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• The hormone secreted by adrenal cortex : aldosterone
• The organ in (the human body which is responsible for the digestion of protein only -Stomach
• Ptyalin is present in the saliva.
• Glycogen is mainly stored in Liver and muscles.
• Pepsin converts protein into peptides in acid media.
• Trypsin is an enzyme produced by pancreas
• Starch is digested by Ptylin
• Gall bladder stores bile from liver and releases it into small intestine after food is consumed
• Pancreas is both endo- and exocrine gland
• Harmones secreted by kidneys are Renin and Erythroprotein
• Lachrymal glands give out tears
• Sweat glands give out sweat
• Salivary glands give out saliva, Saliva contains Amylases
• Ptyalin is the enzyme of Saliva
• Liver converts excessive protein into urea.
• Amino acids are a product of the digestion of proteins.
• Ptyalin is starch digesting enzyme.
• Bile secretion does not contain enzymes.
• Enzymes found in saliva are ptyalin.
• Lachrymal gland is a ductless gland.
• Insulin : Pancreas
• Thyroxin : Thyroid
• Adrenaline ; Adrenal medulla
• Estrogen : Ovaries
• Testosterone : Testes
• Cortisol; Adrenal cortex
• In the body luteinizing hormone is produced by what gland Pituitary
• Mammary gland give out milk
• Liver gives out bile
• Sebaceous gland give out sebum
• Exocrine glands transmit secretions through ducts
• Enzymes are protein in nature
• Hydrolysis of starch gives glucose and fructose
• Fat digested by Lipase
• Starch is a polymer of glucose
• Endocrine glands: Pituitary is in brain and it controls general body growth.
• Thyroid gland produces Thyroxin and it increases rate of cellular metabolism,
• Pancreas produce insulin which metabolizes sugar and fats
• Adrenal gland produce cartosol, Testosterone is produced by Tests and ovaries produce Progesterone
• Pituitary: Controls activity of thyroid, adrenal and reproductive glands. Other hormones stimulate the womb to
contract during birth, and stimulate milk production after a baby is born.
• Thyroid: Thyroxin controls the rate at which we grow, and how fast food is converted to energy in our cells.
• Adrenal Glands: Adrenaline speeds up the heart and breathing, causes sweating and diverts blood to the muscles, in
response to an emergency.
• Cortisone helps fight stress and shock.
• Aldosterone helps regulate water and salt in the body.
• Pancreas: Insulin controls the body’s use of glucose.
• Ovaries: Estrogens and progesterone control female appearance and the release of eggs, and prepare the body for
pregnancy.
• Testes: Testosterone controls the development of male appearance and the production of sperm cells.
• Protein which acts as hormone is Oxatocin
• Hormones are made in glands known as endocrine glands which pour them straight into the blood. Hormones are
not released all the time they are produced in short bursts.
• Pituitary gland attached to the underside of brain releases hormones that control the activity of other endocrine
glands. It produces hormone that controls the amount of water filtered in the kidneys. Pituitary is attached to the
brain by the hypothalamus which links together the nervous system and the hormonal system
• Excessive secretion from the pituitary gland in children results in increased height

GENE/CELL
• The genetic material of chromatin is DNA
• Hereditary material is DNA
• Gender of a person is determined by 23rd chromosome
• Autosome are sex chromosome = 23
• Nucleus of human body cell contains about 20,000 genes, half of which being contributed by each parent
• Term gene was coined by Johannsen in 1909
• DNA = Deoxy ribose nucleic acid
• RNA = Ribose nucleic acid
• Histones are on chromosomes

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• Chromosomes word was coined by Waldeyer in 1888
• Number of chromosomes in human being is 46
• Chromosomes in spermatozoa are 23
• Smallest part of a gene is Mutton
• Mitochondria are power house of cells
• Golgi bodies are involved in cell secretions
• Ribosome are rich in DNA and prepare protein
• Plastids are found in Plant cells only and contain chlorophyll
• Centrosomes help in cell division
• Proteins are synthesized by Golgi bodies.
• Cellulose respiration is done by Mitochondrion
• Light energy is stored in the form of chemical energy due to the activity of Chloroplast.
• Protoplasm is a colloidal solution.
• Most cells are microscopic but the egg cell of an ostrich is 15-20 cm long and some giraffe nerve cells reach more
then 4 m long
• Mitochondria do work of cell respiration.
• The nucleus, mitocondria and chloroplast have double membranes
• Bacteria have no nucleus and no mitochondria they have just a single loop of DNA cell nucleoid as well as food
granules and ribosome which produce proteins
• Each cell has the same set of about 30,000 genes.
• Genes are arranged along a long and thin thread-like structure called chromosomes.
• Snakes have 36 chromosomes, horse has 63 while some ferns have 500 or more
• Humans have a total of 46 chromosomes- 23 pairs in every cell. The only exception are sperm and egg cells which
have 23 unpaired chromosomes.
• Genes are made of a chemical called deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA
• DNA tells a cell how to make the proteins
• Every cell in a body contains at least 10,000 different kinds of proteins.
• The machinery for making these proteins is on structures called ribosome which are outside the nucleus.
• RNA carries the instructions for making a particular protein to the ribosome.
• A permanent change to a piece of DNA is called a mutation.
• Nearly a third of a human being’s genes are the same as the genes of a lettuce.
• DNA is shaped like a twisted ladder called double helix. The rungs of the ladder are made up of four chemical
building blocks Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, and Cytosine
• Amoeba is a unicellular organism
• A structure present in all cells is called cell membrane
• The normal temperature of human body on the Kelvin scale is 310.
• ELISA is Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay- for HIV/AIDS.
• Rh- blood is very rare compared to Rh+.
• The pancreatic duct releases its contents into duodenum.
• Right hepatic artery supplies nutrient rich blood from stomach and small intestine to the liver.
• Human cranium contains 6 bones.
• In the human body, spleen stores extra blood for release when shortage occurs.
• Mitochondria contain enzymes for cellular respirations.
• In the human body, rotator cuff muscle is to be found in the shoulder.
• Reproductive cells in normal human beings are produced in greater numbers for a longer period of time in the male
• Which vessels bring blood back to heart? Inferior venacava and Superior venacava bring blood back to heart from
lower parts and upper parts of body respectively.
• Where in your body is your patella: Knee ( it's the kneecap
• 80% of household dust is actually what material-Dead skin
• Babies are born without what-Knee Caps - form at 2-6 years
• In Nuclear DNA is concentrated in chromatin.
• Proteins are synthesized by golgi bodies.
• Cellulose respiration is done by Mitochondrion.
• Protoplasm is a colloidal solution.
• Man is Homoeothermic.
• Hydrosis is the medical term for what -Sweating
• An IVP is used to detect what medical condition- Kidney Stones- Intravenuspylorigram
• What part of the body ages the fastest-The Hands
• In medicine what is nicknamed a blue pipe-A Vein
• What is the name of the cranial bone just above your ear Temporal
• What is the name of the scale measuring depth of coma (GCS)- Glasgow Coma Scale

DISEASES/CURE
• TB tuberculosis is a bacterial disease
• Bacillus causes TB
• Salmonella Typhus are bacteria causing Typhoid
• Vibrio cholera cause Cholera
• Clostridium Tetni cause Tetanus

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• Athlete’s foot is caused by Fungi
• Presbypia is an old age eye disease
• Mycobacterium are bacteria causing T.B
• Myxovirus cause Influenza
• Anopheles (mosquito) causes malaria, parasite is plasmodium
• Astigmation is fault of eye
• Thalasemia is an hereditary disease causing deficiency of hemoglobin
• Long-sightedness is called Hyper metrophia
• Shortsightedness is called Myopia
• Largest acquired disease is of tooth
• Low sugar in blood is called Hypoglycemia
• High sugar in blood is called Hyperglycemia
• Plague is caused by Yersina Pests
• Hemophilia is a bleeding disease
• Parasomia is sleep walking.
• In Leukemia there is an abnormal increase in number of White blood cells
• Parkinson is a disease of Brain
• An Aids patient can live for 2 years
• Aids virus has single stranded RNA
• Meaningitis disease affects Centaral Nervous System
• Diabetes is a disease in which the urine lacks insulin
• Improper function of Thyroid gland causes Myxedema
• Scurvy is the disease of swelling and bleeding of gums
• Hook worm enters human body through soles of feet
• Tuberculosis usually spreads though milk
• Malaria affects spleen and liver
• Trachoma is a disease of ees
• Mymps is caused by virus
• Lock jaw is a condion of Tetanus virus attack
• A person suffering from Beri- Beri should use citrus fruit , mangoes, grapes
• Pneumonia is caused by Cocci.
• Common Cold is caused by Virus.
• Chief food of mosquito larva is micro organism found in water.
• Chief food of butterfly larva is leaves of plants.
• Pneumonia affects respiratory system.
• Rabies affects Nervous system.
• Beri beri affects bones.
• Biopsy is done on tissues taken from a living body
• Oldest known disease in the world is Leprosy
• Lack of oxygen at high altitudes produce bleeding
• Pathogenic is the Disease producing micro organism.
• Antibiotic for inhibit the growth of bacteria.
• Sulfa drugs are used for bacteria.
• An disinfectant is used for destroying micro-organism and rendering the material sterile.
• Encephalitis is a viral disease.
• Trypanosome a parasite causing sleeping sickness.
• Immunization is the method in which the cure of disease is done by Vaccine.
• Sleep sickness is transmitted by tse-tse-fly.
• typical bacterial cell is about 1000 times smaller than an animal cell
• Viruses are not made up of cells
• Viruses cause common cold, measles, Aids
• Bacteria move with Flagella
• Bacteria cause cholera, tetanus, typhoid
• Bacteria can produce two in every 30 minutes and 8 million bacteria a day (?)
• Viruses called Bacteriophages invade the cell of bacteria and hijack its chemical process so instead of working
normally the cell makes copies of the virus
• SARS = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is a pneumonia like disease
• Mad cow disease = BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
• Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, was the first to realize that diseases are caused by germs
• In 1881, Louis Pasteur founded a vaccine for anthrax, a fatal disease of animals.
• The Pasteur Institute in Paris was founded in 1888 to investigate rabies.
• Morphine used in drugs is extracted from opium poppy, it is a powerful painkiller.
• Antibiotics are substances produced naturally by certain moulds and bacteria.
• A vaccine is made of dead or weakened micro-organisms to fight the invading virus. The body produces antibodies
to fight the invading virus. Later, if the body is exposed to real virus the antibodies are already there to attack it
before it multiplies.
• English doctor Edward Jener made vaccine of smallpox.
• Analgesic drugs prevent or reduce pain

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• Jaundice is a yellowness of skin which is caused by disease of the liver or gall blader.
• Head louse transmits the typhoid.
• Cancer cells divide rapidly and form growth called Tumors.
• Radiotherapy is used for killing cancer cells
• Ultra-violet rays from sun can cause cancer
• Strong drugs(Chemotherapy) are used to remove cancer in early stages
• Magic bullets are special antibodies used as a drug to kill cancer cells.
• Oil from the skin contains substances that kill bacteria.
• Inside the nose sticky mucus traps and destroys invaders we inhale.
• We have several different types of infection fighting white cells in the blood. Two of the most important are
lymphocytes and macrophages.
• Lymphocytes produce special chemical called antibodies to fight bacteria and viruses.
• By what name is the disease, Varicella, more commonly known? Chicken Pox
• A typical bacterial cell is about 1000 times smaller than an animal cell.
• Viruses are not made up of cells.
• Viruses cause, common cold, measles, aidz.
• Bacteria moves with Flagella.
• Bacteria causes Cholera, Tetanus, Typhoid.
• Bacteria can produce (Two) in every 30 minutes and 8 million bacteria a day.
• Viruses called Bacteriophages invade the cell of bacteria. They ‘hijack’ the cell’s chemical process, so that, instead of
working normally, the cell makes copies of the virus.
• Immunization is the method in which the cure of disease is done by Vaccine.
• Small pox is totally eliminated from the world.
• Cancer is a disease which cannot be spread by those who have it
• The drug quinine is used in the treatment of malaria.
• Pollen grains can cause hey fever which is a typical allergic reaction.
• After drinking contaminated water you would be most apt to develop symptoms of ‘typhoid fever’.
• Food poisoning can result from the eating of too much Vitamins. (chk)
• The most infectious disease is Penumonic form of Plague. it has a mortality rate og about 99.99 %
• robert koch worked on TB
• Rust is caused by Fungi.
• Pathogenic is the Disease producing micro organism.
• Antibiotic for inhi the growth of bacteria.
• Sulfa drugs are used for bacteria.
• An disinfectant is used for destroying micro-organism and rendering the materialsterile.
• Pneumonia is caused by Cocci.
• Common Cold is caused by Virus.
• Bacillus causes Cholera.
• Pneumonia affects respiratory system.
• Rabies affects Nervous system.
• Beri beri affects bones.
• Head louse transmits the typhoid.
• Sleep sickness is transmitted by tse-tse-fly.
• Trachoma is a disease of eye.
• Typhoid is caused by bacteria.
• Cancer Cells divide rapidly and form growth called Tumors.
• If cells break away from the tumors they can travel to other part of the body and start new tumors.
• Radiotherapy is used for killing cancer cells.
• Ultra-Violet rays from the sun can damage skin cells and cause cancer.
• Strong drugs (Chemotherapy) is used to remove cancer in early stages.
• Magic bullets are special antibodies used as a drug to kill cancer, they directly attach themselves to cancer cells.
• Anasthetic = prevent patient feeling pain; local anesthetic acts locally; generally anesthetic creates
unconsciousness.
• Analgesic = prevents or reduces pain.
• Antibiotic = kills the bacteria that cause disease.
• Antihistamine = relieves symptoms of asthma, hay fever and other allergies.
• Hormone = used to overcome a hormone deficiency in the body.
• Narcotic = helps prevents pain by deadening the whole system.
• Sedative = helps induce sleep.
• Tranquillizer = helps claim a person.
• Vaccine = helps the body fight a virus disease by triggering its natural defenses in advance.
• Encephalitis is a viral disease.
• Muscle stiffness is caused by a disease called ___ (Parkinsons) (chk)
• Wool sorters disease is actually what-Anthrax
• Which disease was once known as white plague Tuberculosis
• Beingn tertain malaria is caused by plasmodium vivax.
• The life history of human malarial parasite in Anopheles was first described by Sir Ronald Ross.
• The mouth parts of anopheles are adapted to piercing and sucking type feeding.

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• Amoebic dysentery in man is caused by Entamoeba histolytica.
• Jaundice is the disease of Liver
• AIDS is caused by HIV virus (human immune deficiency virus ).
• Addison’s disease is caused by the excessive secretion of: Adrenocorticotrophic Harmone
• Consumption was the former name of which disease: Tuberculosis
• If you suffered from pruritus - what would be wrong-Itching
• The word amnesia (forgetfulness) derives from- Greek
• Encephalitis is a viral disease.
• What disease is spread in minute water droplets-Legionnaires Disease
• Which of the following diseases is generally spread by fleas? Yellow fever
• The much dreaded H1N1 virus flu, also known as swine flu, is a respiratory illness in pigs caused by a virus
• Water contaminated by sewage spreads disease such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery and river blindness
• Meningococcal Meningitis is transmitted from person to person by mosquito bites.
• Vomiting and neck pair are two of the symptoms of Meningococcal Meningitis.
• Deficiency of vitamin A causes Xerophthalmia, a disease characterized by dryness of conjunctiva layer of eye.
• Cholera is caused by bacteria vibrio cholerae.
• Colour blindness, Down’s syndrome & Hemophilia are genetic disorders.
• Xerophthalmia is disease of tear glands.
• Leukemia is a type of cancer in which there is an abnormal increase in the number of White Blood Cells.
• Biopsy is a medical diagnostic technique using cells and tissues.
• In which country were antibiotics first used: Egypt - used mouldy bread
• If you suffer from epistaxis what is wrong: Nosebleed
• Deficiency of Vitamin C causes a disease of... Teeth
• Louis Pasteur is called “Father of the Modern Medicine”.
• If you has caries who would you consult Dentist - its tooth decay
• Which of the following is not an attribute of bacterium? Ability to arise from non-living matter
• The comma bacillus causes what disease: Cholera
• If you have Chlorosis what colour does the skin go: Green
• What is the oldest most widely used drug on earth: Alcohol
• What medication discovered in 1928 but introduced 1940: Penicillin
• Flies and humans can both get which condition-Athletes Foot
• Agraphia means inability to write.
• St. Vitus’s dance is a disease.
• Kleptomania is an irrational urge to steal.
• After drinking contaminated water you would be most apt to develop symptoms of ‘typhoid fever’.
• Otalgia is what condition-Earache
• If a doctor gave you an Ishihara test what is he testing-for Colour blindness
• If you suffered from pyrexia what have you got-Fever

ANIMALS, PLANTS & INSECTS


• Earth worm is bi-sexual
• Euspongia is known as natural bath sponge.
• Live Fluke, biologically called Fasciola, is found in liver of sheep.
• Eyes of insects are compound.
• Plants growing in extremely dry condition are called Xerophytes.
• Roots absorb water from soil which is Hygroscopic.
• Legumes increase the fertility of the soil by adding nitrogen to the soil.
• New varieties of organisms can be brought about by hybridization.
• Seeds are developed from Ovule.
• Parthenocarpic fruits are seedless fruits.
• Grains swell in water due to imbibitions.
• Chlorophyll contains magnesium.
• Star fish is not a star fish but a spiny-skin (Echinodermata) marine animal.
• Plants store their food in the form of starch.
• Unlike most other fish, sharks have no:
• It is now believed that dinosaurs became extinct because of:
• The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that Lay eggs
• Lady bird is an insect
• Rust of wheat is a disease caused by Fungi
• Silk is obtained from cocoon of silk worm
• Python Plankton are poisonous plants
• Insects have lived on earth about 4,000,000 years
• Slowest creature on earth is Conch-Shell (shellfish snail)
• Star fish is not a star fish but a spiny-skin (Echinodermata) marine animal.
• Koala bear is the only animal who doesn’t drink water
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel
• Loudest animal is Blue whales
• Peocock is found in 3 colors

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• Cockroach is considered ancient insect of world
• Daffodils flower resembles a human eye
• Giant squid is the largest invertiberate
• Angora wool is got from a special variety of rabbit
• Sailfish is the largest fisht
• Distance covered by tortoiose is 4.6 meter in a minute
• Aristotle was the first to classify animals into groups
• Eucalyptus is now considered as environmental hazard
• Light energy is stored in the form of chemical energy due to the activity of Chloroplast.
• Wood is used in manufacturing paper
• In cryptograms, the sex organs are primitive and hidden.
• Thallophytia include algae, fungi, and lichens.
• Carl Linneus is famous for binomial system of nomenclature.
• Angiosperm includes the plants which have covered flowers and covered flowers and covered seed.
• Plant cells resembles animal cell because having a cell membrane made up of protoplasm.
• The king cobra is the only snake who build nest.
• The black Mamba is the fastest snake.
• Snake have been evolved from lizard.
• Fertilization is fusion of two game tics of different strains.
• Fruit developed from single ovary is called simple fruit.
• Seeds are developed from Ovule.
• Parthenocarpic fruits are seedless fruits.
• Commercial cork is obtained from Quercus.
• Grains swell in water due to imbibitions.
• Chlorophyll contains magnesium.
• The rate of transpiration depends upon frequency of Stomata.
• Light is necessary for photosynthesis because it produce ATP and reducing substance.
• Oxygen liberated from photosynthesis comes from water.
• Red light is most suitable for photosynthesis.
• Respiration means food oxidation and evolution of energy.
• Chemical presentation of dead organism in liquid is called Cryo-Bilogy.
• The organisms which are the only living membrane of their group and link two major groups are called Living Fossil
• Red color of tomatos is imparted by Darotionoid
• Amphibians were the first vertrbrata
• There are three stages of frog = egg, tadpole, and adult frog
• There are three groups of amhibians = salamanders(slow moving animals), frogs and toads, caecilians(who look
more worm than amphibians)
• Lonrad Lorenz (1903-1989) was the first to study animal behaviour
• Animals survive very cold weather or very dry weather by going into a deep sleep it is called hibernation and
sleeping trough hot day condition is called aestivation
• Blue signed octopus very lethal and can kill 10 people it feeds on crabs
• Cheetah is the fastest land animal. It can accelerate from 0-90 km/h in 3 seconds and can run at 100 km/h but has
to rest after 20 seconds
• Sponge, beetle, snail, Jelly fish, insects and starfish are cold-blooded animals
• Shark is a cold blooded animal
• Newts (wall lizard) and frog are cold blooded animals
• Lizards, crocodiles, snakes, turtles and tortoises are cold blooded animals
• Invertegrates have 33 groups, fish have 2 goups, amphibians have 3 groups, reptiles havd 3 groups, birds have 28-
30 groups and mammals have 21 groups
• Over 90% of animals are invertebrates
• Hard shell of animals is called exoskeleton
• 105 million different species of animals have been identified
• Plants growing in extremely dry condition are called Xerophytes.
• Roots absorb water from soil which is Hygroscopic.
• Legumes increase the fertility of the soil by adding nitrogen to the soil.
• Hominoids are Humans + chimpanzees + orungutans + Gorillas
• Felidae means from cat family
• Panthera means big cats
• There are 5 kingdoms in animal kingdom
• Birds are warm blooded
• Birds’ bones are hollow
• Oven birds build strong nests
• Weaver birds are those who build their nests
• Male birds are more colorful than female birds
• Birds that cannot fly are penguins, emus, kiwis and ostriches
• In cryptograms, the sex organs are primitive and hidden.
• Thallophytia include algae, fungi, and lichens.
• Carl Linneus is famous for binomial system of nomenclature.

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• Angiosperm includes the plants which have covered flowers and covered flowers and covered seed.
• Plant cells resembles animal cell because having a cell membrane made up of protoplasm.
• Smell is the weakest sense in Birds.
• Owl can rotate his head to 180 degrees on either sides.
• Ostrich eat pebbles for helping digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
• The cuckoo sneaks its eggs into other birds’ nest to hatch.
• Earthworm is a bi-sexual.
• Eyes of insects are compound.
• Dolphins have 700 times more rods in their eyes than humans which help them to see in dim light under water.
• A fly’s compound eye has 400 individual tubes.
• Plants in which seed are outside the fruit are called Gymnosperms.
• Pollen is produced in a part of the flower called the Calyx.
• Squids are the fastest swimming invertebrates or animals without backbone.
• 99% of all animals are invertebrates.
• The sailfish can swim at 110 km/hour. It the fastest fish.
• Fishes have a bag of gas called a swim bladder inside their bodies that helps them float and sink.
• Fishes like sharks and rays have skeletons make of tough cartilage and they don’t have a swim bladder.
• Fungi are neither plants nor animals they are classified in their own separate kingdom.
• The cell wall of fungi is made of chitin, the material from which insects make their hard outer skeletons.
• Unlike other green plants fungi cannot use the sun’s energy to make food; instead they absorb their food from other
living or dead remains of living things.
• Fungi break down dead and decaying materials so that they can be recycled.
• Fungal infections destroy crops and cause diseases like athlete’s foot and ringworm.
• Plants make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water and we get carbohydrates from plants
• Silk is one of two main fibres we get from animals. The wool from sheep is the other.
• Cotton is the most important plant fibre. It produces fibres in the seed pod or boll.
• Linen is another plant fiber make from flax plant.
• Dinosaurs lived in Mesozoic era.
• Eagle’s eyes have five times more light sensitive cells than ours.
• Eucalyptus trees grow faster than any other trees.
• Three groups of Amphibians
o Salamanders – slow moving animals. Frog and toads.
o Caecilians - look more worms than amphibians.
• Blue signed octopus is very lethal, can kill 10 people, it feeds on crabs.
• Cheetah is the fastest land animal, can accelerate from 0-90 km/h in just three seconds and can run at 100 km/h.
But he has to rest after about 20 seconds.
• Sponge, beetle, snails, jelly fish, insects and starfish are cold blooded animals.
• Shark is a cold blooded animal.
• Newts, and frog are cold blooded animals.
• Lizard, crocodiles, snakes, turtiles and tortoises are cold blooded animals.
• Invertebrates have 33 groups.
• Fish 3
• Amphibians 3
• Reptile 3
• Birds 28-30
• Mammals 21
• Over 90% of animals are invertebrates.
• Hard Shell of animals is called -> Exoskeleton.
• 105 million different species of animals have been identified.
• Hominoids – Human + Champanzees + Orangutans + Gorillas.
• Felidae ----: from cat family.
• Panthera ----- big cat
• Kestrel is a kind of Eagle.
• Vole is a kind of mouse
• Orca (Killer Whale)
• Word dinosaur means “terrible” Lizard.
• Euspongia is known as natural bath sponge.
• Live Fluke, biologically called Fasciola, is found in liver of sheep.
• Earthworm is a bi-sexual.
• Eyes of insects are compound.
• Silk is obtained from cocoon of silk worm.
• The brown colour of rust is because of : oxidation
• Granite is a form of – rock :
• Cellulose -- is the main chemical substance in the plant cell wall :
• The desert mammal which does not drink water :Knagaroo Rat
• The loudest sound produced by any animal is 188 decibels. The animal is the African Elephant
• The primary plant body consists of 3 tissue systems.
• The total weight of a cell in a leaf or a petal,water constitutes about 90%.

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• A tissue is a group of cells having similar structure and function.
• The three elements needed for healthy growth of plants are: N, P, K
• What colour is Octopus blood: Blue
• What is the only bird that can smell: Emus
• The eyes of which animal have rectangular pupils-Goat
• What animals eye is larger than its brain-Ostrich
• What fish can blink its eyes -Shark
• Where are a crickets ears located- Front legs
• Which animal sleeps with one eye open-Dolphin
• Vole is a kind of mouse
• Kestrel is a kind of eagle
• Killer whale is Orca
• Corn adds more oxygen to the atmosphere than it removes.
• Euspongia is known as natural bath sponge.
• Live Fluke, biologically called Fasciola, is found in liver of sheep.
• Banana plant is shrub
• Rubber is obtained from latex
• Tobacco contains Nicotine
• Kharif crops are sown in Summer season
• Pesticides kill insects that attck crops
• Herbicides kill weeds
• Seedless Fruits are formed by pathanogenesis.
• Cotton fiber is routed from seed.
• Horticulture is the cultivation of fruit crops.
• Late blight is a disease of potato and tomato plants.
• The fertility of soil can be increased by growing legumes.
• Olive trees and Cork-oak grow in the regions having the Mediterranean type of climate.
• Coniferous forests are found in a region having low mean temperature and a long cold winter.
• In the Northern Hemisphere, the geographical belt of coniferous forest south of Tundra is called Steppe.
• Silverfish is a wingless insect.
• Guinea pig is a stocky tailless rodent used in experimental work.
• What kind of animal is a lurcher: Dog
• With which organ does a snake hear: Tongue
• What fish can hold objects in its tail: Sea Horse
• The leach has 32 what - humans only got one-Brains
• The primary producers of organic matter in nature are Green plants.
• The edible portion of mango is Mesocarp.
• The rice grain is a seed.
• Bamboo is Grass.
• Cork cells are impervious to water because of the presence of Suberin.
• The biotic relationship between insects and plants with reference to pollination is called Mutualism.
• Historically, Joseph Priestley, recognized in 1727 A.D. that sunlight and air are important for the growth of plants.
• Carbon dioxide is required during photosynthesis process in addition to sunlight and water.
• Man is Homoeothermic.
• The compound eye of insect produces Mosaic vision.
• The post embryonic stages in the life history of cockroach are known as Nymphs.
• Amphibians were the first vertebrate.
• There are three stages of frog. Egg-tadpole-adult frog.
• Smell is the weakest sense in Birds.
• Owl can rotate his head to 180 degrees on either sides.
• Ostrich eat pebbles for helping digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
• The cuckoo sneaks its eggs into other birds’ nest to hatch.
• Birds are warm blooded animals.
• Birds bones are hollow.
• Oven birds build strong nests.
• Weaver birds are called to the birds who build their nests.
• Male birds are more colorful than females.
• Birds do not fly are penguins, emus, kiwis, ostriches.
• Thallophytia include algae, fungi, and lichens.
• Angiosperm includes the plants which have covered flowers and covered seed.
• Plant cells resembles animal cell because having a cell membrane made up of protoplasm.
• Snake have been evolved from lizard.
• Plants in which seed are outside the fruit are called Gymnosperms.
• Linseed oil is used while oil painting.
• In cryptograms, the sex organs are primitive and hidden.
• The rate of transpiration depends upon frequency of Stomata.
• Light is necessary for photosynthesis because it produce ATP and reducing substance.
• Oxygen liberated from photosynthesis comes from water.

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• Red light is most suitable for photosynthesis.
• Respiration means food oxidation and evolution of energy.
• The organisms which are the only living membrane of their group and link two major groups are called Living Fossil.
• Mammals cannot be cold blooded.
• Trypanosome a parasite causing sleeping sickness.
• Chief food of mosquito larva is micro organism found in water.
• Chief food of butterfly larva is leaves of plants.
• Corn adds more oxygen to the atmosphere than it removes.
• Fruit developed from single ovary is called simple fruit.
• Pollen is produced in a part of the flower called the Calyx.
• Edible part of tomato is whole fruit.
• The primary producers of organic matter in nature are Green plants.
• Historically, Joseph Priertley , recognized in 1727 A.D. that sunlight and air are important for the growth of plants.
• Carbon dioxide is required during photosynthesis process in addition to sunlight and water.
• The compound eye of insect produces Mosaic vision.
• The post embryonic stages in the life history of cockroach are known as Nymphs.
• In the animal kingdom what creatures are in the order—Chiroptera- Bats
• 90% of bird species are what Monogamous
• Kangaroos and Emus can't do what-Walk backwards
• Aleuronic layer: is that part of the grain in cereals where much of the protein lies.

CHEMICALS, METALS, ACIDS AND GASES


• Substance which changes readily into vapor upon heating is called volatile
• Selenium is a non metal
• Most elastic among carbon, rubber, glass and paper is glass
• Quartz is chemically silicon dioxide
• Highest electrical conductivity is of Silver
• Vinegar contains Acetic Acid.
• Lightest element found in nature is hydrogen
• Heaviest atom is uranium with atomic weight 92 amu
• Molasses is a by-product of sugar industry.
• Formic Acid is used in dying, tanning and electroplating.
• Sodium Benzoid is used for the preservation of grains.
• Which gas discovered in 1898 has a name meaning new Neon.
• The metal known as quick silver: Mercury
• Ethylene is a gas concerned with Ripening of fruits.
• Opium is obtained from seed capsule of opium poppy.
• Dry Ice is solid Carbon dioxide
• The most common element in the universe is Nitrogen.
• Geologists have classified nearly 3000 minerals.
• Igneous rocks are solidified form of molten magma.
• Sedimentary rocks are formed by the deposition of sediments in water.
• Metamorphic rocks are the rocks transformed by the action of intense heat or great pressure or chemical activity.
• Shale is a metamorphic rock.
• Sedimentary rocks cover about 75% of world’s land area.
• Moon rocks collected by astronauts are igneous in type.

ORES
• Ore of Aluminum is Bauxite
• Pyrolusite is an ore of manganese
• Myrolusite is an ore of Manganese.
• Ore of Gold is Native Gold
• Argentite is an ore of silver
• Magnetite and hematite are iron ores.
• The important ore of Chromium is Chromite
• Bauxite is an ore of aluminum. It contains mineral alumina, or aluminum oxide.
• Diaspore, Felspar, Alurite, Zibcite, and Bauxite are the ores of Aluminum.
• Malachite is an ore of Copper
• Radium is extracted from an ore called Pitch Blonde
• Which element is extracted from the ore Sphalerite-Zinc
• Saccharine is obtained from coal tar
• What is extracted from the ore cinnabar-Mercury
• What is extracted from the ore caserite-Tin
• Aqua Regia is the mixture of Nitric Acid and HCL in 1:3.

ALLOYS
• Bronze is the mixture of Copper and tin.
• Brass is an alloy of Copper and Zinc

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• Bronze is an alloy of copper and Tin
• Stainless steel is an alloy of carbon +Iron with Chromium and Nickel
• German silver is an alloy of copper with nickel and zinc
• Solder is an alloy of lead and tin
• Dental amalgam = mercury +silver, Tin, Zinc, Copper
• Duralumin = aluminium + copper + magnesium
• Pewter is an ancient alloy made of tin and lead
• Aluminum is used mostly in aircrafts
• Camphor exhibits the property of sublimation.
• The alloy which consists of copper and tin.Bronze
• Excessive use of fertilizers causes death of pants due to exomosis.
• Stainless steel => Carbon + Iron + Chromium + Nickel.
• Bronze does not rust.
• Dental Amalgem => mercury + Silver, Tin, Zinc, Copper.
• Duralumin => aluminum+Copper+magnesium.
• Brass => Copper + Zinc.
• Pewter => an ancient alloy made up to tin and lead.
• Aluminum is used mostly in aircrafts.
• Australia has the largest bauxite deposits.
• Aluminum metal is obtained from aluminia by electrolysis – passing electricity through it. This process was
discovered independently in 1886 by Charles Hall in the USA and Paul Heroult in France.
• Asbestos does not burn and it is a mineral fiber
• Amalgam is a mixture of metal and mercury
• Nickel is used as a catalyst while manufacturing ghee
• After persistent decay, radium would be finally changed into Lead.
• Mercury is a liquid with greatest density
• Noble metal are non-reactive metals example Gold, Silver and Platinum
• Mica is an excellent insulator
• Purest form of iron is wrought iron
• Cast iron has highest carbon content
• Sodium, potassium and magnesium are reactive metals
• Sodium burns in water not in kerosene
• Conductivity level___1)silver, 2)copper, 3)aluminum, 4)iron
• PVC = Ployvenyl Chloride
• First synthetic materials was Celluloid in 1868
• Second synthetic material by Bakelite invented by Leo Hendricks Backland
• Largely limestone is used in the production of cement
• Granite can be found in igneous rocks.
• Coal and petroleum are found in Sedimentary rocks
• Gold and copper are mostly found in old Igneous rocks
• Magnesium is abundant in sea
• Sources of uranium in Pakistan is Dera Ghazi Khan
• What type of acid is used in car batteries Sulphuric
• Copper can be converted into gold by: Artificial radioactivity
• Tungsten has the highest melting point = 3410 deg: C
• The coil used in a heater is made of Nichron

CHEMICAL FORMULAS
• Common Salt is NaCl = sodium chloride
• Chun is Ca(OH)2 = calcium hydroxide
• Washing soda = Na2CO3= sodium carbonate
• Baking soda = NaHCO3 = sodium bicarbonate
• Chalk = CaCO3 = calcium carbonate
• Plaster of Paris = CaSO4.1/2 H2O
• Gypsum salt is CaSo4 + 2H2O.
• Cholestrol = C27 H46O
• Carbohydrates = C+O+H
• Protein = C+Nitrogen + O+H
• C2 H5 OH is the formula of what Alcohol
• H14 N2 is a poisonous alkaloid consumed daily by millions what-Nicotine
• What element was named after the Greek word for green-Chlorine
• What elements name comes from the Greek for light bearing-Phosphorous
• Alphabetically what is the first element in the periodic table-Actinium
• What elements name comes from the Greek word for violet-Iodine
• Mercury is also known as Quick Silver
• Coal is also known as Black Diamond
• The lightest known metal is Lithium
• The oil used to preserve timber is Creosote oil

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• Lime stone is predominantly used raw material in the production of cement.
• An element found in all organic compounds is carbon
• Most commonly used bleaching agent is chlorine
• Lime is sometimes applied to soil in order to increase the alkalinity of the soil
• Podsols are Acidic soils
• Source of plaster of Paris is gypsum
• Chemical name of plaster of Paris is Hemihydrates
• Naturally occurring elements are 92
• Total elements are 109
• Alkaline soil is treated with gypsum
• Marble is metamorphic rock
• Limestone is sedimentary rock
• Limestone transforms into marble
• Thorium is both magnetic and radioactive
• Finest quality of pottery is procelin. It is make from the purest white clay such as kaolin also called China clay and
heated at 1400 deg: C
• Bone china is an imitation porcelain made using clay mixed with bone ash
• Mud bricks are called adobe
• Materials that resist high temperatures are known as refectories
• Refectories contin tungsten, the metal with highest melting point (3410 deg: C).
• Some refectories contain tungsten carbide which is used to make cutting tools that remain sharp even when they
get red hot
• Rungsten and titanium carbides are mixed with ceramics to form cerment which are used in high temperature parts
of jet and rocket engines
• Cement is a ceramic product made of fiercely haeating (1500 deg: C) earthly material like limestone and clay
• Concrete is strong under compression but weak if streatched (tension). For this engineers cast steel rods into the
concrete. This is called reinforced concrete.
• Ceramic is made by heating and mixing together the ceramic material boron carbide and aluminium. It is lighter
than aluminum and stronger than steel
• Sodium carbonate is used in making glass and in caustic soda for making soap
• Sulphuric acid is also known as “lifeblood of industry”
• Oxidation is addition of oxygen to the substance
• Hydrogenation is adding hydrogen
• Hydrogen is the commonest element in the universe.
• Hydrogen is a powerful fuel. The main engines of the space shuttle are powered by hydrogen.
• Hydrogen is used in fertilizers, margarine and plastics.
• Serenium is non metal substance.
• ‘Ion exchange’ is the method to remove the temporary or permanent hardness of water.
• Molasses (Gur) are a by product of sugar industry.
• Polymerization is the reaction by which plastics are made. It involves linking together of small molecules
(manomers) to form large ones (polymers)
• Halogens mean salt like. It is a group of highly reactive nonmetals that are poisonous in their pure forms. Other
halogens are fluorine, bromine, iodine, astatine.
• Salt is one of the halogens
• Halogens light bulbs used in cars’ headlamps (ususlly iodine or bromine) surrounding the light filament. Halogen
bulbs are brighter and last longer than ordinary light bulbs.
• Fluoride compounds in toothpaste and drinking water help to prevent tooth decay.
• Chlorine reacts with other elements and form PVC, a plastic for pipes and waterproof fabrics.
• Iodine sublimes at room temperature (i.e turns directly into a gas)
• Chlorine is used in swimming pools to kill germs.
• Palladium metal is used in air craft
• Liquid sodium is used a coolant in nuclear reactor
• Plutonium-239 is a good nuclear fuel
• Aviation fuel for jet aeroplanes consists of purified kerosene
• Co2 is used in fir extinguishers
• Cooking gas is oxygen+methane
• Hydrogen has the highest fuel value
• Ripening of fruits is hastened by Ethylene gas
• Iron rusts due to formation of a mixture of ferrous and ferric hydroxide
• Chemically soap is a salt
• Dalton’s atomic theory gave the concept of Valency
• When radioactive rays are passed through air or any gas , they cause it to ionize
• Formic acid is present in sour milk
• Butane gas is used in cigarette lighters
• LPG contains Butane and propane
• In soft drinks Co2 is used
• Rust stains on cloth is revoved by Oxalic Acid solution
• Acid in lemon and grape fruit is Citric Acid

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• Permanent magnets are make from Ferromagnetic substances
• Melting point of Tungsten is 3000 deg: C
• Mercury is used as a solvent in refining silver
• Serenium is non metal substance.
• Aqua Regia is the mixture of Nitric Acid and HCL in 1:3.
• Sodium Benzoate is used to preserve food articles.
• Gas used for purification of water is chlorine
• Formic Acid is used in dying, tanning and electroplating.
• In galvanization iron sheet is coated with Zinc
• Mahalanobis model laid great emphasis on development of heavy industries.
• Oxidation is the process in which electron is lost.
• Camphor exhibits the property of sublimation.
• Gypsum salt is CaSo4 + 2H2O.
• Excessive use of fertilizers causes death of plants due to exomosis.
• Sodium Benzoate is used to preserve food articles.
• Bee stings contain formic acid
• BHCC Benzene Hex chloride is used for killing for insects.
• Opposite of acid is alkali
• Pure water has pH of 7
• pH scale ranges from 0-14
• Cola drinks contain phosphoric acid to give them flavor
• People used to treat bee stings by rubbing them with bicarbonate of soda
• Acid contains hydrogen and react with metals such as iron and zinc, they give off hydrogen
• Acid turns litmus paper red
• Alkali turns litmus paper blue
• Alkalis are part of a group of chemicals called bases.
• Alkalis are bases that dissolve in water, have bitter taste and feel soapy
• When an acid meets an alkali both are changed- they are neutralized.
• When acid meets alkali salt and water is produced
• Stomach produces hydrochloric acid
• Strong acids like sulphuric acid is usesd in factories to make fertilizers, explosives, plastics, synthetic fabrics, paints,
dyes, medicines, detergents and other chemicals
• Example of strong alkali is Sodium Hydroxide (caustic soda)
• Sodium hydroxide solution dissolves fats and used to clean oven and drain blocked cleaners
• In industry alkalis are used in the manufacture of soap, glass, paper and textile and in the refining of crude oil
• Aluminum metal is obtained from aluminia by electrolysis. This process was discovered by Charles Hall of US in 1886
and Paul Heroult in France
• Use of Boron and Zink can improve cotton yield
• ‘Ion exchange’ is the method to remove the temporary or permanent hardness of water.
• An example of inorganic compound is carbon monoxide
• Shoot is an example of amorphous carbon
• Different forms of same elements are called allotropes
• Diamond is allotropic form of carbon
• Graphite is used to hold molten metals
• Charcoad is used in gas masks for absorbing unpleasant smells
• Fullerences are the most recently discovered allotropes
• The main ingredient in glass making is sand, the mineral is silical.
• The ordinary glass used for bottles and windows is known as soda lime glass as it is made by using soda ash and
limestone.
• Adding lead oxide in glass making recipe makes crystal glass which has extra brilliance and sparkles like a diamond.
• Glass with a very high lead content is made for the nuclear industry because it blocks harmful radiations.
• Boron is added to glass making recipe to protect glass from expanding and cracking when heated.
• Borosilicate glass is used to make heat resistant cookware and laboratory equipments.
• Glues comes from animals by boiling bones and skin of cattle and fish bones
• Gums come from the sticky resins make by certain plants.
• Most adhesives used today are synthetic and are usually made from petroleum chemicals.
• Among the strongest adhesives are the epoxy resins
• Gold is the most malleable metal of all
• Silver is used today in photography because many silver salts darken when they are exposed to light.
• Platinum is used in industry as a catalyst.
• Rubies and sapphires are made mostly of a material called alumina, but rubies are red beacuase they contain tiny
amount of chromium and sapphires are ususlly blue as these cotain timy amounts of iron
• Driest deserts on earth are the cold, dry valley of Antarctica
• Detergents are synthetic products made from petroleum chemicals
• Soap is made by heating fat or oil with alkali like caustic soda. A product we get from making of soap is glycerine
which is used in making plastics and explosives.
• Pure iron is quite a weak metal but if carbon is added to it, it becomes both strong and hard
• Iron bricks are called steel ingot

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• Iron is not found in metal form but extracted from iron ore by smelting ie heating at high temp:
• 90 elements exist naturally and 25 artificially
• At room temperature most elements are solids but a number are gases like oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, helium and
neon and only two are liquids like mercury and bromine.
• Gold rarely combine with other metals and fluorine is highly reactive
• Diamond and graphite are allotropes of carbon
• Hjeating coal without air produce coke which is used to make steel
• Bitumen (damber) is used for surfacing roads comes from coal
• Isotopes are same chemicals but with different physical properties
• Aircrafts are made of aluminum alloys.
• Chemical used in bettery cells is electrolyte
• Sulphuric acid is used in batteries as electrolyte
• In alkalin battery Anode = Zinc powder mixed with electrolyte and Cathode = manganese compound mixed with
electrolyte
• Anode = negative terminal and Cathode = positive terminal
• Votalic Pile was the first battery made in 1799
• Fuel cells make electricity using hydrogen as a fuel
• Almost all explosives contain nitrogen. Nitrogen compound Ammonia is the starting point of several explosives.
• Calcium is a metal found in chalk, limestone and marble in the form of Calcium Carbonate
• Beryllium is used to make cutting tools where it is important to avoid spark
• Minerals containing beryllium don’t show up on x-rays, and are used for the windows of x-ray machines
• Magnesium is present in chlorophyll
• Sulphur dioxide is not an odorless gas
• Glass is soluble in Aqua Reggie
• Fuel in an automobile is a mixture of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
• Power of alcohol is methyl and petrol
• Lead is used in batteries
• The odour of garlic is due to a Sulphuric compound
• Cabbage contains sulphur
• The strongest known acid is an 80% solution of antimony pentafluoride in hydrofluoriv acid.
• Saffron is used to color fabrics. Cochineal red is a dye extracted from insects.
• Crude oil and natural gas are made mostly from hydrocarbons. When they burn CO2 is released into atmosphere
• Synthetic fibers are mostly plastics make from petroleum chemicals.
• Lime is sometimes applied to soil in order to increase the alkalinity of the soil
• BHCC Benzene Hex chloride is used for killing for insects.
• Opposite of acit is alkali.
• Pure water has 7 P.H.
• Cola drinks contain phosphoric acid to give them flavor.
• Bee stings contain formic acid.
• People used to treat bee stings by rubbing them with bicarbonate of soda.
• Acid contains Hydrogen and reacts with metals such as iron and zinc, they give off Hydrogen.
• Acid turns litmus paper red.
• Alkalis are part of a group of chemicals called bases. Alkalis are bases that dissolve in water, have bitter taste and
feel soapy.
• Alkali turns litmus paper blue.
• Stomach produces hydrochloric acid
• Backing powder => Bicarbonate of Soda -> an alkali
• Strong acids like sulphuric acid used in factories to make fertilizers, explosive, plastics, synthetic fabrics, paint,
dyes, medicines, detergents, and many other chemicals.
• Strong alkalis => Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda).
• Sodium Hydroxide solution dissolves fats used as oven and drain blocked cleaners.
• In industry, alkalis are used in the manufacture of soap, glass, paper and textile, and in the refining of crude oil.
• Chemical in cell of battery is called electrolyte.
• Lead metals are used in batteries.
• A personal stereo used alkaline battery. In this the electrodes are powders, mixed with an electrolyte to make a
paste.
• Sulphuric acid is used in batteries are electrolyte.
• In alkalin battery:-
• Anode = Zinc powder mixed with electrolyte.
• Cathode= Manganese compound mixed with electrolyte.
• Anode = Negative Terminal
• + Cathode= Positive Terminal
• Votalic pile was the first battery in 1799.
• Fuel cells make electricity using hydrogen as a fuel.
• Carbon is the element of life.
• Shoot is an example of amorphous carbon.
• Different form of the same elements are called allotropes.
• Diamond is allotropic from of carbon.

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• Graphite is used to hold molten metals.
• Charcoal is used in gas masks for absorbing unpleasant smells.
• Fullerenes are the most recently discovered allotropes.
• Carbon dioxide we release is comes from food we eat.
• Carbohydrates = C+O+H
• Protein = Nitrogen + O + H
• Chromatography shows what’s in the colored coating of some sweets.
• Mass spectrography is one of the most powerful ways of analyzing many kind of chemicals.
• Electrophoresis = > Separation of tagged core fragments of DNA with radioactivity.
• Sodium Carbonate is used in making glass and in caustic soda for making soap.
• Heavy Chemicals => Sodium Carbonate, Caustic Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Ammonia, Benzene.
• Sulphuric acid is also known as ‘lifeblood of industry’
• Sulphuric acid is made from sulphur by contact process.
• Benzene is known as organic chemical.
• Oxidation -> addition of oxygen to the substance is made.
• Hydrogenation -> adding hydrogen.
• Polymerization is the reaction by which plastics are produced. It involves the linking together of small molecules
(monomers) to form large ones (polymere).
• Cracking - > large molecules are broken down into small ones (used in refining petroleum).
• Halogens means salt like.
• Chlorine combines with sodium to make salt (Sodium chloride). It is one of the halogens, a group of highly reactive
nonmetals that are all poisonous in their pure forms.
• Other halogens are Fluorine, Bromine, Iodine, Astatine.
• The halogen light bulbs used in cars headlamps have a halogen gas, usually iodine or bromine, surrounding the light
filament. Halogen bulbs are brighter and last much longer than ordinary light bulbs.
• Fluoride compounds in toothpaste and drinking water help to prevent tooth decay.
• Chlorine reacts with lots of other elements to make some very useful compounds such as PVC, a plastic for pipes
and waterproof fabrics.
• CFC – Chlorofluoro carbons.
• Iodine (turns straight into a gas) (Sublimes) at room temperature.
• Chlorine is used in swimming pools to kill germs, that is why swimmers use goggles.
• Carbon has two isotopes.
• Muons are particles of atom.
• Isotopes have same chemical but different physical properties.
• Ions => In an atom, the positive electrical charges of the protons are balanced by the negative electrical charges of
the electron. The atom is therefore electrically neutral. However, if you add or take away one or more electrons from
an atom, it becomes either negatively or positively charged, such charged particles are called Ions.
• The purest naturally occurring crystalline form of carbon : diamond
• The mixture which can dissolve platinium : Aqua regia
• Steel is more elastic than rubber
• Marble is --- rock : metaphoric
• Oil rises in a wick of oil lamp because of a property of matter, called capillary action
• Mercury metal is 13.5 times heavier than water
• Diamond is the purest naturally occurring crystalline form of : Carbon
• Caustic soda is extensively used for making : making Surf
• Charcoal Sulphur Saltpetre make what - Gunpowder
• What elements name comes from the Greek meaning lazy Argon
• What are silver coins made from-Copper Nickel
• Kallium is the old name for which element-Potassium
• Coal is formed from the remains of forests that grew in the carboniferous period about 300 million years ago.
• Half-time is a time of radioactive substance taken by that substance to decompose radioactivity to half of its weight.
• Calcium chloride is present in the common toothpastes as an abrasive.
• Copper and tin make gun-metal.
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly of methane, butane and propane.
• Magnesium is a metal extracted from the sea water.
• Magnetite can be used for extraction of iron.
• The main constituents of Pearl are calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate.
• Pollution in rivers is measured by the percentage of dissolved amount of Nitrogen.
• Uranium is called White Coal.
• Lead and tin are used in solder.
• Caffeine, a constituent of tea and coffee is a diuretic.
• Citric Acid is used in soft drinks.
• A substance which radiates light when heated to a high temperature is said to be incandescent.
• Light waves are electromagnetic.
• If a solution of pH 6 is diluted by 100 times, the resulting solution would be Acidic.
• Acid rain is caused due to emission of oxides of nitrogen and sulphur.
• Hydrogen iodide is used for writing on glass.
• Infrared radiation has the longest wavelength.

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• Stainless steel cooking pans are fabricated with copper bottom because conductivity of copper is greater that that of
stainless steel.
• Sucrose is the sweetest natural sugar among glucose, fructose and lactose.
• Lead is used in storage batteries.
• Nobel gases are so called due to their chemical inertness.
• Alum is not present in cement.
• Due to continuous use of calcium superphosphate as fertilizer in soil, the pH of soil becomes more than 7.
• Among the fertilizers used, urea contains maximum % of N.
• Potassium magnesium sulphate is called the muraite of potash.
• Sodium acetate salt when dissolved in water makes the solution basic.
• Yellow colour of usual nitric acid is due to the presence of N2O5.
• Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on earth.
• Nitrogen and carbon are most essential for building cells in the human body.
• Among the sedimentary rocks, limestone is of organic origin.
• Red Hematite is an ore of iron.
• Radio-carbon dating is used to find the age of fossils.
• Which of the following is used as raw material for the manufacture of rayon? Cellulose
• Saponification is the process that makes what common product: Soap
• If an alloy is an amalgam what metal must it contain-Mercury
• An example of inorganic compound is carbon monoxide.
• ATP is a molecule containing high energy bonds.
• Sand, Soda and what are the main ingredients of glass-Limestone
• Which acid dissolves glass- Hydrofluoric Acid
• What colour is iridium-Steel Grey
• What gives onions their distinctive smell- Sulphur - taken in when growing

GEOGRAPHY OF EARTH
• Longitude is measured from East to West
• Latitude is measured from North to South of Equator.
• New Zealand is close to Int: Date Line.
• Arabia is the larges peninsula.
• Antarctica is in South Pole.
• The largest latitude circle on earth is the Equator.
• Equinox (equal nights) means the equal duration of day & night.
• Lines drawn parallel to equator is latitude
• 1 hour difference in local time between two places is 15 deg: Longitude
• 23 degree longitude is Tropic of Cancer
• 70% of earth’s surface is covered with water
• Isobar is the lines joining places of equal air pressure on a map
• Isohyets are lines joining places of equal rainfall over a period
• Isotherm are Lines of equal temperature
• Contours are places with equal altitude
• There are 36 tectonic plates
• Crust of earth is 0.5%
• Upper part of earth on which earth floats is Asthensosphere
• Earth’s speed is greatest when it is closest to the sun
• Spring tide occurs when earth, moon and sun are in straight line
• Isthmus is a narrow land strip separating two seas and connecting two land marks
• Day and night are equal on 21st March (at all parallel of latitude) and 23rd September
• Core of earth is metallic
• Temperature at earth’s core is 2000 deg: C
• Tide at its maximum height is spring tide
• International dateline lies along 180 deg: meridian
• Speed of earth rotation is highest at the north pole
• Minimum land area recommended for forest is 25%
• Earth’s total surface covered by forests is 15%
• Ordovician are the oldest rock
• Earthquake is a post volcanic activity
• Of total water on earth, fresh water reserves are 2.7%
• Highest grade of coal is Anthracite
• Coal mainly suitable for thermal power production is Bituminous
• First stage of coal formation is Peat
• Equator is called the great circle
• Mean radius of earth is 6400 km
• Total world surface area is 510 million sq: km
• soil formed by deposition of silt is Alluvial soil
• Winds blow from areas of high pressure to low pressure.
• Movement of tectonic plates may cause eruption of a volcano

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• What creates new islands in the ocean? Volcanoes
• soil best suited for deep rooted crops is Black soil
• latitude of south pole is 90 deg:, latitude of equator is 0 deg:
• humidity in air is maximum in Monsoon
• earth revolves in its orbit 1 deg: per day
• 1 deg: longitude on equator is equal to 112 km
• Doldrums is a belt of low atmospheric pressure on either side of Equator
• Removal of rock layer by layer due to weathering is called Exfoliation
• Rocks formed by the solidification of lava are Basalts
• Tundra region gets no rainfall throughout the year
• At equator an object weights the least.
• At 7050 km per hour, Sun rotate on its axis.
• The northern polar lights are called Aurorae Borealis, and southern polar lights are called Aurorae Australis.
• The pulsating universe theory explains the evolution of universe.
• 230 million years ago there was only one huge continent on earth. This super continent is known as Panagea, which
means all lands
• In 1912 Alfred Wegener said that continents drift around on earth’s surface
• Continental drift means plate tectonics
• Rain forests grow near the equator.
• In autumn deciduous forests glow with brilliant red and gold colors as the leaves dry up and fall off the trees.
• The shape of the earth is an oblate spheroid.
• Arctic is the worlds northmost region.
• The largest latitude circle on earth is Equator.
• 230 million years ago, there was only one huge continent on Earth. This super continent is known as panagea, which
means all lands.
• In 1912, a German Scientist called Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) suggested that the continent drift around on Earth’s
surface.
• The latitude of a point on the Earth’s surface is the angular distance of that point measured at the centre of the
Earth
• Mass of earth is 6 X 10²¹ tons
• Density of earth is 5.52.
• Chemically earth id made up of Oxygen 46.6%, Silicon 27.7%, Aluminum 8.1%, iron 5%, Calcium 3.6%
• Earth is divided into four zones.
• Torrid zone lies b/w Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn.
• Torrid zone lies between the Tropics and is bisected by the Equator
• The North Temperate Zone lies b/w Tropic of Cancer & the Arctic Circle.
• The South Temperate Zone lies b/w Capricorn & Antarctic Circle.
• The area around north and south poles within the polar circles is called ‘the frigid zone’.
• Hot belt lies b/w latitude 0° & 3°
• Tundra region is a region of high altitude and is without trees.
• Steppes is the vast, treeless waste of Russia and part of Asia.
• Moorland is rocky surface.
• Coniferous forests extend up to 13,000 km across North America, Europe & Asia.
• Tropical or Savannah region lies b/w desert & forest. More than 1/3rd of Africa is Savannah.
• Pakistan lies in Monsoon land area.
• The three abundant elements in the earth’s crust are aluminium, oxygen and silicon. The correct order of their
abundance is silicon, oxygen, aluminum (8.1%)
• Inner core is made mostly of iron.
• Meridian is an imaginary circle in sky passing though celestial poles.
• Africa is the 2nd largest continent of the world.
• A wind which reverses seasonally is known as Monsoon wind.
• Temperature increases with increasing altitude by 10° C for every 250 meter rise.
• Water vapour turns into clouds in the atmosphere when Dew Point is reached.
• When a warm air is lifted off the surface in temperature depression it is called an Occlusion.
• Afternoon rains in the equatorial region are the result of convectional forces.
• Mediterranean regions are not useful for forestry.
• The best projection to suit the map of Pakistan is conventional.
• The extinct Volcano Peak of Koh-i-Sultan is in Pakistan.
• Cotopaxi: is the highest volcano in the world. It is situat¬ed in Ecuador.
• Dust Devil: is a dusty whirlwind normally a few feet in diameter and about 100 feet tall, sometimes also wider and
higher.
• Earth mass: The mass of the earth is about 81 times that of the moon.
• Earth’s core: is mainly composed of iron and nickel. Lithosphere is the innermost layer of the earth.
• El Nino: is the weather phenomenon brewing in the tropical Pacific Ocean. It is the largest climate event of the 20th
century setting off more global disasters than ever before. El Nino is warming of the waters off Equatorial South
America which causes climate abnor¬malities around the world. The impact can be flooding drought in California,
Brazil, Africa and Australia, severe storms in the Central Pacific and a decline in hurricanes hitting the south-eastern
United States.

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• Exfoliation: This type of weathering is common both in the cold as well as in the hot cli¬mate regions.
• Great Circle: A circle on the earth’s surface whose plane passes through its centre, and bisects it into two
hemispheres. Two opposing meridians together form a Great Circle. The shortest distance between any two points on
the earth’s surface is the arc of the Great Circle which passes through them. 0° latitude forms a Great Circle. (The
latitude or longi¬tude 75°W should be combined with 75°E to obtain the Great Circle).
• Horse Latitudes: Sub-trop¬ical belts of high atmospheric pressure over the oceans situat¬ed in both hemispheres.
These are called Belts of Calm between regions of the Trade Winds and Westerlies of higher latitudes.
• Hydroponics: means culti¬vation of the plants without use of soil.
• Hyetology: is the study of rainfall.
• Kandla: is a sea port situat¬ed at the head of the Gulf of Kuch in Gujarat State.
• Lapse Rate: is the rate of change in temperature with increase of altitude.
• Laterite soils: Laterite soils are formed by the weathering of laterite rocks. These can be dis¬tinguished from other
soils by their acidity.
• Loams (loamy soil): Amix¬ture of sand, clay and silt is known as loamy soil. Loams are formed where the soils have
equal proportion of sand, silt and clay.
• Local winds and their areas: Khamsin—Egypt; Zonda—Argentina; Santa Ana—California; Simoon—Iran.
• Mansarover Lake: is in Tibet. Near it, the rivers having their source are the Brahamputra, the Sutlej and the Indus.
• Maoris (Tribes): are the original inhabitants of New Zealand.
• Nutrification: is the process of conversion by action of bacteria, of nitrates in the soil.
• Pangong Tso: is one of the world’s highest and brackish lakes in Jammu & Kashmir.
• Proxima Centauri: is a star nearest to the earth.
• Roaring Forties: are west¬erly winds.
• Selvas: The rain forest of Amazon basin is called Selvas. These are rainy tropical forests.
• Spring Tides: are caused when the sun and the moon are in a straight line. The tide on its maximum height is
known as Spring Tide.
• Tsunamis: are huge sea waves caused by earthquakes.
• Willy Willy: is a tropical cyclone of the north-west Australia.

FACTS OF EARTH
• Largest element found in earth crust is Silicon, second is Aluminum
• Polar diameter of earth is 7900 miles
• Equatorial diameter is 7927 miles = 12,756 km
• Earth’s polar diameter is shorter than the equatorial diameter by 43 km
• Distance of equator from either of poles is 10,002 km
• World is divided into 24 time zones
• Age of earth is 5 billion years
• Speed of earth in orbit around sun is 8.5 miles/sec = 1600 km/min = 29 km/sec
• Weight of earth is 6586 x 10 raise to 18 tons
• Earth has 46.6% oxygen and 27.7% silicon
• On 21st June, sun is vertically overhead the Tropic of Cancer
• The South Temperate zone lies between Capricorn and Antarctic circle
• At equator the duration of the day is 12 hours
• 510 million square kilometers is the total surface area of the earth
• Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon.
• About 6 billion people living on the Earth.
• When are you most likely to see a penumbra: During an Eclipse
• At equator an object weights the least.
• A wind which reverses seasonally is Monsoon.
• Water is the most powerful source of erosion
• Tropic of cancer crosses Pakistan.
• Spring tides occur at new moon or at full moon.
• Neap tides occur at first and third quarters of the moon.
• Oceans are on average 4 km deep.
• Frozen water covers about 10% of the earth
• Solar eclipse occurs on new moon.
• Lunar eclipse occurs on full moon.
• The standard time of England is known as Greenwich Mean Time. T is local time of Greenwich Observatory which on
0° longitude.
• Daylight saving time begun during WWI.
• There are three belts of calm viz: Doldrums, Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn.
• Horn of Africa is Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia.
• Kimberley is associated with Diamonds.
• In Titusfills in Pennsylvania (US) is world’s first oil-well drilled.
• Thickness of earth crust 20 miles.
• Max height of cloud 20,000.

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ATMOSPHERE OF EARTH
• Nitrogen gas found in atmosphere is 78%, oxygen is 21%
• Speed of electromagnet ways is 300000 km/sec
• The layer of earth in which we live is Troposphere
• The atmospheric layer closet to earth is Troposphere.
• Weather phenomenon take place in Troposphere
• Atmospheric layer ideal for flying is Troposphere
• Ionosphere reflects radio-waves back to earth
• Nimbostratus clouds bring a long steady rain
• Clouds found at highest altitude are Noctilucent
• Thickness of atmosphere around earth is 145 km
• Atmosphere maintains earth’s temperature
• % of insulation received by earth’s surface is 51%
• Atmospheric layers are divided into 4 parts
• Sun’s heat and energy reaches earth by Radiation
• Air is composed of 78% Nitrogen.
• 21% Oxygen.
• 1% Other gases.
• Planetary winds consist of doldrums, trace winds and westerlies.
• Troposphere is 10 km, Stratosphere is from 10 to 40 km, Mesosphere (Neutraspace) is from 40 to 80 km,
Thermosphere (Ionosphere) is from 80 to 370 km and Exosphere (Heaviside) is beyond 370 km.
• Megnetosphere that lies beyond the Exosphere is not the part of atmosphere.
• 3/4th of the air that envelops the earth is in troposphere.
• 97% of the air is below the upper boundary of the stratosphere which is the maximum height that aircraft may
reach with the support of air.
• Smog is when water vapour condenses around a particle of smoke
• Atmospheric temperature increases at higher altitudes due to convection
• Formaula of Ozone is O3
• CFCs are Chloro Fluoro Carbons
• Earth’s atmosphere is over 1000 km deep
• Biosphere is the sphere of life which covers all the three spheres i.e litho, hydro, atmosphere
• Ozone layer is found in Stratosphere.
• Climate is the average weather of a particular place over many years. Weather change day to day, whereas climate
remains same for years.
• Every seson, trees add a new ring of growth to their trunks
• Clouds are made of water droplets, ice, crystals, particles of dust and air
• Warm air can hold more water vapour than cold air
• The age of Earth is calculated as 4500 million years.
• Ozone is measured in percentage (chk)
• The amount of ozone in the atmosphere is expressed in ppm/ The amount of ozone in the atmosphere is expressed
in ___dobson units (chk)
• Air is composed of nitrogen (78.08%),oxygen (20.95%),argon (0.94%) and carbon dioxide (0.03%).
• Nitrogen gas dominates the earth’s surface.
• Weathering takes place more quickly in warm, wet area than in cold and dry regions.
• An atmosphere is a blanket of gas that surrounds a plane. Earth’s atmosphere is over 1000 kilometers deep, but
most of it is in the 30 kilometers closest to Earth.
• Weight of the air pushing on us is known as atmospheric pressure.
• Atmospheric pressure is equal to 14.73 lbs per sq. inch.
• Atmospheric pressure decreases with height.
• In nature the nitrogen of the atmosphere is made available for the plant growth through the activity of bacteria
called nitrogen fixation of bacteria in roots of plants. Earthworms provide nitrogenous wastes.
• Ozone is found in stratosphere b/w 20 to 50 km.
• The tidal effect of Moon on the surface of Earth is less that that of Sun because Moon’s gravitational pull at Earth’s
surface is less as compared to Sun’s gravitational pull. Tidal effect of sun is 146% of moon.
• Injurious ultraviolet radiations are mostly prevented from reaching the earth as these are absorbed mostly by
Ionosphere.
• 510 million square kilometers is the total surface area of the earth.
• At 7050 km per hour, Sun rotate on its axis.
• The northern polar lights are called Aurorae Borealis, and southern polar lights are called Aurorae Australis.
• The pulsating universe theory explains the evolution of universe.

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EVERYDAY SCIENCE MCQs 2013

1. Who proposed the concept “All motion is relative”?


Albert Einstein

2. The field of specialization of famous Muslim scientist Abu Usman Aljahiz was:
Zoology

3. Albatros is:
A sea bird

4. The sunlight can reach a depth of …….. meters in the ocean:


200 meters

5. The biggest planet in our solar system is:


Jupiter

6. The biggest species of the cat family is:


Tiger

7. Which group of animals has heterogametic females?


Domestic fowl

8. The dominant phase of life cycle in these organism is haploid:


Mosses

9. The atmosphere of moon consists of:


None ?

10. The chemical name of quartz is:


Silicon Dioxide

11. Which month of calendar year can lack a new moon?


February

12. Deuterium differs from Hydrogen in having:


c. Same atomic number and different atomic weight

13. The following are water soluble vitamin:


Vitamin C and Vitamin B Complex

14. Coulomb is the scientific unit to measure:


Charge

15. Through how many countries Equator passes?


The equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati.

16. Anti Diuretic hormone is secreted by one of the following glands:


Pituitary (posterior pituitary)

17. Basha Dam is to be constructed on:


River Indus

18. UV light falls in the category of:


Non Ionizing Radiation

19. The earth’s ………………. is divided into 15 major plates of various sizes:
Lithosphere

20. One of these scientists formulated basic laws of Geometry:


Archimedes

21. Phosphorus is an essential component of one of the following biological molecules:


Nucleic acids

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22. Who was the first scientist to prove that planets move around the sun:
John Kepler

23. Atom is made up of...........different kinds of subatomic particles:


Three (electron, neutron, and proton)

24. Uranium is best used as nuclear fuel in one of the following forms:
U 235

25. The alpha particles are compact clusters of:


Two Protons and two Neutrons

26. The Beta particles are fast moving


Electrons

27. One of the following countries produces maximum energy from atomic reactors:
France

28. The unit to measure the quantity of Ozone in atmosphere is


Dobson

29. The severity of 2005 earthquake in Pakistan on Richter scale was


7.6

30. Geiger-Muller counter is used to detect:


Photons

31. Vacuum tubes have been replaced by:


c. Transistors

32. Dacron is
a. Polyethylene

33. It is a secondary plant nutrient:


Sulphur

34. An area of microbiology that is concerned with the occurence of disease in human population is
Epidemiology

35. The number of electrons of a neutral atom is automatically known if one knows the:
Atomic number

36. Which of the following is not an enzyme?


Secretin

37. It is impossible for a type of O+ baby to have a type of .............. mother:


AB- (With a Child's blood type of O the parents will be a combination of O & O / A & A / A & B / B & B.)

38. Serum if blood plasma minus its:


Clotting proteins

39. The autonomic nervous system innervates all of these except:


Skeletal muscles (The autonomic nervous system is a system of motor neurons that innervate smooth muscle,cardiac
muscle and glands)

40. The damage to the ..............nerve could result in the defect of the eye movement:
Cranial nerve

41. Which of these is not a region of the spinal cord?


Pelvic (The spinal cord is divided into four different regions: the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions)

42. The shape of the external ear is due to:


Elastic cartilage

43. The external surface of the stomach is covered by


Serosa

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44. Which of the following is not a human organ system?
Epithelial

45. Which of the following does not vary predictably with the depth of the aquatic environment?
Salinity

46. The quantity of available nutrients .............from the lower levels of


decreases

47. Which of the following is not a major sub division of the biosphere?
Stratosphere

48. Vaccination is synonymous with..............immunity.


Artificial active

49. When a patient's immune system becomes reactive to a drug, this is an example of:
Allergy

50. What is the smallest unit of heredity?


Gene

51. What plants exhale at night:


carbondioxide

52. Velocity of sound m/s:


343

53. Which vitamins not stored in human body?


C

54. Lake of vitamin c create which disease:


skin desease

55. Which vitamin help blood clotting?


K

56. Founder of Muslim rule in india?


Qutubuddin Abek

57. Razia sultana belong to?


slave dynasty

58. Second battle of panipat fought b/w:


Akbar vs Himu Bakal

59. Attock fort was constructed by:


Akbar

60. Mancher Lake situated in?


Madu

61. Pakistan number among world population?


6th

62. Share of punjab among area of Pakistan:


25%

63. Length of khyber pass:


53km

64. Urinium resources found in Pakistan?


D G khan

65. Mostly part of gobi desert found in?


Mangolia

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66. Taklamakan desert found in:
Xinjaning China

67. Longest river of the world is?


Nile

68. Largest sea of the world ?


South China Sea

69. Largest coastal boundry country?


Canada

70. Brazil situated in?


South America

71. Which country is peninsula?


Saudi Arabia

72. Who was known as the Man of Destiny?


Nepolin bona part

73. Macmohan line is situated b/w?


India and China

74. Who is David patrias?


American General in Afghanistan

75. 1 meter is equal to?


3.28 foot

76. Caspian sea makes his boundries with:


Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan.

77. Old name of Iraq?


Mesopotimia

78. Blood is red due to?


Haemoglobin

79. Marian trence situated near?


Philpines

80. Headquarter of ghandhara civilization is?


Texila

81. Maximum wool produceing country is?


Australia

82. Official religion of japan is?


Shintoism

83. Which element use for producing nuclear fuel?


Urinium

84. Which is less conducter:


Wood

85. Nigara fall lies b/w:


U.S.A and Canada

86. Which is smallest country of world among area:


San Marino

87. Juandice is disturb of which part of body:

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Liver

88. In hapatiets which organ disturb:


Liver

89. Who was Father of the French Revolution?


Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

90. Statue of freedom in newyark is given by:


France

91. Sunlight consists of colours


7 Colors

92. Theory of relativety is presented by?


Einstien

93. Cash crop is?


Which not cultivated for own use

94. The magnitude of earthquake is measured with?


Richter scale

96. Crtography is the study of:


Secret Writing

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Q1. WHAT QUANTITIES ARE MEASURED BY THE FOLLOWING UNITS?

WAT……………………………………… electrical power


COLOUMB…………………………… Charge
PASCAL…………………………………… Pressure
OHM…………………………………………… Resistance
KELVIN……………………………………… Temperature
JOULE……………………………………… Energy
METER…………………………………………… ength
FARADAY……………………………………… Capacitance
HERTZ………………………………………… Frequency
AMPERE………………………………………… Electric Current
TORR…………………………………………… Pressure
CURIE………………………………………… Radioactive Decay
ANGSTROM…………………………………… Length
LIGHT YEAR………………………………… Distance
DIOPTR……………………………………… Power of lens
HORSE POWER…………………………… Power
RADIAN……………………………………… plane angular measurement
CANDELA…………………………………… Luminous Intensity
MOLE………………………………………… Amount of substance
WEBER……………………………………… magnetic Flux
TESLA………………………………………… Magnetic Flux Density
SIEMEN……………………………………… electrical conductance
RUTHERFORD…………………………… radioactive decay
PARSEC……………………………………… length
DEGREE……………………………………… angle
STERADIAN………………………………… Solid angle
BARREL……………………………………… Storage of liquids
BTU……………………………………………… Heat Energy
KWH……………………………………………… Power Consumption
NEWTON……………………………………… force
BECQUEREL………………………………… Radioactivity
VOLT…………………………………………… electrical load
ACRE-FOOT………………………………… Volume of Water
CUSEC………………………………………… liquid flow
HERTZ………………………………………… frequency
MhO…………………………………………… electrical conductance
VOLT…………………………………………… electrical load
DYNE…………………………………………… force
TON…………………………………………… cooling power

Q2. WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING ABBREVIATIONS STAND FOR?

LASER……………………………….. Light Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiations


RADAR……………………………… radio detecting and ranging
LPG………………………………………… liquified petroleum gas
CFC……………………………………… choloro fluoro carbons
AIDS……………………………………… acquired immune deficiency syndrome
ROM……………………………… Read Only Memory
LAN……………………………… Local Area Network
WWW………………………… World Wide Web
DNA…………………………… deoxy ribonucleic acid
HDL…………………………………………… high density lipoprotein
MeV………………………………………… mega electron volt
UHF………………………… Ultra High Frquency
LED…………………………. Light Emitting Diode
LCD…………………………. Liquid Crystal Display
BASIC……………………… Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
MASER……………………………………… micro wave apmplification by s stimulated emmission of radiation
SONAR………………………………………… sound navigation and ranging
SARS…………………… Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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NTP…………………………………………… network time protocol
RQ……………………………………………… respiratory quotient
PVC…………………………………………… polyvinyl chloride
NPN…………………………………………… negative positive negative
WAN……………………. Wide Area Network
ECG……………………… Electro Cardiography
BCG…………………………………………… bacilles of calmette (guerin)
ETT…………………………………………… exercise tolerance test (cardiography)
DBS……………………… data base system
BTU……………………… british thermal unit
TNT……………………… tri nitro toulene
CNG……………………… Compressed Natural Gas
LPG …………….. Liquified Petroleum Gas

1- ampere--------------------- electric current


2-angstrm----------------------- unit of length for the measurement of wavelength
3-bar----------------------------- unit of atmosphereic pressure
4-bel---------------------------- unit of intensity of sound
5-calorie------------------------ measurment of quantity of heat
6-candle power-------------- illuminating power of a source of light
7-centigrade------------------ unit of temperature
8-centimeter----------------- unit of length
9-coulomb----------------------- electric charge
10-decibel---------------------- intensity
11-dioptre---------------------- power of lense
12-dyne------------------------ unit of force
13-electron volt------------- unit of energy
14-erg-------------------------- unit of work
15-farad---------------------- electric capacity
16-farady--------------------- electric charge
17-gauss---------------------- megnetic induction
18-gram------------------------ unit of mass
19-gram wt-------------------- gravitational unit
20-henry---------------------- unit of induction
21-horse power-------------- unit of power
22-joule----------------------- practical unit of work
23-kg--------------------------- unit of mass
24-kilowatt-------------------- unit of electrical power
25-knot------------------------- unit of speed
26-killowatt-hour------------- practical unit of electrical power
27-lambert-------------------- unit of brightness
28-light year------------------ unit of distance for measuring astronomical distance
29-litre------------------------ unit of volume capacity
30-lumen---------------------- luminous flux
31-lux-------------------------- unit of intensity of lumination
32-maxwell-------------------- megnetic flux
33-meter---------------------- unit of distance
34-micro farad--------------- one millionth of a farad
35-millimicron---------------- unit of length used in spectroscopy
36-newton-------------------- unit of work
37-oersted------------------- unit of megnetic intensity
38-ohm------------------------ unit of electrical resistance
39-poise---------------------- unit of viscosity
40-second------------------- unit of time
41-volt------------------------ practical unit of electric potential differenec
42-watt----------------------- unit of power
43-weber--------------------- unit of magnetic pole strength
44-x.u------------------------ unit of length expressing x-ray wave length
45-gy-gray------------------- obsorbed radiation dose
46-mole----------------------- amount of substance
47-siemens------------------- electric conductance
48-hertz--------------------- frequecy
49-radian------------------- plane angle
50-tesla--------------------- magnetic flux density
51-pascal------------------- pressure
52-sievert------------------ radiation dose equilent
53-steradian---------------- solid angle

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54-bacquerel--------------- activity of radionucloids
55-rutherford-------------- rate of decay of radioactive material
56-torr---------------------- pressure
57-fermi--------------------- length
58-sved berg unit---------- sedimentation rate
59-mho----------------------- conductivity
60-roentgen----------------- radiation exposer x ray
61-barn---------------------- area
62-barrel------------------- unit of liquid capacity
63-carat-------------------- unit for measuring mass of precious metal
64-clusec------------------ power of vaccum pump
65-dalton------------------- atomic mass unit
67-megaton---------------- explosive power of nuclear weapon
68-morgon------------------ orbitray unit used in genetics
67-ounce-------------------- unit of mass
68-rad------------------------ obsorbed radiation dose
69-ryberg-------------------- atomic unit of energy
70-btu------------------------ unit of heat
71-candela------------------- luminous intensity
72-modulation--------------- frequency
73-persec-------------------- astronomical unit
74-cusec--------------------- volumetric rate of flow

Discoveries/Inventions-Scientists Past Papers

1. Structure Of DNA: Watson & Crick


2. Rabies Vaccination: Louis Pasteur
3. Penicillin: Alexander Fleming
4. Genetic Laws of Heredity: Mendel
5. Vaccination Against Small Pox: Edward Jenner
6. Solar System: Copernicus
7. Current Electricity: Volta
8. Telephone: Graham Bell
9. Gramophone: Thomas Edison
10. Atomic Number: Mosley
11. Mercury Thermometer: Fahrenheit
12. Dynamite: Alfred Noble
13. Cell: Robert Hooke
14. Television: John Baird
15. X-rays: Roentgen
16. Circulation Of Blood: William Harvey
17. Bicycle: Macmillan
18. Wireless Telegraphy: Signor Marconi
19. Microorganisms: Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
20. Laser: Dr. C. Gilbert
21. Periodic Table: Mendeleev
22. Radium: Madam Marie Curie
23. Mass/Energy Conversion Equation: Einstein
24. Cement: Joseph Aspdin
25. Simple Microscope: Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen
26. Sulphuric, Nitric and Hydrochloric Acid: Jabir Bin Hayan
27. Jet Engine: Frank Whittle
28. Electricity: Thomas Edison
29. Computer: Charles Babbage
30. Lightening Conductor Benjamin Franklin
31. Semiconductor: Bardeen and Brattain
32. Uncertainty Principle: Heisenberg
33. Cyclotron: Ernest Lawrence
34. Electro Magnetic Engine: James Maxwell
35. Internal Combustion Engine: Nikolas August Otto
36. Earth As A Huge Magnet: William Gilbert
37. First Person To Orbit Earth: Yuri Gagarin
38. Water: Henry Cavendish
39. Gravitation: Newton
40. Magnet: Dr. Gilbert
41. E.M Induction: Faraday
42. Energy Quanta: Max Planck

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43. Vitamin. C Therapy: Linus Pauling
44. First Clone Of A Sheep: Ian Wilmit
45. Streptomycin: S.A.Waksman
46. Helical Structure Of Protein: Linus Pauling
47. Polio Vaccine: Jonas Salk
48. Nylon: Wallace. H Carothers
49. Radioactivity: Becquerel
50. Safety Match: John Walker
51. Gun Powder: Roger Bacon
52. Jupiter: Galileo
53. Neutron: James Chadwick
54. Earth’s Radius: Eratosthenes
55. Oxygen: Joseph Priestley
56. Noble Gases: Cavendish
57. Synthesis Of Gene In Laboratory: Hargobind Khorana
58. Earth Revolves Round The Sun: Copernicus
59. Binomial Nomenclature: Carl Von Linnaeus
60. North America: Christopher Columbus
61. Green Land: Robert Peary
62. Transistor: William Bradford Shockley
63. Typewriter: Sholes
64. Bacteriology: Pasteur
65. Laser: Theodore Maiman
66. Father Of Botany: Theophrastus
67. Father Of Zoology: Aristotle
68. Father Of Taxonomy: Carolus Linnaeus
69. Father Of Genetics: Gregor Mendel
70. Cell Theory: Scheilden And Schwann
71. Cholera Bacillus: Robert Koch
72. Theory Of Relativity And Photoelectric Effect: Einstein
73. Insulin: Dr. F.G Banting
74. Nucleus: Robert Brown
75. Chromosome: Waldeyer
76. Ultra Violet Rays: Johann Wilhelm Ritter
77. Law Of Attraction And Repulsion Between Electric Charges: Coulomb
78. Battery: Alessandro Volta
79. Electromagnetic theory: James Clerk Maxwell
80. First Person To Televise Pictures Of Moving Objects: John Logie Baird
81. Antiseptic Medicine: Joseph Lister
82. Cotton Gin: Eli Whitney
83. Big Bang Theory: Georges Lemaitre
84. Electron: J.J Thomson
85. Aeroplane: Wilbur and Orville Wright
86. Steam Railway Locomotive: Richard Trevithick
87. Radio: Marconi
88. Household Vacuum Cleaner: Herbert Cecil Booth
89. Bakelite: Baekeland
90. Windscreen Wipers: Marry Anderson
91. Ballpoint pen: Laszlo And Georg Biro
92. Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky
93. DDT: Paul Muller
94. Blood Banking: Charles Drew
95. AK-47: Mikhail Kalashnikov
96. Integrated Circuit: Robert Noyce
97. Cellular Phone: Dr. Martin Cooper
98. Vitamins: Funk
99. Uranus: Herschel
100. Calculating Machine: Blaise Pascal
101. Tuberculosis: Robert Koch
102. Logarithm Table: John Napier
103. Malaria Parasite: Ronald Ross
104. Zero: Al Khwarizmi
105. Velocity Of Light: Roomer

Physical Quantity—Instrument For Measurement: Past Papers


• Hydrometer measures humidity
• Barometer measures atmospheric pressure
• Purity of milk is measured by lactometer

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• Fathometer measures the depth of oceans.
• Sextant is used for measuring altitude of Sun and other heavenly bodies
• Chronometer records accurate time on ships
• Algesimeter indicates the degree of sensitiveness of skin
• Altimeter measures altitudes
• Ammeter measures current
• Anemometer records velocity of wind
• Cyamometer measures blueness of sky or ocean
• Dasymeter measures density of gas
• Galvanometer measures small electric current
• Hydrometer measures relative density of liquids
• Hygrometer measures humidity in atmosphere
• Hypsometer measures atmospheric pressure to ascertain elevations by determining boiling point of liquid. Or
Hypsometer is an instrument for measuring the height above sea level.
• Manometer measures pressure of gases
• Micrometer measures minute distances
• Periscope is used for viewing objects above eye level
• Cyclotron is used for electromagnetic acceleration of charged atoms
• Geiger counter is used for detecting and recording radioactivity. It was invented by Hans Geiger (1882-1945)
• Pyrometer measures high temperatures
• Refrectometer measures refractive index of a substance
• Seismograph measures intensity of earthquake
• Telstar transmits wireless or T.V broadcast
• Viscometer measures viscosity of liquids
• Spiro graph records the movement of lungs
• Photometer measures rate of transpiration
• Scotograph is used for enbling blind to write
• Eratosthenes measures distance round the earth
• Kaldio-scopes have proved helpful in finding the amount of dampness in soil
• Mohr’s scale measures degree of hardness of minerals
• RBC and WBC is bloods are counted by Hemocytometer.
• Manometer is the instrument of measuring gas pressure.
• Spectrometer instrument for measuring the spectrum of light.
• The variation in the blood flow can be heard with an instrument called _ stethoscope _
• What is measured by an interferometer-Wavelength of light
• Hydrophone is used for measuring sound under water.
• Magnometer is an instrument designed to compare the magnetic movement and field.
• Potometer is used to measure the rate of respiration in animal and plants.
• For measuring solar radiation we use pyrheliometer.
• Actimometer measures direct heating power of the Sun.
• Ammeter is use for measuring current strength.
• Manometer is the instrument of measuring gas pressure.
• Spectrometer instrument for measuring the spectrum of light.
• The measurement of rainfall is made by an instrument known as rain gauge
• What is measured with an ombrometer-Rainfall
• The instrument used to measure very high temperature: Infrared pyrometers
• Mechanical energy into electrical energy: Generator
• Heat energy into mechanical energy: Heat engine or steam engine.
• Electrical energy into mechanical energy: Electrical Motor
• Electrical energy into sound energy: Loudspeaker
• Sound energy into electrical energy: Microphone
• The device used to measure radioactivity: Geiger-Muller tube
• The device which converts the chemical energy into electrical energy: Battery
• The device used to measure radioactivity. Geiger counter
• Hygrometer is instrument used for measuring humidity of air.
• Heliscope is used for viewing the sun.
• What does a potometer measure- Water intake
• Clinical thermometer usually measures in Fahrenheit.
• Actimometer measures direct heating power of the Sun.
• Ammeter is use for measuring current strength
• Voltammeter is an electrolytic cell for conducting electrolytic dissociation of electrolyte.
• What does a drosomoter measure: Dew
• Relative density of an atmosphere is measured by hygrometer.
• Spirograph is an apparatus used for recording the movement of the lungs.
• The maximum limit of sound beyond which a person can become deaf is 129 lbs.
• Charles K Rhodes developed an X-Ray emitting laser in 1990.
• Son meter is an instrument used to study the behavior of vibrating string.
• The instrument used for measuring the velocity of wind is known as anemometer.

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Altimeter: an apparatus used in aircraft for measuring altitudes.
Ammeter: is used for to measure intensity of sound.
Anemometer: is an instrument for measuring the force and velocity of wind.
Audiometer: an instrument to measure intensity of sound.
Audiophone: is an instrument required for improving imperfect sense of hearing.
Barograph: for continuous recording of atmospheric pressure.
Barometer: is an apparatus used for measuring the atmospheric pressure.
Binoculars: is an instrument used for seeing distant objects, the rays of light are twice reflected by means of right-
angled prisms.
Callipers: a compass with legs for measuring the inside or outside diameter of bodies.
Calorimeter: an instrument used for measuring quantities of heat.
Carburettor: is an apparatus for charging air with petrol vapours in an internal combustion engine.
Cardiogram: a medical instrument used for tracing the movements of the heart.
Cardiograph: is a medical instrument for tracing heart movements.
Chronometer: is an instrument kept on board the ships for measuring accurate time.
Cinematograph: It consists of a series of lenses arranged to throw on a screen an enlarged image of photographs. The
lens system which forms the image on the screen is termed the focusing lens.
Commutator: split ring which forms the main part of a D.C. Dynamo.
Compass needle: for knowing approximately the North-South direction at a place.
Crescograph: is an instrument for use in recording growth of plants; invented by J.C. Bose.
Dip Circle: It is an instrument used to determine the angle between the direction of the resultant intensity of earth’s
field and the horizontal component at a place. This particular angle is know as the dip of that place.
Drinker’s apparatus: to help breathing in infantile paralysis.
Dynamo: The origin of electricity in a Dynamo is the transformation of mechanical energy into electrical energy. It
depends on the principle of electro-magnetic induction whereby a current is produced on traversing a magnetic field.
Electroencephalograph (EEG): It is the technique of recording and interpreting the electrical activity of the brain.
Records of the electrical activity of the brain, commonly known as “brain waves”, are called electroencephalograms or
electroencephalographs. EEG is the common abbreviation for both the technique and the records.
Epidiascope: for projecting films as well as images of opaque articles on a screen.
Eudiometer: It is a glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases.
Fathometer: is an instrument used for measuring depth of the ocean.
Galvanometer: an instrument for measuring currents of small magnitude.
G.M. Counter (Geiger Muller Counter): This special device is used for detecting the presence of radiation and counting
certain atomic particles.
Gramophone: an instrument with which we can reproduce the sound recorded by a suitable recording apparatus. It is
fitted with a special type of apparatus known as sound box invented by Berliner.
Gravimeter: is an instrument for recording measurement under water and to determine the presence of oil deposits
under water.

Gyroscope: is an instrument used to illustrate dynamics of rotating bodies. It is a type of spinning wheel fixed to the
axle.
Hydrometer: is an instrument used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids.
Hydrophone: is an instrument used for recording sound under water.
Hygrometer: is an instrument used for measuring humidity in air.
Kymograph: is an instrument used to record graphically various physiological movements i.e., blood pressure, heart
beating, study of lungs etc in living beings.
Lactometer: is an apparatus used for measuring the purity of milk.
Manometer: for determining the pressure of a gas.
Mariner’s Compass: is an apparatus which is used to guide the sailors. The needle always points north-south.
Micrometer: is an instrument used for converting sound i.e., fraction of the lowest division of a given scale.
Microphone: is an instrument used for converting sound waves into electrical vibrations.
Microscope: is an instrument which is used for magnifying minute objects by a lens system.
Microtome: is used for cutting an object into thin parts for microscopic inspection.
Odometer: is an instrument by virtue of which the distance covered by wheeled vehicles is recorded.
Periscope: It is usually used by the crew of a submarine to survey the ships etc, on the surface of the sea while the
submarine is under water. It also enables the sailors to observe objects on the other side of an obstacle without
exposing themselves.
Phonograph: is an instrument used for reproducing sound.
Photometer: is an apparatus used to compare the illuminating power of two sources of light.
Pipette: It is a glass tube with the aid of which a definite volume of liquid may be transferred.
Potentiometer: is used for comparing the e.m.f.s, of cells, measurements of the thermal e.m.f.s, large potential
differences and currents. It is also used for measuring low resistances.
Psychrometer: is an instrument for measurement of the humidity of the atmosphere.
Pyrometer: is an instrument for recording high temperatures from a great distance (i.e., for recording temperature of
the sun etc.) by making use of the laws of radiation.
Radar: Radio, Angle, Detection And Range is used to detect the direction and range of an approaching aeroplane by
means of radio microwaves.
Rain Gauge: is an apparatus for recording of rainfall at a particular place.

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Radiometer: is an instrument for measuring the emission of radiant energy.
Refractometer: is an instrument to measure refractive indices.
Saccharimeter: is an instrument for determining the amount of sugar in a solution. It is used in breweries.
Seismometer or Seismograph: is an instrument used for recording earthquake shocks.
Sextant: is an instrument invented by John Hadley used for measuring the altitude of the sun and of other
inaccessible heavenly bodies.
Spectrometer: (1) It is a type of spectroscope suitable for the precise measurements of refractive indices. (2) An
instrument for measuring the energy distribution of a particular type of radiation.
Speedometer: is an instrument which indicates speed at which a vehicle is moving.
Spherometer: is an instrument for measuring curvature of surfaces.
Sphygmomanometer: an instrument used for measuring arterial blood-pressure.
Sphygmophone: an instrument, with the help of which a pulse beat makes a sound.
Sphygmoscope: an instrument, by virtue of which, arterial pulsations become visible.
Stereoscope: It is a special type of binocular, through which a double photograph snapped from two different angles
by a two-lensed camera is viewed in solid relief.
Stethoscope: is an instrument to hear and analyse movements of heart and lungs.
Stop watch: for recording small intervals of time in the laboratory, in races and other events.
Stroboscope: is an instrument for viewing objects moving rapidly with a periodic motion and to see them as if they
were at rest.
Tachometer: is an instrument for determining speeds of aeroplanes and motor boats.
Telephone: a device by virtue of which two persons at two different places can communicate. It consists of two main
parts (i) a microphone and (ii) a receiver.
Teleprinter: an instrument which prints automatically messages sent from one place to another, on telegraph lines.
Telescope: is an apparatus used for observing distant objects.
Theodolite: is an instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles.
Thermocouple: an instrument based on thermo-electricity used for measuring temperatures.
Thermometer: is an apparatus used for measuring temperature.
Thermostat: It is an instrument used to regulate the temperature to a particular degree.
Viscometer: is an instrument to measure viscosity.

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MUSLIM SCIENTISTS HERE

1. MUHAMMAD BIN MUSA AL KHWARZIMI


He was born in khwarzim in 780,
contributed richly in the field of mathematics,astronomy , and Geography
he composed oldest work on arithmetics, algebra and astronomical tables.
he authored the following books:
Hisab al hindi
al jama-wat tafri kitab al amal bin asturlab kitab ama of asturlab kitab surat al ard

2. JABIR BIN HAYAN


Born in 721 to 815 AD. Know as Geber In the west, Great practical Chemist of his time
He made many chemicals like Nitric Acid, Sulphuric acid, and Hydrochloric acid.
He is considered god-father of modern chemistry.
Reason of famous: Chemical techniques like calcination, reduction, sublimation, distillation, melting and
crystallization. His chemical treaties translated into other languages. He gave a theory on the geological formation of
metals. He prepared basic lead carbonate, arsenic and antimony from their sulphides dealt with refinement of metals,
preparation of steel, dyeing of cloth and leather. He composed these books:
Kitab al Rahmah Kitab al Tajmi Book Seventy Composition of Alchemy

3. ABU ISHAQ KINDI


Al kindi was born in Basrah in the begining of 9th century A.D. He was great physicist, known as Al kindus in the
West. He wrote treatise on the geomerical and physiological optics. He endeavoured to ascertain the laws that govern
the fall of bodies. 265 works are ascribed to him. Fifteen works on meteorology, eight on music, and several on
specific weights, tides, optics and on the reflection of light.
Important Treaties are:
De aspectibus De medicinarum Compsitarum Gradibus

4. ZAKRIYA AL RAZI
Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al Razi 865 to 925 AD Persia. He was great physician. Known as Rhazes in West
His field of interest were Physics and Chemistry. Most brilliant pillar of Islamic medicine. contributed in the fields
of music, mathematics, astronomy, ethics. Earned title, Father of Pediatrics, by writing his monograph on "Diseases in
Children". He believed in five eternal principles in metaphysics namely Creator, Soul, Matter, Time and space. He was
first scientist to classify substances into vegetables, animals and minerals. His famous books are:
Arabian Medicine
Al Hawi
kitab Al Mansuri
Al Judari Wal Hasbah
Kitab Al Asrar
Barr ul Saat
Kitab Al Asraar
Fi jamal il musuqi

5. ABU ALI SINA


Born in 980 AD at Afshina near Bukhara. He is considered as the greatest intellectual giant of the middle ages. He
contributed to medical science, philosophy, logic, mathematics, astronomy and music. He was a great physician of all
time. He is better know AVICENNA in the west. His most famous book AL QANNUN FIL TIB known as canon in Latin,
was translated in may languages and it remained the sole textbook of medicine for several hundred years. He wrote
not less than 230 books and treaties. He fell victim to a disease in which he was specialist and died in 1037 AD.
For six centuries Conon of Avicenna dominated the medical schools of Asia and Europe. His famous books Are:
Al shifa
An Najat
Nafia
Isharrat

6. AL-BIRUNI
Abu Rehan muhamad al biruni was born in 973 AD in khwarzim. He was simultaneously a physician, astronomer,
mathematician, physicist, geographer and historian. He learnt Sanskrit language in order to investigate Indian
knowledge. He explained the problems of advanced trigonometry. it was he who discovered that light travels faster
than sound. He accurately determinded the weight of 18 stones in physics. He gave an understaning to the tems of
longitudes and latitudes. He died at the age of 75 years in 1048 AD. His books are:
TAhqiq al Hind

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Qamun Al Masudi
Asrar al Baqiya
Kitab al Saidana
Kitab al Jawahar
Al Tafhim

7. IBN AL HAITHUM
Abul Ali Hassan Ibn Al Haithum born in 975 AD Basrah. Alhazan in West. Outstanding Mathematician, physiologists
and optician. Famous for his optical works which were translated in Latin. He explained refraction of light rays through
transparent objects, discovered magnifying lenses, and the function of retina as the seat of vision. He dentified gravity
as force, a theory which later developed by Newton. He observed the semi lunar shape of the image of the Sun during
eclipse on a wall opposite a fine hole in the window-shutters, the first record camera obscure. He died in Cairo in 1039
AD. His famous books are:
Uyunul Ariba fi Tabaqaat il Atibba
Kitab Al Manazar
ON twilight Phenomena
Mizanul Hikma
Configuration of the Universe

8. IBN AL BAITAR

Born in Malaga (spain) at the end of 12th century. Great Botanist and Pharmacist. He made complete collection of
plants and herbs extending from Spain to Syria. He discovered many new plants and extracted medical drugs from
them. His work was considered and authority in plants and he gave new orientation to the classification and
nomenclature of plant kingdom over which modern botany is based. He died in Damascus in 1248 A.D. He was the
author of following famous books:
Kitab Al Jami fi Adwiya Al Mufzada
Jami
Mughani

There Are Four Types Of Mountains

Fold mountains: these mountains are mainly made up of folded strata of sedimentary rocks.These rocks are folded
when they are compressed.These are the highest mountains of the world e.g the alps ,the himalayas, rockies.
Block mountains: These are parts of the earth's crust which have been uplifted due to the earth's movement along
the line of weakness called faults.
Residual mountains: these are formed by the differences in the rates of erosion.
Volcanic mountains: These mountains are formed by accumulation of material erupted from the interior of the earth

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

1-distance of the sun from earth 149,597,900km


2-Diameter of sun- 1,392,520km
3-Diameter of earth 12,756km
4-circumference of earth 40,075km
5-Time taken by earth to rotate about its axis - 23 hours, 56 minute and 4 seconds
6-time taken by earth to revolve around the sun- 365 1/4 days
7-Diameter of moon- 3475km
8-distance of moon from earth- 384,400km
9-longest day in the northern hemisphere - 21st june
10-shortest day in the northern hemisphere - 22nd december
11-eqyual day and night everywhere - 21st march and 23rd september
12-time taken by sun's light to reach earth- 8 minutes
13-time taken by moon to revolve around the earth - 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 11.47 seconds

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GREEN HOUSE EFFECT
Introduction
Green house effect is the process in which the infrared radiation emitted by the atmosphere warms the planet’s
surface.
The name comes from an analogy with warming of air inside a green house compared to the air outside the
greenhouse.
The greenhouse effect is the global phenomenon in which the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere is radically
increasing due the activity of the green house effect .
Greenhouse gases:
• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Nitrous oxide
• Benzene
• Chlorofluorocarbon
Discovery of the greenhouse
The green house effect was discover by Joseph Fourier in 1829 and first investigated by svante Arrhenius 1896. In
addition to earth, mars, and Venus have greenhouse effect.
Mechanism
• The sun radiates solar energy on earth.
• The larger part of this energy (45%) is radiated back into space.
• Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere contribute to global warming by adsorption and reflection of atmospheric and
solar energy
The main sources of greenhouse gases due to human activity are:
• burning of fossil fuels and deforestation leading to higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the air.
• Furnace which emit smoke and other pollutant
• Motor vehicle which are responsible for the emission of smoke with poisonous gases.
• Exhaust from auto mobiles is one the major contributor
• Combustion of coal and wood
• Rotten plants contributes through production of gases
• Garbage and industrial exhaust
Importance
• Without greenhouse effect the earth would not be warm enough for human to live
• Without these gases the earth is 60 f colder.

MOST REPEATED TOPICS EVERY DAY SCIENCE


EVERYDAY SCIENCE
Muslim Scientists
1. Ibne Rushd - 1987
2. Al Farabi - 1991
3. Ibn e Nafis - 1991
4. Al Kinidi - 1991
5. Ibn Hayyan - 1987, 2001
6. Ibn al Baitar - 1995, 2001
7. Abu Ali Sina - 1991, 2001, 2008
8. Biruni - 1995, 2005
9. Ibn Al-Haitham -1987, 1995, 2005
10. Muhammad bin Musa Al-Khawarizmi - 2008
11. Umer Al Khayam - 1991, 2001, 2009
12. Zakariya Al Razi - 1987, 2001, 2009

Balanced Diet
13. Balanced diet – 1993, 2002, 2007, 2008,
14. Pasteurization – 1987, 1995, 2001, 2008
15. Disease caused by deficiency – 1987
16. Sources of Vitamins – 1990

Computers
17. Software – 1991, 2000, 2002
18. Registers – 1998, 2000
19. Computers – 1991
20. Microcomputers – 1991
21. Peripheral – uses – 1991

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22. Hardware – 1991
23. CPU – 1996
24. RAM – 2000
25. Byte – 2000
26. Mouse – 2000
27. Icons – 2000
28. Control Unit – 2000
29. LAN – 2000
30. Modem – 2000
31. ALU – 2000
32. Computer Viruses – 2008
33. Millennium Bug - 2009
Energy
34. Renewable energy resources – 1996, 2001, 2008
35. Geothermal energy – 2005, 2008
36. Non conventional source of energy – 1994
37. Magnetic resonance energy – 2006
38. Tide energy – 2006
39. Dam and barrage – 2006

Universe
40. Solar System - 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008
41. Planets – 1986, 2002
42. Lunar Eclipse – 1994, 1999
43. Solar Eclipse – 1999
44. Hovering Satellite – 1994
45. Steroid – 2002
46. Mercury – 2004
47. Plato – 2004
48. Communication satellite – 2005
49. Satellites – 2007
50. Supernova – 2008
51. Synchronous satellite - 2009
52. Big Dipper - 2009
53. Nebula - 2009

Hazards of Sciences
54. Water pollution – 1995, 2000, 2001, 2005
55. Global warming – 1998, 2004, 2006
56. Green house effect – 1998, 2001, 2009
57. Acid rain – 1990, 2002
58. Environmental pollution – 1988
59. Reclaim a saline soil – 1989
60. Water logging – 1989
61. Salinity – 1989
62. Ozone depletion - 1996

Geography
63. Earthquake – 1989, 1998, 2008
64. Heavy water – 1989, 1985
65. Structure of earth – 1997, 2003
66. Minerals – 2002, 2009
67. Lightening – 1985
68. Seasonal variation – 1991
69. Movements of the earth and its atmosphere – 2000
70. Seismograph – 2004
71. Tsunami – 2005
72. Sedimentary rocks – 2007
73. Days and nights – 1991
74. Volcanoes – 1999
75. International Date Line – 1998
76. Deforestation – 1995
77. Igneous rocks - 2009

Biology
78. Pollination (cross) – 1988, 1991, 2001, 2003
79. Photosynthesis – 1987, 1988, 1998, 2001
80. Ecosystem – 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002

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81. Positively and negatively phototropic parts of plant – 1987
82. Nitrogen cycle – 1992
83. Structure of animal cell – 1994
84. Cellulose – 1992
85. Viruses – 1994
86. Osmosis – 1997
87. Transpiration – 1997
88. Important parts of flower – 2001
89. Fertilization – 2001
90. Animal cell – 2008
91. Producers and consumers of ecosystem – 1989
92. Balance of nitrogen in atmosphere – 1985
93. Glycolysis – 1997
94. Phototaxis – 1997
95. Root tubers – 1987, 1992
96. Food chain – 1987
97. Symbiosis – 1987
98. Biochemical cycle – 1992
99. Diffusion – 1994
100. Catabolism – 1995
101. Epiphytes – 2007
102. Similarities and differences between animals and plants - 2009
103. Amphibian - 2009
Human Biology
104. Endocrine glands – 1990, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007
105. Human eye – 1985, 1990, 2002
106. Hemophilia – 1987, 1989, 1992
107. Excretory system – 1995, 2000
108. Human brain – 1990, 1994
109. Principle of immunization – 1987, 1995
110. Chromosomes – 1988, 1989
111. Composition of blood – 1995, 1999
112. Hormones – 2001, 2008
113. Human kidney – 1988
114. Human blood – 1988
115. Clotting – 1988
116. Heredity – 1989
117. DNA – 1990
118. Digestion – 1991
119. Feedback mechanism of human system – 2000
120. Characters transmitted from parents to offsprings – 2007
121. Blood pressure – 1987
122. Immunity – 1987
123. Blood groups – 1998
124. Ovulation – 2003
125. Gene – 2006
126. Biotechnology – 2003
127. Receptors and receptor organs in human body - 2009
128. Genetic Engineering - 2009

Chemistry
129. aPolymer (synthetic) – 1994, 2001, 2002
130. Heavy water
131. Soft water
132. Carbon cycle – 1992, 1998, 2000
133. Suplhide Cynnabar (Hgs) – 2003
134. Catalyst – 1992
135. Fermentation - 2009
136. Aqua Regia - 2009
137. Enrichment of Uranium - 2009
138. Allotropy - 2009

Diseases
139. Virus –1987, 1994
140. Meningistis – 2000
141. Pollen allergy – 2006
142. Bird flu – 2006
143. Short sightedness – 1998

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144. Dengue Virus - 2009

Physics
145. Nuclear fission – 1986, 1987, 1998, 2001
146. Fusion – 1986, 1998, 2001
147. Radioactivity – 1989, 2008
148. Law of gravitation – 1992
149. Conductor – 1998
150. Resistor – 1998
151. Transistor – 1998
152. Escape velocity – 1999
153. Optic fiber – 2003

Inventions of Science
154. Laser – 1986, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008
155. Pesticides – 1990, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003
156. Semiconductor – 1990, 1998, 2000, 2008
157. Antibiotics – 1989, 1996, 2001, 2002
158. Ceramics – 1996, 2001, 2007, 2008
159. Telephone – 1990, 1994, 2000
160. RADAR – 1986, 2001
161. Vaccine – 1990, 1996, 2001
162. Television – 1999, 2001
163. Plastics – 1986, 2008
164. Fertilizers – 2002, 2004
165. Microwave oven – 2001, 2008
166. Immunization – 1995
167. Transmistor – 1998
168. Escape velocity – 1999
169. PVC – 2001
170. Tape recorder – 2001
171. Camera – 2008
172. Teleprinter- 2009
173. Vacuum Cleaner - 2009
Miscellaneous
174. Ultrasonic waves – 1986, 2005
175. Plaster of Paris – 1998, 2006
176. Microwave oven – 2001, 2008
177. Radio waves – 1990
178. Antibody – 1998
179. Scavenger – 1998
180. Superconductivity – 2004
181. Night Vision Technology – 2004
182. Supersonics – 2006
183. Short circuit – 1998
184. Shockwaves – 2005
185. Second barrier – 2005
186. Solar cell – 2005
187. Reaction time – 1998
188. Quartz – 2003
189. Allele – 2002
190. Pressure cooker – 2001
191. Paramagnetism and diamagnetism – 2001
192. CNG – 2001
193. Super fluid – 2005
194. Photovoltaic cell – 2005
195. Theodolite – 2006
196. Hygrometer – 2005
197. Role of Nitrogen and phosphorous in plant – 1990
198. Modulation – 1995
199. Saponification – 1997
200. Nuclear reactor – 2007

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SOLVED PAIR OF WORDS OF PAST PAPERS (PAST 5 YEARS)

Consciousness:
Meaning: the state of understanding and realizing something.
Use in sentence: Her consciousness that she's different makes her feel uneasy.

Conscientiousness:
Meaning: putting a lot of effort into your work/ controlled by or done according to conscience
Use in sentence: She has always been a very conscientious worker.

Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skilful
Use in sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.

Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Use in sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his luggage.

Fantastic:
Meaning: extremely good
Use in sentence: You look fantastic in that dress.

Fanatical:
Meaning: describes someone whose admiration for something is considered to be extreme or unreasonable
Use in sentence: His enthusiasm for aerobics was almost fanatical.

Honourable:
Meaning: a title used before the name of some government officials
Use in sentence: The Honourable Andrew Robinson

Honorary:
Meaning: given as an honour to someone
Use in sentence: She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in recognition of her work for the
homeless.

Politician:
Meaning: a member of a government or law-making organization
Use in sentence: We do not have good politicians in our country.

Statesman:
Meaning: an experienced politician, especially one who is respected for making good judgments
Use in sentence: He was a soldier and statesman.

Grateful:
Meaning: showing or expressing thanks, especially to another person
Use in sentence: I'm so grateful (to you) for all that you've done.

Gratified:
Meaning: to please someone, or to satisfy a wish or need
Use in sentence: We were gratified by the response to our appeal.

Imaginary:
Meaning: describes something that is created by and exists only in the mind; that is not real
Use in sentence: As a child I had an imaginary friend called Polly.

Imaginative:
Meaning: of, relating to, or characterized by imagination
Use in sentence: The architects have made imaginative use of glass and transparent plastic.

Negligent:

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Meaning: not being careful or giving enough attention to people or things that are your responsibility
Use in sentence: The judge said that the teacher had been negligent in allowing the children to swim in dangerous
water.

Negligible:
Meaning: too slight or small in amount to be of importance
Use in sentence: The difference between the two products is negligible.

Placable:
Meaning: to stop from being angry
Use in sentence: The Canaanites had many gods and they ran here, there and everywhere to placate these gods.

Placeable:
Meaning: capable of being recognized
Use in sentence: An easy thing you could do is making clocks placeable on walls.

Restive:
Meaning: unwilling to be controlled or be patient
Use in sentence: The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.

Restless:
Meaning: unwilling or unable to stay still or to be quiet and calm, because you are worried or bored
Use in sentence: He's a restless type - he never stays in one country for long.

Amiable:
Meaning: describes a person or their behavior that is pleasant and friendly
Use in sentence: So amiable was the mood of the meeting that a decision was soon reached.

Amicable:
Meaning: relating to behavior between people that is pleasant often despite a difficult situation
Use in sentence: His manner was perfectly amicable but I felt uncomfortable.

Considerable:
Meaning: large or of noticeable importance
Use in sentence: The fire caused considerable damage to the church.

Considerate:
Meaning: kind and helpful
Use in sentence: She promises to be quieter and more considerate in future.

Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skillful
Use in sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.

Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Use in sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his
luggage.(Pair Repeated: 1)

Momentary:
Meaning: lasting for a very short time
Use in sentence: Be careful not to make even momentary short circuits with metal tools.

Momentous:
Meaning: very important because of effects on future events
Use in sentence: Whether or not to move overseas was a momentous decision for the family.

Virtuous:
Meaning: having good moral qualities and behavior
Use in sentence: He described them as a virtuous and hard-working people.

Virtual:
Meaning: describes something that can be done or seen using a computer and therefore without going anywhere or
talking to anyone
Use in sentence: In tests, we have found the virtual machine runs at a reasonable speed.

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Par:
Meaning: the same as or equal to someone or something
Use in sentence: The regeneration of the city's downtown dock front will put it on a par with Nice or Cannes.

At a par:
Meaning: A term that refers to a bond, preferred stock or other debt obligation that is trading at its face value.
Use in sentence: Due to ever-changing interest rates, financial instruments almost never trade exactly at par..

Compliment:
Meaning: remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect
Use in sentence: I take it as a compliment when people say I look like my mother.

Complement:
Meaning: to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it
Use in sentence: The music complements her voice perfectly.

Complacent:
Meaning: Satisfied
Use in sentence: We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products.

Complaisant:
Meaning: willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
Use in sentence: Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant?

State:
Meaning: a country or its government
Use in sentence: Britain is one of the member states of the European Union.

Government:
Meaning: the group of people who officially control a country
Use in sentence: The government is expected to announce its/their tax proposals today.

Eminent:
Meaning: famous, respected or important
Use in sentence: An eminent historian

Prominent:
Meaning: very well-known and important
Use in sentence: The government should be playing a more prominent role in promoting human rights.

Below:
Meaning: in a lower position
Use in sentence: From the top of the skyscraper the cars below us looked like insects.

Beneath:
Meaning: in or to a lower position
Use in sentence: Jeremy hid the letter beneath a pile of papers.

Portly:
Meaning: fat and round
Use in sentence: He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.

Comely:
Meaning: describes a woman who is attractive in appearance
Use in sentence: She is very comely.

Setup:
Meaning: the way in which something is set up
Use in sentence: This allows simplified setup of Local Area Networking devices.

Set upon:
Meaning: to attack someone
Use in sentence: He was set upon by a vicious dog.

Shall:
Meaning: used instead of 'will' when the subject is 'I' or 'we'

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Use in sentence: Shall we be able to get this finished today, do you think?

Will:
Meaning: used to talk about what is going to happen in the future, especially things that you are certain about or
things that are planned
Use in sentence: Clare will be five years old next month.

Sink:
Meaning: to (cause something or someone to) go down below the surface or to the bottom of a liquid or soft
substance
Use in sentence: Enemy aircraft sank two battleships.

Drown:
Meaning: to (cause to) die by being unable to breathe under water
Use in sentence: He drowned in a boating accident.

Altar:
Meaning: a type of table used in ceremonies in a Christian church or in other religious buildings
Use in sentence: A 3rd century Roman pagan altar was also recently found on the site.

Alter:
Meaning: to change something
Use in sentence: We've had to alter some of our plans.

Apposite:
Meaning: suitable and right for the occasion
Use in sentence: It is, however, apposite to note that this process will continue in the year ahead.

Opposite:
Meaning: completely different
Use in sentence: You'd never know they're sisters - they're completely opposite to each other in every way.

Bear:
Meaning: to accept, tolerate or endure especially something unpleasant
Use in sentence: It's your decision - you must bear the responsibility if things go wrong.
Bare:
Meaning: without any clothes or not covered by anything
Use in sentence: Don't walk around outside in your bare feet.

Complacent:
Meaning: Satisfied
Use in sentence: We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products.

Complaisant:
Meaning: willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
Use in sentence: Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant? (Pair
Repeated: 1)

Confident:
Meaning: having confidence
Use in sentence: Be a bit more confident in yourself!

Confidant:
Meaning: a person you trust and share your feelings and secrets with
Use in sentence: Within a few short years he was a trusted confidant.

Disease:
Meaning: illness of people, animals, plants, etc.
Use in sentence: Starvation and diseases have killed thousands of refugees.

Decease:
Meaning: a person's death
Use in sentence: The house will not be yours till after your mother's decease.

Gate:
Meaning: a part of a fence or outside wall that is fixed at one side and opens and closes like a door

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Use in sentence: Take the next right turning through a large iron gate onto a cobbled road.

Gait:
Meaning: a particular way of walking
Use in sentence: He walked with a slow stiff gait.

Judicial:
Meaning: involving a court of law
Use in sentence: The defense team will seek a judicial review of the sentence.
Judicious:
Meaning: having or showing reason and good judgment in making decisions
Use in sentence: We should make judicious use of the resources available to us.

Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skillful
Use in sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.

Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Use in sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his
luggage.(Pair Repeated: 2)

Yoke:
Meaning: a wooden bar which is fastened over the necks of two animals, especially cattle, and connected to the
vehicle or load that they are pulling
Use in sentence: In just a few weeks another 10 nations, many freed from the yoke of Communist oppression.

Yolk:
Meaning: the yellow, middle part of an egg
Use in sentence: I like eggs lightly cooked so that the yolk is still runny.

PAKISTAN AFFAIRS SOLVED MCQs 2013

1) Who was the governor of Sindh after Muhammad Bin Qasim?


Yazid Bin Muhallab

2) who was the mughal emperor who accepted the British pension firstly?
Shah Alam-II

3) Ahmad Shah Abdali launched his early invasion against:


Marhatas

4) The British fought Plassy war against:


Sirajuddula

5) Dars-i-Nizami was named after:


Mullah Nizamuddin

6) Before 1857 how many Universities on Western pattern were established in India?
None

7) When the MAO College at Alligarh was started?


1877

8) Anjuman-i-Himayat e Islam was started in:


1884

9) The constitution of All India Mulim League was written by:


Muhammad Ali Johar

10) The first session of Muslim Educational Conference was held at:
Aligarh in 1886

11) The London branch of Muslim League was started by:


Syed Amir Ali

12) “Hamdard” was edited by

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Moulana Muhammad Ali Johar

13) “Shudhi” movement was started by:


Swami Shraddhanand

14) Majlis-ii-Ahrar was found in:


1929

15) In Kashmir the ceasefire between Pakistan and India was signed on:
27th july 1949

16) Islamabad was declared capital of Pakistan in:


1967

17) Majority of Southern Pakistan population lived along the:


River Indus

18) The Aryan arrived in South Asia in :


1500 BC

19) The most ancient civilization is:


Mehargarh

20) The author of “The Case of Pakistan” is


Sahar S. Husain

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21) Sir syed ahmed khan advocated the inclusion of Indians in Legislative Council in his famous book, Causes of the
Indian Revolt, as early as:
a) 1850 b) 1860 c) 1870 d) None of these

22) Who repeatedly refers to Sir Syed as Father of Muslim India and Father of Modern Muslim India:
a) Hali b) Abdul Qadir c) Ch. Khaliquz Zaman d) None of these

23) Military strength of East India Company and the Financial Support of Jaggat Seth of Murshidabad gave birth to
events at:
a) Plassey b) Panipat c) None of these

24) Clive in one of his Gazettes made it mandatory that no Muslim shall be given an employment higher than that of
chaprasy or a junior clerk has recorded by:
a) Majumdar b) Hasan Isphani c) Karamat Ali d) None of these

25) The renowned author of the Spirit of Islam and a Short History of the Saracens was:
a) Shiblee b) Nawab Mohsin c) Syed Ameer Ali

26) Nawab Sir Salimullah Khan was President of Bengal Musilm Leage in:
a) 1903 b) 1913 c) 1923 d) 1912

27) The first issue of Maualana Abul Kalam Azads „Al Hilal‟ came out on 13 July:
a) 1912 b) 1922 c) 1932 d) none of these

28) At the annual session of Anjuman Hamayat Islam in 1911 Iqbal‟s poem was recited, poetically called:
a) Sham-o-Shahr b) Shikwa c) Jawab-i-Shikwa d) None of these

29) Sir sultan Muhammad shah, the agha khan headed the historic simla deputation which successfully presented
Muslim demands on 01, October 1906 before:
a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Irwin c) lord Minto d) None of these

30) Quaid-i-Azam said in an interview on any hope of India and Pakistan coming to a peaceful settlement „provided
the Indian government shed the superiority complex and deal with Pakistan on an equal footing given to special
correspondent from:
a) Germany b) France c) Switzerland d) None of these

31) Which are the aligned years in Pakistan‟s foreign policy:


a) 1963-1972 b) 1954-1962 c) 1947-53 d) Non of these

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32) Zia established a course for Pakistan that enabled the government to manage a complex:
a) Foreign policy b) Co-existence c) None of these

33) In the Hindu Kush mountains all passes connect Pakistan with:
a) China b) Afghanistan c) Tajikistan d) None of these

34) The Hasni tribe is settled in:


a) Southern NWFP b) Western Balochistan c) Central sind d) None of these
35) Rechna and Bari Doabs are considered:
a) Thickly populated region b) Very thickly populated region c) Most thickly populated region d) None of these

36) In connection with land reforms the Punjab tenancy act was passed in:
a) 1877 b) 1887 c) 1897 d) none of these

37) Excavations at moenjo daro have revealed in earthen vessels:


a) Millet grains b) Lentills c) Rice grains d) None of these

38) Kalabagh iron deposits are largest in Pakistan with an estimated reserve of:
a) 309 m tons b) 509 m tons c) 709 m tons d) None of these

39) Cotton textile the largest industry of Pakistan employ industrial labour force of magnitude of ?
a) 80 % b) 65 % c) 50% d) 36-40%

40) The emergence of Gwadar port and its development has promoted :
a) Rural –urban migration b) Urban-urban migration c) None of these

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41) From 1858 upto about 1870 nearly all British Politicians, authors blamed the Muslims for:
a. Disloyalty b. Independence c. Leadership d. None of these

42) Indo-Muslim culture in details is overwhelmingly:


a. Central Asian b. Arabian c. Iranian d. None of these

43) “The Millat and Menace of Indianism” is written by:


a. Muhammad Ali b. Ch. Rehmat Ali c. Shaukat Ali d. None of these

44) Indian Khilafat Deputation visited England to put their views before LIyod George in:
a. 1940 b. 1930 c. 1920 d. None of these

45) The Lucknow Pact was conceived by:


a. Lord Chemsford b. John Simon c. Edward Cadogan d. None of these

46) Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan was leader of:


a. Muslim League b. Unionist Party c. Congress d. None of these

47) In 1917 Kheiri Brothers suggested a plan of partition of India in conference of the Socialist International held in:
a. London b. Oslo c. Stockholm d. None of these

48) In 1928 Agha Khan III advocated independence of each province at the meeting of All parties convention in:
a. Patna b. Hyderabad c. Calcutta d. None of these

49) Founder of Pakistan M.A. Jinnah declared unequivocally that “it is impossible to work a democratic parliamentary
government in India” in press interview given to:
a. The Hindustan Times b. Manchester Guardian c. The Financial Times d. None of these

50) Kazi Saeed-ud-Din Ahmad, an Aligarh geographer clearly demarcated areas to substantiate the two nation theory
were in all:
a. Four b. Six c. Eight d. None of these

51) On 7th August, Muhammad Ali Jinnah left India for the last time and flew to:
a. Quetta b. Lahore c. Karachi d. None of these

52) Junagadh was a small maritime sate and had an area of:
a. 4500 Sq Km b. 9000 Sq Km c. 10000 Sq Km d. None of these

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53) Tethys‟s deposits finally turned to be:
a. Western Ghats b. Himalayas c. Karakoram d. None of these

54) The Salt Range lies in the large accumulation of pure salt at Khewra and:
a. Attock b. Jhelum c. Kalabagh d. None of these

55) Land holdings in Pakistan are characterized by:


a. Huge farms b. Very big farms c. Large farms d. None of these
56) The Pakistan Forest Institute, a national organization was established in:
a. 1957 b. 1947 c.1967 d. None of these

57) Relics of stone tools found in caves and terraces that date back to Pleistocene period have been discovered in:
a. Sind b. Punjab (Soan village nearby Rawalpindi)c. Balochistan d. None of these

58) National Highway Authority receipts to the tune of 1850 million rupees have been reported by May:
a. 2002 b. 2003 c. 2004 d. None of these

59) Recent earthquake of October, 2005 was result of:


a. Volcanic activity b. Tectonic dislocation c. Severe flooding d. None of these

60) Pakistan foreign policy is the safe-guarding of its sovereignty, security and:
a. International Relations b. External Trade c. Territorial integrity d. None of these

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61) The first Muslim general entered Victorious in the sub-continent Indo-Pak in the year:
(a) 612 AD (b) 712 AD (c) 812 AD (d) None of these

62) On the execution of Muhammad Bin Qasim, the rule of Caliph ended and Arab princes in Mansura (Sindh) and
Multan (Punjab) established their independent dynasties in Sub-continent in the year:
(a) 861 AD (b) 871 AD (c) 881 AD (d) None of these

63) Who became the first Sultan of newly established Muslim Sultanate of Delhi in 1207:
(a) Shahabudin Ghuri (b) Qatub-din Aibek (c) Zaheer-u-din Babar (d) None of these

64) Who has written the book entitled "The Making of Pakistan"
(a) Qurashi I.H. (b) Muhammad Ali Ch. (c) Waheed-uz-Zaman (d) K.K.Aziz

65) Who was first appointed Nazim of Nadva-ul-ulema in 1883:


(a) Maulana Shibli (b) Maulvi Abdul Ghafoor (c) Maulana Syed Muhammad Ali (d) None of these

66) Pakistan's ideology is based on the ideals of:


(a) Democracy (b) Theocracy (c) Islam (d) None of these

67) Quaid-e-Azam called Islam "Our bedrock and sheet anchor" while addressing:
(a) Punjab Students Federation (b) Muslim Students Peshawar (c) Indian Muslims (d) None of these

68) The resolution for formation of All-Indian Muslim League was passed at the meeting of All India Educational
Conference (1906) and was moved by:
(a) Nawab Viqar ul Mulk (b) Nawab Mohsin ul Mulk (c) Nawab Salim ullah (d) None of these

69) The demand of separate electorate for Indian Muslims was first accepted in the Act of:
(a) 1909 (b) 1919 (c) 1935 (d) None of these

70) The provincial governments of Congress resigned and All-India Muslim League as a mark of relief observed the
"Day of Deliverance" on:
(a) 22 Oct. 1939 (b) 22 Nov. 1939 (c) 22 Dec. 1939 (d) None of these

71) The Lahore Resolution was amended and Pakistan was made an integral part of League's objective. The
amendment was made in the Annual session (1941) of All India Muslim League, which was held at:
(a) Karachi (b) Lahore (c) Madras (d) None of these

72) Radcliffe Commission submitted its formula for the division of India in to two countries to Lord Mountbatton on:
(a) 9 August 1947 (b) 19 August 1947 (c) 29 August 1947 (d) None of these

73) Ch. Rahmat Ali, the architect of the name of Pakistan, died on:

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(a) Feb. 2, 1951 (b) Feb. 12,1951 (c) Feb. 22,1951 (d) None of these

74) Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, while addressing a meeting at Rawalpindi was assassinated
on:
(a) Oct 6, 1951 (b) Oct 16, 1951 (c) Oct. 26,1951 (d) None of these

75) The Legal Frame Work Order, which amended a constitution of Pakistan unilaterally was issued by:
(a) Yahya Khan (b) Ayub Khan (c) Zia-ul-Haq" (d) None of these

76) The country, which supported the Pakistan Movement before the emergence of Pakistan:
(a) Iran (b) Indonesia (c) Saudi Arabia (d) None of these

77) Durand Line, which divides the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan is as long as:
(a) 2252 Km (b) 2262 Km (c) 2272 Km (d) None of these

78) Which mountain range is located between China and Pakistan:


(a) Siwaliks (b) Hindu Kush Range (c) Great Himalayas (d) None of these

79) What is the total area of Pakistan (Sq Km):


(a) 695095 (b) 795095 (c) 796096 (d) None of these

80) The Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) was established among Pakistan, Iran and Turkey in 1964 and
was annulled in:
(a) 1969 (b) 1979 (c) 1989 (d) None of these

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81) Mahmud of Ghazni waged war against rebellious India in the year of:
a. 900 b. 1000 c. 1100 d. None of these

82) Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Ghuri defeated Pirthviraj in the year 1192 in the field of:
a. Panipat b. Nagpur c. Tarori or Tarain d. None of these

83) Qutb-ud-Din Aibak was succeeded on Delhi throne by:


a. Aram Shah b. Iltumish c. Razia Sultana d. None of these

84) The downfall of Muslim rule in India started with the demise of:
a. Akbar b. Aurangzeb c. Bahadur Shah Zafar d. None of these

85) The Holy Quran was first translated into Persian by:
a. Shah Ismail Shaheed b. Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi c. Shah Waliullah d. None of these

86) Anjuman-e-Islamia Punjab was founded for the renaissance of Islam in the year:
a. 1849 b. 1859 c. 1869 d. None of these

87) “Pakistan’s Constitution should incorporate the essential principles of Islam, which are as good and relevant in our
day, as were 1300 years ago. But Pakistan should not be a theocratic state ruled by priests.” This statement was
given by:
a. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan b. Allama Iqbal c. Quaid-e-Azam d. None of these

88) Who was appointed first President of Muslim league?


a. Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk b. Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk c. Nawab Saleem Ullah d. None of these (Agha
Khan)

89) Who divided Bengal into East and West Bengal in July 1905?
a. Lord Curzon b. Lord Minto c. Lord Morely d. None of these

90) Diarchy was first introduced in the Act of:


a. 1909 b. 1919 c. 1935 d. None of these.

91) The resolution of non-cooperation with British Government was passed in the meeting of All India National
Congress in 1920, which was held at:
a. Madras b. Bomby c. Nagpur d. Calcutta

92) The Simon Commission arrived in India on:


a. 3rd February, 1927 b. 3rd February, 1928 c. 3rd February, 1929 d. None of these

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93) The British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald announced the Communal Award in 1932 at the end of:
a. First Round Table Conference b. Second Round Table Conference c. Third Round Table Conference d. NOT

94) All India Muslim League observed the “Direct Action Day” on:
a. August 6, 1944 b. August 6, 1945 c. August 6, 1946 d. 16 August, 1946

95) Objective Resolution was passed by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on:
a. March 12, 1947 b. March 12, 1948 c. March 12, 1949 d. None of these

96) With regard the division of power between Federation and Provinces the Constitution of Pakistan (1962) was
provided with:
a. Single list of subjects b. Two lists of subjects c. Three lists of subjects d. None of these

97) The height of Pakistan’s highest mountain Pak-Godwin Austin is as high as:
a. 26, 250 ft b. 27, 250 ft c. 28, 250 ft d. None of these

98) The Government of Pakistan established the Indus River System Authority in the year:
a. 1960 b. 1970 c. 1980 d. None of these

99) Under the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 Pakistan has the right to use exclusively the water of:
a. Ravi, Sutleg and Chenab b. Sutleg, Chenab and Jhelum c. Chenab, Jhelum and Indus d. None of these

100) At present Pakistan has vast natural resources and items of mineral as many as:
a. 14 items b. 15 items c. 16 items d. None of these.

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101) Who rejected the verdicts of jurists that idol worshippers are liable to be murdered?
(a) Mahmood Ghaznawi (b) Shamd-ud-Din Iltumish (c) Jalal-ud-Din Deroz (d) None of these

102) Who constructed five canals to remove scarcity of water?


(a) Alauddin Khaliji (b) Ghyas-ud-Din Tughlaq (c) Feroz Shah Tughlaq (d) Akbar

103) Who laid foundation of Agra city?


(a) Sikandar Lodhi (b) Babur (c) Shah Jahan (d) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

104) Who wrote "Humanyun Nama"?


(a) Shahabuddin (b) Gulbadan Begum (c) Humayun (d) Qudrat Ullah Shahab

105) Who accepted Akbar's "Din-e-Illahi"?


(a) Todar Mal (b) Ma'an Singh (c) Birbal (d) None of these

106) Which office held supreme judicial authority during Mughal rule?
(a) King (b) Qazi-ul-Qazat (c) Saddar-us-Sadur (d) None of these

107) Who supported Muslim participation in politics?


(a) Wiqar-ul-Mulk (b) Mohsin-ul-Mulk (c) Maulana Zafar Ali khan (d) Allama Iqbal

108) Who is the author of "Hunter par Hunter"?


(a) Depuy Nazir Ahmed (b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (c) Maulana Zafar Ali khan (d) None of these

109) Who drafted "Wardha Scheme" under the guidance of Gandhi?


(a) Abul Kalam Azad (b) Nahru (c) Dr. Zakir Hussain (d) None of these

110) How many Muslim seats were secured by All India Moslim League in 1945-46 Election of Provincial assemblies?
(a) 396 (b) 425 (c) 441 (d) None of these 446

111) Who presided over the session of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan 10 August 1947?
(a) Quaid-e-Azam (b) Liaqat ali khan (c) Ch. Khaliq-uz-Zaman (d) Sir Agha Khan

112) Who rejected the theory of composite nationalism advanced by the Indian National congress?
(a) Mualana Maudoodi (b) Allam Mashriqi (c) Hussain Ahmed Madni (d) Quaid-e-Azam

113) Who was convicted in Rawalpindi Conspiray Case?


(a) Shorash Kashmiri (b) Habib Jalib (c) Faiz ahmed Faiz (d) None of these

114) In which constitution of Pakistan, the Ministers were neither members of the parliament nor answerable to
parliament?

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(a) 1956 (b) 1962 (c) 1973 (d) None of these

115) From which country Pakistan purchased Gawader?


(a) Kuwait (b) Iran (c) Muscat (d) None of these

116) Which provincial Chief Minister was dismissed on the issue of One Unit?
(a) Chief Minister NWFP (b) Chief Minister Sindh (c) Chief Minister Punjab (d) Chief Minister
Baluchistan

117) Which Radio Station already existed at the time of creation of Pakistan?
(a) Peshawar (b) Karachi (c) Quetta (d) None of these

118) Under Yahya‟s LFO, what option National Assembly had if it couldn‟t frame the constitution within 120 days?
(a) Dissolved automatically (b) President will dissolve it (c) Extension in time frame (d) None of these

119) What percentage of total polled votes in East Pakistan was secured by Awami League in 1970 elections?
(a) 54 % (b) 60 % (c) 75 % (d) None of these

120) When was the state of Swat included in Pakistan?


(a) 4th April 1969 (b) 28th July 1969 (c) 29th June 1970 (d) None of these

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121) Name the saint, who first came in Lahore.


a. Ali Makhdum Hujwari b. Shaikh ismail c. Data Gunj Baksh d. None of these.

122) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban declared himself king of Delhi Sultanate in the year
a.1166 b.1266 c.1366 d. None of these

123) Who founded Daulatabad and shifted the capital of Delhi Sultanate?
a. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq b. Muhammad Tughluq c. Feroze shah Tughluq d. Mone of these

124) Who set up the chain of justice to redress the grievances of oppressed people?
a. Zaheer-ud-din Babar b. Shahab-ud-din Shahjahan c. Aurangzeb Alimgir d. Jahangir

125) Who was known in history as Mujaddid Alf Thani, the reformer of second millennium?
a .Shaikh Ahmed Sirhindi b .Shah Waliullah c .Sir Syed Ahmed Khan d .None of these

126) Who called the"spiritual guide"as shopkeepers?


a .Shaikh Ahmed Sirhindi b .Shah Waliullah c .Sir Syed Ahmed Khan d .None of these

127) When Nadva-tul-Ulema came into being?


A.1873 b.1883 c.1893 d. 1884

128) Who initiated the cult of Shivaji against the Muslims of India?
A. Bal Ganga dher tilak b. Bennerji c. Pandit madan mohan d. None of these

129) Who led Simla deputation in 1906?


a. Sir Agha Khan b. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan c. Nawab Muhsin ul Mulk. d. None of these

130) When Nehru committee was constituted to propose the future constitution of India?
a. Feb 1927 b. Feb 1928 c. Feb 1929 d. None of these

131) When the congress ministries resigned from their offices?


A. Nov 1927 b. Feb 1928 c. Feb 1929 d. None of these

132) Who first thought of the possibility of a Muslim republic embracing the present Central Asian states in north west
of sub-continent?
a. Abdul Halim Sharar b. Syed Jamal ud Din Afghani c. Ch.Rehmat Ali d. None of these

133) When Simla Conference was concluded with failure?


a. June14,1945 b. July14,1945 c. Aug14,1945 d. None of these

134) Who negotiated with cabinet mission (1946) on behalf of All India National Congress?
a. Ghandi b. Nehru c. A.K.Azad d. None of these

135) When Abu ala Maududi was awarded death punishment by military court on" Qadiani issue"?

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a. March 1953 b. April 1953 c. May 1953 d. None of these

136) Muhammad Ali Bogra, the then P.M of Pakistan, presented his constitutional formula to the Constituent Assembly
on:
a. Sep7,1953 b. Oct 7,1953 c. Nov7,1953 d. None of these

137) When was the 17th amendment bill ratified by the President, after getting passed by both houses of Majlis-e-
Shura?
a. Dec29,2003 b. Dec30,2003 c. Dec31,2003 d. None of these

138) When was the local government system under the devolution of power plan, 2001, inaugurated?
a. Aug 4,2001 b. Aug 14,2001 c. Aug 24,2001 d. None of these

139) When was gas (natural) discovered at Sui Baluchistan?


a. 1950 b. 1952 c. 1954 d. None of these

140) The Suleman Mountain, one of the Western, is as high as:


a. 1100ft b. 2200ft c. 3300ft d. 3,487 m or 11,085 feet

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141) Who recalled Muhammad Bin Qasim from Sindh?


a) Caliph Walid
(b) Caliph Sulaiman
(c) Caliph Abdul Aziz
(d) None of these

142) What was the real name Shah Waliullah?


(a) Qutubddin Ahmed Faruqi
(b) Qutubddin Ahmed Siddiqui
(c) Qutubddin Ahmed Syed
(d) None of these

143) Who was formal teacher of Syed Ahmed Barelvi?


(a) Sheikh Ahmed Sirhandi
(b) Shah Walliullah
(c) Shah Abdul Aziz
(d) None of these

144) Who for the first time translated the Holy Quran in Urdu language?
(a) Shah Walliullah and Shah Abdul Aziz
(b) Shah Abdul Qadir and Shah Rafiuddin
(c) Syed Ahmed Baralvi and Shah Ismail Dehlvi
(d) None of these

145) Faraizi Movements was primarily a religious movement. What change Dudhu Mian brought in the movement?
(a) Transferred it into a gurreilla movement
(b) Transferred it into a political movement
(c) Transferred it into a Cultural movement
(d) None of these

146) Which of the following was/were the drawback(s) of the government of Indian Act 1858?
(a) Control of the Secretary of State for India and his council was bureaucratic in nature
(b) Expenses of the Secretary of State for India and his Council became a burden on Indian revenues:
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these

147) By how many member s the Executive Council of the Governor General was enlarged under the Indian Council
Act of 1861?
(a) One member
(b) Two members
(c) Four members
(d) SIX

148) As per the Government of India Act 1858, the transfer of the control of the Government of Indian from the East
Indian Company and assumption by the Crown was to be announced by Queen’s Proclamation, which was accordingly

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read in a Darbar. Where was this Darbar held?
(a) Calcutta
(b) Delhi
(c) Allahabad
(d) None of these

149) Where, during the War of Independence, was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan working/ posted.
(a) Delhi
(b) Bijnaur
(c) Aligarh
150) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established a Translation Society (later, renamed as „Scientific society‟) in 1864. In which
town was it founded?
(a) Bijnaur
(b) Aligarh
(c) Ghazipur
(d) None of these

151) In 1867, some prominent Hindus of Banares Launched a movement for the replacement of Urdu written in
Nasta‟leeq by Hindi written in Deva Nagiri script as the Court language. In which province(s) was this movement
started?
(a) Bengal Province
(b) Central Provinces
(c) North-western Provinces
(d) None of these

152) What was the designation of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in M.A.O school at Aligarh?
(a) Secretary, Managing Committee
(b) President, Managing Committee
(c) Parton, Managing Committee
(d) None of these

153) Which organization is considered the first Muslim political body constituted to represent the Muslims of the
subcontinent as a whole?
(a) Anjuman-e-Mussalmanan-e-Hind
(b) Central National Mohammadan Association
(c) Urdu Defence Association
(d) None of these

154) Mention the importance announcement(s) that was/were made by the Governor General Lord Hardinge in the
Darbar at Delhi in 1911?
(a) Annulment of the partition of Bengal
(b) Transfer of Capital from Calcutta to Delhi
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these

155) Which Muslim leader left the politics after the cancellation of the partition of Bengal?
(a) Nawab Salimullah Khan
(b) Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk
(c) Nawab Hamidullah Khan
(d) None of these

156) First sesstion of All-indian Muslim League was held on 29-30 December 1907. Where was it held?
(a) Lahore
(b) Aligarh
(c) Karachi
(d) None of these

157) “Few individuals significantly alter the source of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone
can be created with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three”. Who made these remarks about
Quaid-e-Azam?
(a) Stanley Wolpert
(b) Ian Stephens
(c) Lawrence Ziring
(d) None of these

158) The All-India Muslim League observed „Day of Deliverance‟ after the resignation of the All-India Congress
ministries. On what date was it observed?
(a) 22 October 1938

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(b) 22 December 1938
(c) 22 October 1939
(d) 22 Dec 1939

159) Who was the first leader of opposition in the first National Assembly constituted under the 1962 constitution of
Pakistan?
(a) Sardar Bahadur Khan
(b) Khan. A sabur
(c) Mumtaz Daultana

160) Liaquat – Nehru pact was announced at Delhi in :


a. January 1950
b. February 1950
c. March 1950
d. April 1950

161) Mohd bin Qasim was the nephew of __________


a. Sulayman bin Abdul Malik
b. Abdul Malik bin Marwan
c. Walid bin Abdul Malik
d. Hajjaj bin Yousaf

162) Raja Dahir was the ruler of ________


a. Lahore
b. Dehli
c. Sindh
d. Depalpur

163) Who had the shortest tenure as Governor – General of Pakistan ?


a. Iskendar Mirza
b. Ghulam Muhammad
c. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
d. Kh. Nazimmuddin

164) Who is the first Chief Executive of Pakistan?


a. Gen. Ayub Khan
b. Gen. Yahya Khan
c. Gen. Zia – ul – haq
d. Gen. Pervez Musharraf

165) Which country is situated in the east of Pakistan?


a. Iran
b. Afghanistan
c. China
d. India

166) India recognised the provisional Government of Bangladesh on


a. Dec 6, 1971
b. Dec 16, 1971
c. Jan 1, 1972
d. Dec 18, 1971

168) “Qissa Sohni Mahinwal” was written by


a. Hafiz Barkhurdar
b. Hashim Shah
c. Fazal Shah
d. Waris Shah

169) The first issue of Maualana Abul Kalam Azads ‘Al Hilal’ came out on 13 July:
a) 1912
b) 1922
c) 1932
d) None of these

170) In the hindu kush mountains all passes connect Pakistan with:
a) China
b) Afghanistan

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c) Tajikistan
d) None of these

171) “The Millat and Menace of Indianism” is written by:


a. Muhammad Ali
b. Ch. Rehmat Ali
c. Shaukat Ali
d. None of these

172) The Lucknow Pact was conceived by:


a. Lord Chemsford
b. John Simon
c. Edward Cadogan
d. None of these

173) Pakistan’s ideology is based on the ideals of:


(a) Democracy
(b) Theocracy
(c) Islam
(d) None of these

174) Ch. Rahmat Ali, the architect of the name of Pakistan, died on:
(a) Feb. 2, 1951
(b) Feb. 12,1951
(c) Feb. 22,1951
(d) None of these

175) What is the total area of Pakistan (Sq Km):


(a) 695095
(b) 795095
(c) 796096 (some say 796095)
(d) None of these

176) Who divided Bengal into East and West Bengal in July 1905?
a. Lord Curzon
b. Lord Minto
c. Lord Morely
d. None of these

177) The Simon Commission arrived in India on:


a. 3rd February, 1927
b. 3rd February, 1928
c. 3rd February, 1929
d. None of these

178) The height of Pakistan’s highest mountain Pak-Godwin Austin is as high as:
a. 26, 250 ft
b. 27, 250 ft
c. 28, 250 ft
d. None of these

179) Who wrote “Humanyun Nama”?


(a) Shahabuddin
(b) Gulbadan Begum
(c) Humayun
(d) Qudrat Ullah Shahab

180) From which country Pakistan purchased Gawader?


(a) Kuwait
(b) Iran
(c) Oman
(d) None of these

181) Which Radio Station already existed at the time of creation of Pakistan?
(a) Peshawar
(b) Karachi

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(c) Quetta
(d) None of these

182) When was the state of Swat included in Pakistan?


(a) 4th April 1969
(b) 28th July 1969
(c) 29th June 1970
(d) None of these

183) In which year Pakistan become ‘Republic’?


(a) 1947
(b) 1956
(c) 1962
(d) None of these

184) After war of 1971 which agreement was signed between India and Pakistan?
(a) Culcutta Pact
(b) Lucknow Pact
(c) Simla Pact
(d) Bombay Pact

185) Yousaf raza gillani elected on:


a.25 march 2008
b.25april 2008
c.25sep2008
d.24nov2008

186) There are how many districts in Punjab


a.35
b.36
c.37
d.38

187) Awaran is the district of


a.Sindh
b.balochistan
c.Punjab
d.Gigat baltistan

188) How many districts are in AJK


a.9
b.8
c.10
d.12

189) Objective resolution was passed in


a.1948
b.1949
c.1954
d.1953

190) What is the height of Minar-e-Pakistan


a.194ft
b.196ft
c.204ft
d.218ft
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1) Which mountain range is located between China and Pakistan:


(a) Siwaliks
(b) Hindu Kush Range
(c) Great Himalayas
(d) None of these

2) War of independence was fought in

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a.1757
b.1857
c.1858
d.1758

3) Nicosia is the capital city of:


a. Cyprus
b. Ghana
c. Chili
d. Zimbabwe
4) What is the currency of Fiji:
a.Rial
b.Dollar
c.Euro
d.Taka

5) Which is the lowest point at eath:


a. Nile
b. Caspian sea
c. dead sea
d.Pacific

6) Formosa was the old name of:


a.Sri lanka
b. Taiwan
c. Fiji
d.Cuba

7) Where is the Grand coulee dam:


a. USA
b.UK
c.China
d.India

8) which is the longest day of the year:


a.21 may
b.21 april
c.22 june
d.21june

9) The longest river of the world is in:


a.Iraq
b.Pakistan
c.Egypt
d.Jordan

10) Which city is called gateway of india:


a. Delhi
b. Mumbai
c. Calcutta
d. Agra

11) Which mountain ranges is situated in Europe:


a.alaska
b.andes
c.atlas
d.alps

12) The parliament of Iran is called:


a. Assembly
b.house
c.majlis
d.aewan

13) The commonwealth consists of members:


a.53
b.55
c.56

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d.52

14) Where is the headquarter of INTERPOL:


a. USA
b.Brazil
c.Spain
d.France

15) Which is the official language of UNO:


a.english
b.arabic
c.spanish
d.all of them

16) First secretary general of UNO belongs to:


a. France
b.Norway
c.Brazil
d.switzerland

17) Where is the headquarter if IAEA:


a.Paris
b.Geneva
c.New York
d. Vienna

18) Second summit of OIC was held in


a.islamabad
b.karachi
c.lahore
d.Peshawar

19) How many countries are members of SAARC:


a. 7
b.8
c.9
d.10

20) The length of river Nile is KM:


a. 5560
b.7989
c.6650
d.6166

21) Who is the runner up of first world cup hockey:


a. Pakistan
b.spain
c.Germany
d.Brazil

21) 7 April is observed as:


a. water day
b. women day
c.health day
d. No smoking day

22) Victory medal is the highest military award of:


a. UK
b.China
c.Japan
d.USA

23) Which is the smallest ocean of the world:


a. Pacific
b. atlantic
c.indian

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d. arctic

23) Mat is associated with the game of:


a.Golg
b.Cycling
c.Baseball
d.Judo

24) Judo is the national game of:


a.USA
B.China
c.France
d.Japan

25) How many players are in the game of baseball in a team:


a.8
b.9
c.6
d.5

26) Hayat-i-Jawid is written by:


a.Hali
b.Allama Iqbal
c.Shaikh sadi
d.Jawid Hussain

27) Shahnama is written by:


a.Jalandhry
b.Firdusi
c.Hali
d.iqbal

28) Odyssey (Greek) is written by:


a.Homer
b.Dante
c.Milton
d.Keats

29) Age of earth in millions is:


a.5000
b.4550
c.4450
d.4050

30) Radian is SI unit of:


a.force
b.angle
c.length
d.velocity

31) Aero float is the airline of:


a.usa
b. uk
c.Russia
d.china

32) Ball Point pen invented by:


a.Pascal
b.Biro
c.Torriceli
d.John

33) Bristol sea port is in:


a.USA
b.UK
c.China

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d.Brazil

34) Herodotus is called the father of:


a.History
b.Science
c.Politics
d.Botany

35) Yellow books are the official books of:


a.UK
b.China
c.Spain
d.France

36) Where is the Heathrow airport:


a.USA
b.France
c.China
d.UK

37) Which is the largest continent of the world:


a.Africa
b.Asia
c.Europe
d.America

38) Austria is situated in:


a.Western euorope
b.Southern Europe
c.asia
d.Americal

39) where is Khojak tunnel is in:


a.Sindh
b.NWFP
c.Balochistan
d.Northern Areas

40) Which country has most offices in the world:


a.China
b.Japan
c.India
d.USA

41) Who recalled Muhammad Bin Qasim from Sindh?


(a) Caliph Walid
(b) Caliph Sulaiman
(c) Caliph Abdul Aziz
(d) None of these

42) What was the real name Shah Wali Ullah?


(a) Qutubddin Ahmed Faruqi
(b) Qutubddin Ahmed Siddiqui
(c) Qutubddin Ahmed Syed
(d) None of these

43) Who was formal teacher of Syed Ahmed Barelvi?


(a) Sheikh Ahmed Sirhandi
(b) Shah Walliullah
(c) Shah Abdul Aziz
(d) None of these

44) Who for the first time translated the Holy Quran in Urdu language?
(a) Shah Walliullah and Shah Abdul Aziz
(b) Shah Abdul Qadir and Shah Rafiuddin
(c) Syed Ahmed Baralvi and Shah Ismail Dehlvi

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(d) None of these

45) Faraizi Movemnents was primarily a religious movement. What change Dudhu Mian brought in the movement?
(a) Transferred it into a guerrilla movement
(b) Transferred it into a political movement
(c) Transferred it into a Cultural movement
(d) None of these

46) Which of the following was/were the drawback(s) of the government of Indian Act 1858?
(a) Control of the Secretary of State for India and his council was bureaucratic in nature
(b) Expenses of the Secretary of State for India and his Council became a burden on Indian revenues:
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these

47) By how many member(s) the Executive Council of the Governor General was enlarged under the Indian Council
Act of 1861 ?
(a) One member
(b) Two members
(c) Four members
(d) None of these

48) As per the Government of Indian Act 1858, the transfer of the control of the Government of Indian from the East
Indian Company and assumption by the Crown was to be announced by Queen’s Proclamation, which was accordingly
read in a Darbar. Where was this Darbar held?
(a) Calcuta
(b) Delhi
(c) Allahabad
(d) None of these

49) Where, during the War of Independence, was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan working/ posted.
(a) Delhi
(b) Bijnaur
(c) Aligarh
(d) None of these

50) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established a Translation Society (later, renamed as ‘Scientific society’) in 1864. In which
town was it founded?
(a) Bijnaur
(b) Aligarh
(c) Ghazipur
(d) None of these

51) In 1867, some prominent Hindus of Banares Launched a movement for the replacement of Urdu written in
Nasta’leeq by Hindi written in Deva Nagiri script as the Court language. In which province(s) was this movement
started?
(a) Bengal Province
(b) Central Provinces
(c) North-western Provinces
(d) None of these

52) What was the designation of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in M.A.O school at Aligarh?
(a) Secretary, Managing Committee
(b) President, Managing Committee
(c) Patron, Managing Committee
(d) None of these

53) Which organization is considered the first Muslim political body continued to represent the Muslims of the
subcontinent as a whole?
(a) Anjuman-e-Mussalmanan-e-Hind
(b) Central National Mohammadan Association
(c) Urdu Defence Association
(d) None of these

54) Mention the importance announcement (s) that was/were made by the Governor General Lord Hardinge in thie
Darbar at Delhi in 1911?
(a) Annulment of the partition of Bengal

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(b) Transfer of Capital from Calcutta to Delhi
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these

55) Which Muslim leader left the politics after the cancellation of the partition of Bengal?
(a) Nawab Salimullah Khan
(b) Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk
(c) Nawab Hamidullah Khan
(d) None of these

56) First session of All-India Muslim League was helo on 29-30 December 19074. where was it held?
(a) Lahore
(b) Aligarh
(c) Karachi
(d) None of these

57) “Few individuals significantly alter the source of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone
can be created with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three”. Who made these remarks about
Quaid-e-Azam?
(a) Stanley Wolpert
(b) Ian Stephens
(c) Lawrence Ziring
(d) None of these

57) The All-indian Muslim League observed ‘Day of Delivernce’ after the resignation of the All-India Congress
minstereis. On what date was it observed?
(a) 22 octuber 1938
(b) 22 December 1938
(c) 22 October 1939
(d)22 December 1939

58) Who was the first leader of opposition in the first National Assembly constituted under the 1962 constitution of
Pakistan?
(a) Sardar Bahadur Khan
(b) Khan. A sabur
(c) Mumtaz Daultana
(d) None of these

59) 1988 noble peace prize has been awarded to:


a.Diego Cordovez
b.Anwar Sadat
c.United Nations

60) Dan Quayle is:


a.Mexican footballer
b.American Politician
c.Prime Minister of Brazil

61) Gen. Augusto Pinochet is:


a.Leader of Contrast in Nicaragua
b.Military Dictator of el-Salvador
c.President of Chile

62) Robert Mugabe is:


a.President of Zimbabwe
b.President of Kenya
c.Prime Minister of Angola

63) Sakharov is:


a.Anti-Soviet Polish Leader
b.Secretary General of the Hungarian Communist Party
c.Soviet Nuclear Scientist

64) The last day of the Quaid-e-Azam was written by:


a.M. A. H. Isphani
b.Fatima Jinnah
c.Col. Illahi Bukhsh

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65) The new Olympic Champion in Hockey is:
a.Australia
b.West Germany
c.England (during the year 1988)

66) The process of European integration is scheduled to be completed by:


a.1990
b.1992
c.1994 (may be)

67) The Bofors Scandal occurred in:


a.Italy
b.India
c.Japan

68) The Black Sea and the Mediterranean are connected by:
a.Shattal Arab
b.Dardanelles
c.Strait of Gibraltar

CSS-1989

69) Which country makes the Entac Missiles:


a.U.S.A.
b.England
c.France
d.U.S.S.R.

70) How many Radio Stations are in Pakistan:


a.Twelve
b.Sixteen
c.Twenty
d.Twenty two

71) What is Cathay Pacific:


a.Island
b.Revolutionary leader
c.Air line
d.Newspaper

72) President of U.S.A. is:


a.George Hubert Norman Bush
b.Barack Obama
c.George Thomas Ross Bush
d.George Paul James Bush

73) The ‘Great Leap Forward’ was:


a.American Policy towards Latin America
b.Chinese Economic Programme
c.Russian Diplomatic move
d.Cuban Military Strategy

74) What is the actual name of F-16:


a.Fighting Falcon
b.Atomic Bomber
c.Concord
d.Jumbo Jet

75) “Daughter of the East” is an autobiography of:


a.Fatima Jinnah
b.Nusrat Bhutto
c.Rana Liaquat Ali
d.Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto

76) The Headquarters of Asian Development Bank is in:


a.Tokyo
b.Bangkok

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c.Manila
d.Jakarta

77) Pakistan left CENTO in:


a.1971
b.1975
c.1979 (when it was dissolved)
d.1981

78) Gorbachev’s Peredyshka is:


a.Free Trade
b.Breathing space (I think, please comment)
c.Terrorist Movement
d.Non-Alignment

79) Premadasa is:


a.President of Chile
b.European Comedian
c.Terrorist Movement
d.President Sri Lanka

80) Sunsuke Uno is:


a.Maker of Micro-Computers
b.Prime Minister of Singapore
c.Chinese Town
d.Prime Minister of Japan

81) India launched its first Missile with the name of:
a.Indira
b.Verma
c.Agni
d.Monica

82) Who has been named as the first recipient of Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights:
a.Hosni Mubarak
b.Nelson Mandela
c.Rajiv Gandhi
d.Mrs. Margaret Thatcher

83) Literacy rate in Pakistan is:


a.15%
b.20%
c.30%
d.57% (as 2009)

84) How many people were stampeded in Football Match at Sheffield Hill Borough Stadium:
a.38
b.67
c.95
d.110

85) Venezuela President is:


a.Paul Alfonsin
b.Daniel Ortega
c.Carlos Andrez Perez
d.Augusto Pinochet

86) Jabar-bin-Hayyan was a:


a.Mathematician
b.Astronomer
c.Chemist
d.Philosopher
(actually he was an astronomer and philosopher as well, but more famous for
chemistry, so does that mean all the 3 are correct options but option C is more
suitable.)

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87) How many times has Martina Navtatilova won the Wimbledon title:
a.Six times
b.Eight times
c.Nine times
d.Eleven times (counting both singles and doubles titles won)

2005

88) The world’s oldest International Human Rights Organization is:


a.Amnesty International
b.Freedom House
c.Anti Slavery (probably, its older then the other two)
d.None of these

89) The constitution of European Union has not been ratified by:
a.Italy
b.Netherlands
c.France
d.None of these

90) After United States, the largest contributor in the United Nations Budget is:
a.Germany
b.France
c.U.K.
d.Japan is and was in 2005 as well

91) “Ariana” is an Airlines of:


a.Australia
b.Egypt
c.Iran
d.Afghanistan

92) What percentage Pakistan produces electricity from thermal source:


a.30%
b.50%
c.70%
d.64.6%

93) China’s fastest growing economy is facing a major challenge of:


a.Population Explosion (not sure, major problem facing Chinese economy, as I
found on the internet, was income inequalities, so I related it with population)
b.Shortage of Energy
c.Challenges of WTO regime

94) U.S. president George Bush has created Millennium Challenge Account to:
a.Improve national security network
b.Provide financial aid to Iraq and Afghanistan
c.Help poor countries pursuing democratic ideals
d.None of these

95) 38th parallel is a boundary line between:


a.Canada and America
b.North and South Vietnam
c.Greek and Turkish Port of Cyprus
d.its boundary line between North and South Koreas

96) In which month does the U.N. General Assembly usually meet every year:
a.January
b.March
c.September
d.None of these

97) Pakistan has recently been given observer status in:


a.Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

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b.Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
c.Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
d.None of these

98) The project to reduce water logging and salinity area in Pakistan has been financially supported by:
a.World Bank
b.IMF
c.Asian Development Bank
(I don’t really know, and cant find it either, wild guess is option ‘c’)

99) Pakistan and U.S. Navies recently conducted Joint exercises in the Arabian Sea by the name:
a.Optimum Impact
b.Diver’s Move
c.Inspired Union
d.None of these

100) Which of the following Internet Search Engines will introduce the World’s Biggest digital Library:
a.Yahoo
b.Google
c.Gigablast
d.None of these

101) The recently appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres is the former Prime
Minister of:
a.Denmark
b.Romania
c.Canada
d.Portugal

102) When a country grants another country MFN (Most Favored Nations) status in mutual trade, it implies:
a.Providing same trade concessions as are being given to other countries without any discrimination
b.Trade will be through exchange of Commodities rather than foreign exchanges
c.Imports and Exports payments will be in local currencies only
d.None of these

103) The programme “United Nations Millennium Development Goals” is focusing on:
a.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
b.Achieve Universal Primary education
c.Promote gender equality and empower women
d.All of these

104) The largest Agency of FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) by area is:
a.North Waziristan
b.South Waziristan
c.Khyber Agency
d.None of these

105) Reuter’ is the news agency of:


a.USA
b.Germany
c.UK
d.None of these

106) SAARC Human Resource Development Center is located at:


a.Delhi
b.Colombo
c.Karachi
d.Islamabad

107) Under “Vision 2025” WAPDA will construct SATPARA Dam on Indus river in:
a.Balochistan
b.NWFP
c.Northern Areas
d.None of these

2006
108) How many medals were won by Pakistan in the 18th Commonwealth games:
a.3

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b.5
c.7
d.None of these

109) The currency of China is:


a.Rouble
b.Yen
c.Yuan
d.None of these

110) In the absence of President, who becomes the acting President of Pakistan:
a.Speaker of the National Assembly
b.Chairman of the Senate
c.Chief Justice of Pakistan
d.None of these
(Please discuss option‘d’ as selectable as it depends upon who the President
appoints as Acting President; the obvious choice is option ‘b’ of course)

111) Han Myung has become the First Woman Prime Minister of:
a.South Korea
b.North Korea
c.Vietnam
d.None of these

112) Zalmay Khalil is the US ambassador to:


a.Iraq
b.Syria
c.Lebanon
d.None of these

113) H5N1 is the name of a:


a.Medicine
b.Vaccine
c.Virus
114) Biman is the Airline of:
a.Sri Lanka
b.Nepal
c.Bangladesh
d.None of these

114) Which country’s border with Pakistan is called Durand Line:


a.Iran
b.Afghanistan
c.India
d.None of these

115) Xinhua is the news agency of:


a.China
b.Russia
c.North Korea
d.None of these

116) The Headquarters of the UN Security Council is located at:


a.Washington
b.Paris
c.New York
d.None of these

117) Who is the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan


a. Mr. Yaseen Anwar
b.Dr. Ishrat Hussain
c.Sulman Shah
d.None of these

118) Nobel prize for the year 2005 was awarded to M. Elbardei together with:
a.United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
b.International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
c.World Health Organization (WHO)

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d.None of these

118) Who is the United States, assistant secretary of state for South Asian and Central Asian affairs:
a.Riyan C. Crooker
b.Nancy Powell
c.Richard A. Boucher
d.None of these

119) What was the magnitude of the Earthquake that shook northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir on October 8, 2005:
a.5.7
b.7.5
c.7.7
d.7.6

120) Rafiq Bahauddin al Hariri had been the Prime Minister of:
a.Libya
b.Lebanon
c.Syria
d.None of these

121) Angela Merkel is:


a.President of France
b.First Lady of Britain
c.Chancellor of Germany
d.None of these

122) Fourth Estate applied to:


a.Executive
b.Secret Agency
c.Press
d.None of these

123) The “Spirit of Islam” author is:


a.Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
b.Syed Amir Ali
c.Allama Iqbal
d.None of these

124) The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Standing Committee had agreed in principle to
grant an observer status to:
a.China and Japan (not sure)
b.Britain and France
c.United States and South Korea
d.None of these

125) George Washington was the First President of USA. Who is the incumbent Vice President of America:
a.Georgen Bush
b.Gerlad Ford
c.Dick Cheney (in 2006)
d.None of these

2007

126) Petronas towers are located in:


a.Singapore
b.Chicago
c.Kuala Lumpur
d.None of these

127) Name of the present UN Secretary General is:


a.Kofi Annan
b.Bon Ki Moon
c.Batrus Ghali
d.None of these

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128) The length of common border between India and Pakistan is:
a.900 miles
b.1000 miles
c.1100 miles
d.1809 miles

129) SAARC conference was held in 2004 at:


a.Islamabad
b.Kathmandu
c.Colombo
130) China became the member of World Trade Organization in:
a.1998
b.2002
c.2004
d.11-12-2001

131) The number of players in each team of basketball game is:


a.5
b.7
c.9
d.None of these

132) The Olympic games in 2004 were held in:


a.Athens
b.Sydney
c.California
d.None of these

133) How many members the National Security Council (Pakistan) has:
a.11
b.13
c.15
d.None of these

134) Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2006 was awarded to:
a.Dr. Mahatir Mohammad
b.Dr. Mohammad Yunus
c.Dr. Abdul Kalam
d.None of these

135) Denzil Washington is renowned as:


a.USA army general
b.British Naval Commander
c.Hollywood Actor
d.None of these

136) The number of OIC member states is:


a.55
b.57
c.59
d.None of these

137) Mahbub-ul-Haq Human Development Center is located at:


a.Karachi
b.Lahore
c.Islamabad
d.None of these

138) Hugo Chaves is the president of:


a.Venezuela
b.Brazil
c.Bolivia
d.None of these

139) What is the name of the only Pakistani who won a Nobel Prize:
a.Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed
b.Dr. Abdus-Salam
c.Dr. Abdul Qadeer

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d.None of these

140) Maple leaf is the National emblem of:


a.Germany
b.China
c.Canada
d.None of these

141) Name of Bangladesh Parliament is:


a.People National Assembly
b.Majlis-i-Shoora
c.Jatia Sangsad
d.None of these

142) India has constructed ‘Baglihar Dam’ in occupied Kashmir’s district of:
a.Udhumpur
b.Doda
c.Jammu
d.None of these

143) ‘Hamas’ was founded by:


a.Yasser Arafat
b.Ismail Haniye
c.Khalid Meshaal
d.Sheikh Ahmed Yasin (founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi and Mohammad Taha)

144) Which of the following regions of Balochistan will be irrigated through Kachi Canal
Project:
a.Quetta
b.Zhob
c.Nasirabad
d.None of these

2008
145) Transparency International is based in:
a.New York
b.London
c.Berlin
d.None of these

146) The largest source of electricity generation in Pakistan comes through:


a.Thermal
b.Hydel
c.Coal
d.None of these

147) Pakistan’s largest export partner is:


a.Saudi Arabia
b.America
c.Japan
d.None of these

148) India is constructing Kishanganda Dam in:


a.Jammu
b.Sri Nagar
c.Baramula
d.None of these

149) WAFA is the news agency of:


a.Syria
b.Jordan
c.Egypt
d.Palestine

150) Former US Vice-President Al Gore has won Nobel Peace Prize 2007 for his campaign against:
a.Child Labour
b.Human Rights Violations

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c.Global Warming
d.None of these

151) May 3, each year is Internationally observed as:


a.World Environment Day
b.Human Rights Day
c.Global Warming
d. World Press Freedom Day

152) The world’s largest producer of uranium is:


a.Australia
b.Canada
c.South Africa
d.None of these

153) The district of the country having lowest population density is:
a.Khuzdar
b.Kalat
c.Kharan (with a population density of only 4 ppl/km2, Awaran and Chagai share the same with Kharan.)
d.None of these

154) Qantas is an airlines of:


a.USA
b.Australia
c.Singapore
d.None of these

155) The first Muslim Nobel Laureate was:


a.Anwar Sadaat of Egypt
b.Yasser Arafat of Palestine
c.Abdul Salam of Pakistan
d.None of these

156) Darfur conflict is in:


a.Somalia
b.Sudan
c.Liberia
d.None of these

157) Parachinar is the main town of:


a.Khyber Agency
b.North Waziristan
c.South Waziristan
d.Kurram Agency

158) One US barrel is equal to:


a.20 litres
b.30 litres
c.50 litres
d.159 litres

159) Ringgit is the currency unit of:


a.Singapore
b.Philippines
c.Malaysia
d.None of these

160) Pakistan is the Chairman of:


a.Non-Aligned movement
b.SAARC
c.Group of 77
d.None of these

161) The first President of America who made an official visit to Pakistan was:
a.Richard Nixon
b.Dwight D. Eisenhower
c.Lyndon B. Johnson

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d.None of these

162) The ‘Aid to Pakistan Consortium’ meets every year in:


a.London
b.New York
c.Paris
d.None of these

163) General Michael Hayden is the:


a.President of Chile
b.Defense Secretary of United States
c.Commander NATO’s forces in Afghanistan
d.Director of the CIA

164) Which of the following International Organizations has no formal structure and secretariat:
a.Green Peace
b.D-8
c.G-8
d.None of these

2009

165) Who is Nicolas Sarkozy:


a.German Chancellor
b.Canadian President
c.French President
d.President of Georgia

166) What position Hu Jantao holds:


a.General Secretary of Communist Party
b.President of the Country
c.Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
d.None of these

167) Who is the president of World Bank:


a.Robert Brace Zoellick
b.Robert Bruce Gate
c.Robert Bruce Lohaf
d.Bill Gates

168) Where is the headquarter of the Amnesty International located:


a.Geneva
b.London
c.Paris
d.New York

169) Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in:


a.1964
b.1966
c.1968
d.None of these

170) Who were the three statesmen who formulated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM):
a.Gandhi, Nasser, Tito
b.Nehru, Nasser, Tito
c.Chou-en-Lai, Bhutto, Nehru
d.Soe Karno, Nasser, Tito

171) The permanent Secretariat of SAARC is established at:


a.Khatmandu
b.Dhaka
c.Dehli
d.Islamabad

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172) How many official working languages are recognized by UNO:
a.8
b.6
c.4
d.None of these

173) In which month does the UN General Assembly usually meet every year:
a.August
b.September
c.October
d.None of these

174) Which of the following countries have the power of veto in the General Assembly of UNO:
a.USA
b.Russia
c.China
d.All of these

175) The term of office of a judge of the International Court of Justice is:
a.5 years
b.7 years
c.9 years
d.None of these

176) Alliance among India, Germany, Japan and Brazil to support each other’s bid for
permanent seat on UN Security Council is called:
a.Alliance 4
b.G 4
c.Big 4
d.None of these

177) The Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is also known as:


a.Friendly Pipeline
b.Peace Pipeline
c.Great pipeline
d.None of these

178) The first parliamentary elections in Afghanistan were held in:


a.2004
b.2005
c.2006
d.1965

179) Which is the National Flower of Pakistan:


a.Tulip
b.Rose
c.Jasmine
d.None of these

180) After ‘Pushtuns’, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan is:


a.Uzbeks
b.Hazaras
c.Tajiks
d.None of these

181) The capital of Argentina is:


a.Columbia
b.Barcelona
c.Buenos Aires
d.Peru

182) Which is the largest country in Africa:


a.Sudan
b.Nigeria
c.Libya

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d.None of these

183) Name the currency of Sri Lanka:


a.Rupiyah
b.Lek
c.Ringgit
d.None of these

2010

184) Which of the following countries is the world's largest emitter of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere?
a) China
b) America
c) Russia
d) India

185) Who is Stanley McChrystal?


a) Commander US forces in Afghanistan
b) Head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM)
c) NATO Commander in Afghanistan
d) None of these

186) The headquarters of Green Peace International is located at:


a) Vancouver
b) Amsterdam
c) London
d) Paris

187) Environment Treaty Kyoto Protocol will be expired in:


a) 2012
b) 2014
c) 2015
d) None of these.

188) The power generating capacity of Diamer-Basha Dam would be:


a) 3450 MW
b) 3800 MW
c) 4500 MW
d) None of these

189) ANTARA is the news agency of:


a) Indonesia
b) Malaysia
c) Turkey
d) None of the these

190) The largest opium producer province in Afghanistan is:


a) Helmand
b) Nangarhar
c) Badakhshan
d) None of these

191) Silk Air is an airline of:


a) Sri Lanka
b) Switzerland
c) Singapore
d) China

192) Channel Tunnel is an under sea rail tunnel linking:


a) England and Ireland
b) England and France
c) France and Germany
d) None of these.

193) The Strait of Malacca is the main shipping channel between the India Ocean and:
a) The North Pacific Ocean
b) South Pacific Ocean

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c) South Atlantic Ocean
d) None of these

193) The recently published book " Between Dreams and Realities" is written by:
a) Shamshad Ahmad Khan
b) Gohar Ayub
c) Sahibzada Yakoob Ali Khan
d) Sirtaj Aziz

194) The largest Agency of FATA by population is:


a) Bajaur Agency
b) North Wazirstan
c) South Waziristan
d) None of these

195) Which of the following categories of Nobel Prise was established in 1968?
a) Medicine
b) Literature
c) Economics
d) None of these

195) Total cultivable Land of Pakistan is approximately:


a) 80 million hectares
b) 120 million hectares
c) 150 million hectares
d) None of these.

196) Who is Francois Fillon?


a) Prime Minister of Italy
b) President of Germany
c) Foreign Minister of France
d) Prime Minister of France

197) The largest island in Indian Ocean is:


a) Sri Lanka
b) Sumatra
c) Madagascar
d) None

198) 2016 Summer Olympics will be held at:


a) Sydney
b) Madrid
c) Chicago
d) Rio de Janerio

199) Kyat is the currency of:


a) Nepal
b) Myanmar
c) Bhutan
d) None

200) Environment Treaty Kyoto Protocol will be expired in:


a) 2012
b) 2014
c) 2015
d) None of these.

Here are first 30 for June from current affairs vol 2 by rai iqbal

201) What is the importance of June 30th 2012?


(a) The last minute of 30th June 2012 will be 1 second longer and will be known as ‘leap second’
(b) Russian President set to visit for a maiden bilateral summit
(c) SpaceX Dragon returned to earth to end historic trip recently
(d) None of these

202) Name the spacecraft which returned to earth to end historic trip recently.
(a) SpaceX Dragon

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(b) Discovery
(c) X Man Dragon
d) Dragon Fly

203) Which country celebrated Queen’s 60 year reign recently?


(a) United Kingdom
(b) Thailand
(c) Canada
(d) Brazil

204) Irish voters recently backed which pact by large majority by exhibiting final memorandum results?
(a) European Union fiscal pact
(b) European Union Bailout pact
(c) European Union Monterey pact
(d) European Union Health pact

205) Who won the 73rd PGA Tour Golf Title 2012?
(a) Tiger Woods
(b) Rogen Martar
(c) Wenn John
(d) None of these

206) Name the Indian cricketer who took oath as Rajya Sabha MP.
(a) Sachin Tendulkar
(b) Rahul Dravid
(c) Yoraj Singh
(d) Caple Dav

207) Which Asian stock market hit 28-year low on 4th June 2012?
(a) Tokyo
(b) London
(c) New York
(d) Paris

208) The United Nations Human Rights Council votes to condemn the massacre carried out by Syrian forces in the
town of Houla, despite Russia, China and Cuba voting against the resolution. Houla massacre incident took place on:
(a) June 21, 2012
(b) June 23, 2012
(c) May 25, 2012
(d) June 26, 2012

209) A court in Cairo, Egypt, found former president Hosni Mubarak and former interior minister ______guilty for
complicity in the killings of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution that ousted Mubarak and both are sentenced to life
in prison.
(a) Habib al-Adly
(b) Barry Unsworth
(c) Razan Ghazzawi
(d) Nabil Al Arabi

210) Name the Pakistan Interior Minister who was suspended for dual nationality:
(a) Rehman Malik
(b) Sherien Rehman
(c) Raja Pervez Ashraf
(d) None of these

211) Who won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament 2012?
(a) Japan
(b) New Zealand
(c) Australia
(d) Pakistan

212) Which country has approved world’s first ‘healthy cola’ for being beneficial to health?
(a) Japan
(b) New Zealand
(c) Australia

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(d) USA

213) Which country marked 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown in Tiananmen Square?
(a) Japan
(b) China
(c) Australia
(d) USA

214) Which cricketer was recalled by West Indies Cricket Board into One-day squad after 14 month long stand-off?
(a) Ray Bradbury
(b) Chris Gayle
(c) Chander Paul

215) Name the psychiatrist and balloonist who took off on the world’s first intercontinental flight in solar-powered
plane.
(a) Bertrand Piccard
(b) Chris Piccard
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) None of these

216) Which planet crossed the sun on 5th June 2012 making one complete orbiter rotation?
(a) Venus
(b) Earth
(c) Jupiter
(d) Mars

217) Name the author of ‘The Twilight Zone’ who passed away recently.
(a) Bertrand Piccard
(b) Chris Piccard
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) None of these

218) International Olympic Committee has announced to live stream free London Olympic Games on which medium to
fans in 64 territories across Asia and Africa including India?
(a) Google
(b) Youtube
(c) Face Book
(d) Hotmail

219) Who is named as Event Ambassador for 2012 World Twenty20?


(a) Malinga
(b) Chris Gayle
(c) Chander Paul
(d) Brain Lara

220) Name the Lebanese journalist who headed Arab’s newspaper An-Nahar and died recently.
(a) Ghassan Tueni
(b) Victoria Zara
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) Habib al-Adly

221) Where in the world forced marriage is set to become crime recently?
(a) Britain
(b) USA
(c) Pakistan
(d) Japan

222) Which 2 disease has been identified as top killers around the world by UNICEF in 2012?
(a) Pneumonia and Diarrhea
(b) Pneumonia and AIDs
(c) Fever and Diarrhea
(d) Pneumonia and Dengue

223) Who became the 10th woman in tennis history to win all 4 Grand Slam titles after defeating Italy’s Sara Errani in
the French Open 2012?
(a) Maria Sharapova

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(b) Serena Williams
(c) Venus Williams
(d) Victoria Zara

224) Which country is set to launch manned spacecraft in June 2012?


(a) Japan
(b) South Korea
(c) China
(d) Spain

225) To which Eurogroup the Eurozone finance ministers were willing to respond favourably to the need of 100 billion
euros to a bailout request from its troubled banks?
(a) Spain
(b) Greece
(c) Cyprus
(d) Italy

226) What value of bailout did Spain receive recently from European finance ministers?
(a) $125 billion
(b) $135 billion
(c) $145 billion
(d) $155 billion

227) Who was Elinor Ostrom?


(a) The first female Nobel Prize laureate in Economics
(b) The first female Nobel Prize laureate in Literature
(c) The first female Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
(d) The first female Nobel Prize laureate in Physics

228) Who lead Pakistan’s hockey team in Olympics 2012?


(a) Sohail Abbas
(b) Rehan Butt
(c) Muhammad Wassem
(d) Muhammad Shahbaz

229) USA exempted which country from Iran’s sanctions?


(a) Japan
(b) South Korea
(c) China
(d) India

230) What is the importance of June 14th?


(a) World Blood Donor Day
(b) World Children Donor Day
(c) World Woman Day
(d) World heath Day

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World Events in Year 2012
Jan 7th - Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11
Jan 13th - Cruise ship, Costa Concordia, runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths
Jan 14th - Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
Jan 14th - Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote
Jan 18th - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
Jan 19th - FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by
attacking government and entertainment industry websites
Jan 23rd - European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program
Jan 28th - Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185

Feb 1st - At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said
Feb 2nd - Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
Feb 2nd - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of
these estimated to be trapped inside)
Feb 2nd - NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton
Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989
Feb 4th - Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and
Queensland
Feb 5th - Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award after leading the New York
Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLVI
Feb 6th - 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths
Feb 6th - Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming Britain's Monarch becoming only the second to
do so
Feb 11th - Israel Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip
Feb 12th - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
Feb 12th - Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations
Feb 15th - United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
Feb 15th - Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358
Feb 17th - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
Feb 17th - Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
Feb 18th - Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint
Feb 19th - 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
Feb 20th - Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly
surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
Feb 20th - South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders
Feb 21st - Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-
president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
Feb 22nd - Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
Feb 23rd - A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200
Feb 25th - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
Feb 25th - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
Feb 25th - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
Feb 25th - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79
Feb 26th - The film The Artist wins five Academy Awards and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927
Feb 26th - Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths
Feb 26th - Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario
Feb 27th - Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
Feb 28th - Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
Feb 28th - Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall

Mar 1st - Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7%


Mar 2nd - Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky
Mar 2nd - The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the Syrian army

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Mar 2nd - New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union members
Mar 3rd - Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
Mar 3rd - Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured
Mar 4th - Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
Mar 4th - Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
Mar 4th - Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado
Mar 5th - 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha
Mar 5th - Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
Mar 6th - 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to
overflow
Mar 6th - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75
Mar 8th - Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
Mar 8th - Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns
Mar 9th - Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United
States, United Kingdom and Ireland
Mar 10th - At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
Mar 11th - US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
Mar 12th - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
Mar 12th - 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
Mar 12th - China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
Mar 13th - 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
Mar 13th - Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer public printed versions of its encyclopedia
Mar 13th - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mar 13th - 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
Mar 16th - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
Mar 16th - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries
Mar 17th - Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match
against Tottenham Hotspur
Mar 17th - Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nation's Championship
Mar 17th - John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91
Mar 18th - Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire
to Athens' Olympic Stadium
Mar 18th - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly
Mar 19th - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain
Mar 20th - 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
Mar 20th - Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar
write down
Mar 21st - Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
Mar 21st - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de
Sanchez massacre in 1982
Mar 22nd - Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against
government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
Mar 22nd - Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New
South Wales
Mar 22nd - Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
Mar 23rd - African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup
Mar 24th - African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
Mar 25th - Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to
British Prime Minister David Cameron
Mar 26th - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
Mar 26th - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest
point on Earth in over 50 years
Mar 30th - Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history
Mar 30th - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card
numbers
Mar 30th - American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
Mar 31st - Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated

Apr 1st - Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people ( UTair Aviation ATR-72)
Apr 2nd - Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3
Apr 3rd - Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
Apr 3rd - Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
Apr 3rd - US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
Apr 4th - German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out
Iran
Apr 4th - Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the
Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation
Apr 4th - Boris Todic, President of Serbia, resigns

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Apr 5th - Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
Apr 5th - 77 year old pensioner's suicide outside Greece's parliament prompts further protests in Athens
Apr 5th - International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
Apr 6th - US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities
Apr 7th - Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
Apr 7th - 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
Apr 8th - Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
Apr 8th - Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message
Apr 9th - The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
Apr 10th - United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
Apr 10th - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
Apr 10th - Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the
overwhelming favourite
Apr 10th - Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97
Apr 11th - 8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
Apr 11th - 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
Apr 11th - South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
Apr 11th - Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6
Apr 12th - A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
Apr 12th - Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be
made available across the internet
Apr 12th - Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
Apr 13th - North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch
Apr 15th - 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
Apr 15th - China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar
Apr 15th - US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated
Apr 16th - At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
Apr 16th - For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction
Apr 17th - The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds
Apr 18th - The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget
cuts
Apr 19th - Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71
Apr 20th - Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
Apr 20th - 40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico
Apr 21st - Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
Apr 21st - Chicago White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the 21st MLB perfect game against the Seattle Mariners
Apr 22nd - 30 year old women collapses and dies during London Marathon
Apr 23rd - Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
Apr 23rd - Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
Apr 23rd - 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection
breach
Apr 25th - The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrunk 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
Apr 26th - 70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama
Apr 26th - Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California
Apr 27th - Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people
Apr 28th - Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people
Apr 29th - International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect
Apr 30th - The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building
in New York
Apr 30th - Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate
Apr 30th - Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River,India, killing 103 people
Apr 30th - Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in the English
Premier League's history

May 1st - China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
May 1st - Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles
Dodgers for $2.1 billion
May 2nd - Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500
May 2nd - Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals
May 4th - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
May 5th - 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
May 5th - Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since
1970
May 6th - Francois Hollande elected President of France
May 6th - Greece parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
May 7th - NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
May 7th - Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
May 7th - Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth

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May 9th - Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at
auction for $86.9 million dollars
May 9th - A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
May 9th - United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage
May 10th - The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed
May 10th - Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370
May 11th - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum
teleportation
May 12th - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
May 13th - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
May 13th - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
May 13th - Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time
May 14th - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
May 14th - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
May 15th - Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
May 15th - Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled
May 19th - Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League
May 20th - Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
May 20th - 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
May 21st - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
May 21st - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
May 22nd - 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
May 22nd - Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol
May 25th - Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs
province
May 25th - A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
May 26th - A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink
May 26th - Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents
May 27th - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
May 29th - Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear
May 29th - Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
May 29th - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
May 29th - Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued
at $45 million
May 30th - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla
massacre
May 30th - Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship
May 31st - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency

Jun 1st - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
Jun 3rd - Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
Jun 3rd - Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
Jun 3rd - Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record
Jun 4th - US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
Jun 4th - Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
Jun 4th - Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
Jun 4th - Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
Jun 6th - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
Jun 6th - The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
Jun 7th - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first
performed, were found under a pub in London
Jun 7th - Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout
speculation
Jun 7th - A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
Jun 8th - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
Jun 9th - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
Jun 9th - Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
Jun 10th - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet
minister
Jun 11th - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Jun 11th - 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
Jun 11th - The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
Jun 11th - Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
Jun 11th - Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup
Jun 12th - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
Jun 12th - An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
Jun 12th - The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
Jun 13th - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people

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Jun 13th - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston
Astros
Jun 14th - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
Jun 14th - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
Jun 15th - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
Jun 15th - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
Jun 16th - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
Jun 16th - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
Jun 16th - A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
Jun 16th - 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
Jun 17th - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
Jun 17th - Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
Jun 17th - American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open
Jun 18th - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
Jun 19th - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
Jun 19th - Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
Jun 20th - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
Jun 20th - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
Jun 21st - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
Jun 21st - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
Jun 21st - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one
Jun 22nd - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
Jun 23rd - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
Jun 23rd - A bus of Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
Jun 23rd - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
Jun 24th - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
Jun 24th - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
Jun 25th - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Jun 28th - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Jun 29th - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
Jun 29th - Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
Jun 29th - 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
Jun 30th - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
Jun 30th - Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland
and the District of Columbia.
Jun 30th - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt

Jul 1st - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
Jul 1st - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup
Jul 2nd - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
Jul 2nd - Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
Jul 3rd - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
Jul 3rd - Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker
$1,000,000 Buy-In
Jul 5th - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
Jul 5th - South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
Jul 5th - Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount
following irregularities
Jul 6th - Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
Jul 7th - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
Jul 8th - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
Jul 8th - Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe
Jul 10th - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Jul 11th - POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
Jul 11th - S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
Jul 12th - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
Jul 12th - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
Jul 13th - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
Jul 13th - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
Jul 13th - Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
Jul 14th - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
Jul 14th - Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
Jul 15th - 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
Jul 15th - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station
Jul 17th - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Jul 18th - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
Jul 18th - 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
Jul 18th - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths

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Jul 18th - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence
Jul 18th - 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
Jul 18th - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the
Korean People's Army
Jul 20th - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora,
Colorado,
Jul 20th - 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico
Jul 22nd - Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
Jul 22nd - Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
Jul 22nd - At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
Jul 23rd - A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
Jul 24th - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
Jul 24th - Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
Jul 25th - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
Jul 25th - Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
Jul 25th - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
Jul 26th - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
Jul 26th - Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
Jul 26th - North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
Jul 27th - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
Jul 28th - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Jul 28th - 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
Jul 29th - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
Jul 30th - Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
Jul 30th - Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without power
Jul 31st - Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq
Jul 31st - A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power

Aug 1st - Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines
Aug 1st - 8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 summer Olympics for "not using one's
best efforts to win a match"
Aug 2nd - 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
Aug 3rd - United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in
Syria
Aug 4th - 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
Aug 4th - South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics
Aug 5th - Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide
Aug 5th - 19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk
Aug 5th - General Motors signs a record breaking $559 million marketing deal with Manchester United
Aug 6th - Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
Aug 7th - 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria
Aug 7th - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
Aug 7th - 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
Aug 8th - China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
Aug 8th - 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
Aug 9th - The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
Aug 9th - Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
Aug 11th - 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4
magnitude
Aug 11th - 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh
Aug 12th - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games
Aug 13th - Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a doping test
Aug 14th - 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
Aug 16th - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
Aug 16th - 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
Aug 16th - South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
Aug 17th - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
Aug 17th - Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
Aug 18th - Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
Aug 18th - NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan
Aug 19th - 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan
Aug 20th - 20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela
Aug 20th - South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
Aug 21st - 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
Aug 22nd - 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
Aug 22nd - 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
Aug 22nd - Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization
Aug 23rd - Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia

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Aug 23rd - At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
Aug 24th - Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
Aug 24th - Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
Aug 24th - Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
Aug 24th - A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in
damages to Apple
Aug 25th - 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
Aug 25th - 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery
Aug 25th - 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
Aug 26th - 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first
amateur winner since 1969
Aug 26th - 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an,China
Aug 26th - 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
Aug 26th - A Legionellosis outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104
Aug 27th - First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
Aug 28th - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate
Aug 29th - Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
Aug 29th - Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the
arrest of another 23
Aug 29th - Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
Aug 29th - The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles
Aug 30th - Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
Aug 30th - A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
Aug 31st - Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan

Sep 1st - Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali


Sep 1st - Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
Sep 1st - Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATo base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district
Sep 1st - US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan
Sep 2nd - A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
Sep 2nd - 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
Sep 3rd - 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
Sep 3rd - Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
Sep 3rd - New Zealand announces its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan
Sep 4th - 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco
Sep 4th - 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
Sep 4th - Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
Sep 4th - Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed
Sep 5th - 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
Sep 5th - Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week
Sep 5th - 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey
Sep 6th - 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
Sep 6th - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President
Sep 7th - US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
Sep 7th - 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China
Sep 7th - Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada
Sep 8th - 6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
Sep 8th - 8 people are killed after a tractor is hut by a train in Romania
Sep 9th - 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
Sep 9th - 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
Sep 9th - Armenia win the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
Sep 9th - Serena Williams wins her fourth women's tennis singles at the US Open
Sep 10th - 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan
Sep 10th - Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
Sep 10th - 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
Sep 10th - 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
Sep 10th - A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children
Sep 11th - 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
Sep 11th - The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the
US ambassador
Sep 11th - The US is warned by Moody's that it's AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term
debt reduction plan
Sep 11th - 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
Sep 11th - Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
Sep 12th - 18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria
Sep 12th - 314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
Sep 12th - Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6
Sep 13th - 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China

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Sep 13th - 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
Sep 13th - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
Sep 13th - Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya
Sep 14th - 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia
Sep 15th - Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s
Sep 16th - 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
Sep 16th - 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey
Sep 16th - 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
Sep 16th - Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
Sep 16th - Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
Sep 16th - NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
Sep 17th - Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
Sep 17th - China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
Sep 17th - 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Sep 17th - Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn
condom
Sep 17th - United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence system in Japan
Sep 18th - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
Sep 18th - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
Sep 18th - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
Sep 18th - World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
Sep 19th - 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
Sep 20th - 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
Sep 20th - 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia
Sep 20th - AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing
Sep 21st - Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wins a leadership ballot
Sep 22nd - 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow
Sep 23rd - Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
Sep 23rd - 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly
meeting in New York
Sep 23rd - Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
Sep 24th - Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
Sep 25th - 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
Sep 25th - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the Netherlands
Sep 26th - Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
Sep 26th - Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
Sep 26th - Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
Sep 27th - UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku
Islands
Sep 27th - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
Sep 27th - The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
Sep 28th - Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
Sep 28th - Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
Sep 30th - Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
Sep 30th - Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq
Sep 30th - Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final
Sep 30th - Europe defeat the US 14.5-13.5 in the 39th Ryder Cup

Oct 1st - California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
Oct 1st - 36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong
Oct 1st - 3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan
Oct 2nd - 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
Oct 2nd - 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Oct 3rd - 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria
Oct 4th - Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
Oct 4th - 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China
Oct 4th - Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
Oct 4th - Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires
Oct 5th - Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
Oct 6th - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is
sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Oct 6th - The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final
Oct 7th - 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
Oct 7th - Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
Oct 8th - 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Oct 8th - Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
Oct 8th - Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan
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Oct 8th - John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on
reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
Oct 9th - 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Oct 9th - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
Oct 10th - Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled
receptors
Oct 11th - A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
Oct 11th - A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung
Oct 11th - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct 12th - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants
in northern Mali
Oct 12th - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary
Oct 13th - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
Oct 13th - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist
Oct 14th - 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
Oct 15th - Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies
Oct 16th - Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
Oct 17th - The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
Oct 17th - Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
Oct 17th - Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece
Oct 18th - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
Oct 18th - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in
profits and a 9% fall in share price
Oct 19th - 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
Oct 22nd - 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake
Oct 22nd - Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
Oct 23rd - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan
Oct 24th - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Oct 24th - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey,
California
Oct 24th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage
Oct 25th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage
Oct 26th - 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
Oct 26th - 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan
Oct 26th - China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into
Premier Wen Jiabao
Oct 26th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage
Oct 27th - 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
Oct 27th - Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts
Oct 28th - Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
Oct 28th - 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
Oct 28th - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix
Oct 28th - San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World Series
Oct 28th - Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP.
Oct 29th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces
the New York stock exchange to close
Oct 29th - Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher
Oct 30th - Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion
Oct 31st - The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy

Nov 1st - Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
Nov 1st - 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nov 1st - Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
Nov 1st - Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an honour
killing in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Nov 1st - Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years
after the big bang
Nov 3rd - Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
Nov 4th - Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Nov 4th - Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012
Nov 4th - Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
Nov 5th - 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
Nov 5th - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
Nov 6th - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
Nov 6th - Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim an Electoral
College victory
Nov 6th - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
Nov 6th - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington

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Nov 7th - 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
Nov 7th - Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
Nov 9th - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
Nov 9th - 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
Nov 9th - An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
Nov 10th - 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
Nov 10th - 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nov 10th - Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
Nov 10th - 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
Nov 10th - The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt
Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
Nov 11th - 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
Nov 12th - Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
Nov 13th - 3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights
Nov 14th - A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain, Portugal, and Greece
Nov 14th - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)
Nov 15th - At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
Nov 15th - Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for 4.5 Billion
Nov 16th - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of
all time
Nov 17th - 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut, Egypt
Nov 18th - Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
Nov 18th - Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
Nov 18th - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup
Nov 20th - Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
Nov 21st - An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
Nov 21st - Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben
Nov 22nd - 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
Nov 22nd - 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92
Nov 23rd - JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour
Nov 24th - Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views
Nov 24th - Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone
Nov 24th - The continued NHL lockout results in all games to December 14 being cancelled
Nov 25th - 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
Nov 25th - 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India
Nov 25th - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One championship for the third consecutive year
Nov 26th - 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a
playground
Nov 26th - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
Nov 27th - 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq
Nov 27th - The eurozone announces that it will pay out 43.7 billion euros in Loans to Greece
Nov 28th - 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria
Nov 29th - 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq
Nov 29th - The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state
Nov 29th - Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach
Nov 30th - At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo

Dec 1st - 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
Dec 1st - Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
Dec 1st - Ukranian Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012
Dec 2nd - 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
Dec 2nd - Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia
Dec 2nd - Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
Dec 3rd - Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reaches the end of our solar system and enters interstellar space
Dec 4th - 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
Dec 4th - Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people
Dec 5th - 8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea
Dec 6th - 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
Dec 6th - Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced
Dec 6th - A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
Dec 8th - UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
Dec 9th - 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
Dec 9th - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
Dec 9th - Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud
Dec 9th - The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the
parliamentary elections
Dec 9th - Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight title
Dec 10th - Google begins selling US$99 laptops

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Dec 10th - 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China
Dec 10th - 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
Dec 10th - Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record
Dec 11th - 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
Dec 11th - HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
Dec 11th - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative
academic prize in the world
Dec 13th - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
Dec 13th - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute
Dec 14th - 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut
Dec 14th - Australian Joel Parkinson wins the 2012 ASP World Tour
Dec 14th - Gene Wolfe wins the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Dec 15th - 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey
Dec 16th - 4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji
Dec 16th - Corinthians defeat Chelsea 1-0 to win the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup
Dec 16th - A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international
outrage
Dec 17th - 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
Dec 17th - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
Dec 17th - 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
Dec 17th - NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
Dec 18th - 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy
Dec 18th - 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan
Dec 18th - The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic
Dec 19th - UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
Dec 19th - Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female president
Dec 20th - Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
Dec 20th - Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion
Dec 21st - 39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya
Dec 21st - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar reaches the date 13.0.0.0.0
Dec 21st - "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
Dec 21st - The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled
games to 625
Dec 22nd - 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus
Dec 22nd - 8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan
Dec 22nd - Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at
the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Dec 23rd - 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria
Dec 23rd - The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic
Dec 24th - 11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond
Dec 25th - 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Dec 25th - 8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines
Dec 26th - China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou
Dec 27th - NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025
Dec 28th - Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man
Dec 28th - 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
Dec 28th - Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children
Dec 29th - 200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs
Dec 29th - 21 security personnel are killed by Pakistani Taliban near Peshawar
Dec 29th - 5 people are killed in a Tupolev Tu-204 plane crash in Moscow
Dec 30th - 19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan
Dec 30th - 9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84, Oregon, US
Dec 30th - The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km

2013 current affairs short notes

Jan 1st - 13 FARC members are killed by an airstrike by the Columbian military
Jan 1st - 13 Boko Harem members are killed by Nigeria’s military in Maiduguri
Jan 1st - 60 people are killed and 200 are injured after a stampede following New Year celebrations
Jan 1st - 18 people are killed and 16 wounded after a bus and mini-bus collision in Thiès, Senegal
Jan 1st - 10 people are killed and 120 are injured in a stampede in Luanda, Angola
Jan 1st - US bi-partisan deal temporarily avoids the fiscal cliff
Jan 1st - Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's chess FIDE rating, reaching 2,861
Jan 3rd - 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq
Jan 4th - 9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
Jan 4th - 8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines
Jan 4th - 6 people are killed a 2 are seriously injured after a snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mt Cermis, Italy

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Jan 4th - 3 people are killed after a Beechcraft BE35 crashes into a house in Florida
Jan 6th - 10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan
Jan 6th - The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
Jan 7th - Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year
Jan 8th - 130 wildfires across Australia’s east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes
Jan 8th - 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels
Jan 10th - 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
Jan 11th - 46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China
Jan 11th - 29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal
Jan 12th - A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths
Jan 12th - Beijing’s level of air pollution is declared to be at levels that are hazardous to human health
Jan 13th - Argo wins the Golden Globe awards for best drama and best director
Jan 15th - 83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria
Jan 15th - 19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza
Jan 16th - 24 people are dead after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate, Syria
Jan 16th - A four day occupation of an Algerian BP facility by Amenas militants begins, killing 48 hostages
Jan 16th - 25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria, Egypt
Jan 17th - 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs
Jan 17th - 33 people are killed by a series of bombs across Iraq
Jan 17th - 4 people are killed and over 2,000 are evacuated after a massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia
Jan 17th - 8 people are killed in a plane crash in Chiapas, Mexico
Jan 17th - Japan unveils plans to build the world’s largest wind farm near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Jan 19th - 4 climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe, Scotland
Jan 19th - Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
Jan 19th - The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout
Jan 19th - Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories
Jan 20th - Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
Jan 20th - The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens win the NFC and AFC championship games to reach
Super Bowl XLVII
Jan 21st - 30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria
Jan 21st - 41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria
Jan 21st - 18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia
Jan 21st - 1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia
Jan 21st - Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands’ Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group
Jan 22nd - A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
Jan 23rd - 23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq
Jan 23rd - 18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria
Jan 23rd - US armed forces overturns 1994 ban on women serving in combat
Jan 24th - 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
Jan 24th - A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute
Jan 24th - Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya
Jan 24th - 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
Jan 25th - Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding
Jan 25th - 6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against
Egypt’s 2011 revolution
Jan 25th - Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army
Jan 25th - 8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria
Jan 25th - 50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Jan 26th - 30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt
Jan 26th - 10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Jan 26th - The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron
Swartz
Jan 26th - Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic’s presidential election
Jan 26th - Victoria Azarenka defeats Li Na to win the women's singles at the 2013 Australian Open
Jan 27th - 20 police officers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Jan 27th - In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured
Jan 27th - 11 people are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crashes down a ravine in Serta, Portugal
Jan 27th - 7 people are killed and 3 are injured after a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur
Sports Facility, Turkey
Jan 27th - Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to wins his third consecutive men's singles title at the 2013 Australian
Open
Jan 27th - Magnus Carlsen wins the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
Jan 27th - Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship
Jan 28th - 10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City, China
Jan 28th - Iran’s Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space
Jan 28th - 20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty, Kazakhstan
Jan 28th - John Kerry is voted to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the United States Secretary of State
Jan 30th - South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite

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Jan 31st - 300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa
Jan 31st - 36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico

Feb 1st - 21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan
Feb 1st - Zenit-3SL, a Ukranian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean
Feb 2nd - 23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District,
Pakistan
Feb 2nd - Shinzō Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands "at all cost.
Feb 3rd - 33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq
Feb 4th - 20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria
Feb 4th - Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing
Feb 5th - UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage
Feb 6th - A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs Off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people
Feb 7th - Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1
Feb 8th - 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
Feb 8th - 100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
Feb 10th - 5 people are killed by a falling life boat from the MS Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
Feb 10th - 36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India
Feb 11th - Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415
Feb 12th - North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear devic that could be weaponized
Feb 13th - 16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand
Feb 14th - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be
switched off for two years for upgrading
Feb 15th - Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia
Feb 15th - 2012 DA14, an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km from Earth
Feb 16th - 84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan
Feb 16th - Lionel Messi scores his 14th consecutive goal in La Liga and his 300th goal in 365 appearances for
Barcelona
Feb 17th - Australia defeat the West Indies to win the women's 2013 Cricket World Cup
Feb 20th - Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
Feb 20th - Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
Feb 21st - 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria
Feb 21st - 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India
Feb 22nd - The UK's credit rating is downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's Investors Service
Feb 23rd - 51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan
Feb 23rd - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 wins worst picture at the 33rd Golden Raspberry Awards
Feb 25th - Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election
Feb 25th - Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
Feb 26th - A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed
Feb 26th - A hot air balloon crashes in Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 tourists
Feb 26th - A rocket launched from the Gaza strip into Israel ends the ceasefire since November 2012
Feb 27th - 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
Feb 27th - Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
Feb 28th - The brains of two rats have been successfully connected so that they share information

Mar 3rd - 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan


Mar 3rd - A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
Mar 4th - The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI
Mar 5th - Mexican Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chavez
Mar 5th - Willcom announces the world’s smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams
Mar 6th - Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city
Mar 6th - Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers
Mar 7th - Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature
Mar 7th - UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing
Mar 8th - North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
Mar 9th - Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 metres from the Earth’s surface
Mar 11th - European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
Mar 11th - North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
Mar 11th - Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United
Kingdom
Mar 12th - JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
Mar 12th - The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no elected new Pope on the first day
Mar 13th - The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
Mar 13th - North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
Mar 14th - Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China
Mar 16th - 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed after their bus falls down a ravine in Rawalpindi
Mar 17th - Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing
Mar 19th - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals
Mar 20th - Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics

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Mar 21st - 12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
Mar 21st - A barter dispute loses control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and 4 mosques being burnt
to the ground in Myanmar
Mar 21st - The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
Mar 23rd - The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49
Mar 24th - 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Mar 25th - Golfer, Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking
Mar 28th - Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service
Mar 29th - 10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan
Mar 29th - UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria
Mar 30th - North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
Mar 30th - Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court
Mar 31st - 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China

Apr 1st - The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan


Apr 2nd - 7 people are killed in an attack on a power plant in Peshawar, Pakistan
Apr 2nd - Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12%
Apr 2nd - 4 more critical cases of bird flu (H7N9) are reported in China
Apr 2nd - The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty
Apr 2nd - Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage
Apr 3rd - 46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan
Apr 3rd - 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
Apr 3rd - 24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papa Ne
Apr 4th - 74 people are killed after an illegally constructed building collapses in Thane, India
Apr 8th - 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan
Apr 9th - 37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
Apr 9th - The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
Apr 10th - Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands
Apr 11th - Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China
Apr 13th - 8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan
Apr 16th - 37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran
Apr 17th - North Korea blocks a South Korean supply delegation from the Kaesong joint industrial zone
Apr 17th - Same-sex marriage is legalized in New Zealand
Apr 18th - Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star, Kepler-62
Apr 21st - Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay
Apr 21st - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2013 Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix
Apr 23rd - 21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China
Apr 23rd - A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President
Obama
Apr 23rd - The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage
Apr 23rd - West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls)
Apr 24th - 256 people are killed and 1,000 are injured after a building collapses Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
Apr 26th - 30 people are killed after a bus crashes following a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan
Apr 27th - 10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan
Apr 28th - 8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan
Apr 30th - Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years
Apr 30th - Hannah Warren, who was born without a trachea, at 2, becomes the youngest patient to receive a stem
cell bioengineered organ

May 1st - Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand


May 1st - 15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq
May 1st - 16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia
May 1st - A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes
May 2nd - 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah, Iraq
May 2nd - 100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda, Baniyas
May 2nd - 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan
May 2nd - Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage
May 3rd - Aorun zhaoi, a Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China
May 4th - 5 US soldiers are killed by a bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan
May 4th - 77 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Baniyas
May 4th - Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird
May 4th - 39 people are killed at a funeral in Wukari, Nigeria
May 4th - Floyd Mayweather defeats Robert Guerrero to retain his WBC Welterweight title
May 4th - Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title
May 5th - 10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria
May 5th - 5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California
May 6th - 10 people are killed and 26 people are injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
May 6th - 13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka

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May 6th - 15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan
May 6th - Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list
May 6th - The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales
May 7th - 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
May 7th - The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs
May 7th - 4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines
May 7th - 20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
May 7th - 8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India
May 7th - Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people
May 7th - Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage

2017 Aug 21st - Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
2061 Jul 28th - 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
2063 Apr 5th - Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
2084 Nov 10th - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars
2126 Aug 14th - Comet Swift-Tuttle approaches close to Earth
2134 Mar 27th - 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
2161 May 19th - Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
2304 Jan 1st - Mid-CALENDAR day
3268 Jan 23rd - Beginning of 2nd Julian Period (1/1 OS)
6000 Jan 1st - 1st reversible date since 11/11/1999

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