Guest Blogger: Geetanav Ojha, NIT-Calicut. 1. Regnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the first recipients of this prestigious award for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes in 1969. The funding of this award comes from the Swedish National Bank (Sveriges Riksbank). What award are we talking about?Answer: Nobel Prize for economics.2. Which was the first Indian bank to open its branches outside India?Answer: Bank of India 3. Leela Chitnis was the first Bollywood diva to accomplish this in 1934. Later almost all the top actresses of their era, Hema Malini, Sri Devi, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, etc. accomplished the same feat. What trend did Leela Chitnis start?Answer: Appeared in an ad for LUX beauty soap. 4. Lee Harvey Oswald was a former was a former United States marine who defected to the Soviet Union but later returned. He was convicted for a crime on 22nd November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Two days later, he was shot by Jack Ruby on live television. In 1964, he was held responsible for the crime by the Warren Commission. What was Lee Harvey Oswald’s crime?Answer: He assassinated President John F. Kennedy. 5. What did Graham Yallop do in cricket for the first time?Answer: He was the first person to wear a helmet 6. This ruler was born in 69 B.C. and was the last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt. The ruler was first member of the ruler’s family in their 300-year reign in Egypt to have learned the Egyptian language. The patron goddess of this ruler was Isis. She committed suicide on 12 August 30 B.C. by allowing an asp to bite the ruler. Whom are we talking about?Answer: Cleopatra.7. This distinguished Indian was born on 28th December 1937 in Surat. … [Read more...]
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1. Batting paradise: In the history of world cricket, for the first time, 8 centuries were made in only one test match, played at Antigua in West Indies. Brian Lara also scored highest test score (400) at this ground. 2. Bombay (Mumbai) Stock Exchange (BSE): It was established in 1875. BSE is still preferred by foreign investors even though NSE is popular among Indian investors. 3. A mummy, belonging to 3,000 BC was found by the archaeologists in the state of Uttarpradesh, in India. 4. Monks (religious persons) in India were revolted against the Britishers (foreign rulers) in the year 1763 AD. (Even though , the Britishers came to India in 1604 AD, solely on business purpose , but later on they changed their tactics and began to establish their rule in this vast country and their supremacy was confirmed after winning in the Placy war of 1757). 5. Indian freedom fighters: The famous patriot namely Sardar Bhagat Singh was sentenced to death (at the age of around 23 years), by the colonial rulers, during the freedom struggle in India and was kept in Lahore central jail. Another patriot, by name “Jatin Das”, who was also lodged in the same jail, observed “fasting unto death” (for the release of Bhagat Singh), but his purpose was not fulfilled and he lost his precious life on the 63rd day of fasting (Bhagat Singh was executed later on). 6. A peculiar and horrible tradition: In many parts of India, there was a horrible tradition called “Sati sahagamanam”, which means, if a person dies, his wife (or wives in the case of kings) was also cremated by keeping her on the funeral fire, along with the dead body of her husband. Raja Ram Mohan Ray, a noted … [Read more...]
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