PHILOSOPHY - the science that seeks to organize
- Holds the view that human
and systemize all fields of knowledge as a means of
understanding and interpreting the totality of reality. -
systematic and logical explanation of the nature,
existence, purpose and relationships of things,
including human beings in the universe.
Main Branches of Philosophy
1. Metaphysics – deals with the first principles, the
origin an essence of things, the causes and end of
thing. - it is the science of existence.
2. Epistemology – deals with knowledge and with
ways of knowing. - Conceptual - Perceptual – Intuitive
3. Axiology – deals with purposes and values. -
Ethics
4. Logic – deals with the correct way of thinking.
Major Philosophies of Education
1. Idealism – (Platonic) Reality consists of
transcendental universal, form, or ideals which are the
object of true knowledge. (DECS order No. 13 s 1998
– Revised rules and regulation on the teaching of
religion in public elementary and secondary schools)
2. Naturalism – This opposed to idealism. This is the
view that the whole of reality is nature.
3. Pragmatism – a tendency, movement, or more
definite system of thought in which stress is place
upon critical consequence and values as standard for
explicating philosophic concept, and as a test of truth
lies in its practical consequence and that the purpose
of conduct. - James - Chiller - Dewey
4. Supernaturalism – has a purpose to educate the
individual for his life here on earth and to prepare for
the life beyond. Humanism – places human being
over in above worldly things.
5. Realism– universals are independent of
antecedent to and more real than the specific
individual instances in which they manifest.
6. Progressivism – dominated by the technological
experimental advancement which have so powerfully
shaped our modern culture. (DECS order No. 57 s
1998 – Clarification on the changes in the Social
Studies Program, WH for 3rd year and Economics for
4th year) (DECS order No 91 s. 1998 – Changes in
the THE program of the NSEC) Some important
features of Progressivism 1. The child as the center of
the educational process. 2. It emphasizes learning by
doing. Advocates of Progressivism John Dewey
William Kilpatrick
7. Existentialism - Puts emphasis on the uniqueness
of the individual. - Existence precedes, that is,
essence is created by existence. - Human nature is a
product of existence.
existence, or the human situation is the starting point
of thinking.
8. Positivism - a philosophical movement
characterized by an emphasis upon science and
scientific method as the only source of knowledge.
9. Relativism - a doctrine of relationism or relativity –
a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited
nature of the mind and the condition of knowing.
10. Materialism - it maintains that all events are not
true to the nature of independent reality and that holds
that absolutely true knowledge is impossible.
11. Empiricism - it spouses that legitimate human
knowledge arises from what is provided to the mind
by the senses or by introspective awareness through
experience. -hence it believes on education through.
12. Romanticism - it questioned the notions of the
enlightenment that had dominated Europe in the early
18th century.
13. Epicureanism - philosophical teaching about
nature and ethics that was derived from the writing of
Epicurus. - this philosophy base its knowledge on
sense perception, asserting that sensations are
invariably good.
14. Hedonism - it centers on pleasure - learning is
pleasurable
15. Utilitarianism - it believes that any moral theory
that value of human actions, policies, and institutions
by their consequences in men’s experience or by
general welfare of all person affected by them.
16. Communism - disregard basic human rights and
educates the young for subservience to the state.
17. Fascism – conceives that the state is an absolute.
18. Progressivism - it emphasizes that educational
concern must be on the child interest, desires, and the
learners freedom as an individual rather than the
subject matter.
19. Essentialism - it ascribes ultimate reality to
immense embodied in a thing perceptible to the
senses.
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100 GREATEST WORK IN LITERATURE
1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple
clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the
ultimate English classic.
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
By the end of the 19th century, no book in English
literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs
and translations. Crusoe’s world-famous novel is a
complex literary confection, and it’s irresistible.
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3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
A satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print,
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our
list of the best novels written in English
4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her
unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy
man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson
described as “the first book in the world for the
knowledge it displays of the human heart.”
5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the
spirit of its age and whose famous characters have
come to represent Augustan society in all its
loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.
6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)
Laurence Sterne’s vivid novel caused delight and
consternation when it first appeared and has lost little
of its original bite.
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7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
Jane Austen’s Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the
sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility.
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Mary Shelley’s first novel has been hailed as a
masterpiece of horror and the macabre.
9. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (1818)
The great pleasure of Nightmare Abbey, which was
inspired by Thomas Love Peacock’s friendship with
Shelley, lies in the delight the author takes in poking
fun at the romantic movement.
10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)
Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel – a classic adventure
story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and
influenced generations of writers.
11. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845)
The future prime minister displayed flashes of
brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian
novelists.
A whirlwind success … Jane Eyre
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A whirlwind success … Jane Eyre.
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
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Charlotte Brontë’s erotic, gothic masterpiece became
the sensation of Victorian England. Its great
breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the
reader.
13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Emily Brontë’s windswept masterpiece is notable not
just for its wild beauty but for its daring reinvention of
the novel form itself.
14. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)
William Thackeray’s masterpiece, set in Regency
England, is a bravura performance by a writer at the
top of his game.
15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens
became the great entertainer and also laid the
foundations for his later, darker masterpieces.
16. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s astounding book is full of
intense symbolism and as haunting as anything by
Edgar Allan Poe.
17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Wise, funny and gripping, Melville’s epic work
continues to cast a long shadow over American
literature.
18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
(1865)
Lewis Carroll’s brilliant nonsense tale is one of the
most influential and best loved in the English canon.
19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece, hailed by many as the
greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage
of the sensational and the realistic.
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9)
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Louisa May Alcott’s highly original tale aimed at a
young female market has iconic status in America and
never been out of print.
21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2)
This cathedral of words stands today as perhaps the
greatest of the great Victorian fictions.
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22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
(1875)
Inspired by the author’s fury at the corrupt state of
England, and dismissed by critics at the time, The
Way We Live Now is recognised as Trollope’s
masterpiece.
23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain (1884/5)
Mark Twain’s tale of a rebel boy and a runaway slave
seeking liberation upon the waters of the Mississippi
remains a defining classic of American literature.
24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
A thrilling adventure story, gripping history and
fascinating study of the Scottish character, Kidnapped
has lost none of its power.
25. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)
Jerome K Jerome’s accidental classic about messing
about on the Thames remains a comic gem.
26. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
Sherlock Holmes’s second outing sees Conan Doyle’s
brilliant sleuth – and his bluff sidekick Watson – come
into their own.
Helmut Berger and Richard Todd in the 1970
adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Helmut Berger and Richard Todd in the 1970
adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)
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Wilde’s brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty
and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on
publication.
28. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)
George Gissing’s portrayal of the hard facts of a
literary life remains as relevant today as it was in the
late 19th century.
29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
Hardy exposed his deepest feelings in this bleak,
angry novel and, stung by the hostile response, he
never wrote another.
30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
(1895)
Stephen Crane’s account of a young man’s passage
to manhood through soldiery is a blueprint for the
great American war novel.
31. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story was very much of
its time but still resonates more than a century later.
32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece about a life-changing
journey in search of Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of
great myth.
33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)
Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there’s a terrific
momentum to his unflinching novel about a country
girl’s American dream.
34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
In Kipling’s classic boy’s own spy story, an orphan in
British India must make a choice between east and
west.
35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
Jack London’s vivid adventures of a pet dog that goes
back to nature reveal an extraordinary style and
consummate storytelling.
36. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)
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American literature contains nothing else quite like
Henry James’s amazing, labyrinthine and
claustrophobic novel.
37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and
priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its
eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a
“man-demon”.
38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
(1908)
The evergreen tale from the riverbank and a powerful
contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England.
39. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910)
The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a
man very like himself is the novel that stands out.
40. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)
The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon
Beerbohm’s ostensibly light and witty Edwardian
satire.
41. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
Ford’s masterpiece is a searing study of moral
dissolution behind the facade of an English gentleman
– and its stylistic influence lingers to this day.
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
John Buchan’s espionage thriller, with its sparse,
contemporary prose, is hard to put down.
43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915)
The Rainbow is perhaps DH Lawrence’s finest work,
showing him for the radical, protean, thoroughly
modern writer he was.
44. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham
(1915)
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Somerset Maugham’s semi-autobiographical novel
shows the author’s savage honesty and gift for
storytelling at their best.
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45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The story of a blighted New York marriage stands as
a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture.
46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners
remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing
even Shakespeare.
47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)
What it lacks in structure and guile, this enthralling
take on 20s America makes up for in vivid satire and
characterisation.
48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924)
EM Forster’s most successful work is eerily prescient
on the subject of empire.
49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)
A guilty pleasure it may be, but it is impossible to
overlook the enduring influence of a tale that helped
to define the jazz age.
50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
Woolf’s great novel makes a day of party preparations
the canvas for themes of lost love, life choices and
mental illness.
Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great
Gatsby
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Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great
Gatsby’s film adaptation by Baz Luhrmann.
51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
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Fitzgerald’s jazz age masterpiece has become a
tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art.
52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)
A young woman escapes convention by becoming a
witch in this original satire about England after the first
world war.
53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
Hemingway’s first and best novel makes an escape to
1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and
manly authenticity.
54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled
hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler
to Le Carré.
55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
The influence of William Faulkner’s immersive tale of
raw Mississippi rural life can be felt to this day.
56. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future human race
controlled by global capitalism is every bit as
prescient as Orwell’s more famous dystopia.
57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932)
The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was
a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to
influence many subsequent generations.
58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932)
The middle volume of John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy
is revolutionary in its intent, techniques and lasting
impact.
59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
The US novelist’s debut revelled in a Paris underworld
of seedy sex and changed the course of the novel –
though not without a fight with the censors.
60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938)
Evelyn Waugh’s Fleet Street satire remains sharp,
pertinent and memorable.
61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)
Samuel Beckett’s first published novel is an absurdist
masterpiece, a showcase for his uniquely comic
voice.
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep.
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Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep.
62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
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Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled debut brings to life
the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the
archetypal fictional detective.
63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939)
Set on the eve of war, this neglected modernist
masterpiece centres on a group of bright young
revellers delayed by fog.
64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939)
Labyrinthine and multilayered, Flann O’Brien’s
humorous debut is both a reflection on, and an
exemplar of, the Irish novel.
65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
One of the greatest of great American novels, this
study of a family torn apart by poverty and
desperation in the Great Depression shocked US
society.
66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946)
PG Wodehouse’s elegiac Jeeves novel, written during
his disastrous years in wartime Germany, remains his
masterpiece.
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67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
A compelling story of personal and political corruption,
set in the 1930s in the American south.
68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
Malcolm Lowry’s masterpiece about the last hours of
an alcoholic ex-diplomat in Mexico is set to the
drumbeat of coming conflict.
69. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
Elizabeth Bowen’s 1948 novel perfectly captures the
atmosphere of London during the blitz while providing
brilliant insights into the human heart.
Richard Burton and John Hurt in Nineteen Eighty-four
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Richard Burton and John Hurt in Nineteen Eighty-four.
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
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George Orwell’s dystopian classic cost its author dear
but is arguably the best-known novel in English of the
20th century.
71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
Graham Greene’s moving tale of adultery and its
aftermath ties together several vital strands in his
work.
72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
JD Salinger’s study of teenage rebellion remains one
of the most controversial and best-loved American
novels of the 20th century.
73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
(1953)
In the long-running hunt to identify the great American
novel, Saul Bellow’s picaresque third book frequently
hits the mark.
74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
Dismissed at first as “rubbish & dull”, Golding’s
brilliantly observed dystopian desert island tale has
since become a classic.
75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Nabokov’s tragicomic tour de force crosses the
boundaries of good taste with glee.
76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
The creative history of Kerouac’s beat-generation
classic, fuelled by pea soup and benzedrine, has
become as famous as the novel itself.
77. Voss by Patrick White (1957)
A love story set against the disappearance of an
explorer in the outback, Voss paved the way for a
generation of Australian writers to shrug off the
colonial past.
78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Her second novel finally arrived this summer, but
Harper Lee’s first did enough alone to secure her
lasting fame, and remains a truly popular classic.
79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
(1960)
Short and bittersweet, Muriel Spark’s tale of the
downfall of a Scottish schoolmistress is a masterpiece
of narrative fiction.
80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
This acerbic anti-war novel was slow to fire the public
imagination, but is rightly regarded as a
groundbreaking critique of military madness.
81. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
Hailed as one of the key texts of the women’s
movement of the 1960s, this study of a divorced
single mother’s search for personal and political
identity remains a defiant, ambitious tour de force.
Malcolm Macdowell in A Clockwork Orange
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Malcolm Macdowell in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork
Orange film.
82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
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Anthony Burgess’s dystopian classic still continues to
startle and provoke, refusing to be outshone by
Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant film adaptation.
83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
Christopher Isherwood’s story of a gay Englishman
struggling with bereavement in LA is a work of
compressed brilliance.
84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, a true story of
bloody murder in rural Kansas, opens a window on
the dark underbelly of postwar America.
85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966)
Sylvia Plath’s painfully graphic roman à clef, in which
a woman struggles with her identity in the face of
social pressure, is a key text of Anglo-American
feminism.
86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
This wickedly funny novel about a young Jewish
American’s obsession with masturbation caused
outrage on publication, but remains his most dazzling
work.
87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
(1971)
Elizabeth Taylor’s exquisitely drawn character study
of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait
of genteel postwar English life facing the changes
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taking shape in the 60s.
88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971)
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre
alter ego, is one of America’s great literary
protoganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby.
89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
The novel with which the Nobel prize-winning author
established her name is a kaleidoscopic evocation of
the African-American experience in the 20th century.
90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979)
VS Naipaul’s hellish vision of an African nation’s path
to independence saw him accused of racism, but
remains his masterpiece.
91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
The personal and the historical merge in Salman
Rushdie’s dazzling, game-changing Indian English
novel of a young man born at the very moment of
Indian independence.
92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)
Marilynne Robinson’s tale of orphaned sisters and
their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired
by everyone from Barack Obama to Bret Easton Ellis.
Nick Frost as John Self Martin Amis's Money.
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Nick Frost as John Self Martin Amis’s Money.
93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1984)
Martin Amis’s era-defining ode to excess unleashed
one of literature’s greatest modern monsters in self-
destructive antihero John Self.
94. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
(1986)
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a retired artist in
postwar Japan, reflecting on his career during the
country’s dark years, is a tour de force of unreliable
narration.
95. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
(1988)
Fitzgerald’s story, set in Russia just before the
Bolshevik revolution, is her masterpiece: a brilliant
miniature whose peculiar magic almost defies
analysis.
96. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1988)
Anne Tyler’s portrayal of a middle-aged, mid-
American marriage displays her narrative clarity,
comic timing and ear for American speech to
perfection.
97. Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)
This modern Irish masterpiece is both a study of the
faultlines of Irish patriarchy and an elegy for a lost
world.
98. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
A writer of “frightening perception”, Don DeLillo guides
the reader in an epic journey through America’s
history and popular culture.
99. Disgrace by JM Coetzee (1999)
In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee’s
intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that
both invites and confounds political interpretation.
100. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
(2000)
Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones
with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining
the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero,
Ned Kelly
Q.1 Which is the Biggest library in the world
Ans Library of Congress
Q.2 Ocean which has the biggest commercial
activity in world is
Ans Atlantic Ocean
Q.3 Which is the most recent state to join the USA
Ans Hawai
Q.4 Which is the rainiest spot in the world
Ans Cherrapunji (India)
Q.5 Which province of Afghanistan is the highest
opium producer
Ans Helmand
Q.6 In which city biggest square Tiananmen is
situated
Ans Beijing – China
Q.7 Highest town Wenchuan is situated at the
altitude of 5100 mtr
Ans China
Q.8 MGM Grand hotel is largest hotel with 5005
rooms is in
Ans State of Nevada USA
Q.9 Name the country with busiest airlines system
Ans USA
Q.10 The oldest written language is
Ans Chinese
Q.11 Which is the lowest town
Ans The Israeli settlement of Ein Bokek
Q.12 Most immigration country is
Ans USA
Q.13 Which country has most telephone subscribers
Ans USA
Q.14 Country with largest natural gas reserves
Ans Russia
Q.15 Most spoken language in the world is
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Ans Chinese Q.36 Which country leads in the production of Zinc
Q.16 Country with largest foreign exchange Ans Canada
reserves Q.37 World’s largest producer of wool
Ans japan Ans Australia
Q.17 Largest automobile manufacturing center in Q.38 World’s largest irrigation canal is
the world is in Ans Indira Gandhi Canal
Ans Detroit Q.39 Largest producer of diamond in world is
Q.18 Largest postal network in the world is in Ans Bostwana
Ans India Q.40 Largest railway station of the world is
Q.19 The first railway line was laid in Ans Grand Central Terminal, New York
Ans England Q.41 Gibralter is known as
Q.20 Largest man made canal in the world is Ans Smallest colony
Ans Panama canal Q.42 Which country has oldest anthem of world
Q.21 Longest optical fiber cable of the world is Ans Japan
landed between Q.43 Which is the largest of animals
Ans London and new York Ans Blue whale
Q.22 Who produced the first automobile Q.44 Highest score made by Sri Lanka in one day
Ans Henry Furd cricket is
Q.23 World’s freest economy with lowest taxes Ans 443 runs
Ans Hong kong Q.45 First Muslim woman who went to space by
Q.24 World’s largest nuclear power station is Russian Aircraft
situated in Ans Anousheh Ansari – 18th September 2006
Ans Canada Q.46 Country with the largest area in world
Q.25 World’s largest uranium producer is Ans Russia
Ans Canada Q.47 Which river in the world carries maximum
Q.26 World’s largest paper producer is volume of water
Ans USA Ans Amazon
Q.27 Lowest per capita income in South Asia is of Q.48 Longest canal in the world is
Ans Nepal Ans Beloye More Baltic
Q.28 First country to impose ban on sale of all Q.49 Which is the smallest country in the world
forms of tobacco Ans Vatican city
Ans Singapore Q.50 Which is the world’s largest mountain range
Q.29 Largest artificial lake of world is in Arizona, Ans Himalayas
USA Q.51 Largest producer of silk is
Ans Lake Mead Ans Japan
Q.30 First Muslim Woman Judge in America Q.52 Largest oil refinery is located at
Ans Charlene Mekled Ans Abadan- Iran
Q.31 World’s first stock exchange market is Q.53 Angel Falls the world’s highest water fall is in
Ans Hamburg Ans Venezuela
Q.32 World’s largest under sea railway tunnel is Q.54 Deepest lake in the world is
between Ans Lake Baikal- Russia (Siberia)
Ans France and England Q.55 Area with the least sunshine is
Q.33 Which country first gave women a right to Ans South pole
vote in 1893 Q.56 Area of Asian continent is
Ans Newzealand Ans 4,38,20,000 sq km
Q.34 Highest wicket taker in the Test cricket and Q.57 Which is the deepest sea in the world
ODI Ans Caribbean
Ans Murali Dharan – Sri Lanka Q.58 Largest lake of the world is
Q.35 Largest animal in the world is Ans Caspian sea
Ans Blue whale Q.59 Largest penininsula of the world is
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Ans Arabian peninsula 32,37,500 sq km Ans Quark
Q.60 River Nile falls in which sea Q.82 Longest platform of the world is
Ans Baltic Sea Ans The Loop USA
Q.61 Which is the most populous city in the world Q.83 Longest rail tunnel of the world is
Ans Shanghai Ans Saikan – Japan
Q.62 Which is the most densely populated city of Q.84 Longest road tunnel of the world is
the world Ans St Gohtard(Sweden)
Ans Manila Q.85 Country with the oldest underground railway
Q.63 Which is the least populous city of the world system is
Ans Vatican Ans England
Q.64 Smallest republic is Nauru and its population Q.86 Fastest animal of the world is
is Ans Cheetah
Ans 10,000 persons (area 2129 hectares) Q.87 Animal which has longest life span
Q.65 Largest concrete dam of world is in USA its Ans Tortoise
name is Q.88 Two rivers form the largest delta of world are
Ans Grand Coulee Dam Ans Ganges-Barhamputra
Q.66 Rohunsky Dam is the highest dam in the Q.89 Shortest river of the world is
world located in Ans Reo (Montana) 98 km
Ans Tajikistan Q.90 Height of K-2 is
Q.67 World’s oldest parliament is of Ans 8611 meters
Ans Iceland Q.91 Asia covers land area of world is
Q.68 Largest airport of the world is Ans 29.5%
Ans King Abdul Aziz International Airport Q.92 Which is the fastest bird
Q.69 Which is world’s busiest airport Ans Indian Swift- speed 200 km
Ans Chicago O’Hare International Airport Q.93 Which metal has the highest electrical
Q.70 Airport located at the highest altitude is conductivity
Ans Lhasa Airport 4363 meter height Ans Tungsten
Q.71 Which is the largest railway station in world Q.94 Lowest populous Muslim country is
Ans Grand Central Terminal – New York Ans Maldives (area wise also)
Q.72 World’s highest railway station is Q.95 Largest Muslim country area wise
Ans Condor Station Bolivia Ans Kazakhstan
Q.73 Which is the university with largest building Q.96 Largest Muslim country population wise
in world Ans Indonesia
Ans University of Riyadh Q.97 Muslim country with highest per capita
Q.74 The longest canal of the world is income
Ans Beloye More (in Baltic sea) Ans Kuwait
Q.75 Area wise the largest city of the world is Q.98 Which is the smallest and fastest planet
Ans Kiruna – in Sweden – 8732 sq km Ans Mercury
Q.76 Largest delta of the world is Q.99 The smallest bird is
Ans Sundarbans Ans Humming bird
Q.77 Largest museum of the world is Q.100 The largest insect is
Ans British Museum Ans Allas moth
Q.78 Saltiest sea of the world is
Ans Mediterranean sea
Q.79 Coldest place of the world is
Ans Vostok – Antarctica
Q.80 Driest place of the world is
Ans Death Valley (California)
Q.81 Smallest part of the matter discovered by
scientists
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