India GK
Tricolour flag accepted by INC in year
1931
Tricolour flag adopted on
22 July 1947
Jana gana mana adopted as national anthem on
24th Jan 1950
National emblem adopted on
26 Jan 1950
Total no. Of lions in emblem
4, 4th hidden from view
Indian National Congress
A O Hume
Jana gana mana translated into Hindi-Urdu by
Abid Ali
Vande Mataram written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay in novel
Anandmath
State with longest coastline (South)
Andhra Pradesh
Home rule League
Annie Besant
First Indian citizen to receive Booker Prize
Arundhati Roy
First Indian woman to receive Booker Prize
Arundhati Roy
Anand Van
Baba Amte
Highest dam
Bhakra dam (225.5 m)
Highest award
Bharat Ratna
Highest gateway
Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri
Swaraj Party
C.R.Das and Motilal Nehru
Chetpet
Chennai polluted lake converted into fishery
Largest saline water lake
Chilka lake, Orissa
Longest electric railway line
Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
Highest lake
Devtal lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand)
Largest waterfall
Gersoppar waterfall, Mysore
First Indian to receive Pulitzer prize
Gobind Behri Lal
Largest dome
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Largest man made lake
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihad dam)
Longest road
Grand Trunk road
State with longest coastline
Gujarat
Sikh dharam
Guru Nanak
Longest dam
Hirakud dam in Orissa
Longest Cantilever Span bridge
Howrah bridge
Longest canal
Indira Gandhi canal or Rajasthan canal
Widow remarriage
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
First and only industrialist to be awarded with Bharat Ratna
JRD Tata
Biggest Mosque
Jama Masjid in New Delhi
Longest tunnel
Jawahar tunnel (Jammu Kashmir)
Highest peak
Karakoram-2 or K-2 (8611 m)
Prarthna samaj
Keshav Chandra Sen
Largest fresh water lake
Kolleru lake (A.P.)
Largest district
Ladakh
National emblem taken from
Lion capital of Ashoka at Sarnath
State wise largest area under forest
Madhya Pradesh
Longest river bridge
Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
Highest rainfall
Mausinram near Cherapunji
Nirmal Hriday
Mother Teresa
Satyamev Jayate taken from
Mundaka Upanishad
Largest river without delta
Narmada and Tapti
Kashi Hindu University
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
Highest gallantry award
Param vir chakra
Yoga
Patanjali
Trucolur flag given by
Pingali Venakyya
Shanti Niketan
Rabindranath Tagore
Brahmo samaj
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Highest road
Road at Khardungla, Leh
Largest public sector bank
SBI
First Indian to receive Booker prize
Salamn Rushdie (British Indian)
Fastest train
Shatabdi express (Delhi to Bhopal)
Tallest statue
Statue of Gomateshwar in Karnataka
Chipko movement
Sunder lal Bahugana
Arya Samaj
Swami Dayanand
Longest river
The Ganges
Theosophical society
William Jones
Largest lake
Wular lake, Kashmir
Longest tributary river
Yamuna
Largest zoo
Zoological garden at Alipur (Kolkata)
