Basic General Knowledge

69 medals came into the account of India during the 2002 Commonwealth Games at Manchester. India won unprecedented 69 medals including 30 gold, 22 silver and 17 bronze and were fourth in the medal tally.

If the plane of the earth’s equator were not inclined to the plane of the earth’s orbit there would be no change of seasons. When tilted, the hemisphere closer to the sun would experience summer, while the hemisphere that is relatively farther away would experience winter. If the earth were not tilted, the whole planet would be relatively equidistant from the sun, and hence, no seasons.

India played its first cricket Test Match in 1932. India was invited to The Imperial Cricket Council in 1926, and made their debut as a Test playing nation in England in 1932, led by CK Nayudu, who was considered as the best Indian batsman at the time. The one-off Test match between the two sides was played at Lord’s in London.

India has been represented as a non-permanent member of the Security Council (UNO) during 1972-73, 1984-85 and 1991-92.

Goa have two Lok Sabha seats. South Goa Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Mormugao Lok Sabha constituency) is one of two Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Goa in western India along with North Goa.

Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes individually for Chemistry in 1954, Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of four individuals to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger).

Free market is market where the price of a commodity is determined by free play of the forces of supply and demand. The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control. It is a summary description of all voluntary exchanges that take place in a given economic environment.

East Timor, which became the 191st member of the UN, is in the continent of Asia. East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on 20 May 2002 and joined the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

Free surface of a liquid behaves like a sheet and tends to contract to the smallest possible area due to the force of cohesion. The force of cohesion is defined as the force of attraction between molecules of the same substance.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded the servants of India Society, served as President of the Indian National Congress in 1907 and started as a maths teacher and rose to the position of the principal of Ferguson College, Pune. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social reformer who founded a sectarian organization to work for relief of the underprivileged of India.