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What is the Copenhagen Climate change summit?

December 2009 meeting of environment ministers and officials in Copenhagen (Denmark) for the United Nations Climate Conference . This would be the successor to the earlier Kyoto Protocol.. The talks at modern Bella Center are the annual series of UN meetings that coordinates international action against climate change.

What does COP15 stand for?
COP15 is the official name of the Copenhagen climate change summit — the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCCC).
The COP is the highest body of the UNFCCC and consists of environment ministers who meet once a year to discuss developments in the convention.

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Knowledge you must have — for AIIMS / CMC Ludhiana / AFMC / Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) PMT / IAS Examination / UGC NET
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1. Birbal Sahni was a
(a) zoologist
(b) founder of Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI)
(c) ornithologist
(d) paleobotanist

2. In the year (2003) the chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to the following work.
(a) Aquaporins
(b) Na++ channels
(c) Ca++ channels
(d) Methyl channels

3. It lives under water for up to three years as ‘nymph’ before emerging as a flying insect. Fossils of this insect dating back. about 300 million years have been found.
(a) Scorpion fly
(b) Stone fly
(c) Caddis fly
(d) May fly

4. A man-made tunnel in India transfers water from which one river to another ?
(a) Narmada to Tapti
(b) Betwa to Sone
(c) Beas to Sutlej
(d) Godavari to Krishna

5. The great Fisher Bank is situated off
(a) the coast of New Foundland
(b) the Chilean coast
(c) the Spanish coast
(d) the coast of Great Britain

6. Which one of the following organizations iron and steel plant was built to use charcoal as a source of power) to start, with, but later switched over to hydroelectricity ?
(a) The Tata Iron and Steel Company
(b) The Indian Iron and Steel Company
(c) Mysore Iron and Steel Limited
(d) Hindustan Steel Limited

7. Rishikesh is famous for the production of
(a) antibiotics
(b) heavy electricals
(c) fertilizers
(d) transistorized radios

8. Rayon fibre is manufactured from
(a) petroleum
(b) wood and pulp
(c) chemicals
(d) naphtha

9. Nepanagar is famous for
(a) paper board industries
(b) craft paper industries
(c) carbon paper industries
(d) Newsprint paper industries

10. The first European invader of Indian soil was
(a) Macmillan
(b) Marco Polo
(c) Alexander the Great
(d) Fahien

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11. The ‘smart bomb’ is a potential therapy for which disease?
(a) AIDS
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) cancer
(d) Hepatitis

12. Which city built a 200 metre high wooden ‘earth tower’ to greet the year 2000?
(a) Rome
(b) Madrid
(c) London
(d) Paris

13. Which virus strain got mutated to Avian or swine flu virus
(a) HA
(b) H5V1
(c) H1V1
(d) HIV

14. The Author of the book Jami Hut Jheel is
(a) Meera Tanwar
(b) Mr Hardan Harsh
(c) Dr. Nirmal Sharma
(d) Savitri Parmar

15. Who has been appointed as India’s new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom 2008?
(a) Shiv Shankar Mukherjee
(b) Salman Haider
(c) T. Krishnamurty
(d) Rajendra Agarwal

16. What is the study of earthquakes called?
(a) Palynology
(b) Seismology
(c) Tricology
(d) Kineology

17. Which epidemic posed a major threat to the forestry of Kanha National Park?
(a) Eulectonas Machaeritis
(b) Hyblaea puera
(c) Sal borer
(d) None of these

18.The length of Great wall of China is ____ km
(a) 2500
(b) 3460
(c) 1500
(d) 2200

19. The battle for custody of the remains of the prehistoric Ice man was won by Italy. Which country was the other claimant ?
(a) Greece
(b) Switzerland
(c) Germany
(d) Austria

20. Maitri is
(a) Base station at Kargil
(b) Base station at Moon
(c) Base station at Antarctica
(d) Friendship treaty between India and China

21. India signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) which prohibited nuclear testing in open in
(a) 1973
(b) 1963
(c) 1983
(d) 1993

22. India conducted three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran range at 15.45 on _____ May,1998
(a) 10
(b) 13
(c) 11
(d) 14

23. Devices exploded in Pokhran range were
(a) Fission device
(b) Low yield device
(c) Thermonuclear device
(d) all above

24. Who is the author of ‘Rajaji – A life’ ?
(a) Arun Shourie
(b) S. Gopal
(c) Rajmohan Gandhi
(d) Tanya Bose

25.The book released to mark the birth centenary of the author is
(a) Partition of India
(b) Autobiography of an unknown Indian
(c) Gandhi -The Man
(d) A Passage to India

26. We celebrated the 200th anniversary of an eminent Scholar recently.Who is he?
(a) Amir Khusro
(b) Mir
(c) Mirza Ghalib
(d) Tulsidas

27. The world’s youngest liver transplant patient is
(a) Ron Brown
(b) Ita Schuttke
(c) Baebhen Schuttke
(d) Bred Shuttle

28. The 17th Indian Antartica expedition aims to permanent seismic station ‘Maitri’. It is led by
(a) Yaqub Hasan
(b) V.R. Menon
(c) Dr. C. Kriplani
(d) K.R. Sivan

29. Who was elected as the chief of African National Congress after the stepping down of Nelson Mandela?
(a) Winnie Mandela
(b) Mac Maharaj
(c) Pallo Jordan
(d) Thabo Kheki

30. According to a UNICEF report, the percentage of children who suffer from malnourishment in India is
(a) 10 per cent
(b) 20 percent
(c) 30 percent
(d) 40 per cent

31. An unmanned version of magnetically levitated Maglev train set a new world record by closing 550 km per hour. The train has been built by
(a) Japan
(b) France
(c) South Korea
(d) North Korea

32. As a measure to boost exports of horticulture products, which state has planned to set up 2000 greenhouses ?
(a) Kerala
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Karnataka

33. Which submarine has been hailed as a milestone in the defence cooperation between India and Russia?
(a) Tat Prahri
(b) Jyoti
(c) Astta
(d) Sindhu Rakshak

34. A nuclear reactor has recently been successfully revived by Indian scientists in
(a) Narora
(b) Kalpakkam
(c) Tarapore
(d) Rawat Bhata

35. The group known as Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand Economic cooperation (BIST-EC) has become BIMST-EC due to the induction of
(a) Malaysia
(b) Maldive
(c) Mauritius
(d) Myanmar

36. According to the annual survey of corporate leadership 2009, the topmost company in India is
(a) Reliance
(b) Hindustan Lever
(c) Tata
(d) Bajaj India Ltd.

37. According to FAO, which count would equal the milk production level of USA (the largest milk producer in the World) year 2005 ?
(a) Denmark
(b) New Zealand
(c) India
(d) Australia

38. Who is New Zealand’s first woman prime minister ?
(a) Kenneth Clarke
(b) Judith Mckenzie
(c) Paula Smith
(d) Jenny Shipley

39. Dada Sahib Phalke award for Thespian 2008 was given to
(a) Rajesh Khanna
(b) Dilip Kumar
(c) Shivaji Ganeshan
(d) M.C. Mehta

40. Fortran is a language of.
(a) Computer
(b) France
(c) Fighter aircraft
(d) Jordan

AWARDS & MISSION

Bharat Ratna 2008 conferred on Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

 
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Magsaysay awards for environmentalist… 31 Aug 2008
Ananda Galappatti — young medical anthropologist

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Magsaysay award for literature in 2008
Akio Ishii, from Japan, for Journalism

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India takes a giant leap on 21st October 2008
with the launch of a lunar mission
that will boost its space programme into the same
league as regional powerhouses Japan and China.
India blasted its Chandrayaan (satellite) into space from an island off the Bay of Bengal making use of a domestically produced rocket system.

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Miss World was won on 13th Dec 2008
at Johannesburg by Russia’s Kseniya Sukhinova

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A rose by other name would still smell the same

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The more we know, the more we forget.
The more we forget, the less we know.
The less we know, the less we forget.
The less we forget , the more we know.
So why study ?

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