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Rivers of India

• The Ganges River originates at Gomukh, the terminus of the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas
• The Hirakud Dam forms a man-made lake near Sambalpur in Odisha, and is located on the Mahanadi River.
• The Kaveri River rises on Brahmagiri Hill of the Western Ghats.
• The Kaveri River descends the Eastern Ghats in great falls.
• The Yamuna River originates on the slopes of the Bandarpunch massif in the lower Himalayas in western Uttarakhand.
• Originating in the Western Ghats in north-western Maharashtra, the Godavari River is known as the Dakshin Ganga.
• Umananda Island, also called Peacock Island, is the world's smallest inhabited riverine island and is situated on the Brahmaputra River.

Brain Teasers

• The answer to the riddle "I am a word of letters five; add two and shorter I will be. What word am I?" is "short".
• The answer to the riddle "The more you take, the more you leave behind. Can you guess what?" is "footsteps".
• The answer to the riddle "A man looks at a photograph and says, 'Brothers and sisters I have none, but this boy's father is my father's son.' Whose photograph is it?" is "The man's son".
• The answer to the riddle "What has lakes but no water, mountains but no rocks, and cities but no buildings?" is "map".
• The answer to the riddle "Which odd number becomes even when a letter is taken away from it?" is "seven".
• The answer to the riddle "What is always in front of us, but can't be seen?" is "future".
• The answer to the riddle "What is it that goes over hills and through tunnels, but never moves?" is "Road".
• If R + S = 500 mg, S + S = 400 mg, and R + U = 800 mg, then the weight of U is 500 mg
• If 'EXAMPLE' is coded as 'JCFRUQJ', then 'RIGHT' will be coded as 'MLHRY'.
• The seven four-letter words starting with 'M' from the grid are MOVE, MAKE, MAZE, MARK, MASK, MOOR.

The Highest and the Tallest

• Tokyo Skytree is the world's highest stand-alone communication tower at 634 m and is a broadcasting tower with shops, restaurants, an aquarium and planetarium, and is the second tallest structure after Burj Khalifa.
• The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are twin towers, each 451.9 m high, with the world's deepest foundations, and a two-story skybridge connecting the 41st and 42nd floors.
• Taipei 101 in Taiwan is 508 m and resembles a stalk of bamboo or an elongated pagoda.
• The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE, is an 828 m super-tall skyscraper and the tallest structure built by humans, with 163 stories
• The Shanghai Tower, which is 632 m tall, is China's tallest tower, and it became the second tallest in the world in 2015.
• The One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower), at 541 m, is the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere.

Quick Quiz

• The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 destroyed the World Trade Centre twin towers.
• The Burj Al Arab is a spectacular hotel in Dubai.
• The Qutb Minar is a historical tower built in Delhi at the turn of the 13th century and is the world's tallest brick minaret
• The Empire State Building is a building in New York City.

Languages Worldwide

• Mandarin is the most widely spoken language, with one billion speakers, having 40,000 characters and nine tones.
• Linguistics is the scientific study of languages.
• Papua New Guinea has the most languages in the world.
• Australia and the USA do not have any official language.
• Persian does not attach gender to its objects.
• Esperanto was created by Polish ophthalmologist LL Zamenhof.
• Russia was the first human language spoken away from the planet Earth.
• Khmer has the longest alphabet with 74 letters.
• The Indus script found on seals and pottery of the Indus Valley Civilization is one of the oldest forms of writings in the Indian subcontinent.

Adventure Sports

• Wearing a mask underwater involves snorkelling.
• Exploring rough terrain in and around caves is spelunking.
• Wearing an open parachute and gliding through the air involves parasailing.
• Paddling a narrow boat with a single-bladed paddle pertains to canoeing.
• Traveling to a desert is required for dune bashing.
• Using a rope to descend a steep rock is rappelling.
• Motocross is a type of motorcycle racing that takes place on rough terrains and is known to be a difficult motorcycle race.
• Various adventure sports include cliff jumping, ice climbing, bungee jumping, jet skiing, surfing, long boarding, scuba diving, and wind surfing.

Famous Words

• The statement "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." was said by Mahatma Gandhi.
• The statement "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." was said by Anne Frank.
• The statement "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." was said by Martin Luther King Jr.
• The statement "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." was said by Mother Teresa.
• the statement "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" was said by John Lennon
• The statement "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." was said by Walt Disney.
• The statement "What we really are matters more than what other people think of us." was said by R.K. Narayan.
• The statement "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." was said by Mark Twain.
• The statement "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs." was said by Karl Marx.
• The statement "You have to dream before your dreams can come true." was said by APJ Abdul Kalam.

Playing Commonwealth

• The 2018 Commonwealth Games were hosted by Gold Coast, Australia.
• Women's rugby sevens was introduced in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
• Australia won the highest number of medals in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
• The official mascot of the 2018 Commonwealth Games was Borobi.
• Neeraj Chopra was the first Indian javelin thrower to win a Commonwealth gold in 2018.
• Vinesh Phogat is associated with wrestling.
• Neeraj Chopra is associated with javelin throw.
• Manu Bhaker is associated with shooting.
• Manika Batra is associated with table tennis
• Mirabal Chanu is associated with weightlifting.
• The Commonwealth Games 2010 was hosted in Delhi, and the official mascot was Shera.

Indian Authors

• Amish Tripathi is the author of "The Immortals of Meluha."
• Salman Rushdie is the author of "Midnight's Children."
• Ruskin Bond is the author of "The Room on the Roof."
• Kirah Desai is the author of "The Inheritance of Loss."
• Chitrya Banerjee Divakaruni is the author of "The Palace of Illusions."
• Amitav Ghosh is the author of "The Shadow Lines."
• R. K. Narayan is the author of "Malgudi Days."
• Nirad C. Choudhary is the author of "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian."
• Khushwant Singh is the author of "Train to Pakistan."
• Mulk Raj Anand is the author of "Coolie."
• Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian and the first not-white to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

India's Neighbours

• Nepal: Kathmandu is the capital with Nepali as its official language.
• Bhutan: Thimphu is the capital with Dzongkha (Bhutanese) as its official language.
• Sri Lanka: Sri Jayewardenepure Kotte and Colombo are the capitals with Sinhala and Tamil as official languages.
• Pakistan: Islamabad is the capital with Urdu and English as official languages.
• Bangladesh: Dhaka is the capital with Bangla as its official language.
• China: Beijing is the capital with Mandarin Chinese as its official language.
• Myanmar: Naypyidaw is the capital with Myanmar Language (Burmese) as its official language.
• The great poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthem of India and of Bangladesh, "Amar Sonar Bangla".
• Ananda Samarakoon, the writer and composer of the national anthem of Sri Lanka, was inspired by Tagore as he was a pupil of Tagore at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan.