General Knowledge - 2008 Current Affairs

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider. It is located at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), which is situated near Geneva on the French-Swiss border. The LHC was successfully tested in 2008 and began operation later that year.

It is Saturn's large planet sized satellite.

all others have also been added to the list on the same day but this is the first site representing its country

It prevents heart muscle cells to grow bigger and to become over stimulated.

It has been established by Dr. Saeed Ahmed, Director IQRA biotech services under Private Public Partnership with Biotech Park, Lucknow.

Named after New Mexico's state bird. It has reached the milestone of 1.026 petaflop/s

The Gangetic river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) was officially declared as the state aquatic animal of Assam on June 5, 2008, which is World Environment Day. This declaration was made to raise awareness about the conservation of this endangered species found in the Brahmaputra river system. The Gangetic gharial is a different species (a crocodilian), and black buck is a land animal.

He achieved this at 27 years with co-driver Jagdev Singh by winning 5^th leg of APRC in Indonesia

Tropical Storm Arthur was the first tropical cyclone of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed in late May 2008 and caused significant flooding and damage in southern Belize and parts of Mexico. 'Fengshen' and 'Ike' were also 2008 storms but affected different regions (Philippines and Caribbean/US respectively). A tsunami is not a tropical storm but a seismic ocean wave.

He became first Indian shooter to win gold medal in double trap event at the world cup and scored 194/200 which is equal to the world record holder score set by D I Spigno in1999.

Bhutan's transition to a democratic constitutional monarchy culminated with the adoption of its first formal Constitution, which came into effect on July 18, 2008.