General Knowledge 37

Yercaud is a well-known hill station located in the Shevaroy Hills range in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu.

Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, or gravesites.

The ampere is the SI base unit of electric current, representing the flow of electric charge across a surface at the rate of one coulomb per second.

Lao Tzu is traditionally credited with writing the Tao Te Ching and is considered the founder of Taoism.

One million is written as 1,000,000, which has six zeros. Option B is 10,00,000, which is the Indian numbering system representation of one million (10 Lakhs).

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, which is the device that evolved into the gramophone.

Kanpur, Lalitpur, and Saharanpur are all cities in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Nagpur is located in the state of Maharashtra.

Suva is the capital city of Fiji.

One crore in the Indian numbering system is 10,000,000, which contains seven zeros.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1997.

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, born in Prague, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in the Czech Republic.

BHP is a major multinational mining, metals, and petroleum public company, widely recognized as one of the largest mining companies in the world.

Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician who served as the President of South Korea from 1963 until his assassination in 1979.

The Revenue Stamp is a famous collection of poems written by the Indian author Amrita Pritam.

Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter known for his large frescoes that helped establish the Mexican Mural movement in Mexican art.

David Lange served as the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989 and was the youngest person to hold the office in the 20th century.

The currency of Hong Kong is the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD).