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LARGEST IN THE WORLD

Largest continent ...................... Asia

Largest ocean .......................... Pacific

Largest river .......................... Amazon

Largest river basin .................... Amazon

Largest lake (salt water) ............. Caspian sea

Largest lake (fresh water) .......... LakeSuperior (North America)

Largest artificial lake ..... Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, (USA). Originally known as Boulder.

Largest bay................ Hudson Bay (North Canada)

Largest gulf ................. Gulf of Mexico

Largest gorge ................ Grand Canyon (USA)

Largest sea ............... South China sea

Largest delta ....... Sundarbans (India& Bangladesh)

Largest peninsula ............... Arabia

Largest island ................. Greenland

Largest country (in area) ........... Russia

Largest country (in population)............. China

Largest temple` ......... Angkorwat (Cambodia)

Largest archipelago ........\....... Indonesia

Largest airport ... King Khalid International Airport at Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Largest church .......... St.Peter's Basilica, (Rome)

Largest mosque ...... Sha Faisal Mosque (Islamabad)
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Awesome Answers In IAS Examination

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Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23rd Rank Opted for IFS)

Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands. (Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. you will never find an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple ?
A: The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Dinner.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A: Liquid (UPSC 33 Rank)

Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really difficult question." "Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this.
"What comes first, Day or Night?"
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the DAY sir!"
"How" the interviewer asked.
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!"
He was selected for IIM!

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Useful one, must share

1. Father of Medicine - Hippocrates
2. Father of Biology and Zoology - Aristotle
3. Father of Biotany and Ecology - Theophrastus
4. Father of Anatomy - Andreas Vesalius
5. Father of Comparative Anatomy - George Cuvier
6. Father of Microscopic Anatomy - Marcello Malpighi
7. Father of Microscopy - Antony van Leeuwenhoek
8. Father of Cytology - Robert Hooke
9. Father of Taxonomy and Nomenclature - Carolus Linnaeus
10. Founder of Embryology - C. F. Wolff
11. Father of Modern Embryology - Von Baer
12. Father of Immunology - Edward Jenner
13. Father of Plant Physiology - Stephen Hales
14. Father of Plant Pathology - de Bary
15. Father of Antiseptic Surgery - Joseph Lister
16. Father of Endocrinology - Thomas Addison
17. Father of Coditioned Reflexes - Paviov.
18. Father of Palaeontology - Leonard da Vinci
19. Faher of Madern Palaeonlogy - Cuvier
20. Father of Antiobiotic - Alexander Fleming
21. Father of Blood Circulation - Willium Harvey
22. Father of Blood Groups - Landsteiner
23. Father of Green Revolution - Norman E. Borlaug
24. Father of Indian Green Revolution - M. S. Swaminathan
25. Birdman of India - Salim Ali
26. Father of Indian Palaeobotany - Birbal Sahni
27. Father of Genetics - Gregor Johann Mendel
28. Father of Eugenics - Francis Galton
29. Father of Experimental Genetics - T. H. Morgan
30. Father of Chromatography - Michael Tswett
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Inventors

1.Electric lamp-Thomas alva edision-US-1879

2.Jet Engine-sir frank whittle-England ­ ­1937

3.Machine Gun-Richard Gatling-US-1861

4.Microphone,Telephone-Graham bel-1876

5.Microscope-Z Jassen-The Netherlands-159­0

6.Printing Press-J.Gutenbe­­rg-Germany-145­5

7.Steam engine-James Watt-scotland-1­765

8.Telegraph-Sir Ernest Swington-France ­ ­1787

9.Telescope-Han­s Lippershey-Netherlands-1608

10.Motorcycle-Dailmler-Germany ­­-1885
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