Interesting Cricket Trivia

• ICC was founded on: 15 June 1909

• ICC Cricket Hall of Fame launched by: International Cricket Council (ICC) in Dubai on 2 January 2009 (to commemorate ICC's Centenary Celebration)

• First Test Match played between: Australia-England (March 1877)

• First Bowler to surpass 400 Test wickets: Richard Hadlee (New Zealand)

• First Player to score a century in Test Match: Charles Bannerman (165*) for Australia 

• First Cricketer to play for two Nations during his career: Billy Midwinter (Australia, England)

• Only Cricketer to have played Test Matches for India and England: Iftikhar Ali Khan, the 8th Nawab of Pataudi (England (1932-1934) and India (1946))

• First Cricketer to play Test Matches for India and Pakistan: Gul Mohammad (India (1946-52) and Pakistan (1956)

Important Social Reformers of Maharashtra

1. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
2. Mahatma Phule
3. MG Ranade
4. Prabodhankar Thakare
5. Maharshi Karve
6. Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj
7. Maharshi Vitthal Shinde
8. Babasaheb Ambedkar
9. Lokmanya Tilak
10. Mahatma Gandhi
11. Vinoba Bhave
12. Vinayak D Sawarkar
13. Annabhau Sathe
14. Krantiveer Nana Patil
15. Lahuji Salve
16. Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil

Firsts and Oldest..

• First Indian to head Global Solar Council: Pranav R Mehta

• First Indian/Asian to swim across the Ocean Seven: Rohan More

• First Indian in Space: Rakesh Sharma (April 3, 1984)

• First Indian-American in Space: Kalpana Chawla 

• First ODI match in India was held at: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad (1981)

• First Web Browser: World Wide Web

• India's First Paralympic Gold Medalist: Murlikant Petkar (in 50m freestyle swimming event in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, Heidelberg, Germany)

• India's First Luxury Cruise Ship: Angriya (from Mumbai to Goa)

• Oldest Golf Club in India: Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) estd. 1829

• Some Important Black Nobel Laureates:

1. First black person to win a Nobel Prize : Ralph Bunche 

• First Terrorist to be killed in the first encounter in J&K since Article 370 revocation: Momin Gojri

• First Nobel Laureates 1901:

1. Wilhelm Rontgen (Physics)

2. Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (Chemistry)

3. Emil Adolf von Behring (Physiology/Medicine)

4. Sully Prudhomme (Literature)

5. Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy (Peace)

Random General Knowledge (Set-1) 100 Questions

1. Education Activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan: Malala Yousafzai

2. First recipients of Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought: Nelson Mandela (South Africa) and Anatoly Marchenko (Soviet Union)

3. Youngest African American to win a Nobel (Peace) Prize: Martin Luther Jr. (United States) in 1964 (at 35 years of age)

2. Nobel Peace Prize 2009 winner: Barack Obama

2. Desmond Tutu won Nobel Peace Prize in: 1984

3. Nobel Peace Prize 2018 winner: Denis Mukwege (Democratic Republic of Congo)

2. Water: Asia's New Battleground author: Brahma Chellaney

3. Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award: given to authors of non-fiction books for their outstanding contributions to the understanding of contemporary Asia or US-Asia relations as well as possible policy impacts relating to the region

2. Hoover Medal: recognizes great, unselfish, non-technical services by engineers to humanity

3. ICRISAT stands for: International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics

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3. Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Sakharov Prize for the Freedom of Thought in: 1990

2. Recipient of Pakistan's First National Youth Peace Prize: Malala Yousafzai

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2. Winner of Sakharov Prize 2018: Oleg Sentsov (Ukraine)

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Important Questions and Answers for MPSC State Services Mains Exam

Different Summits/Conferences/Organizations

1. SAARC
2. BRICS
3. Commonwealth Of Nations
4. United Nations
5. G20
6. G8+5
7. G4
8. BIMSTEC
9. Mekong-Ganga Cooperation
10. Asia Cooperation Dialogue
11. IORA
12. Non-Aligned Movement
13. IBSA Dialogue
14. Asia-Europe Meeting
15. East Asia Summit
16. Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia
17. Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Mahajanpadas and their Capitals

1. Anga: Champa

2. Magadha: Rajagriha (earlier), Patliputra (later)

3. Malla: Kushinagar, Pawa

4. Kasi: Benaras/ Varanasi

5. Kosala: Shravasti

6. Vajji/ Vriji: Vaishali

7. Chedi/ Cheti: Shuktimati/ Sotthivati

8. Vatsa: Kausambi

9. Kuru: Indraprastha/ Hastinapur/ Isukara

10. Panchala: Ahichhatra (Uttara Panchala) and Kampilya (Dakshina Panchala)

11. Matsya: Viratnagar

12. Surasena: Mathura

13. Ashmaka/ Assaka: Potali/ Podana/ Potana

14. Avanti: Ujjain/ Mahishmati

15. Gandhara: Taxila

16. Kamboj: Rajpur