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Sunday, August 04, 2024

AFCAT 2 2024 General Awareness Quick Revision Notes

The online test of AFCAT 2 2024 will be conducted on August 9, 10 and 11, 2024. AFCAT 2 admit card 2024 will be released on July 24, 2024. Here are some Quick Revision Notes for AFCAT 2 2024 GK section. These important Quick Revision General Awareness notes will save your time before the AFCAT exam. Also Read: 25 Expected GK Topics for AFCAT 2 2024 Exam


  1. Since 1967, the International Literacy Day (ILD) has been celebrated by UNESCO on 8 September.


  1. A light-year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. A light-year equals about 9.46073 × 1012 km.


  1. The Mahabharata in its original version was called Jaya Samhita. It was written down by Ganesha and narrated by Maharishi Ved Vyasa.


  1. Pollen grains of a flower are small structures that contain androecium, a flower's male reproductive organ.


  1. The Duleep Trophy is named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji (KS Duleepsinhji). The competition was established by the BCCI in the 1961–62 season.


  1. Externality theory forms the basic theory of environmental economics.


  1. ‘Muhtasibs” were special officers appointed by Aurangzeb to ensure that the Muslims lived their lives according to the Quranic law.


  1. Madan Mohan Malaviya became the President of the Indian National Congress in 1909 and 1918. Gandhi gave him the title of “Mahamana”.


  1. Tulsi Gabbard, on 7 November 2012 created history by becoming the first Hindu American to enter the US House of Representatives as a senator.


  1. The egg yolk has about 200 mg of cholesterol which is the biggest source of dietary cholesterol.


  1. Lord Linlithgow (1936 - 1944) was the viceroy of India during Quit India Movement in 1942. Linlithgow remarked the movement to be "by far the most serious rebellion since 1857".


  1. Dew point is the temperature at which relative humidity reaches 100% and air is saturated.


  1. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body established in 1988.


  1. Clayey soil retains the highest amount of water and sandy soil retains the lowest amount of water. Clay is the densest and heaviest type of soil.


  1. At the Faizpur Session of the INC in December 1936, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru referred to the Government of India Act 1935 as "The new Charter of Bondage".


  1. The iron pillar of Delhi is a structure 7.21m (23 feet 8 inches) high with a 41cm (16 in) diameter that was constructed by Chandragupta II and was dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu.


  1. River Ganga originates from Gaumukh, which is located at the base of Gangotri and Khatilang glaciers in Uttarakhand. It is the longest river in India.


  1. Functional finance is an economic theory proposed by Abba P. Lerner, based on effective demand principles and chartalism.


  1. World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed every year on the 17th of June. 


  1. In Dec 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.


  1. The rings of Saturn were first seen by Galileo in 1610, during the first telescopic observations of this planet.


  1. The farad (F) is the unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge. It is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.


  1. An electric fuse wire has high resistivity and a low melting point.


  1. Milkha Singh became the first Indian to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games when he won the race at Cardiff 1958.


  1. The Indian Railways was nationalized in 1950. Its East Central Railway has headquarters at Hajipur, Bihar. It is the gateway to Nepal.


  1. Retired British Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer Allan Octavian Hume founded the Indian National Congress on 28 Dec 1885.


  1. The ozone layer sits in the stratosphere between 15 km and 30 km above the earth.


  1. Army Day is celebrated on 15 January in recognition of Lt. Gen K. M. Cariappa's taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Francis Roy Bucher.


  1. The CDC - 6600, released in 1964, is considered the first supercomputer. The first supercomputer of India was PARAM 8000.