IBPS GK Questions 2026

English billiards is played with three balls, and a cannon, in which the striker's cue ball hits both the red and the opponent's ball in the same stroke, scores two points.

Michael Ferreira of Mumbai won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1977, 1981 and 1983, and with those three titles he carried forward the tradition that Wilson Jones had begun and which Geet Sethi and Pankaj Advani later extended.

The billiards player from Bengaluru won both the time format and the points format of the World Billiards Championship in 2005, a double no player had achieved before, and it is for this that he is called the holder of the grand double.

The World Snooker Championship, the oldest and most important event in the professional game, has been staged at this small theatre in the English city of Sheffield without a break since 1977, and the venue is so closely identified with the title that the championship is often called the Crucible.

Wilson Jones of Pune won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1958 and so became the first Indian to win a world title in any sport, a landmark often asked in general awareness papers.

Officers of the British garrison at Jabalpur, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, added coloured balls to the older game of black pool in 1875, and Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain of the Devonshire Regiment gave the new game the name snooker, which was slang at the Woolwich military academy for a…

The figure is arrived at by potting all fifteen reds for fifteen points, taking the black worth seven after each red for one hundred and five points, and then clearing the six colours in order of value for twenty-seven points, giving a total of one hundred and forty-seven.

The six colours of snooker are valued in a fixed order, yellow two, green three, brown four, blue five, pink six and black seven, so the black is the highest valued ball on the table and is the one a player takes after each red while building a big break.

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls arranged in a triangle behind the pink, each worth one point.

Tata Consultancy Services was set up in 1968 as a division of the Tata group to provide management consultancy and data processing, and its registered office and headquarters have remained in Mumbai, the home city of the group.

The two left a research centre in California and founded Adobe in 1982 at San Jose, naming it after a creek near Warnock's home.

Alibaba was started in 1999 by Jack Ma, a former English teacher, in his apartment in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, and the company has kept its headquarters in that city.

Faqir Chand Kohli was the first general manager and later deputy chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, and he is credited with creating the model on which Indian software exports grew, namely training engineering graduates in programming and selling their services to clients abroad.

Google reorganised its businesses in 2015 and placed them under a new holding company named Alphabet Inc. Google continued as the subsidiary running search, advertising, Android, Chrome, Maps and YouTube, while separate ventures such as the self-driving car company and the life sciences company were made direct subsidiaries of Alphabet.

Robert Noyce, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, and Gordon Moore, who gave the observation known as Moore's law that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years, left an earlier firm and founded Intel in 1968.

Shiv Nadar and a group of colleagues left their jobs at an electronics firm and set up Hindustan Computers Limited, shortened to HCL, in 1976 to design and sell Indian-made microcomputers.

The company was registered in 1945 by M. H. Hasham Premji and made vanaspati cooking oil and laundry soap at Amalner in Maharashtra.

Infosys was started in 1981 at Pune by N. R. Narayana Murthy together with six colleagues, among them Nandan Nilekani, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, N. S. Raghavan and Ashok Arora, with a very small amount of borrowed capital.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were research students at Stanford University when they built a search engine that ranked pages by the links pointing to them, and they registered Google as a company in 1998.

Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen at Albuquerque in New Mexico, moved to the Seattle area in 1979 and has had its main campus at Redmond in Washington state ever since.