General Knowledge - Basic - 035

5251 : The ruler of this Arakkal Dynasty was known as?
Ans : Ali Raja

5252 : Who is popularly known as the Jhansi of Travancore?
Ans : Accama Cherian

5253 : To which race Persians belonged ?
Ans : The Indo-European race

5254 : Nehru Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Boat race

5255 : We lose consciousness if blood flow to the brain is cut off for more than?
Ans : Five seconds.

5256 : City of Golden Gate?
Ans : San Francisco (USA)

5257 : Who is the author of “Inside the Third Reich”?
Ans : Albert Speer

5258 : The scientific name of Tiger is?
Ans : Panthera tigris

5259 : Who is the author of Peeling Onions?
Ans : Guenter Grass

5260 : Who is the author of Faces of Everest ?
Ans : Maj H P SAhluwalia

5261 : Who is the inventor of Natural Selection; Laws of?
Ans : Darwin

5262 : First Indian to swim across the English Channel?
Ans : (Men) Mihir Sen; (Women) Mrs.Arati Gupta

5263 : Who was the first President of Travancore State Congress?
Ans : Pattom Thanu Pillai

5264 : Bad money drives good money out of circulation This law is associated with ?
Ans : Thomas Gresham

5265 : Cricket was introduced in Kerala by?
Ans : Col Arthur Wellesley

5266 : Who is the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
Ans : Gabriel Garcia Marquez

5267 : Who is known as ‘Payyoli Express’?
Ans : P T Usha

5268 : Who is the author of ” Karutha pakshiyude pattu”?
Ans : O.N.V Kurup

5269 : Who is the author of Sacred Games?
Ans : Vikram Chandra

5270 : Who is the author of “Benjamin Franklin”?
Ans : Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishnapilla

5271 : Who is the author of “An Idealist View of Life”?
Ans : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

5272 : Who was the first to become Chief Minister after holding the position of Deputy Chief Minister?
Ans : R. Sankar

5273 : ……is a measure of the development gap between the developed and developing countries?
Ans : Percapita GNP

5274 : Land of White Elephant?
Ans : Thailand

5275 : Father of Conditioned Reflex?
Ans : Ivan Pavlov

5276 : Human Action was written by ?
Ans : Ludwig von Mises

5277 : the Last Viceroy of India?
Ans : Lord Mountbatten

5278 : Who is the author of “Eternal Himalayas”?
Ans : Maj H P S Ahluwalia

5279 : Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics is located at?
Ans : Kolkata (West Bengal)

5280 : Which is the predecessor of the Kerala Judicial Academy established in 2005?
Ans : Directorate of Training started in 1986

5281 : India’s first live action animation hybrid film is?
Ans : Faaby (1993)

5282 : Name the digestive enzyme that converts Peptides to amino acids is?
Ans : Erepsin

5283 : Paper was first used by ?
Ans : Chinese

5284 : Which year India government formally launched Pulse Polio Campaign?
Ans : 1994

5285 : The execution of the Pallivasal Hydroelectric Scheme was during the period of?
Ans : Sri Chitra Thirunal.

5286 : In which year the first Indo-Pak war was fought?
Ans : 1965

5287 : Largest Fresh Water Lake?
Ans : Superior (31; 200 sq.miles) (India)

5288 : Central Drug Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Lucknow (U.P.).

5289 : Who is the author of Ascent of the Everest?
Ans : Sir John Hunt

5290 : Who made primary education compulsory in Travancore in 1817?
Ans : Rani Gauri Parvathi Bai

5291 : Asia’s biggest and the world’s second largest Christian convention?
Ans : Maramon convention

5292 : The Capital of Rwanda?
Ans : Kigali

5293 : Cordelia; Desdemona; Hamlet;
Ans : Shakespeare

5294 : Who is the author of ” Sopanam”?
Ans : Balamani Amma

5295 : Who is the author of “Chameen”?
Ans : Thakazhi Siva Sankara Pillai

5296 : Father of Modem Embryology?
Ans : ErnstVonBaer

5297 : Name the first known Personal Computer?
Ans : The Altair (1975)

5298 : Who is the author of “Manikan”?
Ans : Lalitham bika Antharjenam

5299 : The Great Plague in London broke out in?
Ans : 1665

5300 : Thiruvananthapuram General Hospital was started in 1864 during the reign of ?
Ans : Ayilyam Thirunal.

5301 : Test Tube baby was developed by ?
Ans : Patrick Sleptoe & Robert Edwards (1918)

5302 : Who is the author of “The Conflict of Laws in India ‘”?
Ans : V.C.Govindaraj

5303 : Who is the author of “Eureka”?
Ans : Edgar Allen Poe.

5304 : Who is the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
Ans : Gabriel Garcia Marquez

5305 : Which was the first professional football club in Kerala?
Ans : F C Cochin

5306 : Which country ranks first in the Global Business Competitiveness Index?
Ans : Switzerland

5307 : Who is the author of “Step Across This Line”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

5308 : The Capital of Gabon?
Ans : Libreville

5309 : Who is the author of “Life and Times”?
Ans : V.V.Giri

5310 : Organisms which obtain heir food from non-living material in their environment are called ?
Ans : Saprophytes

5311 : Athirappalli and Vazhachal waterfalls are in?
Ans : Thrissur district

5312 : Who is the author of “Tom Jones”?
Ans : Henry Fielding

5313 : In Kerala which region is known as the home of circus?
Ans : Thalassery inKannur

5314 : Who is the author of “Kavya Narthaki”?
Ans : Changampuzha Krishna Pilla

5315 : Channar Lahala was in ?
Ans : 1859

5316 : Vitamin A; D; E;K are fat soluble whereas vitamin B complex and C are ?
Ans : Water soluble.

5317 : Who is the author of Lord Jim?
Ans : Joseph Conrad

5318 : Forestry is the study of ?
Ans : Forest management and related studies

5319 : Who is the author of “Androcles and the Lion”?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

5320 : Who is the author of “Which writer is known a Bepoor Sulthan”?
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

5321 : Phycology is the study of ?
Ans : Algae

5322 : Who is the author of ” Pramanam”?
Ans : Balamani Amma

5323 : The scientific name of Rabbit is?
Ans : Oryctolagus cuniculas

5324 : The tutelary diety of the city ‘UR’ in Mesopotamia ?
Ans : Nannar

5325 : Japan surrendered before the Axis Powers on ?
Ans : 2-Sep-45

5326 : Jules Rimet Trophy is associated with?
Ans : World Soccer Cup

5327 : Who is the author of “Henry Esmond”?
Ans : Thackeray

5328 : The Currency of U.K.?
Ans : Pound (Sterling)

5329 : The process by which leaves excretes water through stomata is called ?
Ans : transpiration process

5330 : Who is the author of “Letter from Peking”?
Ans : Pearl S Buck

5331 : In plants which carries prepared food from leaves to all parts of plant?
Ans : Phloem

5332 : Who is the author of “Canterbury Tales”?
Ans : Geoffrey Chaucer

5333 : Who is the author of Canterbury Tales ?
Ans : Geoffrey Chaucer

5334 : Which was the first live broadcast murder in the world?
Ans : John F. Kennedy’s assassination

5335 : The Capital of Kiribati?
Ans : Tarawa

5336 : Who is the inventor of Electric Current; Induction of?
Ans : Michael Faraday

5337 : Who is the founder of the Vidhya Poshini Sabha?
Ans : Sahodaran Ayyappan

5338 : American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City by the hijackers on ?
Ans : 11-Sep-01

5339 : Saint Thomas (Apostle) is believed to have landed in Kodungalloor (Muziris) in?
Ans : 52 AD

5340 : …is one of the largest sea birds with a wing span of 80 to 125 inches.?
Ans : Albatross

5341 : The Nuremberg Trials commenced on?
Ans : 20-Nov-45

5342 : Land of Thousand Elephants?
Ans : Laos

5343 : Who is the author of Kore Kagaz ?
Ans : Amrita Pritam

5344 : Who was the chief diety of people during the Sangham Age?
Ans : Kottavai (a form of Durga (war goddess)

5345 : Largest Fresh Water Lake?
Ans : Superior (31; 200 sq.miles) (India)

5346 : Viticulture is?
Ans : Grape cultivation.

5347 : Lowest recorded temperature for a human being to survive?
Ans : 20.30C

5348 : U Thant Cup is associated with?
Ans : Tennis

5349 : Who is the author of ” Dharmapuranam “?
Ans : O.V Vijayan

5350 : Who sent Vasco Da Gama to Kerala?
Ans : Dom Manuel; Portuguese king

5351 : Who is the author of “Pilgrim’s Progress”?
Ans : John Bunyan

5352 : Baghdad is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Tigris

5353 : King’s Cup is associated with?
Ans : Air Races (England)

5354 : Who is the inventor of Cells in the plants?
Ans : Robert Hooke

5355 : Trivandrum Museum building and the main building of Trivandrum University College were constructed during the reign of ?
Ans : AyilyamThirunal.

5356 : Who is the author of “Mahabharatham Kilippattu”?
Ans : Ezhuthachan

5357 : Who is the author of “My Experiments With Truth”?
Ans : Mahatma Gandhi

5358 : First Test Tube Baby?
Ans : Louise Joy Brown

5359 : Who was the first mridangist to win the Sangeetha Kalanidhi as well as Padmabhushan award?
Ans : Palakkad Mani Iyer

5360 : The Capital of Kazakhstan?
Ans : Alma-ata

5361 : Currency whose face value is higher than the internal value is called?
Ans : Token currency

5362 : Which element helps in greening of plants and their rapid growth?
Ans : Nitrogen

5363 : Who is the author of Importance of Being Earnest ?
Ans : Oscar Wilde

5364 : Who is the author of Saz-i- Watan ?
Ans : Munshi Prem Chand

5365 : Non – Violence in Peace and War?
Ans : Gandhiji

5366 : Who is the author of “What Went Wrong”?
Ans : Kiran Bedi

5367 : Who is the author of “The Pasture”?
Ans : Robert Frost

5368 : Who is the author of Kubla Khan ?
Ans : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5369 : Who is the inventor of Stethoscope?
Ans : Rene Lainnec & William Stockes

5370 : In which we can find Banasurankotta in ?
Ans : Wynadu

5371 : China’s leading news paper is ?
Ans : ‘Renin Ribao’ (People’s Daily) of Beijing;

5372 : The Capital of Uzbekistan?
Ans : Tashkent

5373 : Which place is known as the Vatican of Nair community?
Ans : Perunna near Changanasseri

5374 : Last Governor-General of India who also became first Viceroy of India?
Ans : Lord Canning

5375 : Who is the author of “Meghdoot”?
Ans : Kalidas

5376 : Organisation Of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed on?
Ans : November 14;1960

5377 : Who is the author of “Indian War of Independence”?
Ans : V.D.Savarkar

5378 : Who is the author of “Antony and Cleopatra”?
Ans : Shakespeare

5379 : ‘Safety Lamp’ or ‘Davis Lamp’ was invented by ?
Ans : Humphrey Davy in 1816

5380 : Most poisonous bird and the only known poisonous bird in the world is ?
Ans : The Hooded Pitohui from Papua New Guinea

5381 : Where was Sankaracharya born?
Ans : Kalady

5382 : The Hundred years War started during the period of ?
Ans : King Edward III

5383 : Largest Light House (World)?
Ans : Bishop Rock (England)

5384 : Who is the author of “Price of Power”?
Ans : Seymour Hersh

5385 : Who is the inventor of Clock Pendulum?
Ans : Huygens

5386 : Who is the author of “Indira Gandhi A biography”?
Ans : Pupul Jayakar

5387 : Headquarters of OPEC is at ?
Ans : Vienna;(Austria)

5388 : Who is the inventor of Rubber (tyres)?
Ans : Thomas Hancock

5389 : Which was the first Indian pharamaceutical firm listed on New York Stock exchange?
Ans : Dr Reddy’s Laboratories

5390 : The first Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece in ?
Ans : 776 Bc

5391 : Who is the author of The Indian struggle ?
Ans : Subhash Chandra Bose

5392 : Mopla Rebellion and Wagon Tragedy was in ?
Ans : 1921

5393 : Who is the author of Don Juan ?
Ans : Lord Byron

5394 : Who is the author of Poverty and Famines?
Ans : Dr Amartya Sen

5395 : Who became the ruler of Rome after Julius Caeser?
Ans : Octavian (Augustus Caesar)

5396 : The new state of Travancore – Cochin came into existence on?
Ans : 1July 1949.

5397 : Which organ of the body is affected by Pneumonia?
Ans : Lungs

5398 : Who is the author of “Unaccustomed Earth.”?
Ans : Jumpa Lahiri

5399 : Who is the author of The Scarlet Letter?
Ans : Nathaniel Hawthorne

5400 : Japanese Parliament is known as?
Ans : Diet

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5101 : The quantity of blood taken at a time of blood donation is only?
Ans : 300 ml

5102 : Ability of organism to prepare its own food ?
Ans : Autotrophic

5103 : Which film is India’s first neorealistic film?
Ans : Newspaper Boy (1958)

5104 : Who was the last Chief Minister of Thiru-Kochi State ?
Ans : Panampalli Govinda Menon.

5105 : Who is the author of “Verukal”?
Ans : Malayattoor Ramakrishnan

5106 : Rene Frank Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Hockey

5107 : The Currency of Honduras?
Ans : Lempira

5108 : Human bones are made up of Calcium phosphate and?
Ans : Calcium carbonate.

5109 : Who is the author of Beyond Boundaries ?
Ans : Swaraj Paul

5110 : The Capital of Portugal?
Ans : Lisbon

5111 : Ottawa is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Ottawa

5112 : Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Bhavnagar (Gujarat).

5113 : Christianity reached England for the first time by the coming of?
Ans : Romans

5114 : The Currency of Zimbabwe?
Ans : Zimbabwean Dollar

5115 : Who is the author of Vinay Patrika ?
Ans : Tulsidas

5116 : Who is the author of “Future Shock”?
Ans : Alvin Toffler

5117 : Lenin was born in ?
Ans : 1870 April 10 in Simbrisk; Russia

5118 : Physical Research Laboratory is located at?
Ans : Ahmedabad (Gujarat).

5119 : Pollination by Bat ?
Ans : Chiropterephily

5120 : Who was the last Chief Minister of Travancore Cochin State?
Ans : Panampalli Govinda Menon

5121 : The fifth generation computers (present day)use ?
Ans : Artificial Intelligence.

5122 : On the 22nd of 1905 thousands of unarmed Russian workers marched to the Winter Palace of Czar in St.Peterburg demanding administrative reforms. But the army fired at the mob; Hundereds of workers died; thousands wounded. This incident is known as ?
Ans : Bloody Sunday

5123 : What is the name of the ship used by Vasco-da-Gama to sail to India?
Ans : St; Gabriel

5124 : Who is the author of “Liberty and Death”?
Ans : Patrick French

5125 : Who is the author of “Interpreter of Maladies”?
Ans : Jumpa Lahiri

5126 : Beighton Cup is associated with?
Ans : Hockey (Calcutta)

5127 : Who is the inventor of Atomic Theory?
Ans : John Dalton

5128 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Dorian Gray”
Ans : Oscar Wilde

5129 : The Tombs of Egyptian Pharohs were known as ?
Ans : Pyramids

5130 : Who is the author of Issues of Science and Religion?
Ans : Ian Barbour

5131 : Zhivago
Ans : Boris Pasternak

5132 : First Pyramid was built about ?
Ans : 2700 BC

5133 : Which is the largest city in America?
Ans : New York

5134 : Who is the author of “Love Story”?
Ans : Eric Segal

5135 : Venice of the East?
Ans : Bangkok

5136 : Roman Civilisation developed on the banks of which river?
Ans : Tiber in Italy

5137 : Hong Kong was handed over by Britain to China on?
Ans : July I; 1997

5138 : Which country is the largest producer of Silk in the world?
Ans : China

5139 : Who is the author of ‘The Three Musketeers’?
Ans : Alexander Dumas

5140 : Who is the inventor of Raman Effect?
Ans : C.V.Raman

5141 : Father of DNA Finger Printing ?
Ans : Prof.Alec Jeffreys

5142 : Who is the author of Buddha’s Warriors ?
Ans : Mikel Dunham

5143 : Who is the inventor of Electrical Resistance?
Ans : Ohm

5144 : Who is the author of Ganadevata?
Ans : Tara Shankar Bandopadyaya

5145 : Who is the author of Ganadevata?
Ans : Tara Shankar Bandopadyaya

5146 : Lenin was the leader of which section of the party?
Ans : Bolshevic section

5147 : First Woman Chief Minister of State?
Ans : Sucheta Kriplani

5148 : The people living in the parts of Kenya and Tanzania are called?
Ans : Swahilis

5149 : Who is the author of ” Rathrimazha “?
Ans : Sugathakumari

5150 : Which is the Sacred text of the Jew” ?
Ans : Thorah (included in the Old Testament of Bible)

5151 : Who is the author of “What Went Wrong”?
Ans : Kiran Bedi

5152 : The fourth generation computer use ?
Ans : Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) normally called ‘Miracle Chips’.

5153 : Who is the author of ” Tharavadu and Oru Muri Tenga “?
Ans : P. Kesava Dev

5154 : The Currency of Japan?
Ans : Yen

5155 : Who was the first Justice ?
Ans : Jagdish Bhalla

5156 : Who is the author of “Kidnapped”?
Ans : Robert Louis Stevenson

5157 : Who shifted Hussur Kachery from Quilon to Trivandrum?
Ans : Swathi Thirunal

5158 : In the First world war; the Allied Powers comprised of ?
Ans : England; France; Belgium; Serbia and Russia

5159 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Kuppuvachanm Kodachi”
Ans : OV.Vijayan

5160 : The birth place of Prophet Muhammed?
Ans : Mecca

5161 : Which is the first state to introduce e-mail system in Govt. Office?
Ans : Goa

5162 : Which is the most populous city with in the world?
Ans : Shanghai

5163 : Who discovered ECG (Electro Cardio Graph) ?
Ans : Willem Einthovan in 1906.

5164 : The highest Court in China is ?
Ans : The Supreme People’s Court

5165 : In which year Kozhikode Radio station was started?
Ans : 1950

5166 : Who is the inventor of Barometer?
Ans : Torricelli

5167 : The first formal treaty between the English East India Company and the king of Travancore was in ?
Ans : 1723

5168 : Who was the founder of Thiruvananthapuram Cricket Club, first cricket club in Travancore?
Ans : Kerala Varma Valiyakoyithampuran

5169 : The Currency of Ethiopia?
Ans : Birr

5170 : Who is the author of Starry Nights ?
Ans : Shobha De

5171 : Who is the author of “Intruder in the Dust”?
Ans : William Faulkner

5172 : The name ‘vitamin’ is coined by ?
Ans : J.Funk (1912)

5173 : Who is the author of Banker to the poor-The story of the Grameen Bank?
Ans : Muhammad Yunus

5174 : Who is the author of Interpretation of Dreams’?
Ans : Sigmond Freud

5175 : 90% of ozone resides in which layer of the atmosphere?
Ans : Stratosphere.

5176 : Who is the author of It is Always Possible?
Ans : Kiran Bedi

5177 : Who was the Diwan of Sri ChitraThirunal?
Ans : Sir C.P. Ramaswami Ayyer

5178 : Which fish was declared as ths;official fish of Kerala in 2010?
Ans : Etroplus (pearl spot)

5179 : Who is the author of “Doll’s House”?
Ans : Ibsen

5180 : Who is the author of ” Shristiyum Shristavum “?
Ans : Prof. S. Guptan

5181 : Which gland secretes tears in the eyes?
Ans : Lachrymal gland

5182 : Who is the author of “Trinity”?
Ans : Leon Uris

5183 : National Environmental Engineering Institute is located at?
Ans : Nagpur.

5184 : The Capital of Bahrain?
Ans : Manama

5185 : Who is the author of “Kappirikalude Nattil”?
Ans : S K Pottekadu

5186 : Yachana Yathra was led by ?
Ans : V.T. Bhattathirippadu in 1931 from Trichur to Chandragiri river which lasted for seven days

5187 : Who is the author of Living Room?
Ans : Graham Greene

5188 : Who discovered Monsoon winds in 45 AD ?
Ans : Hippalus

5189 : Srirangapatnam is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Cauvery

5190 : Who is the inventor of Avogradra’s Hypothesis?
Ans : Avogadro

5191 : Who is the author of How to change the world ?
Ans : Eric Hobsbawm

5192 : Indian Rare Earth is located at?
Ans : Chavara

5193 : Longest Epic?
Ans : Mahabharatha

5194 : Marthanda Varma was born in the year 1705 and came to the throne of Travancore in?
Ans : 1729

5195 : Who is considered as the father of the nation of Columbia?
Ans : Simon Bolivor

5196 : Who is the author of Cherry Orchard?
Ans : Anton Chekov

5197 : Who is the author of “Nuclear Weapons”?
Ans : B.S.Gupta

5198 : Who was the commander of Carthage in the Punic wars?
Ans : Hannibal

5199 : Who is the author of Othello ?
Ans : William Shakespeare

5200 : During which period of evolution man Family life began ?
Ans : Neolithic Age

5201 : Who is the author of “Gulliver’s Travels”?
Ans : Jonathan Swift

5202 : Who is the author of “Far from the Madding Crowd”?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

5203 : The area where Mesopotamian civilisation existed belonged to is now in ?
Ans : Iraq

5204 : Who is the author of “Rajtarangini”?
Ans : Kalhana

5205 : Who is the author of “And Quiet Flows the Don”?
Ans : Mikhail Sholokov

5206 : The Currency of Nigeria?
Ans : Naira

5207 : Land of Setting Sun?
Ans : United Kingdom

5208 : The Romanoff Dynasty of Russia was founded by ?
Ans : Michael Romanoff in 1613

5209 : Which Governor General gave him the name “Raja Kesava Das”?
Ans : Lord Mornington (Lord Wellesley).

5210 : The Currency of Monaco?
Ans : French Franc

5211 : Which were the two division of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party?
Ans : Bolsheviks; the majority party and Menshiviks; the minority party

5212 : The Capital of Ireland (or Eire)?
Ans : Dublin

5213 : Which is the only place in Kerala where “Uru” s (Arabian Trading Vessel) are made?
Ans : Beypore

5214 : World War I fought during the period?
Ans : 1914- 1918

5215 : Which race is considered as the originators of the modem pattern of writing?
Ans : Phoeniseans

5216 : Who is the author of “White House Years”?
Ans : Henry Kissinger

5217 : Father of Natures History/ Father of Biology ?
Ans : Aristotle

5218 : Who is the author of “Tyagpatra”?
Ans : Jainendra

5219 : Name the American Presidents who got Nobel Prize for Peace?
Ans : Theodor Roosevelt; Jimmy Carter; Wudrow Wilson

5220 : Who is the author of “Strangers and Brothers”?
Ans : C.P.Snow

5221 : Who is the author of “Blind Beauty”?
Ans : Boris Pasternak

5222 : Which is the only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ?
Ans : Great Pyramid at Giza

5223 : Who is the author of Post Office?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

5224 : When established Kerala Kalamandalam was situated in?
Ans : Cheruthuruthi

5225 : Who is the author of Fathers and Sons?
Ans : Ivan Turgenev

5226 : Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy is located in?
Ans : Thrissur

5227 : The Capital of Turkey?
Ans : Ankara

5228 : The Capital of Ukraine?
Ans : Kiev

5229 : Radha Mohan Cup is associated with?
Ans : Polo

5230 : The Capital of Kiribati?
Ans : Tarawa

5231 : Who is the author of Business at the Speed of Thought?
Ans : Bill Gates

5232 : Who is the author of “Oedipus the King”?
Ans : Sophocles

5233 : Communist leader who proclaimed war with Cuban ruler Batista in 1958?
Ans : Fidel Castro

5234 : Who is the author of Androcles and the Lion ?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

5235 : The Capital of Bahamas?
Ans : Nassau

5236 : Who is the author of Ethics for New Millennium ?
Ans : Dalai Lama

5237 : Njeralathu Ramappoduval was associated with?
Ans : Sopana Sangeetham

5238 : Who is the inventor of Refrigerator?
Ans : Harrison & Catlin

5239 : Who is the author of “Ain-i-Akbari”?
Ans : AbulFazal

5240 : What is the name of the Alappuzha Medical College, the first private sector Medical College in Kerala?
Ans : Thirumala Devaswam Medical College started in 1963

5241 : Who is the author of “All’s Well that Ends Well”?
Ans : Shakespeare

5242 : Who is the author of “Good Earth”?
Ans : Pearl S.Buck

5243 : Who is the inventor of Atomic bomb?
Ans : Otto Hahn

5244 : Who is the author of Ambassador’s Journal ?
Ans : J. K Galbraith

5245 : Who is the author of “Deadly Embrace – Pakistan; America and The Future of the Global Jihad”?
Ans : Bruce Riedel

5246 : Who is the author of Family Reunion ?
Ans : TSEliot

5247 : Who is the author of “The White Tiger”?
Ans : Arvind Adiga

5248 : Who is the creator of the famous character “N issar Ahammed”
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

5249 : Wimbledon (England) is associated with which Sport?
Ans : Lawn Tennis

5250 : RBI has introduced KYC norms in India to prevent ?
Ans : Money Laundering

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4801 : National Institute of Oceanography is located at?
Ans : Panaji (Goa).

4802 : The Capital of United Arab Emirates?
Ans : Abu Dhabi

4803 : Sericulture is?
Ans : Rearing of silk worms.

4804 : Choice of Technique was written by ?
Ans : Amartya Sen

4805 : Hottest Place (India)?
Ans : Barmer (Rajasthan)

4806 : Who was the first DGP of Kerala?
Ans : Ananthsankar Iyer

4807 : Name the first Super computer made by Seymour Cray; the father of super computer?
Ans : UNIVAC 1103

4808 : Who is the author of “Bisarjan”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

4809 : Three states of China existed in the 300 BC?
Ans : Chin; Chu; Ehi

4810 : Who is the author of “Ethics for New Millennium”?
Ans : Dalai Lama

4811 : Who is the author of “The Story of My life; “?
Ans : Morarji Desai

4812 : Vittal Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Football

4813 : Stealing one’s creative work is known as?
Ans : Plagiarism

4814 : Which was the first professional football club in Kerala?
Ans : F C Cochin

4815 : Name the digestive enzyme that converts Carbohydrates to’ Maltose is ?
Ans : Amylase (Pancreas)

4816 : Which is the most widely spoken language in Latin America?
Ans : Spanish

4817 : Who is the author of ” Azuravithu “?
Ans : M.T.Vasudevan Nair

4818 : Who formed the Cholamandal Artists village, 9 km from Chennai in 1966?
Ans : K C S Panicker

4819 : Which language is the mother tongue of the largest number of people in the world?
Ans : Mandarin

4820 : Air Force Flying College is located at?
Ans : Jodhpur (Rajasthan)

4821 : First Test Tube Baby?
Ans : Indira

4822 : Which gland secretes saliva in the mouth?
Ans : Salivary gland

4823 : Who is the author of Starry Nights ?
Ans : Shobha De

4824 : Which empire is also known as Second Chera Empire?
Ans : Kulasekharas of Mahodayapuram.

4825 : Who is the author of “Dharmaraja and Rama Raja Bhadur”?
Ans : CV Raman Pillai

4826 : The term’ Biology’ is coined by which French naturalist ?
Ans : Jean Lamarck.

4827 : Reformation was started in Germany by ?
Ans : Martin Luther in 1517 (This resulted in the formation of Protestant Religion)

4828 : The Capital of Kirghizia?
Ans : Frunze

4829 : Sterilization process in male is called ?
Ans : Vasectomy

4830 : Who is the author of “Nehru The Making of India”?
Ans : MJ. Akbar

4831 : Oliver Twist; Pip; Estella;
Ans : Charles Dickens

4832 : Who is the creator of the famous character Tess?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

4833 : Who is the author of “Chekerunna Pakshikal”?
Ans : Madhavikutty (Kamala Surayya)

4834 : Which place was captured by Israel from Syria in 1967?
Ans : Golan Height

4835 : Who is the author of “Tulsi Sat Sai”?
Ans : Tulsidas

4836 : Which Vitamin is essential for blood coagulation?
Ans : Vitamin K.

4837 : The Currency of Fiji?
Ans : Dollar

4838 : Who is the author of Amsterdam?
Ans : Ian McEwan

4839 : Who is the author of “Saz-i- Watan”?
Ans : Munshi Prem Chand

4840 : The Currency of El Salvador?
Ans : Colon

4841 : Largest in Population?
Ans : China followed by India

4842 : The Capital of Zimbabwe?
Ans : Harare

4843 : Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into useful compounds like nitrates with the help of bacteria and fungi is known as ?
Ans : Nitrogen Fixation

4844 : The total number of bones in adult human body is ?
Ans : 206

4845 : Boiling upto 72oC for at least ’15 second then followed by immediate cooling to 4oc and storing at low temperature is called ?
Ans : Pasteurisation of milk

4846 : Who is the author of “Freedom from Fear”?
Ans : Aung San Suu Ki

4847 : The part of the earth and its atmosphere that is capable of supporting living things is?
Ans : Biosphere.

4848 : City of Eternal Springs?
Ans : Quito (S.America)

4849 : Leprosy is also known as ?
Ans : Hansen’s disease.

4850 : Who is the author of Intruder in the Dust ?
Ans : William Faulkner

4851 : Who is the author of “In Memmorium”?
Ans : Alfred Tennyson

4852 : Who is known as Lady with the Lamp ?
Ans : Florence Nightingale

4853 : Who is the author of Against the Grains ?
Ans : Boris Yeltsin

4854 : Name the residence of British Monarch?
Ans : Buckingham Palace

4855 : Who is the author of “The Mother”?
Ans : Maxim Gorky

4856 : Who is the author of “Freedom at Midnight”?
Ans : Larry Collins & Dominique Lapiare

4857 : Who constructed the ‘Nedumkotta’ or ‘Travancore lines’ in central Kerala in central Kerala to prevent the Mysore invasion?
Ans : Dharmaraja

4858 : Who is the inventor of Tuberculosis bacilli?
Ans : Robert Koch

4859 : Who is the author of “Prison Diary”?
Ans : Jayaprakash Narayan

4860 : Who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta?
Ans : Thucydides; a Greek historian

4861 : Who is the author of Kidnapped ?
Ans : Robert Louis Stevenson

4862 : Who is the author of “The Google Story”?
Ans : David A. Vise

4863 : Hundred Years War (1337-1453) was fought between?
Ans : England and France

4864 : Who is the author of “Unto This Last”?
Ans : John Ruskin

4865 : Protein used for the possible treatment of virus infections and cancer?
Ans : Interferons

4866 : Who is the author of “Ulysses”?
Ans : James Joyce

4867 : Who gave the revolutionary message – “No Caste; No Religion; No God for Man”?
Ans : Sahodaran Ayyappan

4868 : Who is the author of “Confidential Clerk”?
Ans : T.S.Eliot

4869 : Who is the author of ” Shalimar”?
Ans : Manohar Malgonkar

4870 : Who is the inventor of Radio Telephone?
Ans : Lee De Forest

4871 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Thirumukathu Pilla;”?
Ans : C.V.Ramanpilla

4872 : Who is the author of “The Dark Room”?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

4873 : Who is the author of “Malgudi Days”?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

4874 : Who was the first woman Chancellor of Germany ?
Ans : Angela Merckel In 2005

4875 : Kollam Era was started in ?
Ans : AD 825 (August 15) (Chingam 1)

4876 : Who invented the Compact Disc?
Ans : James T. Russell

4877 : Chakola Gold Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Football

4878 : St. Peters Basilica in Rome was built under the patronage of Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X It was designed by?
Ans : Michelangelo

4879 : Longest Railway Route?
Ans : Himsagar Express

4880 : Who is the author of “Pathumayude Aadu”?
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

4881 : Who is the author of “Age of Reason”?
Ans : Jean-Paul Sartre

4882 : City of Rome was bilt by by ?
Ans : Romulas and Remus

4883 : Who is the author of “Through the Looking Glass”?
Ans : Lewis Carroll

4884 : Headquarters of Kerala Police is located in?
Ans : Thiruvananthapuram

4885 : Golden City?
Ans : Johannesburg

4886 : Who is the author of “Mother India”?
Ans : Katherine Mayo

4887 : Which was the first country in the field of colonialism?
Ans : Portugal

4888 : Who is the author of The Museum of Innocence?
Ans : Orhan Pamuk

4889 : Largest reptile is?
Ans : Crocodile

4890 : These battles in the 12th and 13th centuries between Christians and Muslims in Palestine are known as ?
Ans : Crusades

4891 : The Capital of Thailand?
Ans : Bangkok

4892 : The newspaper Santishtavadi was published in 1867 from?
Ans : Kottayam

4893 : Who is the author of Between Hope and History?
Ans : Bill Clinton

4894 : The instrument used to measure the blood pressure in Human body ?
Ans : Sphygmomanometer

4895 : Pazhassi Raja was shot dead on ?
Ans : 30th November 1805

4896 : The mount where Saint Benedict founded his monastery?
Ans : Monte Cassino

4897 : The place known as the Financial Capital of Europe is?
Ans : Zurich in Switzerland

4898 : a lyric poem; often in the form of address is known as?
Ans : Ode

4899 : Who is the author of Dario Ruben?
Ans : Pablo Neruda

4900 : The Currency of Cyprus?
Ans : Cyprus Pound

4901 : Himalayan Mountaineering Institute is located at?
Ans : Darjeeling (West Bengal)

4902 : Who is the author of Going After Cacciato ?
Ans : Tim 0′ Brien

4903 : Who is the inventor of Jet Propulsion?
Ans : Frank Whittle

4904 : Who is the author of “India Discovered”?
Ans : John Keay

4905 : Who is the author of ” Clear Light of Day”?
Ans : Anita Desai

4906 : Father of Comic dramas?
Ans : Sophocles

4907 : Who was the Diwan of Marthanda Varma ?
Ans : Ramayyan Dalawa

4908 : What was the major occupation of the: people in the Sangham Period ?
Ans : Agriculture

4909 : Who is the author of “Swapnavasavdatta”?
Ans : Bhasa

4910 : Well known Greek dramatists who wrote comedies is?
Ans : Aristophanes

4911 : Who is the author of Vinaya Patrika ?
Ans : Thulasi Das

4912 : Who is the author of “How to change the world”?
Ans : Eric Hobsbawm

4913 : Experiments with Plant Hybrids is a book by ?
Ans : Rev. Gregor Mendel

4914 : Who is the author of “Paradise Lost Paradise· Regained”?
Ans : John Milton

4915 : The credit to become the opposition leader for the longest period goes to?
Ans : E.M.S.

4916 : Reformation movement in England was known as?
Ans : Anglicanism

4917 : World’s first census was conducted at ?
Ans : USA on 1790

4918 : Where was Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishnapilla born?
Ans : At Neyyattinkkara in Thriruvananthapuram.

4919 : ……is the market for very short term loans?
Ans : Money Market

4920 : Who is the inventor of Match (safety)?
Ans : J.E.Landstorm

4921 : Who is the author of After the Dark Night?
Ans : S M.Ali

4922 : Deficiency of Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) causes?
Ans : Beri Beri

4923 : Who is the author of “The man who killed Gandhi”?
Ans : Manohar Malgonkar

4924 : Who is the author of “Light That Failed”?
Ans : Rudyard Kipling

4925 : Who is the author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress”?
Ans : John Bunyan

4926 : Who is the author of As I See ?
Ans : Kiran Bcdi

4927 : Rohinton Baria Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Cricket (Inter-University)

4928 : Jaswant Singh Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Best Services Sportsman

4929 : Who is the author of “She Stoops to Conquer”?
Ans : Oliver Goldsmith

4930 : Palani; Karuthamma;
Ans : Thakazhi

4931 : Shanghai is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Yangtse-Kiang

4932 : The Capital of Japan in the 8th Century?
Ans : Nara

4933 : Who is the author of Arabian Nights ?
Ans : Sir Richard Burton

4934 : Who is the inventor of Pneumatic Tyre?
Ans : Dunlop

4935 : What is known as the’ Bible of English Liberty’?
Ans : The Magna Carta

4936 : Who is known as Maiden Queen ?
Ans : Elizabeth I

4937 : Which is the world’s longest artificially created water way ?
Ans : The Grand Canal (extends more than 1600 Kilometers from Hangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north)

4938 : Who is the inventor of Steel (Stainless)?
Ans : Henry Bearley

4939 : Rangaswamy Cup is associated with?
Ans : National Hockey Championship

4940 : Exophthalmic goitre is also known as?
Ans : Grave’s disease.

4941 : The Capital of Vanuatu?
Ans : Vila

4942 : Who was the first President of Sahitya academy?
Ans : Sardar KM Panicker

4943 : League or Nations was formed on the basis of the ‘Fourteen Points’ put forward by ?
Ans : Woodrow Wilson in 1918

4944 : By which treaty The United States of America came to being ?
Ans : Treaty of Paris in 1783

4945 : Tallest Animal?
Ans : Giraffe

4946 : Pearl Harbour attack was on ?
Ans : 7th December 1941

4947 : Who is the author of “My Early Life”?
Ans : Gandhiji

4948 : On which date the first Chief Minister of Kerala EMS Namboothiripad sworn in?
Ans : 15-Apr-57

4949 : ……is the marke tvalue of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period?
Ans : Gross domestic product

4950 : Which state in India has the highest literacy?
Ans : Kerala with 93.91%

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4951 : Who is the author of “The Bride of the Sahib and other Stories.”?
Ans : Khushwant Singh

4952 : Who is the author of Adam Bede?
Ans : George Eliot

4953 : Who is the author of “Far from the Madding Crowd”?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

4954 : Who is the author of “To Live or Not to Live”?
Ans : Nirad C. Chauduri

4955 : Who is the inventor of Wireless Telegraphy?
Ans : G.Marconi

4956 : Hyderabad is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Musi

4957 : Kerala Folklore Academy It is an autonomous Corporate body constituted on?
Ans : 28-Jun-95

4958 : The study of ageing is known as ?
Ans : Gerentology

4959 : Who is the author of “Two Lives”?
Ans : Vikram Seth

4960 : The folk art Pulikali is is mainly practiced in?
Ans : Thrissur district

4961 : The century from 1750 to 1850 is also known as ?
Ans : The ‘Age of Revolutions’

4962 : The Goal of Stockholm convention was?
Ans : To reduce the use of POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) or Dirty Dozen

4963 : Pope John Paul II died on?
Ans : 2nd April 2005

4964 : The Capital of China?
Ans : Beijing

4965 : Who is the author of “The End of Imagination”?
Ans : Arundhati Roy

4966 : First American President who was ousted from his party while in Office ?
Ans : John Tailor

4967 : In an electronic spreadsheet; intersection of a column and a row is called?
Ans : Cell

4968 : Who is the author of “Alice in wonderland”?
Ans : Lewis Carroll

4969 : Who is the inventor of Chloroform?
Ans : James Young Simpson

4970 : Stock exchange Index of Brazil is?
Ans : Bove spa

4971 : Name the tallest tree in the world?
Ans : Coast Redwood in the Redwood National Park in California

4972 : Which was the first film studio in Kerala?
Ans : The Travancore National pictures established by JC Daniel in 1926 in Nagarcoil

4973 : After the death of Dharmaraja; Who came to the throne of Travancore?
Ans : Balarama Varma

4974 : Plant systematics is the study of ?
Ans : Classification and naming of plants

4975 : Who is the author of “The Pick up”?
Ans : Nadine Gordimer

4976 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Friday; Robinson Crusoe”?
Ans : Daniel Defoe

4977 : Where was Chatampi Swamikal born in?
Ans : Kannammoola in Thiruvananthapuram district.

4978 : Who is the author of Song of Solomon?
Ans : Toni Morrison [He was first African American writer (1993) to be awarded Nobel Prize for Literature]

4979 : Who is the author of “Freedom Song”?
Ans : Amit Chaudhuri

4980 : Which is the first newspaper of Kerala?
Ans : Rajyasamacharam’ { June 1847 }

4981 : Who founded the Cheraman Mosque at Kodungallur?
Ans : Malik Bin Dinar

4982 : America was discovered by ?
Ans : Christopher Columbus in 12th October 1492

4983 : The Currency of Papua New Guinea?
Ans : Kina

4984 : Who is the author of “Post Office; The (Dak Ghar)”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

4985 : Who is the author of “Man of Destiny”?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

4986 : Munnar Hydel Tourism Project was inaugurated in?
Ans : 2000

4987 : Who is the author of Savitri ?
Ans : Aurobindo Ghosh

4988 : Who is the author of Temple Tiger ?
Ans : Jim Corbett

4989 : World’s first heart transplantation was performed on 3rd December 1967 by?
Ans : Christian Bernard.

4990 : Who is the author of “Social Contract”?
Ans : Rousseau

4991 : Who is the author of “The Irving Stone”?
Ans : Arthur Halley

4992 : Who is known as II Duke ?
Ans : Mussolini

4993 : Who is the author of ” Magic seeds”?
Ans : V.S.Naipaul

4994 : Who is the author of “Kanyadaan”?
Ans : VijayTendulkar

4995 : City of Palaces?
Ans : Kolkata & Chandigarh

4996 : Who was the first Olympian from Kerala ?
Ans : Suresh Babu

4997 : Largest; Biggest & heaviest?
Ans : Jupiter

4998 : Smallest Independent?
Ans : Vatican (Italy)

4999 : Which religion is considered as the mother religion of Christianity and Islam?
Ans : Judaism

5000 : Who is the author of “Fairie Queene”?
Ans : Edmund Spenser

5001 : Name the first Super computer made by Seymour Cray; the father of super computer?
Ans : UNIVAC 1103

5002 : The famous saying “I came; 1saw; 1conquered’ is associated with?
Ans : Julius Caesar

5003 : Who is known as the Father of Modern Malayalam prose
Ans : Kerala Varma Valiyakoi Thampuran

5004 : Kala-azar (Leishmaniasis) is transmitted by ?
Ans : Sand flies.

5005 : Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes
Ans : Arthur Conan Doyle

5006 : Nelson Mandela International Day is on?
Ans : 18th July

5007 : Which ruler who ruled Japan during the 16th Century is known as ‘Napolean of Japan’?
Ans : Iasu Tokugama

5008 : Who is the author of “The Unknown Man; “?
Ans : Lewis Carrol

5009 : Who is the author of In Memmorium?
Ans : Alfred Tennyson

5010 : Who is the author of “Ape and Essence”?
Ans : A.Huxley

5011 : Father of Ethology?
Ans : Konrad Lorentz

5012 : Who is the author of “Amma”?
Ans : Balamani Amma

5013 : The Capital of Philippines?
Ans : Manila (Quezon City)

5014 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Mandan Muttappa”
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

5015 : Who was the second foreigner to receive the Bharat Ratna?
Ans : Nelson Mandela

5016 : Who is the author of Song of Solomon?
Ans : Toni Morrison [He was first African American writer (1993) to be awarded Nobel Prize for Literature]

5017 : Who is the author of Monsoon ?
Ans : Wilbur Smith

5018 : Who is the author of “Arundhati Roy was awarded Booker Prize in the year”?
Ans : 1997

5019 : Cairo is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Nile

5020 : Which is the largest gland in the human body?
Ans : Liver

5021 : Father of Modem Embryology?
Ans : Ernst Von Baer

5022 : Largest Desert (India)?
Ans : Thar Desert (Rajasthan)

5023 : Egyptian Sun God was known as?
Ans : ‘Ra’ or ‘Re’

5024 : Who is the author of Baburnama ?
Ans : Babur (Translated into English by John Falkland)

5025 : Who is the author of ” Mayilpeeli”?
Ans : O.N.V Kurup

5026 : Who is the author of “Living History”?
Ans : Hillary Clinton

5027 : In which year the first Indo-Pak war was fought?
Ans : 1965

5028 : Who is the author of “An Equal Music”?
Ans : Vikram Seth

5029 : What is considered as the predecessor of S.N.D.P Yogam?
Ans : The Vavoottuyogam started at Aruvippuram

5030 : Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into useful compounds like nitrates with the help of bacteria and fungi is known as ?
Ans : Nitrogen Fixation

5031 : The Capital of Mozambique?
Ans : Maputo

5032 : Who is the inventor of Electric Lamp?
Ans : Edison

5033 : Who is the author of Death in Venice ?
Ans : Thomas Mann

5034 : Who is the author of “End of an Era”?
Ans : C.S.Pandit

5035 : Air Force Administrative Staff College is located at?
Ans : Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)

5036 : Who is the author of Fairie Queen?
Ans : Edmund Spenser

5037 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Appukili; Ravi; Mollakka”?
Ans : OV.Vijayan

5038 : The Attingal Outbreak was on?
Ans : 15 April 1721.

5039 : Which was the first Malayalam Movie ?
Ans : Vlgatakumaran

5040 : Lao-Tse was the founder of the most important religion of China known as?
Ans : Taoism

5041 : For how many months the Vaikkom Sathyagraha lasted?
Ans : 20 months.

5042 : The” Electricity Agitation” Which agitation was organised in Cochi against the privitization of Electricity supply in Cochin Town?
Ans : Diwan R.K. Shanmukham Chetti

5043 : Who is the author of The Social Contract ?
Ans : Rousseau

5044 : The Currency of Uruguay?
Ans : Nuero Peso

5045 : Who is the author of Men from Stone Age to Clone Age ?
Ans : Bob Beale

5046 : Who is the author of Comedy of Errors ?
Ans : William Shakespeare

5047 : Energy is stored in the mitochondria as ?
Ans : ATP molecules

5048 : SmallPox vaccine was discovered by ?
Ans : Edward Jenner (1786)

5049 : Dhyan Chand Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Hockey

5050 : Who is known as the Father of history?
Ans : Herodotus

5051 : Who is the author of Three Musketeers ?
Ans : Alexander Dumas

5052 : First person to reach the South Pole?
Ans : Amundsen

5053 : Who is the author of “A Judge’s Miscellany”?
Ans : M.Hidayathullah

5054 : Who is the author of “Beast and Man”?
Ans : Murry Midgley

5055 : Who is the author of “Tom Sawyer”?
Ans : Mark Twain

5056 : Planet Nearest (to the Sun)?
Ans : Mercury

5057 : Who is the author of “Tess of the d’Urberville”?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

5058 : The scientific name of Jack fruit is?
Ans : Artocarpus heterophyllus

5059 : Who is the author of The Road Ahead ?
Ans : Bill Gates

5060 : Who is the author of “A Fraction of the Whole”?
Ans : Steve Toltz

5061 : The total number of bones in adult human body is ?
Ans : 206

5062 : Who laid the foundation stone of Old Secretariat complex on 7 December 1865?
Ans : Ayilyam Thirunal

5063 : First Indian state to pass a Sports Bill is?
Ans : Kerala

5064 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Appunni; Amarsingh;”?
Ans : M.T. Vasudevan Nair

5065 : The Capital of Laos .P.D.R.?
Ans : Vientiane

5066 : Who is the author of ‘Thottiyude Makan’?
Ans : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

5067 : Workshop of Europe?
Ans : Belgium

5068 : Who is the inventor of Welding (Electric)?
Ans : Thomson

5069 : Who is the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin ?
Ans : H S Stowe

5070 : Who is the author of “The Upturned Soil”?
Ans : Mikhail Sholokhov

5071 : Who is the author of Tales from Shakespeare ?
Ans : Charles Lamb

5072 : Who is the author of “Changing”?
Ans : Liv Ullmaan

5073 : Who is the author of “Wuthering Heights”?
Ans : Emily Bronte

5074 : Who is the author of “Kadambari”?
Ans : Bana Bhatt

5075 : Who is the author of “Shalimar”?
Ans : Manohar Malgonkar

5076 : What is the literacy of Kerala as per the 2011 census?
Ans : 93. 91%

5077 : Who is the author of “Glimpses of World History”?
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru

5078 : Who was the first Central Cabinet Minister from Kerala?
Ans : Dr.John Mathai (1947- 50)

5079 : The Sahitya academy was shifted to its present location at city of Thrissur on?
Ans : Sep-57

5080 : The smallest ape is?
Ans : Gibbon.

5081 : Plants of deserts are called?
Ans : Xerophytes

5082 : Who is the author of “Blue Bird”?
Ans : Maurice Maeterlink

5083 : League or Nations was formed on the basis of the ‘Fourteen Points’ put forward by ?
Ans : Woodrow Wilson in 1918

5084 : Who was the last Manchu Emperor?
Ans : Puyi; a six year old boy

5085 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Mr. Micawber; Jacob Marley;”?
Ans : Charles Dickens

5086 : Who is the author of ” A House for Mr. Biswas”?
Ans : V.S.Naipaul

5087 : Who is the inventor of Laughing Gas?
Ans : Priestley

5088 : Who is the author of ” Simhabhoomi “?
Ans : S K Pottekadu

5089 : Who is the author of “A Hindu View of Life”?
Ans : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

5090 : Which year was declared by UN as International Literacy Year?
Ans : 1990

5091 : Who is the author of “Black Holes & Baby Universes”?
Ans : Stephan Hawking

5092 : Who is the author of A Farewall to Arms?
Ans : Earnest Hemingway

5093 : The Capital of Northern Ireland?
Ans : Belfast

5094 : The United Nations Commission On International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was established in?
Ans : 1996

5095 : The first systematic census of Travancore was taken on May 18; 1875 by?
Ans : AyilyamThirunal.

5096 : Who is the author of Les Miserables ?
Ans : Victor Hugo

5097 : Who is the author of “Kamayani”?
Ans : Jai Shanker Prasad

5098 : Who is the author of Great Tragedy?
Ans : l.A. Bhutto

5099 : Which is the first sports school in Kerala?
Ans : G V Raja sports school

5100 : Who is the author of “Ambalamani”?
Ans : Sugathakumari

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4651 : Who is the author of ” Karana Booshanam”?
Ans : Uloor S Parameshwara Iyer

4652 : Who is the author of “Sarada”?
Ans : Oyarathu Chandu Menon

4653 : Who is the author of Murder on the Orient Express ?
Ans : Agatha Christie

4654 : Who is the author of “Persuasion”?
Ans : Jane Austen

4655 : Who is the inventor of Cinema?
Ans : Nicolas Lumiere & Edison

4656 : Who is the author of “Shristiyum Shristavum”?
Ans : Prof. S. Guptan

4657 : Who is known as the Grand Father of Magic in Kerala?
Ans : Prof Vazhakunnam Neelakandan Nambhoothiri

4658 : Land of Thunderbolt?
Ans : Bhutan

4659 : Lowest recorded temperature for a human being to survive?
Ans : 20.30C

4660 : Who is the author of ” Poovampazham”?
Ans : Karoor Neelakanda Pillai

4661 : The Currency of Costa Rica?
Ans : Colone

4662 : Presence of excess proteins in urine ?
Ans : Proteinuria.

4663 : Who was the commander of Carthage in the Punic wars?
Ans : Hannibal

4664 : Great tragedies of Shakespeare are ?
Ans : ‘Hamlet’; ‘Macbeth’; ‘Othello and King Lear’

4665 : Where was the first Radio Station in Kerala?
Ans : Thiruvananthapuram

4666 : What is the name of the first cloned cat?
Ans : Carbon copy ( in 2001; at Texas)

4667 : Chavittu Nadakam is a highly colorful Latin Christian classical art form originated in?
Ans : Cochin

4668 : Who is the author of “Clear Light of Day”?
Ans : Anita Desai

4669 : World Population Day is on?
Ans : 11-Jul

4670 : SmallPox causing virus is ?
Ans : Variola virus

4671 : Which is the birthplace of the great Mappila poet Moyinkutty Vaidyar?
Ans : Kondotty

4672 : Small Island where Columbus landed in 1492?
Ans : Wattlings Island

4673 : The science of classifying organisms is called ?
Ans : Taxonomy.

4674 : Who is the author of “Utopia-A Bold New World”?
Ans : Shishir Gupta

4675 : Who is the author of Mysterious Universe ?
Ans : James Jeans

4676 : Who is the author of Premonitions?
Ans : P.N. Haksar

4677 : Who is the author of “Wilhelm Meister”?
Ans : Goethe

4678 : Who is considered as the father of modem Russia?
Ans : Peter the Great

4679 : Who is the author of “Dr Zhivago; .”?
Ans : Boris Pasternak

4680 : Which book influenced Mahatma Gandhi to have a new vision in life?
Ans : Unto This Last by John Ruskin

4681 : U Thant Cup is associated with?
Ans : Tennis

4682 : Who is the author of India from Curzon to Nehru and After ?
Ans : Durga Das

4683 : Who is the author of Much Ado About Nothing?
Ans : Shakespeare

4684 : Tropical forests are also known as ?
Ans : Evergreen Rain forests.

4685 : The Capital of Chad?
Ans : N’ Djamena

4686 : The smallest component of an image that can be transmitted or received in a video display system is known as?
Ans : Pixel

4687 : In the Battle of Water Loo in1815 British force was led by?
Ans : Duke of Wellington

4688 : Who was the first Rajya Sabha member to become the Chief Minister of Kerala?
Ans : C.Achuthamenon

4689 : The Human development Index can have a value between?
Ans : 0 and 1

4690 : Who is the author of Rangbhoomi ?
Ans : Munshi Prem Chand

4691 : Who is the inventor of Watch (winding)?
Ans : Greguet

4692 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Madhavan; Panchu Menon”
Ans : O. Chandu Menon

4693 : The Capital of Norway?
Ans : Oslo

4694 : Who founded the Cheraman Mosque at Kodungallur?
Ans : Malik Bin Dinar

4695 : First Democratic President of South Africa is ?
Ans : Nelson Mandela

4696 : A person who used his or her expertise to gain access to other computers to get information illegally or to do damage is called ?
Ans : Hacker

4697 : The Currency of Portugal?
Ans : Escudo

4698 : The name ‘Pacific’ was given to the ocean by?
Ans : Ferdinant D Megallan

4699 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Portio”
Ans : Shakespeare

4700 : Epsom (England) is associated with which Sport?
Ans : Derby Horse Races

4701 : Who is the author of ” Uppu “?
Ans : O.N.V Kurup

4702 : Vizzy Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Cricket

4703 : League of Nations was disbanded in?
Ans : 1945

4704 : Who is the author of “Idols”?
Ans : Sunil Gavaskar

4705 : Who is the inventor of Blood grouping?
Ans : Dr.Costella and Dr.Moss

4706 : Who is the author of The Tempest;?
Ans : William Shakespeare

4707 : Who is the author of Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Ans : Shakespeare

4708 : Stealing one’s creative work is known as?
Ans : Plagiarism

4709 : Cell which is the smallest and fundamental unit of life was discovered by?
Ans : Robert Hook in 1665 and published under the title Micrographia.

4710 : Who is considered as the founder of the Persian Empire?
Ans : Cyrus

4711 : World Population crossed 7 billion on ?
Ans : October 31st 2011

4712 : Vitamin D is also called?
Ans : Calciferol

4713 : Who is the author of ” Kerala Sahitya Charitham (5 vol 7 part) “?
Ans : Uloor S Parameshwara Iyer

4714 : Who is the inventor of Yellow fever; cause of?
Ans : Reed

4715 : India’s first Eco tourism Project was inaugurated in?
Ans : Thenmala in Kollam district

4716 : Who is the author of “New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy”?
Ans : A.B.Vajpayee

4717 : The Currency of Cyprus?
Ans : Cyprus Pound

4718 : ‘Damayanthi Talking to a Swan’ is a famous painting of?
Ans : Raja Ravi Varma

4719 : ‘C’ programming language was developed by ?
Ans : Dennis Ritchie.

4720 : Who is the author of ” Magdalana Mariam”?
Ans : Vallathol Narayana Menon

4721 : Who is the author of “Ponni”?
Ans : Malayattoor Ramakrishnan

4722 : Who is the author of “Letters from a Father to a Daughter”?
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru

4723 : Who is the author of Age of Reason?
Ans : Jean-Paul Sartre

4724 : Which American President is known as ‘Human Chain’ ?
Ans : Benjamin Harrison

4725 : Azidothymidine (AZT) is a drug used to combat ?
Ans : AIDS

4726 : Who is the author of “The Bells”?
Ans : Edgar Allen Poe.

4727 : Plants that grow in a dry habitat like deserts and can survive without moisture?
Ans : Xerophytes.

4728 : Who is the inventor of Battery & Current Electricity?
Ans : Volta

4729 : Who were the two leaders of reformation in Switzerland?
Ans : Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin

4730 : Smallest blood cell in human body?
Ans : Lympho cytes

4731 : Who is the author of The Waste Land?
Ans : T.S. Eliot

4732 : City of Ghats & Temples?
Ans : Varanasi

4733 : Forestry is the study of ?
Ans : Forest management and related studies

4734 : Who is the author of “Gathering Storm”?
Ans : Winston Churchill

4735 : Who is the author of Ain-i-Akbari?
Ans : AbulFazal

4736 : Rowing Training Centre in Kerala was founded at?
Ans : Alappuzha in 1987

4737 : Who is the author of “The Rogue States”?
Ans : Noam Chomsky

4738 : First Commander-in-Chief of Free India?
Ans : General Roy Bucher

4739 : Lady Rattan Tata Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Hockey

4740 : Second World War ended when Japan surrendered on?
Ans : 2nd September 1945

4741 : Vitamin B5 is also called?
Ans : Pantothenic acid

4742 : Who is the author of Sons and Lovers?
Ans : D.H. Lawrence

4743 : First Indian Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council?
Ans : Sir S.P. Sinha

4744 : The first Britain colony was established in 1607 in?
Ans : Jamestown in Virginia

4745 : Who is the author of “Iron Harvest”?
Ans : C.P.Surendran

4746 : Who is the author of “Arms & The Man”?
Ans : G.B.Shaw

4747 : Normal pulse rate of healthy adult human is ?
Ans : 72 per minute.

4748 : Who is the author of “A Pair of Blue Eyes”?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

4749 : Who is called the “father of Malayalam Journalism”?
Ans : Chengulathu Kunhirama Menon

4750 : Name the disease caused by the bite of a mad dog?
Ans : Rabies or Hydrophobia

4751 : A currency the exchange value of which is expected to remain stable due to strong performance by it in an economy is called?
Ans : Hard currency

4752 : Who is the author of “Broken Wing”?
Ans : Sarojini Naidu

4753 : Vanilla; flavouring material; is extracted from the fruit of which orchid?
Ans : Vanilla planlifolia.

4754 : Who is the author of ” The Enigma of Arrival”?
Ans : V.S.Naipaul

4755 : Who is the inventor of Welding (Electric)?
Ans : Thomson

4756 : GUI stands for ?
Ans : Grapbical User Interface

4757 : Padayani is the traditional art of?
Ans : Pathanamthitta

4758 : Who is the author of “Beyond Belief”?
Ans : V.S.Naipaul

4759 : The percentage of tannin contained in Tea leaves is?
Ans : 18%

4760 : The Currency of Nepal?
Ans : Nepalese Rupee

4761 : Who is the author of Seven Lamps of Architecture ?
Ans : John Ruskin

4762 : Highest Lake?
Ans : Titicaca (Bolivia) 3854 metres above sea level.

4763 : Chinese President who adopted Christianity in 1980?
Ans : Chiang Kaishek

4764 : Sankaracharya founded four mutts in four comers of India;They are?
Ans : Badrinath in the North (Jyotir Mutt) Purl in the east (Govardhan) Dwaraka in the West (Sarada Mutt) and Sringeri in the south.

4765 : Who is the inventor of Airship?
Ans : Giffard

4766 : Tallest Bank Building?
Ans : Bank of Montreal; 72; Storeys; 284.98 m high (Toronto; Canada)

4767 : The Capital of Bermuda?
Ans : Hamilton

4768 : Land of Maple?
Ans : Canada

4769 : Vitamin C deficiency causes?
Ans : Scurvy

4770 : Who wrote’The War of Indian Independence’?
Ans : V.D.Sarvarkar

4771 : Who is the author of Macbeth ?
Ans : William Shakespeare

4772 : Who is the author of “Life of Pi”?
Ans : Yann Martel

4773 : Who is the author of “Development as Freedom”?
Ans : Amartya Sen

4774 : The most important work of Montesquieu is ?
Ans : “The Spirit of Laws”

4775 : Which was the first News paper?
Ans : Rajyasamacharam

4776 : Who is the author of I too Had a Dream ?
Ans : Dr. Varghese Kurian

4777 : The Capital of Maldives?
Ans : Male

4778 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Zhivago”
Ans : Boris Pasternak

4779 : What is the total number of permanent teeth in an adult ?
Ans : 32

4780 : Nehru Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Boat race

4781 : First Chief Minister of Kerala who was born in the 19th century was ?
Ans : Pattom A Thanu Pillai.

4782 : Who is the author of “Importance of Being Earnest”?
Ans : Oscar Wilde

4783 : Who is the author of “Zulfi; My Friend”?
Ans : Philoo Mody

4784 : One of the most important results of the First World War was the Great Depression which started in?
Ans : USA in 1929

4785 : Who is the author of “Nineteen Eighty Four”?
Ans : George Orwell

4786 : (Laerdal Tunnel)?
Ans : (Oslo-Bergen)

4787 : UNDP – United Nations Development Programme; was established in?
Ans : 22-Nov-65

4788 : Who is the author of “Between the Lines”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

4789 : Who is the author of “The Fall of a Sparrow”?
Ans : Salim Ali

4790 : Who is the author of “Origin of Species”?
Ans : Charles Darwin

4791 : Allahabad is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Confluence of the Ganges &the; Jamuna

4792 : Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba in?
Ans : 1959

4793 : Chandragiri Fort is located at?
Ans : Kasargod

4794 : Who is the author of “My Early Life”?
Ans : Gandhiji

4795 : Destruction of feudalism in France was the direct result of ?
Ans : French Revolution

4796 : Who is the author of ‘My Struggle’?
Ans : E:K.Nayanar

4797 : Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Kolkata (West Bengal).

4798 : Name the first Roman Catholicon born in 20th century to become the President of America?
Ans : John F.Kennedy

4799 : Christopher Columbus discovered West Indies and thought it was India in 1492 and called its people?
Ans : Red Indians

4800 : The number of chromosomes in a human cell is ?
Ans : 46

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4351 : Which King of Travancore formulated the first Legislative Council in an Indian State in 1888?
Ans : Sri Mulam Thirunal

4352 : Largest existing Land animal?
Ans : Elephant

4353 : ……is the total market value of all final goods and services produced by residents in a country or other polity during a given time period minus depreciation?
Ans : Net National Product

4354 : Who is the author of “Agni Pariksha”?
Ans : Acharya Tulsi

4355 : Indian Space Research Organisation is located at?
Ans : Bangalore (Karnataka)

4356 : Who is the author of The Fall ofa Sparrow?
Ans : Salim Ali [Salim Ali is the famous Ornithologist]

4357 : The Capital of Namibia?
Ans : Windhoek

4358 : MRF World Cup is associated with?
Ans : Cricket & Boxing

4359 : Who is the author of “Crime and Punishment”?
Ans : Fyodor Dostoevsky

4360 : Who is the author of “‘The Count of Monte Cristo'”?
Ans : Alexander Dumas

4361 : As a result of the first Opium War the Chinese province of Hong Kong came under the control of Britain in?
Ans : 1844

4362 : Central State Farm is located at?
Ans : Suratgarh (Rajasthan).

4363 : Gift of Nile?
Ans : Egypt

4364 : President who abolished slavery in America was ?
Ans : Abraham Lincoln

4365 : Who is the inventor of Lever; Principle of?
Ans : Archimedes

4366 : The Hundred years War (1338-1453) was fought between ?
Ans : England and France

4367 : Who is the author of Glimpses of World History?
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru

4368 : Vasco Da Gama was buried in 1524 at?
Ans : St. Francis Church

4369 : Who is the author of “Ramayana Darshanam”?
Ans : K.V.Puttappa

4370 : Who is the author of “Many Worlds”?
Ans : K.P.S.Menon

4371 : Macao; which was a colony of the Portugal was restored to China on?
Ans : 20th December 1999

4372 : 239 year old monarchy was abolished in Nepal in?
Ans : 2008

4373 : Who is the father of Alexander the Great?
Ans : Philip II (359 – 336BC)

4374 : Who is the author of “Job for Millions”?
Ans : V.V.Giri

4375 : 24th Parallel separates?
Ans : India and Pakistan

4376 : City of Palaces?
Ans : Kolkata & Chandigarh

4377 : Who is the author of Deception Point?
Ans : Dan Brown

4378 : Who is the author of ” Bhakthi Deepika and Chithramala”?
Ans : Uloor S Parameshwara Iyer

4379 : Land of Five Rivers?
Ans : Punjab

4380 : Dr. B.C. Roy Trophy is associated with?
Ans : National Football (Junior)

4381 : Who is the author of Talisman ?
Ans : Sir Walter Scott

4382 : Who is the author of ” Rehasyam “?
Ans : Karoor Neelakanda Pillai

4383 : Which is an eye ailment that causes increased pressure within the eye ball?
Ans : Glaucoma

4384 : Who is the author of “Satanic Verses”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

4385 : Whis is the Oldest living plant of the world ?
Ans : Pinus

4386 : Who is the author of “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”?
Ans : Edward Gibbon

4387 : Most important example of Greek architecture?
Ans : Temple of Parthenon

4388 : The writing system of the Sumerians was known as?
Ans : Cunieform

4389 : Who is the author of ” Between the lines”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

4390 : Who discovered Blood Circulation system in(1628)
Ans : William Harvey

4391 : The tutelary diety of the city ‘UR’ in Mesopotamia ?
Ans : Nannar

4392 : Who is the author of “Hindi Swaraj”?
Ans : Gandhiji

4393 : Largest Desert (India)?
Ans : Thar Desert (Rajasthan)

4394 : National Sugar Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Kanpur (U.P.)

4395 : Which American President said ‘The Chief business of America is business”?
Ans : Kalvin Koolinch

4396 : Name the Chinese space shuttle in which Yang Liwei; its first space traveller travelled?
Ans : Zhenshou V

4397 : In 1954 the US brought most of the South East Asian Countries under a common frame work modelled on NATO called ?
Ans : SEATO

4398 : Who is the author of Shape of Things to Come?
Ans : H G Wells

4399 : Persian Civilisation existed in?
Ans : The modern Iran

4400 : The city of Constantinople was founded by?
Ans : Constantine

4401 : Who is the author of “La Divina Comedia”?
Ans : A Dante

4402 : Which state in India has the highest Human Development Index?
Ans : Kerala

4403 : Who is the author of “Indulekha”?
Ans : Oyarathu Chandu Menon

4404 : Czars ruled Russia from 1613 to?
Ans : 1917

4405 : Who is the author of “Kerala Bhasholpathy’?
Ans : Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishnapilla

4406 : Hottest Place (World)?
Ans : Azizia (Libya) 58OC

4407 : The protector of the heart is ?
Ans : Pericardium

4408 : Who is the author of Chandalika?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

4409 : Who is the author of “Essays on Gita”?
Ans : Aurobindo Ghosh

4410 : The district with least number of panchyats and villages is?
Ans : Wayanad

4411 : Pakshipathalam bird sanctury is located in?
Ans : Wayanad

4412 : Who is known as the first English poet?
Ans : Ceadmon

4413 : The Capital of Zambia?
Ans : Lusaka

4414 : Name the economy in which private enterprise exists in the main sphere of production?
Ans : Capitalist Economy

4415 : Who is the author of ” B.A.Mayavi”?
Ans : E.Y.Krishana Pillai

4416 : Who is the author of “Illiad”?
Ans : Homer

4417 : Who is the author of “Odayil Ninnu”?
Ans : P. Kesava Dev

4418 : The chief architect of the Acadian empire was?
Ans : Sargon

4419 : ATP synthesis takes place in ?
Ans : Mitochondrion

4420 : Who is the author of India Divided ?
Ans : Rajendra Prasad

4421 : Njanappana was written by?
Ans : Poonthanam Namboodiri

4422 : Who is the author of “Kanthapura”?
Ans : Raja Rao

4423 : Who is the author of “Daughter of the East”?
Ans : Benazir Bhutto

4424 : Who is the author of “Non-violence of Peace and War”?
Ans : M.K.Gandhi

4425 : Which is the autobiography of Adolf Hitler?
Ans : “Mein Kampf”(My Struggle)

4426 : Who is the author of ” Parakumbol”?
Ans : Madhavikutty (Kamala Surayya)

4427 : Twinkenhem (England) is associated with which Sport?
Ans : Rugby

4428 : Who is the author of ” India- The Critical years”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

4429 : Simputer was discovered by ?
Ans : Vinay Despandey

4430 : Who is the author of Dilemma of Our Time ?
Ans : Harold Joseph Laski

4431 : Who is the author of “Nana”?
Ans : Emile Zola

4432 : The Capital of Argentina?
Ans : Buenos Aires

4433 : Trent Bridge (England) is associated with which Sport?
Ans : Cricket

4434 : What is known as ‘Wagon Tragedy’ ?
Ans : During Malabar Rebellion; 61 of 90 Mappilas carried by the British as prisoners in a closed railway goods wagon from Tirur to Coimbatore on November 10; 1921 died of suffocation.

4435 : Disease causing microorganisms are called ?
Ans : Pathogens.

4436 : Who is the author of “Hindu View of Life”?
Ans : Dr Radhakrishnan

4437 : Who is the author of “Magic Mountain”?
Ans : Thomas Mann

4438 : Who is the author of King Lear ?
Ans : William Shakespeare

4439 : The first ministerial conference of WTO was held in?
Ans : Singapore from Dec; 9-13; 1996

4440 : Central Research Institute of Homoeopathy is located at?
Ans : Sachivothamapuram

4441 : Kareem forest park – the only man made forest in the Kerala is in?
Ans : Kasargod

4442 : The Capital of Montserrat?
Ans : Plymouth

4443 : Who is the author of ” Leela”?
Ans : Kumaranasan

4444 : Presence of haemoglobin in the urine is called?
Ans : Haemoglobinuria.

4445 : CAT stands for ?
Ans : Computerised Auxial Tomography

4446 : Who is the author of “Memories and Musings”?
Ans : K.P.S.Menon

4447 : Who is the author of Ranga Bhoomi?
Ans : Prem Chand

4448 : Who invented camera phone?
Ans : Philipcan

4449 : Which was the first Malayalam TV Channel in Private Sector?
Ans : Asianet {Asianet malayalam satellite channel began in 1992}

4450 : The Capital of Mauritius?
Ans : Port Louis

4451 : Who is the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
Ans : Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4452 : Who is the author of ” Shishyanum Makanum”?
Ans : Vallathol Narayana Menon

4453 : The year in which Israel was formed in Palestine?
Ans : 1948

4454 : Who is the author of August Coup?
Ans : Mikhail S.Gorbachev

4455 : Who is the author of “I Follow the Mahatma”?
Ans : K.M.Munshi

4456 : Who is the author of “IlIiad”?
Ans : Homer

4457 : Who is the author of “Yama”?
Ans : Mahadevi Verma

4458 : Largest Reptile in the world is ?
Ans : Crocodile

4459 : Pollination by water?
Ans : Hydrophily

4460 : Washington is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Potomac

4461 : The Capital of Hungary?
Ans : Budapest

4462 : Which animal is called “the ponies in pygamas.”?
Ans : Zebra

4463 : The Currency of Zaire?
Ans : Zaire

4464 : Who is the author of “Much Ado About Nothing”?
Ans : Shakespeare

4465 : What is the total number of Wakf Tribunals in the State?
Ans : 3

4466 : Who is the author of “Saz-i- Watan”?
Ans : Munshi Prem Chand

4467 : Which was the first official stock exchange in the world?
Ans : The Amsterdam Stock exchange created in 1602

4468 : In which year Television broadcasting was started in Kerala?
Ans : January 1982 in Thiruvananthapuram

4469 : Who is the founder of Malayalam novel cult?
Ans : O Chandu Menon

4470 : American Cup is associated with?
Ans : Yatch Racing

4471 : National Botanical Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Lucknow; (U.P.)

4472 : The official name of Japan is ?
Ans : Nippon or Nihon; (means the source of the Sun)

4473 : Who is known as the Poet of the Bhakthi movement”?
Ans : Poonthanam (15th century)

4474 : Who is the author of “Man and Superman”?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

4475 : Who is the author of “Blind Beauty”?
Ans : Boris Pasternak

4476 : Wealth of Nations was written by ?
Ans : Adam Smith

4477 : Who is the author of “Fasting and Feasting”?
Ans : Anita Desai

4478 : Who is the author of “Prithvi Raj Raso”?
Ans : Chand Bardai

4479 : Who is the author of “New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy”?
Ans : Atal Bihari Vajpayee

4480 : The nitrogen base of RNA are ?
Ans : Adenine; Guanine; Uracil and Cytosine

4481 : Who is the author of “‘The Count of Monte Cristo'”?
Ans : Alexander Dumas

4482 : Who is the author of I Follow the Mahatma ?
Ans : K M Munshi

4483 : The highest honor awarded in literature is the Nobel Prize in Literature; awarded since 1901 by?
Ans : The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

4484 : Who is the author of Muslim Dilemma in India?
Ans : M.R.A Baig

4485 : Who is the author of Daughter of the East?
Ans : Benazir Bhutto

4486 : Who is the author of ” The company of women”?
Ans : Khushwant Singh

4487 : The Capital of Uganda?
Ans : Kampala

4488 : Who is the author of “Lajja”?
Ans : Taslima Nasreen

4489 : Who is the author of “Julius Caeser”?
Ans : William Shakespeare

4490 : Where is the headquarters of Calicut University?
Ans : Thenjippalam in Malappuram district.

4491 : Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT) is located at?
Ans : Indore.

4492 : VasarmanTest is used to diagnose?
Ans : Syphilis

4493 : Who is the author of A Week with Gandhi ?
Ans : Louis Fischer

4494 : Who is the author of “Freedom at Midnight”?
Ans : Lapierre and Larry Collins Dominique

4495 : Day of the Elderly is on?
Ans : 1-Oct

4496 : Who is the inventor of Atomic Physics?
Ans : Ernest Rutherford

4497 : Which is the official residence of the British Prime Ministers?
Ans : 10 Downing Street

4498 : ‘Labour theory of value’ was formulated by?
Ans : Karl Marx

4499 : Which French king said “I am the state”?
Ans : Louis XIV

4500 : What is the Study of trees ?
Ans : dentrology

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4201 : Which city is the 100% urbanised city in the world?
Ans : Singapore

4202 : Armed Force Medical College is located at?
Ans : Pune (Maharashtra).

4203 : Who is the author of Story of My Life ?
Ans : Moshe Dayan

4204 : Who is the author of “Oruthulli Velicham”?
Ans : O.N.V Kurup

4205 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Christian”
Ans : John Bunyan.

4206 : Who is the author of “Detective”?
Ans : Arthur Hailey

4207 : Pazhassi Raja was shot dead by?
Ans : Thomas Harvey Baber; Sub collector of Tellichery

4208 : Name the first American President who was the son of a former president?
Ans : John Kwinsy Adams

4209 : Which hormone prepares the animal to fight or flight?
Ans : Adrinalin

4210 : www stands for?
Ans : World Wide Web

4211 : ‘Java’ programming languages is developed by ?
Ans : James Gosling

4212 : Who is the inventor of Mitochondria?
Ans : C.Benda

4213 : Who is the author of “Ends and Means”?
Ans : A.Huxley

4214 : Where did Velu Tampi Dalawa committed suicide?
Ans : in the house of the Potti of the Bhagavati temple at Mannadi.

4215 : The Currency of Trinidad?
Ans : Trinidad Dollar

4216 : The American Model Executive was proposed by?
Ans : Sir C. P. Ramaswami Ayyer.

4217 : London is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Thames

4218 : The most densely populated country in the world is?
Ans : Monaco

4219 : School of Tropical Medicines is located at?
Ans : Kolkata (West Bengal).

4220 : Who is the author of “A Prisoner’s Scrapbook”?
Ans : L.K.Advani

4221 : Cromagnan (France) and Grimaldi (ltali) men belonged to which period?
Ans : Middle Stone Age

4222 : Keeran Poosari;
Ans : S.K. Pottakadu

4223 : The first Britain colony was established in 1607 in?
Ans : Jamestown in Virginia

4224 : Father of Bacteriology?
Ans : Robert Koch

4225 : Plants of deserts are called?
Ans : Xerophytes

4226 : Who is the author of “Lolita”?
Ans : V Nabakov

4227 : Micky Mouse
Ans : Walt Disney

4228 : Who is the author of “Lord Of the Flies”?
Ans : Sir William Golding

4229 : Who is the author of “Tropic of Cancer”?
Ans : Henry Miller

4230 : Who is the inventor of Jet Engine?
Ans : Frank Whittle

4231 : Second largest gland in human body is?
Ans : Pancreas

4232 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Cordelia; Desdemona; Hamlet”
Ans : Shakespeare

4233 : Which is the eastern boundary of Kerala?
Ans : The Sahyadris

4234 : Who is the author of St Joan ?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

4235 : Which is the oldest newspaper that is still being published in Kerala?
Ans : The Deepika

4236 : Who was the first woman judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India?
Ans : Justice M. Fathima Beevi

4237 : Laser Printer was first Introduced by ?
Ans : IBM

4238 : When Italy surrendered after the Second World War in 1945 Mussolini was captured and executed at?
Ans : Como

4239 : Who was the first Chief Minister of Kerala from a backward community?
Ans : R. Sankar.

4240 : The annual meeting of WEF is held in?
Ans : Davos in Switzerland

4241 : First Magistrate?
Ans : Mrs. Omana Kunjamma

4242 : Who is the author of “Gandhi and Stalin”?
Ans : Louis Fisher

4243 : Who is the author of “Don Juan”?
Ans : Lord Byron

4244 : Who is the author of Kamayani ?
Ans : Jai Shanker Prasad

4245 : Who is the author of ” The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian”?
Ans : Nirad C. Chauduri

4246 : ………:… contain the list of the endangered species of plants and animals?
Ans : Red Data Books

4247 : Which year was declared by UN as International Book Year?
Ans : 1972

4248 : Who is the inventor of Microscope (electron)?
Ans : Vladimir Kosme Sworykin

4249 : Sumerian civilisation later came to be known as ?
Ans : Mesopotamian civilisation

4250 : Who is the author of “I Follow the Mahatma”?
Ans : K M Munshi

4251 : Who is the author of ‘Ardhanareeswara Sthothram’ ?
Ans : Sree Narayana Guru

4252 : Wrinkles in old age are due to deficiency of ?
Ans : Collagen

4253 : Who is the author of Kayakalp ?
Ans : Munshi Prem Chand

4254 : Junko Tabei; the first woman to climb mount Everest was from ?
Ans : Japan

4255 : The Currency of Panama?
Ans : Balboa

4256 : Hi·Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, a special unit of the Kerala Police, began its operations on?
Ans : 5th May 2006

4257 : First Judge of Supreme Court?
Ans : Camelia Sorabji

4258 : Who is the author of “Death of a city”?
Ans : Amrita Pritam

4259 : Who is the author of ” Kanya Vanangal”?
Ans : Punathil KunjabdulJah

4260 : Dance form in Cuba is known as ?
Ans : Conga

4261 : Who is the author of “Pratham Pratishruti”?
Ans : Ashapurna Devi

4262 : BRIC countries include?
Ans : Brazil; Russia; India; China

4263 : Who is known as the Iron Man of Communism?
Ans : Stalin

4264 : Who is the author of “I am not an island”?
Ans : K.A.Abbas

4265 : The year in which Anchal Service was amalgamated with Telegraph department is?
Ans : April 1951.

4266 : The Currency of South Africa?
Ans : Rand

4267 : Kummattikali is a mask dance popular in?
Ans : South Malabar

4268 : Who is the author of “I Follow the Mahatma”?
Ans : K M Munshi

4269 : Vitamin B12 is also called?
Ans : Cobalamins

4270 : The Goal of Kyoto protocol was ?
Ans : To reduce the emissions of Green House Gases (GHGs)

4271 : Who is considered as the Architect of Modern Education in Travancore?
Ans : Sri Chithira Thirunal

4272 : Who introduced travelling courts in Travancore?
Ans : Velu Tampi Dalawa

4273 : Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) was undertaken by ?
Ans : Morris in 1980s

4274 : Who was the wife of Prophet Muhammed?
Ans : Khadeija

4275 : BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guerin) vaccine used to prevent ?
Ans : Tuberculosis

4276 : Who invented Steam Engine in 1769 ?
Ans : James Watt

4277 : The civilisation of Greek city states is known as?
Ans : Classical Civilisation

4278 : Which was a military alliance formed under the Soviet Union against NATO in 1955?
Ans : Warsaw Pact

4279 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “iago; Macbeth; Jessica”
Ans : Shakespeare

4280 : First Indian Muslim Woman Mayor (Ahmedabad)?
Ans : Aneesha Mirza

4281 : Vitamin B3 (Niacin) deficiency causes?
Ans : Pellagra

4282 : Who is the author of “Memories of the Rationalist”?
Ans : Vasanth Sathe

4283 : Tuberculin Test is used to diagnose?
Ans : Tuberculosis

4284 : Garden City of India?
Ans : Bangalore

4285 : Which disease is known as Silent Killer ?
Ans : High blood pressure (Hypertension)

4286 : The Capital of Qatar?
Ans : Doha

4287 : Who is the creator of the famous character Gulliver?
Ans : Jonathan Swift

4288 : Who composed Greek epics llliad and Odyssey?
Ans : Homer

4289 : Who said “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste death but once”?
Ans : William Shakespeare

4290 : Who is the inventor of Radio signals?
Ans : G.Marconi

4291 : Who is the inventor of Sewing Machine?
Ans : Issac Singer

4292 : Who is the inventor of D.D.T.?
Ans : D. Paul Muller

4293 : The period of the ‘Long Parliament’ was?
Ans : 1640 to 1660

4294 : Largest Country in?
Ans : China

4295 : MPEG stands for?
Ans : Motion Picture Expert Group

4296 : Who is the author of “Experiments with Untruth”?
Ans : Michael Anderson

4297 : Which organ of the body is affected by Bright’s disease?
Ans : Kidney

4298 : Who is the author of “We Need to Talk about Kevin”?
Ans : Lionel Shriver

4299 : Who is the author of “Lucky Jim”?
Ans : Kingley Amis

4300 : Don Quixote
Ans : Cerventes

4301 : The St. Francis Church at Fort Cochin was built by ?
Ans : Portuguese in 1503.

4302 : Who is the author of “Yama”?
Ans : Mahadevi Vanna

4303 : Who invented the Spinnng Jenny in 1764?
Ans : James Hargreaves

4304 : Who is the inventor of Cinematography?
Ans : Thomas Edison

4305 : Which is Asia’s largest naval academy?
Ans : Ezhimala Indian Naval Academy (Kannur)

4306 : Who was the first Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly of Kerala?
Ans : Shankara Narayanan Thampi

4307 : Who is the First Vice President of America?
Ans : John Adams

4308 : Mesopotamian ruler who gave a famous code of law was?
Ans : Hammurabi

4309 : A currency the exchange value of which is expected to remain stable due to strong performance by it in an economy is called?
Ans : Hard currency

4310 : The Currency of Czechoslovakia?
Ans : Koruna

4311 : Who is the author of “The Miser”?
Ans : Moliere

4312 : Who is the author of “Das Capital”?
Ans : Karl Marx

4313 : Who is the author of “Nehru Family and Sikhs”?
Ans : Harbans Singh

4314 : Which organ of the body is affected by Jaundice ?
Ans : Liver

4315 : Who is the author of “The Garden of Solitude”?
Ans : Siddhartha Gigoo

4316 : Co-operative movement was started in England in 1821by?
Ans : Robert Oven

4317 : Who is the author of “The Importance of Being Earnest”?
Ans : Oscar Wilde

4318 : Who is the author of “Rains Came”?
Ans : Louis Bromfield

4319 : Who is the author of “Sense and Sensibility”?
Ans : Jane Austen

4320 : Charles I; the ruler of England; was beheaded publically in the year?
Ans : 1649

4321 : The last country to surrender in the Second world war was ?
Ans : Japan

4322 : Who was the first European navigator; to reach India by sea route?
Ans : Vasco Da Gama.

4323 : Who was the first Olympian of Kerala?
Ans : C K Lakshman

4324 : Who is the author of “The Gathering”?
Ans : Ann Enright

4325 : Who is the author of ” Kurushetram”?
Ans : Dr.Ayyappa Panicker

4326 : Greece is on the coast of which sea?
Ans : The Mediterranean sea

4327 : Who is known as the father of Malayalam Cinema?
Ans : JC Daniel

4328 : The dimension of the The Great Wall is ?
Ans : 1500 mile long and 20 feet breadth and 20 feet-height

4329 : Who is the author of “Sons and Lovers”?
Ans : D.H. Lawrence

4330 : Who is the author of “Alice in wonderland”?
Ans : Lewis Carroll

4331 : Who is the author of Nine Days Wonder ?
Ans : John Masefield

4332 : Who is the author of “East of Aden”?
Ans : John Steinbeck

4333 : Who is the author of India We Left?
Ans : The Humphrey Travelyan

4334 : Who is the author of All the Presidents Men. ?
Ans : Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

4335 : The term of American President is ?
Ans : Four years

4336 : From which language the word ‘Chemistry’ was originated?
Ans : The Egyptian language

4337 : Who is the author of “Kubla Khan”?
Ans : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4338 : Largest living Mammal?
Ans : Blue Whale

4339 : Who is the author of “The Accompanist”?
Ans : Anita Desai

4340 : Which is the first poem of Kumaran Asan?
Ans : Veenapoovu

4341 : Pazhassi was killed on the banks of which river?
Ans : ‘Mavilathode’.

4342 : Central Scientific Instruments Organisation is located at?
Ans : Chandigarh (Chandigarh).

4343 : ‘Marginal utility theory’ was concepetuallised by?
Ans : Alfred Marshall

4344 : Who is the author of Silas Marner?
Ans : George Eliot

4345 : Who is known as the father of Fascism?
Ans : Benitto Mussolini

4346 : Who is the author of Ritu Samhara ?
Ans : Kalidas

4347 : Who is the author of “Comedy of Erros”?
Ans : Shakespeare

4348 : America was named after the Portuguese sailor ?
Ans : Amerigo Vespucci

4349 : At the time of declaration of Indian independence Pondicherry was a colony of?
Ans : France

4350 : Who is the author of “Banker to the poor-The story of the Grameen Bank”?
Ans : Muhammad Yunus