General Knowledge - Basic - 030

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