General Knowledge - Basic - 032

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%