General Knowledge - Basic - 034

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