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