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General Knowledge – Basic – 088

13051 : Janamaithri Suraksha Project was inaugurated?
Ans : on 26 March 2008

13052 : Who is the author of “Swapnavasavdatta”?
Ans : Bhasa

13053 : Who is the inventor of Rubber (vulcanised)?
Ans : Goodyear

13054 : Vienna is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Danube

13055 : Who is the author of “Gathering Storm”?
Ans : Winston Churchill

13056 : Crossing the Threshold of Hope “Gift and Mystery” “Roman Tryptych Meditations” “Rise up Let us Go”; “Memory and Identity” are the books written by?
Ans : Pope John Paul II

13057 : Who was the Pope when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215AD?
Ans : Innocent III

13058 : Who is the creator of the famous character Gulliver?
Ans : Jonathan Swift

13059 : World Computer literacy day is celebrated on ?
Ans : 2-Dec-16

13060 : Who is the inventor of Electric Attraction?
Ans : Coulomb

13061 : Which country is the largest producer of Paddy in the world?
Ans : China

13062 : Who was the first Finance Minister of Kerala?
Ans : C. Achutha Menon

13063 : Who is the author of “Murder on the Orient Express”?
Ans : Agatha Christie

13064 : Who is the author of “The Moor’s Last Sigh”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

13065 : Fats are richly found in ?
Ans : Adipose tissue

13066 : Who is the author of “Shame”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

13067 : Which is the first country formed in the western part of Africa is ?
Ans : Ghana.

13068 : Who is the author of “Velichathil”?
Ans : Balamani Amma

13069 : Coagulation of blood is the function of ?
Ans : Fibrinogen

13070 : Who is the author of ” Viswadarshanam”?
Ans : G. Sankara Kurup

13071 : Who made primary education compulsory in Travancore in 1817?
Ans : Rani Gauri Parvathi Bai

13072 : School of Foreign Languages is located at?
Ans : New Delhi.

13073 : Who is the inventor of Neutron?
Ans : Chadwick

13074 : The Capital of Jordan?
Ans : Amman

13075 : Who was known as ‘Garbhasreeman’?
Ans : SwathiT hirunal

13076 : GUI stands for ?
Ans : Grapbical User Interface

13077 : Which is the first newspaper published in 1864 from Kochi?
Ans : ‘Paschimataraka’

13078 : Who is known as ‘Golden Girl’?
Ans : P T Usha

13079 : Who is the author of “My Country My Life”?
Ans : LK.Advani

13080 : Chirutha; classipper
Ans : Thakazhi

13081 : To which race Ay dynasty belonged to ?
Ans : Yadava race.

13082 : resulted in the Which treaty with English resulted in the loss of the political freedom of Travancore?
Ans : The treaty of 1805 by Velu Thampi Dalawa

13083 : Who is the grandson of Herman Gundert; winner the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946?
Ans : Herman Hesse

13084 : Who is the author of David Copperfield?
Ans : Charles Dickens

13085 : D.C.M. Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Football

13086 : The Capital of Kazakhstan?
Ans : Alma-ata

13087 : Chalcolithic Period is also known as ?
Ans : Metal Age

13088 : Gulliver
Ans : Jonathan Swift

13089 : Who is the author of “The Tempest”?
Ans : Shakespeare

13090 : Who is the author of Utopia ?
Ans : Thomas More

13091 : Who is the author of “The Indo-Pakistani Conflict”?
Ans : Russell Brines

13092 : Who is the author of ” Dharmaraja and Rama Raja Bhadur “?
Ans : CV Raman Pillai

13093 : USSR came into existence in ?
Ans : 1922 December

13094 : HDI was introduced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its first Human Development Report prepared under the able; stewardship of ?
Ans : Mahbub-ul-Haq

13095 : Who is the author of “Indian Philosophy; “?
Ans : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

13096 : Which is the first Police Museum in India?
Ans : The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Museum; Kollam

13097 : Who is the author of “Raghuvamsa”?
Ans : Kalidas

13098 : Who is the author of Anna Karenina ?
Ans : Leo Tolstoy

13099 : Who was the head of the first democratically elected communist government in the world?
Ans : EMS Namboothiripad

13100 : Who is the inventor of Animal Classification?
Ans : Aristotle (Father of Zoology)

13101 : 90% of ozone resides in which layer of the atmosphere?
Ans : Stratosphere.

13102 : Who is the author of “Waiting for Godot”?
Ans : Thomas Becket

13103 : The Capital of Estonia?
Ans : Tallinn

13104 : Who is the author of “Canterbury Tales”?
Ans : Chaucer

13105 : Who is the author of “Heroes and Hero Worship”?
Ans : Thomas Carlyle

13106 : Who is the author of Our India ?
Ans : Minoo Masani

13107 : The Currency of Jordan?
Ans : Jordan Dinar

13108 : Who is the author of Old man and the Sea?
Ans : Ernest Hemingway

13109 : Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains is a quote of?
Ans : Rousseau.

13110 : What is the number of milk teeth in human body?
Ans : 20

13111 : Land of Midnight Sun?
Ans : Norway

13112 : Who is the author of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”?
Ans : Lawrence T.E.

13113 : Who shifted Hussur Kachery from Quilon to Trivandrum?
Ans : Swathi Thirunal

13114 : Who is the author of “Ben Hur”?
Ans : Lewis Wallace

13115 : Who was the Stuart king who dissolved the Parliament of England in 1629 and did not summon it till 1640?
Ans : Charles I

13116 : Largest Tunnel (India)?
Ans : Jawahar Tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)

13117 : Who is the author of “The Hungry Tide.”?
Ans : Amitav Ghosh

13118 : Who is the author of “Broken Wings”?
Ans : Sarojini Naidu

13119 : What is the height of the Statue of Liberty in America?
Ans : 91 meters

13120 : The first film which uses the morphing ?
Ans : WllLOW

13121 : National Environmental Engineering Institute is located at?
Ans : Nagpur.

13122 : Who is the author of “Fire on the Mountain”?
Ans : Anita Desai

13123 : Arundhati Roy was awarded Booker Prize in the year?
Ans : 1997

13124 : Which newspaper can be hailed as the first systematic newspaper the Malayalam language?
Ans : Keralamitram from Kochi

13125 : Plastic Money is the popular name of ?
Ans : Credit Cards

13126 : Kanpur is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Ganges

13127 : Who is the author of “Great Tragedy”?
Ans : Z.A.Bhutto

13128 : Who is the author of Cancer Ward?
Ans : Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13129 : Who is the author of Long Walk to Freedom ?
Ans : Nelson Mandela

13130 : Founder of Comintang Party?
Ans : Dr.Sunyat Sen

13131 : Who was the first English Diwan of Travancore?
Ans : Col. Monro

13132 : In which year Venezuela got independence?
Ans : 1911

13133 : Who is the author of Diplomacy?
Ans : Henry Kissinger

13134 : Who is the author of ‘My South Block Years’?
Ans : J.N. Dixit

13135 : Father ofImmunology?
Ans : Edward Jenner

13136 : Which organ of the body is affected by Eczema ?
Ans : Skin

13137 : Kerala’s first private PM station Radio Mango 91.9 was launched on?
Ans : 29 November 2007 in Kozhikode

13138 : MCC Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Hockey

13139 : Father of Parasitology?
Ans : Platter

13140 : Who said “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”?
Ans : William Shakespeare

13141 : United Nations Organization came into force on ?
Ans : 24-Oct-45

13142 : Who is the author of Essays of?
Ans : Elia Charles Lamb

13143 : Who is the author of ” Pravachakante Vazhi”?
Ans : O.V Vijayan

13144 : Who is the author of ” The Ground Beneath her Feet”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

13145 : Which city is known as Capital of Chinese economy?
Ans : Shanghai

13146 : Who is the author of “A Week with Gandhi”?
Ans : Louis Fischer

13147 : The period in which The Industrial Revolution first started in England is?
Ans : The second half of the 18th century

13148 : Central Electronic Engineering Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Pilani (Rajasthan).

13149 : Who is the author of “Anandrnath”?
Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

13150 : Who is the author of “Rape of the Lock”?
Ans : Alexander Pope

13151 : Name the first Asian country to be industrialized?
Ans : Japan

13152 : The Goal of Montreal Protocol was?
Ans : To keep ozone layer intact (To reduce CFCs)

13153 : Land of Golden Pagoda?
Ans : Myanmar

13154 : Who was the tutor of Alexander the Great?
Ans : Aristotle

General Knowledge – Basic – 086

12751 : Who is the author of “Much Ado About Nothing”?
Ans : Shakespeare

12752 : The Currency of Italy?
Ans : Lira

12753 : Presence of urea in the blood is called ?
Ans : Uremia

12754 : Where was The ‘Malayali Memorial’ (agitation) drafted?
Ans : Kottayam Public Library

12755 : Italian (Venetian) traveller Marcopolo reached Kerala in ?
Ans : 1292 AD(13th Century).

12756 : Who is the author of “Viswavikya thamaya Mooku”?
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

12757 : Who is the inventor of Antiseptic Surgery?
Ans : Joseph Lister

12758 : Floriculture is?
Ans : Cultivation of flowering plants.

12759 : Who is the author of “Fasting and Feasting”?
Ans : Anita Desai

12760 : Who said “Money is what money does” ?
Ans : Crowther

12761 : The year in which Gandhiji visited Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri was?
Ans : 1925

12762 : Who is the author of ” Magdalana Mariam”?
Ans : Vallathol Narayana Menon

12763 : The year in which Kerala State Chalachitra Academy was founded is?
Ans : Aug-98

12764 : Who is the author of “Jungle Book”?
Ans : Rudyard Kipling

12765 : Which is the Sangham work that mentions about the spread of Buddhism in Kerala?
Ans : Manimekhalai

12766 : Who is the author of “Birth and Death of the Sun”?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

12767 : Who is the author of War of the Worlds?
Ans : The HG Wells

12768 : Highest Railway Bridge?
Ans : Fades Bridge on river Sioule 144 m long and 132.5 m above the river. (Clermont Ferrand; rance)

12769 : Which place is known as the Cultural Capital of Kerala ?
Ans : Thrissur.

12770 : Who is the author of “Yatrasmaranakal”?
Ans : S K Pottekadu

12771 : Smallest Union Territory?
Ans : Lakshadweep

12772 : Central Building Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Roorkee (U.P.)

12773 : Who is the author of Worshipping False Gods?
Ans : Arun Shourie

12774 : Who is the author of “Hero of Our Time”?
Ans : Richard Hough

12775 : Who was the only woman Minister in the first Ministry in Kerala?
Ans : K.R Gauri

12776 : Who is considered as the father of Humanism?
Ans : Petrarch; an Italian poet

12777 : Who is the author of “Guide”?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

12778 : Roof of the World?
Ans : The pamirs (Tibet)

12779 : Who is the author of “We Indians”?
Ans : Khushwant Singh

12780 : Land of Lilies?
Ans : Canada

12781 : RBI has introduced KYC norms in India to prevent ?
Ans : Money Laundering

12782 : Who is known as the architect of Soviet Union?
Ans : Vladimir Lenin

12783 : The Capital of Mauritius?
Ans : Port Louis

12784 : Who is the author of Man eaters of Kumaon ?
Ans : Jim Corbett

12785 : The Currency of Yemen Arab?
Ans : Dinar

12786 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Brutus; Claudius; Cleopatra”
Ans : Shakespeare

12787 : Who is the author of King of Dark Chamber ?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12788 : Stock exchange Index of Korea is ?
Ans : Kospa

12789 : Name as animal which never drinks water in its entire life?
Ans : Kangaroo Rat

12790 : Who is the author of “Brother Karamazov”?
Ans : Fydor Dostoevskey

12791 : Who is the author of “Babarnama”?
Ans : Babar

12792 : The Currency of Bahrain?
Ans : Bahrain Dinar

12793 : Who is the author of “Kerala Bhasholpathy’?
Ans : Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishnapilla

12794 : Who is the greatest of the Greek dramatists; who wrote famous tragedies?
Ans : Aesceles

12795 : Who was the first Kerala State film award winner for best Actress?
Ans : Sheela

12796 : Who is the author of “It is Always Possible”?
Ans : Kiran Bedi

12797 : National Chemical Laboratory is located at?
Ans : Pune; (Maharashtra).

12798 : Who is the author of Rubaiyat ?
Ans : Omar Khayyam

12799 : Pattini Jatha’ was led by?
Ans : A.K. Gopalan in July 1936 from Kannur to Chennai.

12800 : The viruses eating (destroying) bacteria and were invented by d’Herelle ?
Ans : Bacteriophages

12801 : Who is the author of After the Dark Night?
Ans : S M.Ali

12802 : Which Language is considered as the Vehicle of Medieval Culture?
Ans : Latin Language

12803 : Indian Institute of Agricultural Research Institute is located at?
Ans : New Delhi.

12804 : Father of Bacteriology?
Ans : Robert Koch

12805 : The number of chambers in the heart of a bird is ?
Ans : Four.

12806 : Which was the capital city of Arakkal family; the only Muslim Sultanate of Kerala?
Ans : Kannur

12807 : Who is the author of Years of the Upheaval ?
Ans : Henry Kissinger

12808 : India’s first Eco-Tourism programme was started in 1998 in?
Ans : Thenmala in Kollam district

12809 : Who is the author of The Gathering?
Ans : Ann Enright

12810 : American President who was known as Smiling President?
Ans : Eisonhower

12811 : The Capital of Azerbaijan?
Ans : Baku

12812 : Paleolithic Age is also known as ?
Ans : the ‘Age of Hunters’

12813 : Who is the author of Man and Superman ?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

12814 : Who is the author of Emperor Jones (Drama)?
Ans : Eugine O’Neil

12815 : Who is the author of “Mother”?
Ans : Maxim Gorky

12816 : The Steam Engine invented by James Watt was called?
Ans : Beelzebub

12817 : Who is the author of Adam Bede?
Ans : George Eliot

12818 : Who is considered as the father of the nation of Peru?
Ans : Simon Bolivor

12819 : Common Cold causing virus is ?
Ans : Rhinovirus

12820 : The animals feeding on blood are known as?
Ans : Sanguivores

12821 : Radcliffe Line separates?
Ans : India and Pakistan

12822 : Which is the official residence of the British Prime Ministers?
Ans : 10 Downing Street

12823 : In the famous Colachel battle who was the Dutch captain defeated and captured by Marthandavarma?
Ans : D’Lannoy

12824 : Who completed the construction of the Gopuram of Sreepadmanabha swami Temple?
Ans : Raja Kesava Das.

12825 : Who is the author of “Home and World”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12826 : Who is the author of ” Vazhakula”?
Ans : Changampuzha Krishna Pilla

12827 : Who is the author of “Mayilpeeli”?
Ans : O.N.V Kurup

12828 : In which year Travancore Broadcasting station was merged with All India Radio Network?
Ans : 1st April 1950

12829 : Bhopal tragedy (1984 )was due to the leakage of ?
Ans : Methyl Isocyanate

12830 : Who is the author of Ambassador’s Report ?
Ans : Chester Bowles

12831 : The Capital of South Africa?
Ans : Pretoria

12832 : Which place is known as the Vatican of Nair community?
Ans : Perunna near Changanasseri

12833 : Sivanthi AdithanGold Cup is associated with?
Ans : Kabbadi

12834 : Which is the first trade union in Kerala?
Ans : The Travancore Labour Association formed in 1922.

12835 : Which is known as the first women’s magazine?
Ans : Kairali Suguna Bodh {published in 1887 }

12836 : Who is the author of “Men Who Kept the Secrets”?
Ans : Thomas Powers

12837 : Who is the inventor of Malaria Parasite?
Ans : Dr.Ronald Ross

12838 : Mathrubhumi became a daily on?
Ans : 6-Apr-30

12839 : Who was the first Education Minister?
Ans : Joseph Mundassery

12840 : Who is the author of “The Seagully”?
Ans : Anton Chekov

12841 : Pollination by animals is called ?
Ans : Zoophily

12842 : Centre for Cellular and Molecular biology is located in ?
Ans : Hyderabad

12843 : Quilon was also called?
Ans : ‘Ten Vanchi’ (Vanchi of the South)

12844 : Prince of Wales Cup is associated with?
Ans : Golf (England)

12845 : Who is the author of “Mountbatten and Independent India”?
Ans : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

12846 : Political organisations which originated in Europe after the First World War were collectively known as?
Ans : Fascist Movements

12847 : The Capital of Niger?
Ans : Niamey

12848 : Who is the author of “Great Tragedy”?
Ans : Z.A.Bhutto

12849 : To maintain the value of money what must be kept constant?
Ans : Price Level

12850 : A general decline in prices; often caused by a reduction in the supply of money or credit is called ?
Ans : Deflation

12851 : Who was the Chief Minister of Cochin at the time of new state of Travancore – Cochin formed?
Ans : Ikkanda Warrier.

12852 : The Currency of Romania?
Ans : Leu

12853 : The Capital of Syria?
Ans : Damascus

12854 : Kerala History Museum is located at ?
Ans : Edappalli (Emakulam).

12855 : Who was the Director of Kumarasambavam, the winner of the first Kerala State film award for the best film?
Ans : A Vincent

12856 : The Currency of Ghana?
Ans : Cedi

12857 : RTGS means?
Ans : Real Time Gross Settlement Systems (It is used to transfer fund from one bank account to another bank account)

12858 : Who is the author of “Broken Wing”?
Ans : Sarojini Naidu

12859 : During which age ‘Potters Wheel’ was invented?
Ans : Neolithic Age

12860 : Who is the author of Blood Brothers?
Ans : MJ.Akbar

12861 : Who is the author of “Arms & The Man”?
Ans : G.B.Shaw

12862 : IMF –International Monetary Fund; was established in ?
Ans : 1945

12863 : Who was known as the Fuehrer (Leader)?
Ans : Adolf Hitler

12864 : Who is the author of “India-China War”?
Ans : Neville Maxwell

12865 : Who is the author of “A Tribute to Indian Judiciary”?
Ans : Poornima Advani

12866 : Who is the author of ‘Job for Millions’?
Ans : V.V.Giri

12867 : Who is the author of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
Ans : Earnest Hemingway.

12868 : The length of small intestine is ?
Ans : 6 meters

12869 : Who was the first Elected Chief Minister?
Ans : EMS Namboothiripad

12870 : Prithi Singh Cup is associated with?
Ans : Polo

12871 : Who is the author of “Conquest of Self”?
Ans : Gandhiji

12872 : Who is the author of “Home Comings”?
Ans : C.P. Snow

12873 : Who is the author of “Long Walk to Freedom”?
Ans : Nelson Mandela

12874 : Which place is known as ‘South Indian Dwaraka’?
Ans : Guruvayur

12875 : Who is the author of “The Judgement”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

12876 : What is the main objective of the WTO is?
Ans : Liberalisation of world trade

12877 : Who was the first Malayali Novelist ?
Ans : Appu Nedungadi

12878 : Who was the first Raja of Travancore to receive the title ‘Maharaja’ from the British crown?
Ans : Ayilyam Thirunal

12879 : The Currency of Egypt?
Ans : Pound

12880 : Flightless Bird?
Ans : Swift

12881 : Varanasi is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Ganges

12882 : National Defence Academy is located at?
Ans : Khadakvasla near Pune .

12883 : Compasses were first used by ?
Ans : Chinese

12884 : Which city was known as “the School of Hellas”?
Ans : Athens

12885 : Who is the author of “Old man and the Sea”?
Ans : Ernest Hemingway

12886 : The first company shares in the world were issued by?
Ans : The Dutch East India Company

12887 : Who was the publisher Keralamitram newspaper from Kochi?
Ans : Devji Bhimji a Gujarathi

12888 : Who is the author of Summer in Calcutta?
Ans : Kamala Das

12889 : Who invented Laser?
Ans : T.H. Maimah

12890 : Who is the author of Passage to India?
Ans : E.M. Forster

12891 : Which cinema is known as the first superhit of Malayalam Cinema?
Ans : Jeevitha Nouka (1951)

12892 : Who is the author of “Affluent Society”?
Ans : J K Galbraith

12893 : Poverty and Famine was written by ?
Ans : Amartya Sen

12894 : Who is the author of “Farewell to Trumpets”?
Ans : James Morris

12895 : ‘Parankippadayali’ is a novel written by ?
Ans : K.M. Panicker.

12896 : Which is the first power station of Kerala?
Ans : The Pallivasal hydroelectric project (commissioned in 1939)

12897 : Which was a white terrorist gang working in America during the period of Great Depression ?
Ans : Ku Klux Klan

12898 : Who is the author of “Road to Folly”?
Ans : Leslie Ford

12899 : In which year Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Welfare Economics?
Ans : 1998

12900 : …………..planthormoneisknownas stresshormone?
Ans : Abscisic acid

General Knowledge – Basic – 087

12901 : Radha Mohan Cup is associated with?
Ans : Polo

12902 : The British conquered St Angelo Fort in?
Ans : 1790

12903 : Clotting of blood in blood vessels is called ?
Ans : Thrombosis

12904 : Who is the author of “To Each His Stranger”?
Ans : S H Vatsyayan

12905 : The average period of human pregnancy is ?
Ans : 36-38 weeks – (approximately 280 days)

12906 : Which hormone is secreted when a man gets feared is?
Ans : Adrenaline.

12907 : Who is the author of “The Fall of a Sparrow”?
Ans : Salim Ali

12908 : The face of a man is made up of …..number of bones?
Ans : 14

12909 : Who is the author of “An Area of Darkness”?
Ans : V.S. Naipaul

12910 : Battle in which Napolean was defeated in 1815?
Ans : Battle of Trafalgar

12911 : The Kayyur Riot against caste system and imperialism was on?
Ans : 28 march 1941 in Kasargode.

12912 : Uniform Resources Locator (URL) is an electronic address that identifies a?
Ans : Website.

12913 : Who is the author of Nehru Family and Sikhs ?
Ans : Harbans Singh

12914 : Irani Cup is associated with?
Ans : Cricket

12915 : Who formed the Cholamandal Artists village, 9 km from Chennai in 1966?
Ans : K C S Panicker

12916 : First person in the world to land on the moon?
Ans : Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr of USA

12917 : The IDA provides …..to member countries?
Ans : soft loans

12918 : Who is the author of God and the Bible ‘?
Ans : Mathew Arnol

12919 : Name of the Residence of Czars was?
Ans : Grand Cremlin Palace

12920 : The Opium wars were fought between ?
Ans : Britain and China

12921 : Largest living Mammal?
Ans : Blue Whale

12922 : Who is the author of Old Curiosity Shop ?
Ans : Charles Dickens

12923 : Father of Taxonomy?
Ans : Carolus Linnaeus

12924 : Who is the author of Reminiscences of the Nehru Era?
Ans : M.O. Mathai

12925 : Who is the author of For Whom the Bell Tolls ?
Ans : Ernest Hemingway

12926 : The Currency of Zambia?
Ans : Kwacha

12927 : The first Atom Bomb was dropped in Hiroshima by America on ?
Ans : August 6; 1945.

12928 : The word ‘Cold War’ was first coined by ?
Ans : Bernard Baruch in 1946

12929 : Who is the author of ” Odayil Ninnu “?
Ans : P. Kesava Dev

12930 : National Police Academy is located at?
Ans : Abu Road (Rajasthan).

12931 : Who was the first Malayali woman athlete to get a medal in Asian Games?
Ans : M D VaIsamma

12932 : Broadest Street (World)?
Ans : Broadway St. (USA)

12933 : Who is the author of Inside CBI ?
Ans : Joginder Singh

12934 : Mamography test is used to diagnose?
Ans : Breast Cancer

12935 : What is the tenure of Kerala Legislative Assembly?
Ans : Five years [starting from the first day of the first session]

12936 : The main chemical content of egg shell is ?
Ans : calcium carbonate.

12937 : Who is the author of “The Round Table”?
Ans : Hazlitt William

12938 : Who is the author of Born Free ?
Ans : Joy Adamson

12939 : Wimbledon Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Lawn Tennis

12940 : Who is the author of “The Trail”?
Ans : Franz Kafka

12941 : Who is the author of “Good Earth”?
Ans : Pearl S Buck

12942 : Who is known as the Architect of Thrissur Town?
Ans : SakthanThampuran

12943 : Who is the author of “Waiting for Godot”?
Ans : Samuel Beckett

12944 : The most important work of Montesquieu is ?
Ans : “The Spirit of Laws”

12945 : Who is the author of ” Half a Life”?
Ans : V.S.Naipaul

12946 : Who is the author of Modern Painters?
Ans : John Ruskin

12947 : Which was the first weekly in Malayalam?
Ans : Keralamitram

12948 : The vector of the disease filariasis (elephantiasis) is?
Ans : Culex mosquito.

12949 : The Theory of Free Banking was written by ?
Ans : George Selgin

12950 : A computer framed to give various network services is called?
Ans : Server

12951 : Who was the first woman in India to reach a high court judgeship?
Ans : Anna Chandy

12952 : Botanical survey of India (BSI) with its head office in Kolkata came into existence in?
Ans : 1890

12953 : Who is the author of “Smarakashilakal”?
Ans : Punathil KunjabdulJah

12954 : Who is the inventor of Vaccination (Small Pox)?
Ans : Edward Jenner

12955 : National Metallurgical Laboratory is located at?
Ans : Jamshedpur (Bihar).

12956 : Raghbir Singh Memorial Cup is associated with?
Ans : Football

12957 : Who was the first Viceroy of the Portuguese; appointed in 1505AD; in the East?
Ans : Francisco d’ Almeida

12958 : Who is the author of “Letters from a Father to his Daughter”?
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru

12959 : Who is the author of Freedom in Exile ?
Ans : Dalai Lama

12960 : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has been established under the NGT Act 2010 on ?
Ans : 18th October;2010

12961 : Who is the author of ” Smarakashilakal “?
Ans : Punathil KunjabdulJah

12962 : Who is the author of Years of Pilgrimage ?
Ans : Raja Ramanna

12963 : What is the name of the improved steam locomotive invented in 1814 by George Stephenson?
Ans : Rocket

12964 : Who is the author of “Against the Grains”?
Ans : Boris Yeltsin

12965 : Who is the author of “Sultry Days”?
Ans : Shobha De

12966 : Who is the author of “Swami and Friends”?
Ans : R.K.Narayan

12967 : Who is the author of ” Bread”?
Ans : K.A.Abbas

12968 : Who is the inventor of Elevator brake (lift)?
Ans : Otis

12969 : Palakkad Mani Iyer was famous as?
Ans : mridangist.

12970 : Who is the author of Lipika ?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12971 : Who is the author of “The Decline of the West”?
Ans : O.Spengier

12972 : Mussolini organised his followers into the?
Ans : ‘Black shirts’ In

12973 : Who is the author of “Malavikagnimitra”?
Ans : Kalidas

12974 : The Periyar wild life sanctuary was declared as a Tiger Reserve in?
Ans : 1978

12975 : Who wrote The Republic ?
Ans : Plato

12976 : First Woman to reach the North Pole?
Ans : Ann Bancroff

12977 : Anchal stamps of Travancore existed till?
Ans : 1952

12978 : Who is the author of “Worshipping False Gods”?
Ans : Arun Shourie

12979 : Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in?
Ans : Paris on 31 August 1997

12980 : Who is the author of Birth and Death of the Sun?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

12981 : Who is the God of the Zorastrian religion ?
Ans : Ahuramazda

12982 : Who is the author of “Crime and Punishment”?
Ans : Fydor Dostoevskey

12983 : Who is the author of ” Jaguar Smile”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

12984 : Who are the selected people of Jehovah ?
Ans : Jews

12985 : The famous work – An Essay on the Principle of Population is by ?
Ans : Thomas Malthus

12986 : Who is considered as the father of Modem History ?
Ans : Leopold Van Ranke; a German historian

12987 : Who is the author of As You Like it ?
Ans : William Shakespeare

12988 : Who is the author of “From Here to an Eternity”?
Ans : James Jones

12989 : Who is considered as the father of the Science of Reasoning?
Ans : Aristotle

12990 : Father of Immunology?
Ans : Edward Jenner

12991 : Pacemaker was invented by ?
Ans : Chardack (1960)

12992 : Who described Alappuzha as the “Venice of the East”?
Ans : Lord Curzon

12993 : Who is the author of “The Trumpet Major; “?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

12994 : Which organ controls reflex actions in human beings?
Ans : The spinal cord

12995 : Kurnool is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Tungbhadra

12996 : Madhavan; Panchu Menon
Ans : O. Chandu Menon

12997 : Dutch sold the St Angelo fort to the Arakkal royal family in?
Ans : 1772

12998 : Who introduced The Secretariat System in Travancore ?
Ans : Col. Munro

12999 : Which empire is also known as Second Chera Empire?
Ans : Kulasekharas of Mahodayapuram.

13000 : Who is the author of Tess of the d’Urberville?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

13001 : Who was the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India?
Ans : Justice M. Fathima Beevi

13002 : Which is the world’s highest and longest highland railway ?
Ans : The Qinghai-Tibet Railway (l;1142 Km) opened on 1st July 2006 in China

13003 : Which film won the Presidents silver medal for the first time?
Ans : Neelakuyil

13004 : Who is the author of “Poovampazham”?
Ans : Karoor Neelakanda Pillai

13005 : Nizam Gold Cup is associated with?
Ans : Football

13006 : Who is the author of “Prem Pachisi”?
Ans : Munshi Prem Chand

13007 : Most Intelligent Animal?
Ans : Chimpanzee

13008 : Name the machine used to break up kidneystones by ultra sound waves?
Ans : Lithotripter

13009 : Thomas Cup is associated with?
Ans : World Badminton

13010 : Sigmond Freud belongs to which country?
Ans : Austria

13011 : Highest Hill Station (India)?
Ans : Gulmarg (Kashmir)

13012 : Who is the author of “King of Dark Chamber”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

13013 : The Capital of Pakistan?
Ans : Islamabad

13014 : Who is the inventor of Printing Press?
Ans : Caxton

13015 : Who is the author of “Chitra”?
Ans : R.N.Tagore

13016 : Who is the author of A Brief History of Time?
Ans : Stephen Hawking

13017 : Who is the author of “Pride and Prejudice”?
Ans : Jane Austen

13018 : Who is the author of ” E. V Kathakal and MLC Kathakal. “?
Ans : E.Y.Krishana Pillai

13019 : Which inscription contains the reference to the Devadasis in Kerala?
Ans : King Goda Ravi Vanna’s Chokkur Inscription.

13020 : Who is the author of “Spouse”?
Ans : Shobha De

13021 : Which was the literary magazine co-sponsored by Kunhikuttan Thampuran and Appan Thampuran?
Ans : Rasika Ranjini

13022 : Which canal connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
Ans : Panama Canal

13023 : Kotah is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Chambal

13024 : Which King of Travancore started the Ayurveda College at Trivandrum?
Ans : Sri Mulam Thirunal

13025 : Who is the author of ” Fire on the Mountain”?
Ans : Anita Desai

13026 : The Currency of Fiji?
Ans : Dollar

13027 : To which race Ay dynasty belonged to ?
Ans : Yadava race.

13028 : Largest Sea Animal?
Ans : Blue Whale

13029 : Who is the author of Eureka?
Ans : Edgar Allen Poe.

13030 : The Capital of Sudan?
Ans : Khartoum

13031 : Who is the author of “Poetics”?
Ans : Aristotle

13032 : Who is the author of “Angels and Demons”?
Ans : George Orwell

13033 : Ramanujam Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Table Tennis (Junior Boys)

13034 : Who is the author of “Midnight’s Children”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

13035 : Who is the author of The Google Story ?
Ans : David A. Vise

13036 : The Sengulam hydroelectric project is located in?
Ans : Idukki

13037 : Who is the author of “Anand Math”?
Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterji

13038 : Colombo Cup is associated with?
Ans : Foot ball (India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka and Myanmar)

13039 : Who is the author of “A Bunch of Old Letters”?
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru

13040 : Who is the author of “Bolivian Diary”?
Ans : Ernesto Che Guera

13041 : Who is the author of Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati ?
Ans : Sahai Firaq

13042 : Defence Service Staff College is located at?
Ans : Wellington; Nilgiri Hills (Tamil Nadu).

13043 : Pollination between two flowers of one plant
Ans : Gytanogamy

13044 : National Literacy Mission (NLM)was launched in?
Ans : 1988

13045 : The Capital of Denmark?
Ans : Copenhagen

13046 : Who is the author of “Umakeralam”?
Ans : Uloor S Parameshwara Iyer

13047 : Who is the author of “Rediscovering Dharavi”?
Ans : Kalpana Sharma

13048 : Who is the author of “Last Days of Pompeii”?
Ans : Bulwar Lytton

13049 : The Capital of Tadzhikistan?
Ans : Dushanbe

13050 : Who is known as the “Morning Star of the Reformation’ ?
Ans : John Wycliffe

General Knowledge – Basic – 085

12601 : Which American President was the first to get married while he was president?
Ans : Grover Cleavelend

12602 : Name the ruler who laid the foundation of Cabinet system?
Ans : Robert Walpole

12603 : Who is the author of From Rio de Janeiro to Johnnesburg?
Ans : M.S.Swaminathan

12604 : Who is the author of “Whose responsibility”?
Ans : Pramilla H. Bhargava

12605 : Pillars of Hercules?
Ans : Straits of Gibraltar

12606 : Who is the author of “The Castle”?
Ans : Franz Kafka

12607 : Who is known as Little Corporal?
Ans : Napolean

12608 : Who is the author of “Dr. Zhivago”?
Ans : Boris Pasternak

12609 : The first and only Cooperative Society of writers, authors and publishers (SPCS), for publishing books and periodicals was set up at Kottayam in?
Ans : 1945

12610 : Who is the author of “Principia”?
Ans : Isaac Newton

12611 : Who is the author of ” Khasakkinte lthihasam”?
Ans : O.V Vijayan

12612 : Who is the author of “Deccameron Stories”?
Ans : Giovanni Boccaccio

12613 : Who is the inventor of Rubber (latex foam)?
Ans : Dunlop Co.

12614 : Napolean Bonaparte died in the year?
Ans : 1821

12615 : Who is the author of “Ramayana”?
Ans : Valmiki (in Sanskrit)

12616 : The Roman Governor who gave the verdict to crucify Christ?
Ans : Pontheos Pelathose

12617 : The normal blood pressure of a healthy adult is?
Ans : 120/180 mm/Hg.

12618 : The Mayan calendar had?
Ans : 18 months

12619 : Who is the author of Fiesta?
Ans : Ernest Hemingway

12620 : Thyroid gland is popularly known as ?
Ans : Adam’s Apple.

12621 : Paper is chemically?
Ans : Cellulose.

12622 : Who is the author of Great Expectations?
Ans : Charles Dickens

12623 : School of Foreign Languages is located at?
Ans : New Delhi.

12624 : Surya TV started their operations in?
Ans : 1998

12625 : Who is the author of “Pinjar”?
Ans : Amrita Pritam

12626 : The Versailles city is in ?
Ans : France near Paris

12627 : Who introduced English Education in Trivandrum?
Ans : Swathi Thirunal.

12628 : Who is the author of “The Upturned Soil”?
Ans : Mikhail Sholokhov

12629 : Who is the author of “Modern Painters”?
Ans : John Ruskin

12630 : On which date Pedro Alvarez Cabral reached Cochin?
Ans : 24 December; 1500.

12631 : Who was the founder of Mangalam, a monthly, in 1969 from Kottayam?
Ans : M C Varghese

12632 : Name the digestive enzyme that converts Maltose to glucose is ?
Ans : Sucrase

12633 : Who is the author of “Vedadikara Nirupanam’?
Ans : Chatampi Swamikal

12634 : Who is the author of The Power and Glory?
Ans : Graham Greene

12635 : Who is the author of “‘Less Miserables'”?
Ans : Victor Hugo

12636 : Kerala Lalita Kala Academy , an autonomous body was established in 1962 at?
Ans : Thrissur

12637 : Who is the author of “Servants of India”?
Ans : RK Laxman

12638 : Who is the author of Great Tragedy?
Ans : l.A. Bhutto

12639 : Who is the author of “Men from Stone Age to Clone Age”?
Ans : Bob Beale

12640 : Who is the author of Time Machine ?
Ans : H.G. Wells

12641 : Kalur International Stadium is now known as?
Ans : Nehru Stadium

12642 : Who is the author of “Chinese Betrayal; The”?
Ans : B.N.Mullick

12643 : The Capital of Comoros?
Ans : Moroni

12644 : Who is the author of “Centuries”?
Ans : Nostradamus

12645 : Tashkent is now the capital of ?
Ans : Uzbekisthan

12646 : Who is the author of “The Wreck; “?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12647 : Who is the author of ” The company of women”?
Ans : Khushwant Singh

12648 : Who is the only person to head the Ministries of Travancore; Thiru-Kochi and Kerala?
Ans : Pattam A.Thanu Pillai.

12649 : The word Heirogliphic means?
Ans : Sacred Writing

12650 : Who is the inventor of Battery & Current Electricity?
Ans : Volta

12651 : First Woman Chief Minister of State?
Ans : Sucheta Kriplani

12652 : The Currency of Barbados?
Ans : Dollar

12653 : Which hormone prepares the animal to fight or flight?
Ans : Adrinalin

12654 : Who is the author of ” Between the lines”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

12655 : Who is the author of Human Knowledge ?
Ans : Bertrand Russell

12656 : American Revolution. To protest against the tax on tea; the revolutionaries threw tea boxes from the ship anchored in the Boston Port. This incident is known as ?
Ans : Boston Tea Party

12657 : The Currency of Romania?
Ans : Leu

12658 : Who is the author of The Fall of a Sparrow?
Ans : Salim Ali

12659 : Who is the author of “Crescent Moon”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12660 : Which is the official publication of Kerala Sports Council?
Ans : ‘Kayikavedi’

12661 : How many countries are members of ADB?
Ans : 67 members – of which 48 are from within Asia and the Pacific and 19 outside

12662 : Plague causing bacteria is ?
Ans : Yersinia pestis

12663 : Ashes is associated with?
Ans : Cricket (Australia England)

12664 : The Currency of Hong Kong?
Ans : Hong Kong Dollar

12665 : Who is the author of Tales from Shakespeare ?
Ans : Charles Lamb

12666 : Who is the author of “Back to Methuselah”?
Ans : George Bernard Shaw

12667 : Land of Rising Sun?
Ans : Japan

12668 : Who is the author of “Death of a President”?
Ans : William Manchester

12669 : Napolean Bonaparte was born in ?
Ans : Corsica; an island in the Meditteranean sea in 1769.

12670 : Who is the author of ” Ganapati”?
Ans : Vallathol Narayana Menon

12671 : Who is the author of ” Two Lives “?
Ans : Vikram Seth

12672 : Who discovered New Found land in 1497?
Ans : John Cabbot

12673 : Who is the author of Tess of the d’Urberville?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

12674 : Who is the author of Gods Little Soldier ?
Ans : Kiran Nagarkar

12675 : Bose Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Kolkata (W.Bengal).

12676 : First India’s Spaceman?
Ans : Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma

12677 : Who is the author of “Prathama Pratishruti”?
Ans : Ashapurna Devi

12678 : BIOS stands for ?
Ans : Basic Input/Output System

12679 : The year in which RavindranadaTagore visited Sree Narayana Guru was?
Ans : 1922

12680 : Who is the creator of the famous character Sydney Carton?
Ans : Charles Dickens

12681 : Who is the author of “Kavithadwani”?
Ans : Dr. M. Leelavathi

12682 : Who is the author of Darkness Visible?
Ans : William Styron

12683 : Who is the author of “Don Quixote”?
Ans : Cervantes

12684 : Who is the author of “Vinaya Patrika”?
Ans : Thulasi Das

12685 : The centre of Arakkal Dynasty was at?
Ans : Kannur.

12686 : Who is the author of ” Distant Neighbours”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

12687 : The Currency of Yemen?
Ans : Rial

12688 : Hitler became the head of Nazi Party in ?
Ans : 1923

12689 : Plants which trap insects and other small creatures on their sticky leaves?
Ans : Carnivorous plants Ex Venus- fly trap

12690 : Who is the author of ” Krishnakavithakal”?
Ans : Sugathakumari

12691 : Who is the author of “Swords and the Sickle”?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12692 : AIDS HIV causing virus is ?
Ans : Human immuno deficiency virus a retrovirus

12693 : Who is the author of ” The Accompanist” ?
Ans : Anita Desai

12694 : Which is the first talkie in malayalam?
Ans : Balan released in 1938

12695 : Who is the author of “Treasure Island”?
Ans : Robert Louis Stevenson

12696 : List by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) world fact book (2009); the country with highest life expectancy among UN member state is?
Ans : Macau (84 years)

12697 : Who is the author of “Talisman”?
Ans : Walter Scott

12698 : Trachoma; the increased Redness of eye is due to infectionof bacteria?
Ans : Chlamidia trachamastis

12699 : Which is the biggest irrigation project in Kerala?
Ans : Kallada IrrigationProject (KIP)

12700 : Perumal Tirumozhi inTamil?
Ans : Kulasekhara Alwar

12701 : Who is the inventor of Aniline Dyes?
Ans : Hoffman

12702 : The first nursing school was established by?
Ans : Florence Nightingale

12703 : Who completed the construction of the Gopuram of Sreepadmanabha swami Temple?
Ans : Raja Kesava Das.

12704 : Channar Lahala was in ?
Ans : 1859

12705 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Gora; Chitra; Rehman; Mini”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12706 : Who is the author of “My South Block years”?
Ans : J N. Dixit

12707 : Who opened the Trivandrum observatory in 1836?
Ans : Swathi Thirunal

12708 : Ayodhya is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Saryu

12709 : Who is the author of “Yanthram”?
Ans : Malayattoor Ramakrishnan

12710 : Who is the author of “From Here to an Eternity”?
Ans : James Jones

12711 : In which year Kerala Government proclaimed tourism as an industry?
Ans : 1986

12712 : Who was the first Kerala woman to participate in an International atheletic event?
Ans : Angel Mary

12713 : Who is considered as the father of the nation of Bolivia?
Ans : Simon Bolivor

12714 : Largest River (India)?
Ans : The Ganges (6; 679 km)

12715 : What are known as “suicide bags”?
Ans : Lysosomes

12716 : Who is the author of “Brides Book of Beauty”?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12717 : The smallest ape is?
Ans : Gibbon.

12718 : Who is the author of “Beyond Belief”?
Ans : V.S.Naipaul

12719 : Who is the author of Anand Math ?
Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

12720 : Who is the author of “Brave New World”?
Ans : Aldous Huxley

12721 : Who is the author of Child who never Grew ?
Ans : Pearl S Buck

12722 : Tenth and the last Guru of the Sikhs?
Ans : Guru Gobind Singh

12723 : Who is the author of One World and India ?
Ans : Arnold Toynbee

12724 : Who is the first Japanese emperor who travelled outside Japan in 1971?
Ans : Hirohito

12725 : What is commonly called ‘Nutures plough man’?
Ans : Earth Worm

12726 : National Aeronautical Laboratory is located at?
Ans : Bangalore (Karnataka).

12727 : Who is the author of Republic ?
Ans : Plato

12728 : Who is the author of “An Equal Music”?
Ans : Vikram Seth

12729 : Seed dormancy is due to ?
Ans : Abscisic acid

12730 : Who is the author of “Viswavikya thamaya Mooku”?
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

12731 : Organisation Of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed on?
Ans : November 14;1960

12732 : Largest Open University?
Ans : Indira Gandhi National Open University; New Delhi.

12733 : Horticulture is the study of ?
Ans : Cultivated plants

12734 : Father of Cytology?
Ans : Robert Hook

12735 : Opium War (1839-1842) was fought between?
Ans : China and Britain

12736 : Who is known as “Pioneer Englishman”?
Ans : Master Ralph Fitch

12737 : First Speaker of Lok Sabha?
Ans : G.V. Mavlankar

12738 : Who is the author of “Malgudi Days”?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

12739 : Great Britain and Northern Ireland joined together and became United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by ?
Ans : ‘The Act of Union’ of 1801

12740 : Who is the inventor of Rh-factor?
Ans : Karl Landsteiner

12741 : Who is the author of “Sigmond Freud belongs to which country”?
Ans : Austria

12742 : The official name of Japan is ?
Ans : Nippon or Nihon; (means the source of the Sun)

12743 : Who is the author of “Arabian Nights”?
Ans : Sir Richard Burton

12744 : Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy ofAdministration is located at?
Ans : Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh).

12745 : Ecocomic theory of rent is the contribution of ?
Ans : Thomas Malthus

12746 : Foundation of Modern Muslim Education in Kerala was laid by?
Ans : Vakkom Abdul Khadar Maulavi

12747 : Who is the author of A Tale of Two Cities?
Ans : Charles Dickens

12748 : Who was the first editor of the Malayali newspaper started in Trivandrum in 1886?
Ans : C. Krishnapillai

12749 : The functional unit of kidneys is called ?
Ans : Nephron

12750 : Who is the author of “Ambassador’s Report”?
Ans : Chester Bowles

General Knowledge – Basic – 084

12451 : Who is the author of “Grammar of Politics”?
Ans : Harold Laski

12452 : Blood groups A; B; AB and 0 were discovered by?
Ans : Karl Landsteiner.

12453 : The Capital of Solomon Islands?
Ans : Honiara

12454 : VasarmanTest is used to diagnose?
Ans : Syphilis

12455 : Who is the author of ” Ghazal”?
Ans : Balachandran Chullikkadu

12456 : Who is the author of Merchant of Venice?
Ans : William Shakespeare

12457 : Kunjalis were four in number. Who was the first Kunjali?
Ans : Kutti Ali

12458 : Who is the author of .First Among Equals?
Ans : Joffery Archer

12459 : Who is the author of “August Coup”?
Ans : Mikhail S.Gorbachev

12460 : Who is the inventor of Motor Scooter?
Ans : Greville Bradshaw

12461 : Who introduced Islam in Kerala around 644 AD?
Ans : Malik Bin Dinar

12462 : Father of DNA Finger Printing ?
Ans : Prof.Alec Jeffreys

12463 : Who is the author of “The serpent and the Rope”?
Ans : Raja Rao

12464 : Play Ground of Europe?
Ans : Switzerland

12465 : Who is the author of Northanger Abbey ?
Ans : Jane Austen

12466 : Who is the author of Bride’s Book of Beauty ?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12467 : Tallest animal on earth is ?
Ans : Giraffe

12468 : Who is the author of “The Village”?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12469 : Who is the author of “Erne Uppuppaku oru aana undayirunnu”?
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer

12470 : Which is the first the biography of Karl Marx in any Indian language?
Ans : Karl Marx (1912) written by Swadeshabhimani K Ramakrishna Pillai

12471 : Who is the author of Punjab: The Knight of Falsehood?
Ans : K.P.SGiII

12472 : Which is the Asia’s largest cinnamon estate?
Ans : Anjarakandy (Kannur)

12473 : Who is the author of ” In the company of women lave Truth and a little Malice”?
Ans : Khushwant Singh

12474 : Kayyur Rebellion was in ?
Ans : 1941

12475 : Longest Railway Route?
Ans : Himsagar Express

12476 : Mussolini was captured and killed at?
Ans : Como

12477 : Who is the author of ” Starry Nights”?
Ans : Shobha De

12478 : First Kerala woman to receive Arjuna Award was?
Ans : K C Aelamma

12479 : Laser Printer was first Introduced by ?
Ans : IBM

12480 : Whis is the Smallest flower?
Ans : Wolffia or duck weed

12481 : In which year did Deepika become a full fledged daily?
Ans : 1938

12482 : The Capital of Iceland?
Ans : Reykjavik

12483 : The brain behind the Ezhava Memorial was ?
Ans : Dr. Palpu

12484 : Lahore is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Ravi

12485 : Who is the author of ” The Hungry Tide. “?
Ans : Amitav Ghosh

12486 : Who is the author of “Ranga Bhoomi”?
Ans : Prem Chand

12487 : Who is the author of “Fatal Cart; Reconciliation Why and How”?
Ans : C.Rajagopalachari

12488 : The early name of feudalism was?
Ans : Clientage

12489 : Who started ‘Mitavadi magazine’ from Tellicherry in 1907?
Ans : Moorkoth Kumaran

12490 : Who was the first Woman Central Minister from Kerala ?
Ans : Lakshmi N.Menon.

12491 : Donchester (England) is associated with which Sport?
Ans : St.Ledger Horse Race

12492 : Which is the largest village in Kerala?
Ans : Kannan Devan Hills of Devikulam taluk

12493 : The Capital of Australia?
Ans : Canberra

12494 : Who is the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
Ans : John Bunyan

12495 : Who is the author of “Robe”?
Ans : The L.C. Douglas

12496 : Opium is extracted from the immature fruits of the whichplant ?
Ans : Poppy (Papaver somniferum)

12497 : Who is the author of Murder in the Cathedral?
Ans : T.S. Eliot

12498 : Rovers Cup is associated with?
Ans : Football

12499 : Which organ of the body is affected by Diphtheria?
Ans : Throat

12500 : Who establishment the Travancore University in 1937?
Ans : Sri Chithira Thirunal.

12501 : Who is the author of “Unhappy India”?
Ans : Lala Lajpat Rai

12502 : Urea is removed from the blood by ?
Ans : Kidneys

12503 : Which was a white terrorist gang working in America during the period of Great Depression ?
Ans : Ku Klux Klan

12504 : Ludhiana is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Sutlej

12505 : First Woman Minister of Indian Union?
Ans : Rajkumar Amrit Kaur

12506 : Who was the propagator of Advaita philosophy?
Ans : Sankaracharya

12507 : S.N.D.P Yogam was founded in ?
Ans : 1903

12508 : The Capital of Timor?
Ans : Dili

12509 : Atom Bomb ‘Fatman’ was dropped in Nagasaki on?
Ans : 9th August 1945.

12510 : Who is known as the first Mahakavi in Malayalam”?
Ans : Cherusseri Namboothiri (15th century)

12511 : Which organ of the body is affected by Goitre?
Ans : Thyroid

12512 : First Emperor of Moghul Dynasty?
Ans : Babar

12513 : Presence of excess urea in the blood ?
Ans : Uremia

12514 : Who is the author of “Best and the Brightest”?
Ans : The David Halberstam

12515 : Parambikkulam Wild Life Sanctuary is in?
Ans : Palakkad district

12516 : Who is the inventor of Xerox?
Ans : Haloid-Xerox

12517 : Who is the author of “As I See”?
Ans : Kiran Bedi

12518 : The third generation computers were built with?
Ans : Integrated circuits.

12519 : Malaria; an insect borne disease; is propagated by?
Ans : Anopheles female mosquito.

12520 : Who is the author of “The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian”?
Ans : Nirad C. Chauduri

12521 : Which city is called by its natives as ‘The Big Apple’?
Ans : NewYork

12522 : Which Chief Minister holds the record for holding the office for the maximum number of times?
Ans : K. Karunakaran (4 times)

12523 : Kannur University was founded in?
Ans : 1996

12524 : Who is the author of “Gone with the Wind”?
Ans : Margaret Mitchel

12525 : Who gave the revolutionary message – “No Caste; No Religion; No God for Man”?
Ans : Sahodaran Ayyappan

12526 : Which was the first University in Europe founded in 825?
Ans : The University of Italy

12527 : Who is the author of The Brave New World?
Ans : Aldous Huxley

12528 : Where was Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishnapilla born?
Ans : At Neyyattinkkara in Thriruvananthapuram.

12529 : Who is the author of ” Yatrasmaranakal”?
Ans : S K Pottekadu

12530 : Which fish was declared as ths;official fish of Kerala in 2010?
Ans : Etroplus (pearl spot)

12531 : Who is the author of “Friends and Foes”?
Ans : Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

12532 : Which king of Travancore setup the Department of Irrigation and Maramathu Department for the first time?
Ans : Swathi Thirunal

12533 : Who is the author of “Wake Up India”?
Ans : Annie Besant

12534 : ……is writing about real life?
Ans : Non fiction

12535 : Which was the least populous town ?
Ans : Yumen in the remote Himalyan region of Tibet in China

12536 : Central Jute Technological Research Institute is located at?
Ans : Kolkata (W.Bengal).

12537 : A general decline in prices; often caused by a reduction in the supply of money or credit is called ?
Ans : Deflation

12538 : Who is the author of Living History?
Ans : Hillary Clinton

12539 : Who was the first Chief Minister of Kerala?
Ans : EMS Namboothiripad

12540 : Pookode lake is a famous tourist centre in?
Ans : Wayanad

12541 : Who is the inventor of Mitochondria?
Ans : C.Benda

12542 : Who is the author of “I Too Had a Dream”?
Ans : Varghese Kurian

12543 : Who is the author of “Beauty and Revolution”?
Ans : K.A.Abbas

12544 : Who is the author of Ascent of the Everest?
Ans : Sir John Hunt

12545 : Settlers of Dutch descent in South Africa were known as?
Ans : Boers

12546 : Who is the author of Lady Chatterley’S Lover?
Ans : D H Lawrence

12547 : The Roman Governor who gave the verdict to crucify Christ?
Ans : Pontheos Pelathose

12548 : Plague; an insect borne disease; is propagated by?
Ans : Rat flea

12549 : The concept of rolling plan was accepted in?
Ans : 1977

12550 : The Bloodless revolution or Glorious revolution occurred in England in?
Ans : 1688

12551 : Who is the author of White House Years?
Ans : Henry Kissinger

12552 : Ayyankali He died at the Age of 77 on?
Ans : 18 June 1941.

12553 : Jayalakshmi Cup is associated with?
Ans : National Table Tennis Championship (Women)

12554 : Who became the Rajapramukh of the New State of Travancore -Cochin?
Ans : The Maharaja of Travancore

12555 : Who is the author of ” Lost Child”?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12556 : Rabies causing virus is ?
Ans : Lyssa virus

12557 : The people living in the parts of Kenya and Tanzania are called?
Ans : Swahilis

12558 : Father of tragic dramas?
Ans : Aeschilus

12559 : Who is the author of Wealth of Nations?
Ans : Adam Smith

12560 : Who is the author of “Doctor Zhivago”?
Ans : Boris Pasternak

12561 : Who is the author of Dario Ruben?
Ans : Pablo Neruda

12562 : Which is a recently extinct bird from Mauritious?
Ans : Dodo

12563 : What is the name of the Indian military operation in Kargil to expel the ussurpers?
Ans : ‘Operation Vijay’ of 1999

12564 : Who is the author of “Ramanan”?
Ans : Changampuzha Krishna Pilla

12565 : Who is the author of “Swords and the Sickle”?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12566 : Who is the author of “Family Matters”?
Ans : Rohinton Mistry

12567 : Who is the author of “Gora”?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore

12568 : The Capital of Chile?
Ans : Santiago

12569 : The first Post-Office in Travancore (also of Kerala) was opened at Alleppey during the reign of?
Ans : Utram Thirunal Marthanda Varma in 1857.

12570 : Garden City?
Ans : Chicago

12571 : Jabalpur is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Narmada

12572 : Which is the official currency of the European Union (EU) ?
Ans : Euro

12573 : The birthplace of Sree Narayana Guru was?
Ans : Chernpazhanthy in Trivandrum district on 20 August 1855 (Vayalvarathu Veedu)

12574 : Kerala is believed to have originated by the withdrawal of sea; when Parasurama threw his axe from ?
Ans : Gokarnam to Kanyakumary

12575 : The process of German Unification began when King William I appointed Otto Von Bismark as his Prime Minister in?
Ans : 1862

12576 : ….. is characterized by insufficient erythrocytes of haemoglobin?
Ans : Anaemia

12577 : Westchester Cup is associated with?
Ans : Polo (England)

12578 : The universalisation of education within ten years in the age group of six to fourteen is the aim of?
Ans : ‘Sarva Siksha Abhiyan’ (SSA)

12579 : Who is the author of “Daughter of the East”?
Ans : Benazir Bhutto

12580 : Who is the author of “To Light a Candle”?
Ans : Welthy Fisher

12581 : Who is the author of Story of My Life ?
Ans : Moshe Dayan

12582 : Who was deported in 1910 for published a series of articles in “Swadesha bhimani” criticising the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari and the king Sri Mulam Thirunal?
Ans : K. Ramakrishna Pillai

12583 : Who is the author of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
Ans : Edward Gibbon

12584 : Who is the author of “Don Juan”?
Ans : Lord Byron

12585 : Which is called as the greatest Attakkada of all time?
Ans : Unnayi Wartier’s Nalacharitam in four parts

12586 : The birthplace of Sree Narayana Guru was?
Ans : Chernpazhanthy in Trivandrum district on 20 August 1855 (Vayalvarathu Veedu)

12587 : Who is the author of To the Lighthouse?
Ans : Virginia Woolf

12588 : Which was the first country to adopt Rolling Plan?
Ans : Sweden

12589 : Natural sandalwood forests of Kerala is located at?
Ans : Marayur.

12590 : The Gulf War (1991) was fought between the US led multinational forces and Iraq to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Its code name was ?
Ans : Operation Desert Storm

12591 : First Woman Prime Minister of India?
Ans : Mrs. Indira Gandhi

12592 : Fishes respire through ?
Ans : Gills

12593 : Who is the inventor of Automobile (gears)?
Ans : Benz

12594 : Sheesh Mahal Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Cricket

12595 : Rangoon is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Irrawadi

12596 : The Second World War led to the foundation of UNO in?
Ans : 1945

12597 : What was the real name of Chatampi Swamikal?
Ans : Kunjan Pillai.

12598 : Fastest Train (World)?
Ans : French T.G.V.

12599 : Who is the author of “Profiles and Letters”?
Ans : K.Natwar Singh

12600 : Who is the author of Pakistan – The Gathering Storm?
Ans : Benazir Bhutto

General Knowledge – Basic – 082

12151 : Who is the inventor of Vitamins?
Ans : Funk

12152 : Who is the author of ” Randamoozham”?
Ans : M.T.Vasudevan Nair

12153 : Which is the earliest epigraphical record of a Chera King to be discovered from Kerala?
Ans : The Vazhapalli inscription of Rajasekara Varman

12154 : Name the translatory program which translates the high level language into machine language before running the program?
Ans : COMPILER

12155 : Highest Gateway (India)?
Ans : Buland Darwaza

12156 : Who is the inventor of Malaria Parasite?
Ans : Dr.Ronald Ross

12157 : Who is the author of Gathering Storm ?
Ans : Winston Churchill

12158 : Who is the author of “Zulfi my Friend”?
Ans : Piloo Mody

12159 : Who is the author of “Job for Millions”?
Ans : V.V.Giri

12160 : The Indoswiss Project for the development of livestock is located in?
Ans : Mattupetty

12161 : Who is the author of “Tharavadu and Oru Muri Tenga”?
Ans : P. Kesava Dev

12162 : Kaveri river originates from?
Ans : Kottencheri hills near Talakaveri in Kasaragod

12163 : Who compiled the first Malayalam Dictionary?
Ans : Herman Gundert (1814-1893)

12164 : During which period of evolution The Barter system of exchange came into practice ?
Ans : Neolithic period

12165 : Who is the inventor of Tuberculosis bacilli?
Ans : Robert Koch

12166 : Which place receives the highest rainfalls in India?
Ans : Lakkidi (Wayanad)

12167 : Famous Rock-cut caves in the Ambukuthi hills in the Wayanad district is known as ?
Ans : Edakkal Caves.

12168 : The first Women Police Station started functioning in Kozhikode on?
Ans : 27-Oct-73

12169 : Who is known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
Ans : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

12170 : Central Marine Research Station is located at?
Ans : Chennai (Tamil Nadu).

12171 : Who is the author of “Area of Darkness”?
Ans : V.S.Naipal

12172 : Who is the author of “My Own Boswell”?
Ans : M Hidayatullah

12173 : The State of Travancore -Cochin came into existence on?
Ans : July 1;1949

12174 : Who is the author of “Kidnapped”?
Ans : R.L.Stevenson

12175 : Who presided over the Aikya Kerala Conference held at Trichur in Apri I 1947?
Ans : K Kelappan.

12176 : The hardest material found in human body is ?
Ans : Enamel

12177 : Blackhealth London is associated with which Sport?
Ans : Rugby Football

12178 : ECG was invented by ?
Ans : Wilhelm Einthoven.

12179 : 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.

12180 : National Institute of Oceanography is located at?
Ans : Panaji (Goa).

12181 : Who is the inventor of Dynamite?
Ans : Alfred Nobel

12182 : Who was the youngest Chief Minister of Kerala?
Ans : A.K.Antony (37)

12183 : Who is the author of “Shalimar the Clown”?
Ans : Salman Rushdie

12184 : The Israel- Palestine Peace Treaty was signed in?
Ans : 1994

12185 : Who were the first to invent a solar calendar?
Ans : Egyptians

12186 : Father of Pathology?
Ans : RudolphVirchow

12187 : Economists have divided economy into three sectors namely?
Ans : 1 Primary sector 2 Secondary sector 3Tertiarysector (Service sector)

12188 : Who said “The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall”?
Ans : Bacon

12189 : Which place is known as the Granary of Travancore?
Ans : ‘Nanjianadu’

12190 : The Huzur court was reconstructed as?
Ans : The Raja’s Court of Appeal

12191 : Madras Rubber factory (MRF) was established at?
Ans : Kottayam

12192 : Loan provided at low interest or no interest at all by World Bank is called?
Ans : Soft loan

12193 : Who is the creator of the famous character Thripura Sundari Kujamma?
Ans : C.V.Ramanpilla

12194 : Who is the creator of the famous characters “Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes”
Ans : Arthur Conan Doyle

12195 : Name the three major Philosophers of ancient China ?
Ans : Lao-Tse; Confucious and Mencious

12196 : Who is the author of “Murder in the Cathedral”?
Ans : T.S. Eliot

12197 : Fats are richly found in ?
Ans : Adipose tissue

12198 : Who is the author of ” The Vendor of sweets”?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

12199 : Thinnest skin human body is ?
Ans : Conjunctiva (eyelid)

12200 : The third molar teeth appears in the later stage is called?
Ans : Wisdom Teeth

12201 : Who is the author of Big Egos; Small Men?
Ans : Ram Jethmalani

12202 : The period of long sleep for animals in cold weather when there is no food available is known as ?
Ans : Hibernation

12203 : Who is the author of “Adam Bede”?
Ans : George Eliot

12204 : Who is the author of “Bachelor of Arts”?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

12205 : Who is the inventor of Electric Motor (AC)?
Ans : Nikola Tesla

12206 : Which King of Travancore made ‘The Pandarapattam Proclamation of 1865’ for agrarian reforms?
Ans : Ayilyam Thirunal.

12207 : Who is the author of Anna Karenina ?
Ans : Leo Tolstoy

12208 : Homer; the blind poet; lived in the ?
Ans : 9th century BC

12209 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Don Juan”
Ans : Lord Byron

12210 : Who is the author of Magic Mountain ?
Ans : Thomas Mann

12211 : Experiments with Plant Hybrids is a book by ?
Ans : Rev. Gregor Mendel

12212 : For freedom of press and freedom of expression Gorbachev introduced ?
Ans : ‘Glasnost’ means open approach

12213 : Which is the largest dam in the Bharathapuzha river?
Ans : Malampuzha dam

12214 : Who is the inventor of Evolution; Theory?
Ans : Charles Darwin

12215 : Who was the first woman judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India?
Ans : Justice M. Fathima Beevi

12216 : Who is the author of “Ambassador’s Journal”?
Ans : J. K Galbraith

12217 : Which is considered to be the first internet search engine allowing people to find specific files?
Ans : Archie – (Anomymous FTP)

12218 : Who discovered microorganisms in 1675?
Ans : Anton Von Leeuwenhoek

12219 : The Capital of Bangladesh?
Ans : Dhaka

12220 : Who is the inventor of Ayurveda?
Ans : Atreya

12221 : The Capital of Guatemala?
Ans : Guatemala City

12222 : Who is the author of “Chiriyum Chinthayum”?
Ans : E.Y.Krishana Pillai

12223 : Which state in India has the highest literacy?
Ans : Kerala with 93.91%

12224 : Who is the author of “Ramayana”?
Ans : Valmiki (in Sanskrit)

12225 : In 1707 by the ‘Act of Union’ England and Scotland joined together and assumed the name ?
Ans : ‘Great Britain’

12226 : Largest Museum (World)?
Ans : American Museum of Natural History; New York city. It comprises 19 interconnected buildings with 23 acres of floor space.

12227 : What was the aim of this begging march or ‘Yachana Yathra’ ?
Ans : To enable the poor children to get educated.

12228 : 1Megabyte= ?
Ans : 1024 Kilobytes

12229 : Who is the author of Road to Folly ?
Ans : Leslie Ford

12230 : Name the German Physician; who isolated Vibrio Cholerac in1883 is?
Ans : Robert Koch

12231 : Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is better known as ?
Ans : Benedict XVI (The present and 265th Pope after the death of John Paul II)

12232 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Thirumukathu Pilla”
Ans : c.V.Ramanpilla

12233 : Who is the author of Satyartha Prakash?
Ans : Swami Dayananda Saraswathi

12234 : The Britain passed the Stamp Act in American colonies in ?
Ans : 1765

12235 : Who is the author of Wings of Fire?
Ans : A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

12236 : Who is the author of “Sorrow is Knowledge”?
Ans : Arabinda Ray

12237 : The Capital of Fiji?
Ans : Suva

12238 : The idea of Republic originated in?
Ans : Rome

12239 : Who is the author of “Kanyadaan”?
Ans : Vijay Tendulkar

12240 : Who is the author of The Road Ahead ?
Ans : Bill Gates

12241 : Oldest University?
Ans : University of Karueein founded in AD 859; Morocco

12242 : The leucocytes that are able to produce the anticoagulant heparin are?
Ans : Basophils

12243 : Who is the inventor of Cement?
Ans : Joseph Aspdin

12244 : Who is the author of Age of Reason?
Ans : Jean-Paul Sartre

12245 : Who is the author of “Ethics for New Millennium”?
Ans : Dalai Lama

12246 : Zilla courts were established in?
Ans : 1811

12247 : Who is the author of “Painter Signs”?
Ans : T.K.Narayan

12248 : Who is the author of ” Mayoora sandesham”?
Ans : Kerala Varma Valiyakoi Thampuran

12249 : Who is the author of “Chistable”?
Ans : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

12250 : Who is the author of “Martyr”?
Ans : Kuldip Nayar

12251 : First woman to walk in space (Russia)?
Ans : Svetlana Savitskaya space

12252 : Who is the author of “Mein Kampf”?
Ans : Adolf Hitler

12253 : Who is the author of “Mayoora sandesham”?
Ans : Kerala Varma Valiyakoi Thampuran

12254 : Who is the author of “Anna Karenina”?
Ans : Leo Tolstoy

12255 : Deficiency of insulin leading to excess sugar in the blood and this sugar is excreted in the urine. This disease is known as ?
Ans : Diabetes mellitus (hyperglycemia)

12256 : Wellington Trophy is associated with?
Ans : Rowing

12257 : Mr. Micawber; Jacob Marley;
Ans : Charles Dickens

12258 : The oxygenated blood from the lungs is received by the heart in ?
Ans : Left auricle.

12259 : The Malayali Memorial was a movement against?
Ans : The appointment of Tamil Brahmins in Government Service.

12260 : The Currency of Tonga?
Ans : Pa’ Anga

12261 : Where was the first Jews Synagogue in Kerala built?
Ans : Mattancherry.

12262 : During Revolution period; the French Parliament was known as ?
Ans : ‘Estates General’

12263 : Who is the author of “Bhagavatham Kilippattu”?
Ans : Ezhuthachan

12264 : Payyambalam Beach is located in?
Ans : Kannur

12265 : Smallest State (India)?
Ans : Goa

12266 : Who is the author of “KilivathiIiloode”?
Ans : Lalitham bika Antharjenam

12267 : Who is the author of “Human Knowledge”?
Ans : Bertrand Russell

12268 : The Capital of Laos .P.D.R.?
Ans : Vientiane

12269 : Who is the author of Pakistan Papers?
Ans : Mani Shankar Aiyar

12270 : Who is the author of Life Divine ?
Ans : Aurobindo Ghosh

12271 : The Currency of Armenia?
Ans : Rubie

12272 : Who is the author of “Krishnagatha”?
Ans : Cherusseri

12273 : Guttation occurs in well watered herbaceous plants of well drained soils during .?
Ans : Morning

12274 : Who is the inventor of Thermometer?
Ans : Fahrenheit

12275 : Who is the author of Pamela?
Ans : Samuel Richardson.

12276 : Who is the author of ” Brides Book of Beauty”?
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand

12277 : Who is the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
Ans : John Bunyan

12278 : Who is the author of “Kapal Kundala”?
Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

12279 : Who is the author of ” Harinama Keerthanam “?
Ans : Ezhuthachan

12280 : Who is the author of The Castle?
Ans : Franz Kafka

12281 : Who is the author of “The Garden of Solitude”?
Ans : Siddhartha Gigoo

12282 : Which is the first Christian church in India?
Ans : St Thomas church at Palayoor (Thrissur)

12283 : Who is known as Little Corporal?
Ans : Napolean

12284 : Who is the author of ” Surgakanthi”?
Ans : G. Sankara Kurup

12285 : Who is the author of “Sunny Days”?
Ans : Sunil Gavaskar

12286 : Which century is also known as ‘Age of Reason’?
Ans : 18th century

12287 : Who is the author of ” Oru pottichiri”?
Ans : Lalitham bika Antharjenam

12288 : Who is the author of “Lady Chatterley’S Lover”?
Ans : D H Lawrence

12289 : High income countries are known as?
Ans : Developed Countries

12290 : Who is the author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
Ans : Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

12291 : India’s 1st IT company with 100 crore Turn over is ?
Ans : Infosys

12292 : Who is the author of “Devdas”?
Ans : Sarat Chander

12293 : Chinese call Mandarin language as?
Ans : ‘Putoghua’ (Common language)

12294 : Who is the author of Men from Stone Age to Clone Age ?
Ans : Bob Beale

12295 : Who is the author of “‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame'”?
Ans : Victor Hugo

12296 : Yachana Yathra was led by ?
Ans : V.T. Bhattathirippadu in 1931 from Trichur to Chandragiri river which lasted for seven days

12297 : Who is the author of ” Unaccustomed Earth. “?
Ans : Jumpa Lahiri

12298 : Name of the National School Computerisation Programme is ?
Ans : Vidya Vahini.

12299 : ‘Savarnajatha’ was organized by Mannath Padmanabhan to support?
Ans : Vaikkam Sathyagraha

12300 : The prophet of French Revolution?
Ans : Rousseau