General Knowledge – Basic – 036

5401 : “Peoples Republic of China’ was formed in the year?
Ans : 1949

The Capital of Gambia?
Ans : Banjul

Pondicherry was merged with the Indian Union on?
Ans : 1st November 1954

The Capital of Spain?
Ans : Madrid

Who is the author of Iron in the Soul””?
Ans : Jean Paul Sartre”

5402 : Name the scientist who received Nobel Prize for medicine in 1902 for his discovery of Malarial parasite?
Ans : Ronald Ross

5403 : The vetebrate which has a two chambered heart is?
Ans : Fish

5404 : The Currency of Angola?
Ans : New Kwanza

5405 : Tunku Abdul-Rahman Cup is associated with?
Ans : Badminton (Asian)

5406 : Who is the author of Mahabharata ?
Ans : Maharishi Ved Vyas

5407 : Tuberculosis causing bacteria is ?
Ans : Mycobacterium tuberculosis

5408 : The Currency of Britain?
Ans : Pound

5409 : Who is the author of Business at the Speed of Thought ?
Ans : Bill Gates

5410 : Which is the most important game of Latin American countries?
Ans : Soccer (Football)

5411 : Who is the author of ” The End of Imagination”?
Ans : Arundhati Roy

5412 : Who is the author of Amsterdam?
Ans : Ian McEwan

5413 : Schneider Cup is associated with?
Ans : Seaplane Race (U.K.)

5414 : The Britain passed the The Navigation Act was passed in American colonies in ?
Ans : 1651

5415 : Which king of Travancore setup the Department of Engineering for the first time?
Ans : Swathi Thirunal

5416 : Who is the author of The Tradition of Non- Use of Nuclear Weapons ?
Ans : T.V Paul

5417 : What is the total number of family courts in the state?
Ans : 16

5418 : Who is the author of “India Divided”?
Ans : Rajendra Prasad

5419 : What is the name of the aircraft from which the ‘Little boy’ Atom Bomb was dropped in Hiroshima?
Ans : ‘Inola Gay’

5420 : Who is the author of ” Simhabhoomi “?
Ans : S K Pottekadu

5421 : What is described as the ‘Bible of the English Constitution’?
Ans : The Magnacarta

5422 : Who is the author of Oh; Calcutta ?
Ans : Kenneth Tynan

5423 : The first computer graphics used movie is ?
Ans : TRON (1982)

5424 : Who founded ‘Young Italy’ in 1821?
Ans : Joseph Massini

5425 : Kerala Folklore Academy It is an autonomous Corporate body constituted on?
Ans : 28-Jun-95

5426 : Who is the author of Merchant of Venice?
Ans : William Shakespeare

5427 : Who is the author of Marriage and Morals?
Ans : Bertrand Russell

5428 : Who was the ruling king of France when the revolution broke out (1774-1792)?
Ans : Louis XVI

5429 : Air Force Administrative Staff College is located at?
Ans : Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)

5430 : Smallest muscle in human body is ?
Ans : Stapedius

5431 : Who is the author of “Animal Farm”?
Ans : George Orwell

5432 : Who is the author of The Last Mughal ?
Ans : William Dalrymple

5433 : In which year the Construction of Anjengo fort started?
Ans : 1684

5434 : Epilepsy is a disease of the?
Ans : Nervous system

5435 : Land of Maple?
Ans : Canada

5436 : Who is the author of Ben Hur ?
Ans : Lewis Wallace

5437 : Who is the author of Divine Life ?
Ans : Swami Sivananda

5438 : Who is the author of “Radhayethedi”?
Ans : Sugathakumari

5439 : Name of French currency is?
Ans : Franc

5440 : Budapest is on the bank of which River?
Ans : Danube

5441 : Who is the author of “Indian Homerule”?
Ans : Gandhiji

5442 : Cotton; jute; silk; wool; etc are natural fibres while _______is a an artificial fibre?
Ans : Nylon

5443 : Who was responsible for the connection between Sree Narayana Guru and Swami Vivekananda?
Ans : Dr. Palpu

5444 : Who is the author of Modern Painters?
Ans : John Ruskin

5445 : Who is the author of ” Malgudi Days “?
Ans : R.K. Narayan

5446 : The Capital of Congo (Formerly French)?
Ans : Brazzaville

5447 : Who is the author of Kumara Sambhava ?
Ans : Kalidas

5448 : Who is the author of “Wilhelm Meister”?
Ans : Goethe

5449 : Who is the author of Crisis into Chaos?
Ans : E.M.S.Namboodiripad

5450 : Who is the author of “Pickwick Papers”?
Ans : Charles Dickens

5451 : Who is the author of “Chiriyum Chinthayum”?
Ans : E.Y.Krishana Pillai

5452 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Oedipus”
Ans : Sophocles

5453 : Hydathodes occur on .?
Ans : Leaves

5454 : Who is the author of “Ottayadipatha”?
Ans : Madhavikutty (Kamala Surayya)

5455 : The smallest district of Kerala is?
Ans : Alappuzha

5456 : Name the digestive enzyme that converts Maltose to glucose is ?
Ans : Maltase

5457 : Who is the inventor of Airship (Non-rigid)?
Ans : Zeppelin

5458 : Who is the author of Memories and Musings ?
Ans : K.P.S.Menon

5459 : The Beckal fort was built by?
Ans : Sivappa Nayaka.

5460 : Who is the author of “Kudumbapuranam”?
Ans : Dr.Ayyappa Panicker

5461 : Who is the author of Days of His Grace?
Ans : Eyvind Johnson

5462 : Who is the author of Rubaiyati-Omar Khayyam ?
Ans : Edward Fitzgerald

5463 : Who is the author of Mountbatten and Independent India ?
Ans : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

5464 : Chicken Pox causing virus is ?
Ans : Varicella Zoster

5465 : Christianity was spread to Kerala by ?
Ans : St. Thomas Aposthel in 52AD (Crangannore)

5466 : Who is the author of “Raja tarangini”?
Ans : Kalhana

5467 : Who created the first vaccine for rabies?
Ans : Louis Pasteur

5468 : The term Bacteria was coined by ?
Ans : Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1838.

5469 : Kerala Ceramics is located at?
Ans : Kundara

5470 : Who is the author of “Anakaran”?
Ans : Karoor Neelakanda Pillai

5471 : Who is the author of “Apple Cart”?
Ans : G.B.Shaw

5472 : Who is the author of “Good Earth”?
Ans : Pearl S Buck

5473 : Who is the author of “A Judge’s Miscellany”?
Ans : M.Hidayathullah

5474 : Who is the author of “Pratham Pratishruti”?
Ans : Ashapurna Devi

5475 : Starch is a polymer of ?
Ans : Hexose Sugar

5476 : Island of Pearls?
Ans : Bahrain (Persian Gulf)

5477 : Who is the author of “Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati”?
Ans : Sahai Firaq

5478 : Obaidullah Gold Cup is associated with?
Ans : Hockey

5479 : Who is the author of “Farm House”?
Ans : George Orwell

5480 : Who is the ‘Father of Modem Genetics ?
Ans : Rev. Gregor Mendel

5481 : Who is the author of “The White Tiger”?
Ans : Arvind Adiga

5482 : Trivandrum Museum building and the main building of Trivandrum University College were constructed during the reign of ?
Ans : AyilyamThirunal.

5483 : Who is the author of Kanyadaan ?
Ans : VijayTendulkar

5484 : The Capital of Angola?
Ans : Luanda

5485 : Who is the author of “Glimpses of World History”?
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru

5486 : Who is the author of “A Fraction of the Whole”?
Ans : Steve Toltz

5487 : The Capital of Hong Kong?
Ans : Victoria

5488 : Oliver Twist; Pip; Estella;
Ans : Charles Dickens

5489 : Who was the President of America during the First World War?
Ans : Wudrow Wilson

5490 : How many General Elections were conducted in Kerala?
Ans : 15

5491 : Who is the author of “Ramayana Maharishi”?
Ans : Valmiki

5492 : Who is the author of Indian Summers?
Ans : John Wright

5493 : Russian Parliament is known as?
Ans : Duma

5494 : Tommy Emar Gold Cup is associated with?
Ans : Hockey (Women)

5495 : Who invented the method of smelting iron with coke in 1709?
Ans : Abraham Derby

5496 : The Capital of Iceland?
Ans : Reykjavik

5497 : Which city of America has the largest number of rail roads?
Ans : Chicago

5498 : The Capital of Senegal?
Ans : Dakar

5499 : 1st IT University of India was?
Ans : J.P.University.

5500 : Who is the author of Way of all Flesh ?
Ans : Samuel Butler

5501 : Who is the creator of the famous character “Kim”
Ans : Rudyard Kipling

5502 : Founder of Satyam Technologies is?
Ans : Ramalingaraju

5503 : The Currency of Thailand?
Ans : Baht

5504 : Who is known as Father of Video games?
Ans : Ralph Baer.

5505 : Who is the author of Wealth of Nations?
Ans : Adam Smith

5506 : In which year Thrissur Radio station was started?
Ans : 1954

5507 : Who is the author of “Anand Math”?
Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterji

5508 : Sterilization process in female is called ?
Ans : Tubectomy

5509 : Earliest available inscription dated in the Kollam Era; the Mampalli Plate (149) is ascribed to?
Ans : Sri Vallabalan Kotha of Venadu.

5510 : Who is the author of Idiot ?
Ans : Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5511 : Who is the author of “Whispers of the Desert”?
Ans : Fatima Bhutt

5512 : Second largest gland in human body is?
Ans : Pancreas

5513 : The Ramsar Convention(1971) is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of wetlands. It was held at?
Ans : Ramsar in Iran

5514 : Who is the author of “The Scarlet Letter”?
Ans : Nathaniel Hawthorne

5515 : Kerala Minerals and Metals is at?
Ans : Chavara

5516 : Who is the author of ” Oru Deshthinte Katha”?
Ans : S K Pottekadu

5517 : Who shot dead John F. Kennedy?
Ans : Lee Harvey Oswald

5518 : The physical devices of a computer system are called as ?
Ans : Hardware

5519 : Who is the author of The Mayor of Caster Bridge?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

5520 : Who is the author of “Midsummer Night’s Dream”?
Ans : Shakespeare

5521 : The disease resistant constituent of blood is ?
Ans : W.B.C.

5522 : Which is a popular ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala?
Ans : Theyyam

5523 : The technique of DNA finger printing has been developed by ?
Ans : Prof. Alec Jeffreys

5524 : The first known computer game is?
Ans : Space War

5525 : Which century is known as the’ Age of Enlightenment’?
Ans : 18th century

5526 : The second generation computers were built with ?
Ans : Semiconductors.

5527 : Which ruler made primary education compulsory in Travancore?
Ans : Rani Gauri Parvati Bai

5528 : The district with most number of post offices in Kerala is?
Ans : Thrissur

5529 : Who is the inventor of Torpedo?
Ans : Rabert Whitehead

5530 : Christianity reached England for the first time by the coming of?
Ans : Romans

5531 : Who is the author of “The Ancient Mariner”?
Ans : S.T. Coleridge

5532 : Flightless Bird?
Ans : Swift

5533 : Most cultured civilisation of Middle Ages was of?
Ans : Arabs

5534 : Who is the inventor of Quantum Theory?
Ans : Max Planck

5535 : Who is the inventor of Turbine Engine?
Ans : Charles Parsons

5536 : Highest Leaning Tower (World)?
Ans : Leaning Tower; Pisa (Italy)

5537 : Which civilization invented water clock and sundial to know the time ?
Ans : Babilonian civilization

5538 : Who is the author of Sense and Sensibility ?
Ans : Jane Austen

5539 : Central Inland Fisheries Research Station is located at?
Ans : Barrackpore (W.Bengal)

5540 : Who is the inventor of Shorthand?
Ans : Pitman

5541 : Who is the author of “Chidambra”?
Ans : Sumitranandan Pant

5542 : Longest Railway Platform?
Ans : Sonepur (Bihar) (India)

5543 : Who is considered as the father of the Jews?
Ans : Abraham

5544 : Headquarter of IMF is at?
Ans : Washington; (USA)

5545 : Who is the author of “Family Reunion”?
Ans : TSEliot

5546 : Who is the author of “Ganadevata”?
Ans : Tara Shankar Bandyopadhyaya

5547 : The construction of Old Secretariat complex was completed in?
Ans : 1869

5548 : The Capital of Brazil?
Ans : Brasillia

5549 : Who was the Chief Minister of Cochin at the time of new state of Travancore – Cochin formed?
Ans : Ikkanda Warrier.

5550 : American stock exchange is situated in New York at?
Ans : Wall Street