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