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