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