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