GENERAL KNOWLEDGE- Questions and Answers -25
5001.The first ruler of the Sena Dynasty :
Vijayasena
5002. The first ship of the Indian Navy which circumnavigated the world :
INS Tharangini
5003. The convicts of the Mahatma Gandhi murder case were sentenced to death at :
Ambala Jail
5004. The poisonous chemical used for artificial ripening of fruits:
Carbide
5005. The capital city of which country is located below sea level :
The Netherlands
5006. Silumin is an alloy of :
Aluminium and Silicon
5007. The first leftist leader to become the Speaker of Lok Sabha :
Somnath Chatterjee
5008. The country with the largest number of official languages:
South Africa
5009. The most industrially developed South American Country:
Brazil.
5010. Who deciphered cuneiform script :
Henry Rollinson(1835)
5011. Who was nicknamed as Lokmanya :
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
5012.The windiest continent:
Antarctica
5013. The first Malayalee to win Kendra Sahitya Academy Award :
R. Narayana Panicker (1955)
5014. The first couple to share Nobel Prize :
Pierre Curie & Mary Curie (1903, Physics)
5015. The Lok Sabha which had the longest term :
5 Sabha
5016. River Churni in ancient days is the present day :
Periyar
5017. Holy Book of Sikhs :
Guru Granth Sahib
5018.Satheesh Dhawan Space Centre is at :
Sriharikota
5019. The largest quantity of Carbon dioxide effluence is done by :
The U.S.A..
5020. The last Maurya Ruler :
Brahadrada
5021. Who wrote ‘Satyarth Prakash’:
Dayanand Saraswati
5022. The largest mountain in the solar system is :
Mount Olympus (Mars)
5023. World’s largest producer of coffee :
Brazil
5024. The National Air Service of Germany :
Lufthansa
5025. Golan Hills which were part of Syria was conquered in 1967 by :
Israel
5026. The Malayalam film with Gujarat earthquake as background :
Kazhcha
5027. The first Indian State where the facility of remitting property tax at Post Offices was implemented :
Kerala
5028. The political party launched by Medha Patkar :
People’s Political Front
5029. The largest plateau in Kerala :
Wayanad
5030. The British ruler who ruled for the longest duration :
Queen Elizabeth II
5031. The only non living organelle in the cell :
Vacuole
5032. The edible part of Yam is its :
Stem
5033. The traveller who guided the Dutch to reach India :
Linschoten
5034. The animal with the highly developed brain :
Man
5035. The water in the dam exerts pressure :
in all directions
5036. Tomato was cultivated for the first time in :
South America
5037. Kitchen of cell :
Chlorophyll
5038.The largest continent :
Asia
5039.Among the Tughlaq rulers, who was almost ritualistic:
Firoz Shah Tughlaq
5040. The fluid that gives softness to skin and hair :
Sebum
5041. ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey is a work of :
Oscar Wilde
5042. The element, which is a significant atomic energy source present in the black soil of Kerala Sea coast :
Thorium
5043. The second Asian Writer to win Nobel Prize for Literature:
Yasunari Kawabata (1968 Japan).
5044.Real name of Shah Jahan :
Khurram
5045. The coastline of Tamil Nadu is known as :
Coromandel coast
5046. The city founded by Krishnadevaraya :
Nagalpur
5047.The unit of distance in the sea :
Nautical mile
5048. The country which produced the largest number of feature films in India :
India
5049. Samjhauta Express connects Delhi with:
Lahore
5050. Thar Express runs between Jodhpur and :
Karachi
5051. Fighter plane Mirage is supplied by :
France
5052. During the reign of which Delhi Sultan did Rani Padmini perform Jauhar:
Alauddin Khilji
5053. The country which stands first in Wool production :
Australia
5054. Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills failed in the Rajya Sabha when the Prime Minister was:
Rajiv Gandhi
5055. The lake Sudarshan renovated by Rudradaman is in :
Gujarat
5056. Gandharam is the present day :
Afghanistan
5057. The first Nobel price for literature was conferred to :
Sully Prudhomme
5058.The first Muslim woman space traveller:
Anousheh Ansari
5059.The first secretary of Sahitya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham :
Karur Neelakanta Pillai
5060. Founder of World Wide Web :
Tim Berners Lee
5061. District without coastline and shares boundaries only with other districts of Kerala:
Kottayam
5062. Birth place of Shadkala Govinda Marar :
Ramamangalam
5063. Who represented Indian women for the round table conference :
Sarojini Naidu
5064. Ore of Potassium:
Carnallite
5065. Where is Papanasam beach:
Varkala
5066. Viceroy during first Round Table Conference :
Lord Irwin
5067. Wildlife sanctuary for wild asses :
Gujarat
5068. National animal prior to Tiger :
Lion
5069. The last Peshwa ruler :
Bajirao II (1795-1818)
5070. Who propounded postal stamp :
Rolland Hill
5071. The first woman Acting President in the world belonged to :
Mongolia
5071. Thaekkinkadu maidanam is in :
Thrissur
5072. Cell Wall of plant cells are made of :
Cellulose
5073. Konkani language is an offshoot of :
Indo Aryan Language
5074. Sahara desert is in the continent of :
Africa
5075. The bird with bag in its beak :
Pelican
5076.The first Secretary of Kerala State Library Council :
I.V.Das
5077. The most popular among the Chauhan Kings :
Prithviraj Chauhan
5078. Typhoon hot air blows in :
China
5079. Sarkaria Commission studied about :
Central-State relations
5080. The officiating Dewan of Travancore when Sir C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar resigned:
P.G.N.Unnithan
5081.The first satellite for education purposes :
Edusat
5082. Name the first speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly formed in 1921 :
Sir Frederic Whyte
5083. Components of Gunmetal :
Copper, Zinc and Tin
5084. Medical city of the world :
Vienna
5085. The first available inscriptions of Venad rulers :
Tharisapalli Copper Plate
5086.The first woman President Isabel Peron ruled :
Argentina
5087. Who invented cement:
Joseph Aspdin
5088. “I have seen many saints and seers. But never someone who was greater than or equal to Sree Narayana Guru who said this :
Rabindranath Tagore
5089. Konkan railway came into being :
1998
5090. Script used during Indus Valley Civilization:
Pictographic
5091. The Second Woman Prime Minister in the world :
Indira Gandhi
5092. The first Malayalee to become Union Finance Minister:
John Mathai
5093. When Subhas Chandra Bose was the Congress President (1938) the Chairman of the National Planning Committee was :
Jawaharlal Nehru
5094. In which year the foundation for the Portuguese Fort at Kochi was laid :
1503
5095. The tissues that reach water from roots to different parts of the plant :
Xylem
5096. Sultana Razia was wedded to :
Altunia
5097. The regional party which became the main opposition in the Lok Sabha :
Telugu Desam
5098.The trilogy of N. Sreekantan Nair :
Saketham, Lanka Lakshmi and Kanchana Seetha
5099. The second Prime Minister of Independent Travancore:
Paravur T.K.Narayana Pillai
5100. In which State is Kanchenjunga :
Sikkim
5101. Kanjli , Harike are wetlands of :
Punjab
5102.The Chairman of the first Finance Commission :
K.C. Neogy
5103. Kanchipuram is on the banks of :
Paalar
5104. Stanley Reservoir is in the river :
Kavery
5105. Simhachalam is a pilgrim spot in :
Andhra Pradesh
5106. The slogan ‘Jai Hind’ was coined by:
Subhash Chandra Bose
5107. Who shifted the capital of Sultanate from Delhi to Agra:
Sikandar Lodi
5108. The longest poetry in the world :
Mahabharata
5109. Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary is in :
Haryana
5110. K.G.Balakrishnan former Supreme Court Chief Justice belongs to which district in Kerala:
Kottayam
5111. The second capital of Guptas :
Ujjain
5112.Period of the reign of Krishnadevaraya :
1509-29
5113. The most famous ruler of the Tomar dynasty in Delhi :
Mahipal
5114. Name the Malayalee woman Governor of Tamil Nadu :
Justice M.S. Fathima Beevi
5115. Diamantina Trench is the deepest portion of which ocean:
Indian Ocean
5116. Jonathan Harker is the character created by :
Bram Stoker
5117. The first British Viceroy to visit Travancore :
Lord Curzon
5118. Cultivation of rubber on an experimental basis was started in Kerala at :
Thamarassery
5119. When Fa Hien reached India to study Buddhism, the then Gupta ruler was :
Chandra Gupta Vikramaditya
5120. In which year Godhra incident in Gujarat took place :
2002
5121. The number of elected members in Lok Sabha :
543
5122. Sea of water Vapour is in :
Moon
5123. Wife of Buddha :
Yashodhara
5124. The most abundant ore of calcium:
Limestone
5125. The first Press in Kottayam was established by :
Benjamin Bailey (1821)
5126. The allotrope of which element is graphene:
Carbon
5127. Deputy Speaker submits his resignation to :
Speaker
5128. Who discovered Nitrogen:
Daniel Rutherford
5129. In which year Vasco-da- Gama reached Kerala for the second time :
1502
5130. The first American President to receive Nobel Prize for peace :
Theodore Roosevelt
5131. The maximum number of members in the Lok Sabha as per the provisions of the Constitution :
552 (530+20+2)
5132. The main port of the Cheras of the Sangam period :
Mussiris
5133. What is known as the fuel of the future:
Hydrogen
5134. Headquarters of Kerala Agro Machinery Corporation:
Athani
5135. The first automobile was made by :
Carl Benz
5136. The highest military honour of U.S.A.. :
Medal of Honour
5137. Among the Chief Ministers of Kerala, who had born first:
Pattom A.Thanu Pillai
5138. The only Muslim country in Europe :
Albania
5139. The Mughal King who resumed :
Jaziya (1679)
5140. The tomb of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti is at :
Ajmeer
5141. The first Indian to receive Gandhi Peace Prize :
Baba Amte
5142. Zionist Movement was launched by :
Theodore Herschel
5143. The first Prime Minister of Independent India :
Jawaharlal Nehru
5143. Hazara Temple was built by :
Krishnadevaraya
5144.The first High Commissioner to Britain of Independent India :
V.K. Krishna Menon
5145. The first film Society in Kerala :
Chitralekha
5145. In which year Britain defeated Spanish Armada :
1588
5146. The first Scientist to predict solar eclipse :
Aryabhata
5147. The first 3D film from Kerala :
My Dear Kuttichathan
5148. The date on which the distance between the Sun and the Earth is minimum :
3 January (Perihelion)
5149. During state reorganization, the four taluks separated from southern Travancore were merged with the district of :
Kanyakumari
5150.The Jnanpith Award Winner, who was given the title of ‘Kavitilakan’ by Kochi Maharaja :
G.Sankara Kurup
5151. The first Chemical fertilizer factory in Kerala :
FACT
5152. Malayalee who served as the opposition leader of Lok Sabha :
C.M. Stephen
5153. The Indian Prime Minister killed by bodyguards (Beant Singh and Satwant Singh):
Indira Gandhi (31 Oct 1984)
5154. Founder of Red Cross :
Henry Dunant
5155. Who succeeded Lenin :
Joseph Stalin
5156. Subhas Chandra Bose Airport in Calcutta is formerly known as :
Dumdum Airport
5157. Sadbhavana Day is observed on the birthday of :
Rajiv Gandhi
5158. The first independent candidate to become President :
Dr Radhakrishnan
5159. The Muslim ruler who attacked the Deccan region :
Alauddin Khilji
5160. The first tobacco-free district in Kerala:
Kottayam
5161. Birth place of Velu Thampi Dalawa :
Thalakulam in Vilavancode Taluk
5162. The first flying club in Kerala :
Thiruvananthapuram
5163. Capital of Sena :
Nadia
5164. The first woman President of a country in the world :
Maria Isabel Peron
5165. During French Revolution, Bastille Jail was broken in :
1789
5166. The most famous King of Pratihara dynasty :
Bho Paithan centre of power of Satavahanas is in :
Maharashtra
5167. The Muslim population in Europe is the largest in :
France
6168. Afzal Khan of Bijapur was defeated by :
Shivaji
5169. Carpathian Mountain ranges are in the continent of :
Europe
5170. Who invented the calculator :
Pascal
5171. Rajasthan Canal is now known after :
Indira Gandhi
5172. The chemical name of freon:
Dichlorodifluoromethane
5173. The King who patronized the poet Mathanga Divakaran (a chandala / oppressed caste):
Harsha
5174. Tintin Cartoon character first appeared in the country :
Belgium
5175. Who introduce Zabti tax :
Akbar
5176. Winner of Bharat Ratna who lived for the longest period:
D.K. Karve
5177 In which year Thangassery Light House was built:
1902
5178. Who discovered Xenon:
W.Ramsay
5179. Who wrote Pratima natakam :
Bhasa
5180. A carbon credit is related to :
Global Warming
5181. Who established the branch of the Pratihara dynasty at Malwa with Ujjain as Capital:
Nagabhata I
5183. Where is Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Museum :
Surat
5184. Gas used to fill the tyres of aircraft:
Helium
5185. The first Malayalee Supreme Court Judge :
Parakulangara Govinda Menon
5186. Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Research Station is at:
Odakkali
5187. The first Muslim Supreme Court Chief Justice :
M. Hidayatullah
5188. The first Rubber Park in Kerala is at :
Irapuram
5189. When was Sahitya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham established:
1945
5190. The Chalukya King who committed suicide by diving in the river Tungabadra when defeated by the Cholas (1066):
Someswaran I
5191. Which country in the 19th century developed the concept of General strike:
Britain
5192. The first artificial plastic:
Bakelite
5193. Next to Amazon the largest tropical rain forest is found on the banks of the river :
Congo
5194. Founder of Hindustan Times in Delhi :
Sardar K M Panicker
5195. Old name of the city Sialkot :
Sakala
5196. When did Karthika Thirunal (Dharmaraja) come to power in Travancore :
1758
5197. King of cartoons :
William Steig
5198. The first Buddhist Council was held at :
Rajagriha
5199. A native of Thiruvananthapuram who served as the External Affairs Minister in the Government of Independent India established with Kabul as capital :
Chempakaraman Pillai
5200. S I Unit of time :
Second
5201. The ground in which Proclamation for Quit India was announced :
Gowalia Tank (now, August Kranti Maidan)
5202. Siam is the name of the country :
Thailand
5203. Venue of Salt Satyagraha (1930) in Tamil Nadu :
Vedaranyam beach
5204. The continent with Buddhist countries :
Asia
5205. Founder of Khalsa, the organization of Sikh Warriors :
Govind Singh
5206. Post equivalent to Attorney General in the State :
Advocate General
5207. Theory of Evolution was put forward by :
Charles Darwin
5208. Mother of Buddha :
Mahamaya
5209. Pala dynasty existed in :
Bengal
5210. The 73rd Amendment of the Constitution is included in which part:
9
5211. The first Muslim country in the world to have a woman prime minister in power :
Pakistan
5212. In which State is renowned physicist E C G Sudarshan born:
Kerala
5213. Headquarters of Catholic Syrian Bank :
Thrissur
5214. Former Union Minister Lekshmi N Menon was a Malayalee. Which state she represented in the Parliament :
Bihar
5215. Name the Viceroy when George V visited India:
Lord Hardinge
5216. Who wrote Canterbury Tales :
Geoffrey Chaucer
5217. The first Pazhassi Revolt was held in :
1793-97
5218. During vulcanization of rubber the element added is :
Sulphur
5219. Lal Bagh is in :
Bangalore
5220. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri football stadium:
Hyderabad
5221. The leader who came to power with the largest number of seats in Lok Sabha :
Rajiv Gandhi
5222. Ancient River Aksini is presently known as :
Chenab
5223. Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Airport is in :
Patna
5224. Alfred Nobel who instituted Nobel prize was a native of:
Sweden
5225. Who wrote ‘Suthanthira Perumai’ :
Subramania Bharati
5226. Gulistan Palace is in :
Iran
5227. Mughal emperor related to the name Alamgir:
Aurangzeb
5228. Waterloo of Vijayanagaram :
Battle of Talikota
5229. The first President to vote in the Lok Sabha election :
K.R. Narayanan (1998)
5230. The first rubberized road in Kerala :
Kottayam - Kumily
5231. Who was the founder of the Green belt movement:
Wangari Maathai (Kenya)
5232. Sangam works are in the language :
Tamil
5233. Which is the first open-defecation free state in India:
Sikkim
5234. Vision 2020 is connected with the Organization :
ASEAN
5235. Chairman of the State Reorganization Commission :
Fazal Ali
5236. Silk route is :
Nathula Pass
5237. Districts in Kerala without railway line:
Idukki and Wayanad
5238. St Angelo fort in Kannur was built by :
The Portuguese
5239. Place in Kerala which is closely related to 3 C’s namely Cricket, Cake and Circus :
Thalassery
5240. Full name of the traveler Al Masudi :
Abdul Hassan Ali Almas Udhi
5241. Protein in wool :
Alpha Keratin
5242. The skin of animal used for making Ganjira :
Monitor Lizard (Udumbu)
5243. Rajatarangini deals with the history of :
Kashmir
5245. The country which got separated from Sweden in 1905:
Norway
5246. Victoria waterfalls was discovered by :
David Livingston
5246. Protein-rich source for the vegetarians :
Soybeans
5247. The Indian Prime Minister who lost in the Confidence motion :
V. P Singh
5248. The final resting place of Morarji Desai :
Abhay Ghat, Ahmedabad
5249.‘Discovery of India’ & ‘Letters from Father to His Daughter’ were authored by:
Jawaharlal Nehru
5250. Mona Lisa is preserved in the Louvre Museum in :
Paris
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