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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE- Questions and Answers -24

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE- Questions and Answers -24


4751. In which state is Golconda diamond mines: 
Telangana

4752. India Gate was designed by : 
Edwin Lutyens

4753. When did China accept Sikkim as part of India : 
2004

4754. Chilka Lake is known for the farming of : 
Prawns

4755. Tiger Airways is in : 
Singapore

4756. The Lake which is located at the lowest  altitude : 
Dead Sea

4757. Gaja Gamini is a work by : 
M.F. Hussain

4758. The first President of Kerala State Library Council:
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan

4759. Jalandhar is known for : 
Sports goods

4760. When was the capital of Perumpadappu Swaroopam shifted from Thiruvanchikulam to Kochi : 
1405 A.D.

4761. Which is known as Red planet : 
Mars

4762. The busiest bridge in the world : 
Howrah (Kolkata)

4763 . The oldest King of Venad : 
Ayyanatikal Thiruvad

4764 . Kochi State Praja Mandalam came into being on:
16 Jan 1941

4765. In terms of per cent, the country with the largest population of Catholics is : 
Vatican

4766. The Sikh Guru who created Gurmukhi script : 
Angad

4767.The Headquarters of Bamboo corporation : 
Angamali

4768. Natural radioactivity was discovered by : 
Henry Becquerel

4769.When did Mahatma Gandhi reach Kerala for the first time : 
1920

4770. International Poverty Study Center is  at : 
Brazil

4771. The first Nano Technology study center in India is at :
Bangalore

4772. The ablest among the Peshwa rulers was : 
Baji Rao I

4773. In which year Dayanand Saraswati established Arya Samaj: 
1875

4774.  “Ministry of State  Security “is the Secret Agency of :
China

4775. Among the wild animals, the footprints of which animal resembles that of man : 
Bear

4776. The animal which represents collapsing of stock market :
Bear

4777. Founder of Swatantra Party : 
C Rajagopalachari

4778. The first Secretary-General of the United Nations :
Trygve Lie

4779. Who was called as the  ‘’efficient hands of Mahatma’’:
Ali Brothers

4780. Who was called as the ‘Spiritual father of Indian National Movement’ : 
Swami Vivekananda

4781. When did Mahatma Gandhi establish Phoenix settlement in Durban, South Africa : 
1904

4782. The orbit of the geostationary satellites are at an altitude of : 
36000 km

4783. Punjab plain is on the banks of  the river system: 
Indus

4784.The first President to receive Bharat Ratna : 
Dr Rajendra Prasad

4785. Palace of Nations is in : 
Geneva

4786.The longest river in Pakistan : 
Sindhu

4787. The major port of India located closest to  the equator:
Tuticorin

4788. The Prime Minister  of Kochi who fought against the British : 
Paliath Achan

4789. In which state is Dalhousie hill station: 
Himachal Pradesh

4790. The district in Kerala which is largest producer of coffee :
Wayanad

4791. The special Congress session in 1920 which approved the Non-Cooperation Movement was held at : 
Kolkata

4792.The Pigment which gives colour to the skin : 
Melanin

4793. Kerala State Institute of Rural Development is at :
Kottarakkara

4794. The bird which finds it prey with the help of olfactory senses : 
Kiwi

4795. Headquarters of National Inland Water Transport Institute : 
Patna

4796. Capital of Satavahanas : 
Pratishthan (on the banks of Godavari)

4797. The first Indian to receive Heuver Award :
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam

4798. Headquarters of Kerala State Co-operative Marketing Federation : 
Kozhikode

4799. Atmiya Sabha was established in 1814 by :
Raja Ram Mohan Roy

4800. The craters of which planet are named as Vyasa, Valmiki, Homer : 
Mercury

4801. The continent where the highest and the lowest regions on  the Earth surface are located : 
Asia

4802. The first Indian to receive Royalty for selling records :
Rabindranath Tagore

4803. As per the Islamic belief the Eden Garden is the present-day town of : 
Damascus

4804. The first tobacco-free city in India : 
Chandigarh

4805. Who planned Chandigarh city : 
Le Corbusier

4806. Where is Kerala Institute of Local Administration :
Mulankunnathukavu

4807. Which country is known as the land of Thousand Lakes: 
Finland

4808. Where is Kerala Drugs and Pharmaceuticals : 
Kalavur

4809. Asian country with the highest longevity : 
Japan (It is Andorra  in the World)

4810. Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminal is in : 
Mumbai

4811. Cambay in Gujarat is known for : 
Petroleum

4812.When was Swadeshabhimani exiled : 
1910

4813. The four phases of life in the Vedic period :
Brahmacharya, Grihasthashram, Vanaprastha and Sanyasa

4814. African countries which existed independent during Colonialism : 
Ethiopia and Liberia

4815. Blood sample of which scientist is used to prepare the Gene map : 
James Watson

4816. Singapore is on the shore of : 
Pacific ocean

4817. Who wrote ‘Nirvriti Panchakam’ : 
Sree Narayana Guru

4818.Sufi Saint who established Chisti Order : 
Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti

4819. The spokesperson of the Cabinet in the Assembly: 
Chief Minister

4820. Founder of Kerala Congress : 
K.M. George

4821. Chief Election Commissioner is appointed  by the :
President

4822.River Indus merges with the : 
Indian Ocean

4823.World’s largest producer of Mango : 
India

4824. New Guinea is in which Ocean : 
Pacific Ocean

4825. New Deal Programme is presented by :
Franklin D Roosevelt

4826. World’s largest producer of dates : 
Iraq

4827. Continent which was the venue of the renaissance : 
Europe

4828. Keratin is a substance found in the : 
Skin

4829. Force of Gravity is maximum at the : 
Poles

4830. The six sections of Veda are : 
Shiksha, Niruktam, Vyakaranam, Kalppam, Chandass, and Jyothisham

4831. The Constituent Assembly was formed on   : 
6 December 1946

4832. Coronation of the kings of Cochin were held at :
Chitrakudam

4833. The National Park situated in the northernmost portion of the world : 
North East Green Land National Park

4834. Where is Assembly Museum in Kerala :
Thiruvananthapuram

4835.The most populated city in Pakistan : 
Karachi

4836. Lion Safari Park in Thiruvananthapuram is at : 
Neyyar Dam

4837. The second music  instrumentalist to be conferred with Bharat Ratna : 
Ustad Bismillah Khan

4838. Blue and Yellow when mixed would give : 
Green

4839. The insect without wings : 
Bed bug

4840. Revolutionary who became an atheist : 
Bhagat Singh

4841. Second Indian to pass Civil Service Examination:
Surendranath Banerjee

4842. Bills passed by the Assembly becomes law on appending the signature of : 
Governor

4843. Book authored by Sheik Sainudeen who declared War on the Portuguese: 
Tuhfatul Mujahideen

4844. Charminar in Hyderabad was built by :         
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

4845.The Military action that liberated Goa : 
Operation Vijay of 1961

4846.Budget in the Assembly is presented in the name of the: 
Governor

4847. Dr S Chandrasekhar was awarded Nobel Prize for the subject : 
Physics

4848. Where is Dun School : 
Dehradun

4849. The Portuguese Traveler who visited Vijayanagar after the Talikota War : 
Caesar Frederick

4850. The metal shows the poorest electrical conductivity:
Lead

4851.The ester with the smell of banana: 
Isoamyl acetate

4852. The only Jewish country in the world : 
Israel

4853. In which year Civil Disobedience was   launched : 
1930

4854. Subhas Chandra Bose was born in : 
Cuttack

4855. Capital of Chandela Kings : 
Khajuraho

4856. Who is advised by General Purpose Committee :
Speaker

4857. In which year Delhi Durbar was held : 
1911

4858. Samastha Kerala Sahodara Sangham was formed in 1917 by : 
K. Ayyappan

4859. Which medicine is known as ‘Wonder Drug’: 
Aspirin

4860. The four subsidiary companies under General Insurance: 
New India Assurance, Oriental Insurance, National Insurance and the United India Insurance

4861. Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College was established by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in: 
1875

4862. Who presided the first session of the AITUC held in 1920 : 
Lala Lajpat Rai

4863. The person who was sentenced to death along with Godse in the Mahatma Gandhi Assassination case :
Narayana Dattatraya  Apte

4864. In which year Common Wealth Games was started :
1930

4865. The first Indian to win the Ig  Nobel Prize for Peace :
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

4866. Where is Chor Minar: 
Delhi

4867. Who built Charminar : 
Alauddin Khilji

4868. The first Nehru Planetarium was established in 1954 at: 
Pune

4869. Title ‘Sikander-e-Sani’ was assumed by the Delhi Sultan: 
Alauddin Khilji

4870. The only Indian State where Special Marriage Act is not valid : 
Jammu and Kashmir

4871. Which Prime Minister  visited China after Nehru:   
Rajiv Gandhi

4872. The last Dewan of Kochi : 
C.P. Karunakara Menon

4873.The Sena dynasty ruled which part of India : 
Bengal

4874. Where is Hawa Mahal: 
Jaipur

4875. The Tennis Court Oath in connection with the French Revolution was in : 
20 June 1789

4876. Which is known as the School City of India: 
Dehradun

4877. Swami Vivekananda made his Chicago Addresses in connection with the World Parliament of Religions in :
1893

4878. The youngest Nobel Prize winner : 
Malala Yousafzai

4879. Who represented the largest number of  constituencies in Kerala : 
M.V.Raghavan

4880. The longest river in North East India : 
Brahmaputra

4881.Shimla Agreement was signed by : 
Indira Gandhi

4882.The motto of French Revolution : 
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

4883. Nanak (1469-1539) the first Guru of Sikhs was born in: 
Talwandi

4884. The most violent volcanic eruption : 
Krakatoa

4885. Water on hydrolysis gives : 
Hydrogen and Oxygen

4886. During British regime the Parliament was known as the: 
Central Legislative Assembly

4887.Which country won the World Cup Football for the largest number of times : 
Brazil

4888. Which artist represented Pigeon /Dove as the symbol of Peace : 
Picasso

4889. The largest producer of Silk in India : 
Karnataka

4890. The main river of Chhattisgarh : 
Mahanadi

4891.The largest river that flows through the rift valley :
Narmada

4892. Malayalee who became the Defence Minister after V.K. Krishna Menon : 
A.K. Antony

4893. Who was known as Lokhitwadi:
Gopal Hari Deshmukh

4894. Gayatri Mantram is a part of : 
RigVeda

4895. In which State is Kanchipuram known for silk saris: 
Tamil Nadu

4896. Who led the Indian Independence  League in Japan :
Rash Behari Bose

4897. The five basic things of Sikhs : 
Kesh, Kangha, Kacha, Kara , Kripan

4898. The first president of the Kerala Khilafat Committee :
Kunjikkoya Thangal

4899. The scientific name of lion :  
Panthera  leo

4900.The average length of the backbone of man: 
3.3 feet

4901. Simlipal National Park is in : 
Odisha

4902. Ancient name of Rajasthan : 
Matsya

4903. Shqiperi is presently known as : 
Albania

4904. The port located in the Bay of Khambhat: 
Surat

4905. When did Travancore accept the English supremacy :
1795

4906. The bird that can swim underwater : 
Penguin

4907.Former name of Kerala Kalamandalam : 
Kerala Arts Academy

4908.President of Congress during Quit India Movement :
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

4909.The national flag which country is a square : 
Switzerland

4910. Headquarters of Kerala Wood Industries : 
Nilampur

4911. Nobel Prizes except for Peace is conferred at : 
Sweden

4912.In Sayyid Dynasty who succeeded Khizr Khan : 
Mubarak Shah

4913. Headquarters of Kerala Agricultural University :
Mannuthy

4914. The second largest city in Tamil Nadu : 
Coimbatore

4915. In which year the first English School in Thalassery started functioning : 
1858

4916. In which year English Factory was established in Thalassery : 
1695

4917. Tahrir Square is in :
Egypt

4918. Thiruchirapally is on the banks of : 
Kaveri

4919. In which year the last Mamankam was held :  
1755

4920. The theory of population explosion was put forward by : 
Malthus

4921. Metal known Tamram in Sanskrit : 
Copper

4922. Kollam Era began during the reign of : 
Rajasekhara Varma

4923. Guru of Hariharan and Bukka : 
Vidyaranya

4924. Membership number of Montenegro in United Nations :
192

4925.In which year World Trade Organization came into being:
1995

4926. The colour of the flag of United Nations: 
Blue

4927.Thar Express runs between : 
Munabha Bhavo  and Khokhrapar

4928. The coldest region on the earth : 
Verkhoyansk.

4929.Headquarters of the High Court of Gujarat : 
Ahmedabad

4930.In which year Work of M.C.road was completed  : 
1877

4931.Old name of Ghana : 
Gold Coast

4932. President elected without opposition : 
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy

4933. The first woman member of Cochin Legislative Assembly: 
Thottakkad Madhavi Amma

4934. The first woman to receive Ezhuthachan Award :
Balamaniamma (1995)

4935. The Malwa ruler was defeated by Akbar in 1581 :
Bas Bahadur

4936. ICC Award for the world’s best cricketer is named after:
Garry Sobers

4937. Founder of Sunga dynasty : 
Pushyamitra Sunga

4938. The first Ezhuthachan Puraskaram was given to:
Sooranad Kunjan Pillai(1993)

4939. Akbar passed away on:  
17 October 1605

4940. The civilization which used the art of writing : 
Sumerian

4941. Study of poison: 
Toxicology

4942. Pen name of M.P. Bhattathiripad : 
Premji

4943.The theme of Sangam works : 
War, Romance

4944. Mount Everest is named after George Everest who was: 
the Surveyor-General of India.

4945. The largest Peninsula in the world : 
Arabia

4946. The planet which reflects maximum solar rays falling on it : 
Venus

4947. The third-largest planet in the solar system : 
Uranus

4948.The only Muslim dynasty in Kerala : 
Arakkal

4949. The second UNITED NATIONS General Secretary to win Nobel Prize for Peace : 
Kofi Annan

4950.Name the jail where Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned followed by Quit India Movement:  
Agha Khan Palace

4951.In which State is Siachen Glacier: 
Jammu and Kashmir

4952.The movement of earth around the Sun is : 
Revolution

4953. The rocket used to launch Apollo 11 which carried men to Moon : 
Saturn 5

4954. The train that connects Jammu and Kanyakumari :
Himasagar

4955. The first city in Kerala where public transport was introduced: 
Thiruvananthapuram.

4956. In which state is Vidisha, the capital of Sunga dynasty :
Madhya Pradesh

4957. Founder of Cochin State Congress : 
T.K. Nair

4958.The smallest species of cow in the world : 
Vechur Cow

4959. Girinagar inscriptions are on the reforms of :
Rudradaman

4960.The first Delhi Sultanate who visited the tomb of Moinuddin Chisti :
Muhammad Bin Tughluq

4961. The National Anthem of which country has music but no lyrics : 
Spain

4962. The continent without grasslands : 
Antarctica

4963. The first Chief Minister of Kerala to become the Union Minister : 
A.K. Antony

4964. The only mental health centre in Kerala where Ayurveda treatment is administered: Kottakkal

4965. The Headquarters of Kerala Inland Navigation Corporation : 
Kochi

4966. The first Odakkuzhal Award was given to :
Vennikulam Gopala Kurup

4967. Among the recipient of Bharat Ratna  Awardees, the first person who was born outside India : 
Mother Teresa

4968. Van Mahotsav is held in the month of : 
July

4969.  ‘Brihaspathi’ as per Indian concept is the planet : 
Jupiter

4970. The first leader to discuss on the poverty line in the pre-independent India :
Dadabhai Naoroji

4971. Kudumbasree was launched in : 
Kerala

4972.Capital of Siraj ud-Daulah :  
Murshidabad

4973. The first woman Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu : 
Janaki Ramachandran

4974.Founder of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala : 
Vaidyaratnam P.S.Warrier

4975. Principle of Charvaka Religion: 
‘Lokayatha darshananam’

4976. Which fuel has the highest calorific value: 
Hydrogen

4977. Founder of Ramanattam : 
Kottarakkara Thampuran

4978. In which year the first Congress session in which Mahatma Gandhi participated was held : 
1901 at Kolkata

4979. Penname of K. Ramakrishna Pilla while contributing for Kerala Darpanam, Kerala Patrika and Malayalee :
Keralan

4980.The leader who played a significant role in the formation of Kochi Praja Mandalam: 
V.R.Krishnan Ezhuthachan

4981. Solar heat reaches the earth by : 
Radiation

4982. Sutrapitaka deals with : 
Principles of Buddha

4983 Quality agro products are given the seal of : 
Agmark

4984. The largest archipelago in the world : 
Indonesia

4985.The Prime Minister  who gave the status of Associate State to Sikkim as per 35th  Amendment and by 36th Amendment was given the status of a State : 
Indira Gandhi

4986. Which Congress session decided to hand over leadership to the young generation: 
Lahore

4987. Golconda and Bijapur were surrendered to the Mughal dynasty during the reign of : 
Aurangzeb.

4988. The first National leader to attack on Salt law: 
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

4989. High Court Judge submits resignation to : 
President

4990. The conqueror who had the lineage of Timor paternally and Genghis Khan maternally: Babur.

4991.Horse of Buddha : 
Kanthaka

4992. ‘Mahabinishkramana’ in Buddha Scriptures refers to: 
Buddha’s sacrifice

4993.Which is called QuickSilver: 
Mercury

4994. Who was called the Heroine of Quit India Movement:
Aruna Asaf Ali

4995. Headquarters of Zamorins : 
Kozhikode

4996. The famous wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat : 
Gir

4997. The first Muslim ruler in India who proved his efficiency in Civil Administration: 
Sher Shah

4998. How many times the length of our National Flags is to its width : 
One and half times

4999. Venue of Salt Satyagraha in Kerala : 
Payyannur

5000. Governor-General who banned Sati : 
William Bentinck
      
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