GENERAL KNOWLEDGE- Questions and Answers -27
5501. The number of neutrons in Deuterium:
One
5502. Headquarters of National Council for Teacher Education:
New Delhi
5503. The first Prime Minister of Britain :
Sir Robert Walpole
5504. The first state conference of the Communist Party was held at :
Kozhikode (1943)
5505. Indian Diamond Institute is at :
Surat
5506. Cherukad is the pen name of :
C. Govinda Pisharadi
5507. The status of Ernakulam in industrialization in the State:
First
5508. Equipment that functions on the basis of binary system:
Computer
5509. The oldest traditional industry in Kerala :
Coir
5510. The first book based on Journalism in Malayalam :
Vrithanatha Patra Pravartanam
5511. Nagarjuna Sagar dam is built across the river :
Krishna
5512. The largest volcano is Mars :
Olympus Mons
5513. The first recognized opposition leader of the Lok Sabha:
Ram Subhag Singh
5514. The northernmost river in Kerala :
Manjeswaram River
5515. Tomb of Jahangir is in :
Lahore
5516. Sultanate dynasty which never used the title of Sultan in their names and never minted coins with names :
Sayyid Dynasty
5517. There are four people who received Nobel Prize and Bharat Ratna: namely, C V Raman, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen and the fourth is :
Nelson Mandela
5518. Neva test is used to detect :
AIDS
5519. The number of neutrons in Tritium:
Two
5520. The capital of which South American country is located at the highest altitude :
Bolivia
5521. Cuneiform script is developed by the Civilization of :
Sumerians
5522. The greatest political achievement of Jahangir :
he could put an end to the war with Mewar
5523. The largest animal in the family of dogs :
Wolf
5524. The Governor-General when Tipu sultan was killed :
Lord Wellesley
5525. Dharmadom island is in the river of :
Ancharakandi
5526. The seat of Azhvancheri Tamprakal :
Athavanadu in Tirunavaya
5527. The first Indian State to introduce magic tourism :
Kerala
5528. The raw form of Petroleum :
Crude oil
5529. A kind of drink produced from rice by the Japanese :
Sake
5530. Mangrove research centre in Kerala :
Ayiram Thengu, Kollam
5531. Yellowcake is the ore of :
Uranium
5532. Detroit of Japan is :
Nagoya
5533. River Rhine originates at :
Switzerland
5534. The mountain range which has the peak K 2 :
Karakoram
5535. In which year Dutch in Kochi declined :
1795
5536. International Organization which functions for the protection of Human Rights :
Amnesty International
5537. What is the scientific name of Chazhi :
Leptocorisa acuta
5538. The British Prime Minister who participated in the preliminary discussions of the formation of UN :
Sir Winston Churchill
5539. Who discovered the layer of Ozone in the atmosphere:
Charles Fabry
5540. Bering strait connects which Ocean with the Arctic Ocean:
the Pacific Ocean
5541. The instrument used to measure the growth of plants :
Crescograph
5542. The first Malayalee to become a Union Cabinet Minister in a non-Congress Government :
G Ravindra Varma
5543. The country with the largest density of population :
Monaco
5544. The first Indian Cricketer to score 10000 runs in test matches :
Sunil Gavaskar
5545. Study on Wines :
Oenology
5546. Chairman of the Linguistic Provinces Commission appointed by the Constituent Assembly in 1948 :
Justice S.K. Dhar
5547. When United Nations came into being the President of America was :
Harry S. Truman
5548. The only Chief Minister of Kerala who later became the Governor :
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
5549. Statue of ‘Mother Land’ is in :
Russia
5550. Which animal is called American Jackal:
Coyote
5551. Which deity is called Purandara in vedas which means who destroyer of fort :
Indra
5552. Land of golden fleece is :
Australia
5553. Temple of Duryodhana in Kollam is located at :
Malanada
5554. Absolute Zero is :
⁻273 degree Celsius
5555. The radioactive isotope of Hydrogen:
Tritium
5556. ‘Veda’ literally means :
knowledge
5557. The smallest district in Kerala :
Alappuzha
5558. The first IAS official to become an MLA in Kerala :
Alphonse Kannanthanam
5559. The first person to get Bharat Ratna (1990) before Nobel Prize(1993) :
Nelson Mandela
5560. The old name of Periyar :
Churni
5561. The standard unit of measuring petroleum products :
Barrel
5562. Who isolated Aluminium for the first time:
Hans Christian Oersted
5563. In which year Benjamin Bailey published his dictionary:
1846
5564. Where is JIPMER (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research ):
Puducherry
5565. The majority of American citizens are originated from the inhabitants from :
Britain
5566. The element required for solar energy conversion:
Silicon
5567. The Kerala Legislature which had the longest duration:
Fourth
5568. The first Malayalee to be nominated as a member of Lok Sabha by the President :
Charles Dais
5569. The winner of the first Swadeshabhimani- Kesari Award:
T Venugopal
5570. The first Prime Minister to receive Bharat Ratna :
Jawaharlal Nehru
5571. Diameter of eyeball:
2.5 cm
5572. Sheffield is popular for :
Cutlery
5573. Highest honour next to Bharat Ratna given by the Government of India:
Param Vir Chakra
5574. Central Food Technology Research Institute is in :
Mysore
5575. Who declares the policies of the Government in the Assembly :
Governor
5576. The national park is known for lion-tailed macaque :
Silent Valley
5577. Name the European country the National Anthem of which is penned by a Nobel Laureate :
Norway
5578. Mozambique current is in the :
Indian Ocean
5579. Mojave desert is in :
North America
5580. Tehri dam is built across the river :
Bhagirathi
5581. Who wrote ‘My Presidential Years’ :
R. Venkataraman
5582. The powerful ruler of Pandyas of Sangam :
Nedunchezhiyan
5583. Who invented Sodium and Potassium :
Humphrey Dewey
5584. Sholayar Dam is in :
Chalakudy river
5585. The main deity of Kedarnath :
Shiva
5586. Who wrote ‘Life of Mahatma Gandhi’ :
Louis Fischer
5587. Father of Mathematics :
Pythagoras
5588. The first dynasty referred by Megasthenes on the rulers of Sangam Age :
Pandya
5589. National Academy of Audit and Accounts is in :
Shimla
5590. The first Indian State where a ministry was dismissed based on the Article 356 of the Constitution :
Kerala
5591. The second woman to be conferred Bharat Ratna :
Mother Teresa
5592. Kollam- Shenkottai railway line cut the mountain pass of :
Aryankavu
5593. The most famous Gupta King :
Chandra Gupta II
5594. The only industrialist who was conferred with Bharat Ratna :
JRD Tata
5595. The metal which melts even when it is taken in our hand:
Gallium
5596. In which year Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission :
1897
5597. The first Vice-Chancellor of Kannur University :
Abdul Rehman
5598. The Chancellor of the Universities in the state :
Governor
5599. The violent atmospheric phenomenon :
Tornado
5600. Ancient Egyptians determine seasons based on the shadow of the Pyramid at :
Giza
5601. The industry which employs the largest number of people in India :
Textile
5602. Trichology is a study on :
Hair
5603. Frankenstein is a character created by :
Mary Shelley
5604. Which was the headquarters of British Malabar :
Kozhikode
5605. Father of Hydrogen Bomb :
Edward Teller
5606. Whose reign in Britain is called Commonwealth :
Oliver Cromwell
5607. Change of vapour into liquid state is called:
Condensation
5608. The vitamin produced by our body with the help of Sunlight :
Vitamin D
5609. The first Panchayat to launch Ayalkoottam :
Kalyaseri
5610. The eldest son of Jahangir who revolted :
Khusru
5611. The river which holds the largest quantity of water in the world :
Amazon
5612. The important part of Veda :
Kalpa
5613. The heaviest natural atom :
Uranium
5614. The element which is highly electropositive :
Caesium
5615. The Emperor during French Revolution :
Louis XVI
5616. Peruman train tragedy happened on :
8 July 1988
5617. Ashvaghosha adorned the court of :
Kanishka
5618. We could see moving visuals in TV because of the :
Persistence of Vision
5619. Tachophobia is the fear of :
Speed
5620. Unit of Potential difference :
Volt
5621. The first film actress nominated to the Rajya Sabha :
Nargis Dutt
5622. In which district is Ponmudi Hill station:
Thiruvananthapuram
5623. Whose birthday is celebrated as the Bird watching Day (November 12) :
Salim Ali
5624. Who was known as Guruji:
M S Golwalkar
5625. .Eden Gardens in Kolkata is known for the sport :
cricket
5626. The Indian state with the largest number of villages :
Uttar Pradesh
5627. Real name of Guru Angad :
Lehna
5628. In which year George Washington became the President of America :
1789
5629. Who introduced the method of showing two fingers for victory :
Sir Winston Churchill
5630. The Indian state which produces the largest quantity of Saffron :
Jammu and Kashmir
5631. Desdemona is a character created by :
Shakespeare
5632. The biggest member of the Solar system :
Sun
5633. The venue of the first winter Olympics :
Chamonix, France
5634. In which year the first Nobel prizes are given :
1901
5635. Khyber Pass in :
Hindukush
5636. Ester found in Pineapple :
Ethyl butyrate
5637. The scientist who discovered that the white colour has seven colours :
Isaac Newton
5638. The person who served as the Supreme Court Chief Justice, the Vice President, the President :
M. Hidayatullah
5639. Founder of Maitraka dynasty :
Bhattaraka
5640. Name Siddhartha’s horse :
Kanthaka
5641. Who organized the All India conference of the backward people at Nagpur in August
Ambedkar
5642. St. Thomas came by sea and landed at :
Malyankara (Kodungalloor)
5643. Who led the Guruvayur Satyagraha :
K. Kelappan
5644. Nylon was invented by :
W. H. Carothers (1937)
5645. Who decides the Nobel Peace Prize, award winner :
Norwegian Parliament
5646. Founder of Servants of God :
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
5647. License for free software :
General Public License
5648. Teen Kanya by Satyajit Ray is based on the story by :
Rabindranath Tagore
5649. Dengue fever is spread by :
Aedes aegypti, mosquito
5650. Which city is described in City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre :
Kolkata
5651. Which nation was ruled by Fidel Castro who owns the record of communist with the longest tenure:
Cuba
5652. The last Sikh Guru Gobind Singh was born in :
Patna
5653. Dengue fever is caused by :
Virus
5654. Founder of Jaipur :
Maharaja Jai Singh II
5655. Hydrogen was discovered by :
Cavendish
5656. The first Indian to score a century in a test match :
Lala Amarnath
5657. Jahangir was born in :
Fatehpur Sikri
5658. In which year Simon Commission came to India :
1928
5659. The galaxy that includes the solar system :
Milky Way
5670. The word ‘Bible’ means :
Book
5671. The largest number of places included in the list of world heritage sites are from :
Italy
5672. Director of the film Chemmeen :
Ramu Kariat
5673. Winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir :
Jammu
5674. Who wrote the foreword for the English version of ‘Gitanjali’ translated by Rabindranath Tagore :
W.B. Yeats
5675. In which year Gundert published his dictionary :
1872
5676. Who designed Gateway of India :
George Wittet
5677. The highest peak in South America :
Aconcagua
5678. The fifth-largest satellite in the solar system :
Moon
5679. Britain of the South :
New Zealand
5680. Bird village of Kerala :
Nooranad
5681. Architect of Pentagon :
George E. Bergstrom
5682. The kinetic energy of molecules is maximum in:
Gases
5683. Sergei Eisenstein is popular in the field of :
Film Direction
5684. Who was known as the Father of Lok Sabha :
G.V. Mavlankar
5685. Ghiyasuddin tomb was built by :
Muhammad Bin Tughluq
5686. The hardness of water is due to the presence of salts of elements :
Calcium and Magnesium
5687. Drain theory was put forward by :
Dadabhai Naoroji
5688. In which State is Bokaro steel plant:
Jharkhand
5689. The quorum of Lok Sabha :
55 members including the chairman (that is 10 % of total strength)
5690. Founder of the USSR :
Lenin
5691. Clouds that encircle the sun and the moon :
Cirrus stratus
5692. The first formed member of the Solar system :
Sun
5693. In ancient Sanskrit literatures, Ratnakara refers to :
Indian Ocean
5694. The date on which the distance between the Sun and the Earth is maximum :
July 4
5695. The Tomb of Jahangir is on the banks of the river :
Ravi
5696. Fort Golconda is in the city of :
Hyderabad
5697. In which State is Khetri copper mine:
Rajasthan
5698. The continent where the industrial revolution took place :
Europe
5699. The heaviest metal element :
Osmium
5700. Which is the city is called the ‘City of Mosques’ :
Dacca
5701. The greatest ruler of the Vijayanagara empire :
Krishnadevaraya
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