“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

 

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

The Knowledge Library

Miscellaneous GK Questions and Answers-25

01 ‘’Namma Metro’’ is the metro of : 
Bangalore
02 The first limited company in Kerala : 
Punalur Paper Mills
03 The first Literary Museum in Kerala is at : 
Tirur
04 The first Malayalee to become Chief Election Commissioner : 
T.N.Seshan
05 The first tea museum in Kerala is in : 
Munnar
06 The river that flows through the boundaries of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh: 
Narmada
07 Alamati Project is in the river : 
Krishna
08 Ancient Monument Protection Act was passed when the Viceroy was : 
Lord Curzon
09 Army Post office starts with the number : 
9
10 Editor of Yukthivadi magazine in 1928 : 
Sahodaran Ayyappan
11 Ester with the smell of apple: 
Butyl acetate
12 Firoz Shah Kotla is famous for the sport : 
Cricket
13 IPL is related to the sport :
 Cricket
14 Kublai khan was a native of : 
Mongolia
15 The Malayalam poet born in Killikurissimangalam near Thiruvilwamala , Palakkadu  : Kunchan Nambiar
16 The place where Ayya Vaikundar was born :
Swamithoppe
17 The place where Sree Narayana Guru attained Enlightenment : 
Maruthwamala (Kanyakumari district)
18 The first wildlife sanctuary in Kerala : 
Thekkady
19 The first woman Governor of Kerala : 
Jyothi Venkitachalam
20 The first women’s college in Kerala was established at :
Thiruvananthapuram.
21 The largest railway station in the world : 
New York Central Terminal
22 The most abundant mineral in the world : 
Quartz
23 The Police Chief of Kerala  with the rank of Inspector General:  
Chandrasekharan Nair
24 The scientist who first isolated Magnesium : 
Humphrey Dewey
25 Urubamba is related to : 
River
26 Which disease kills the most number of children : 
Pneumonia
27 Who appoints the Chief Minister in Union Territories :
President
28 Egg-laying mammal : 
Platypus
29 The first to get arrested on staying individual satyagraha: 
Vinobha Bhave
30 Chemical name vitamin H : 
Biotin
31 Founder of Muslim Aikya Sangham : 
Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
32 Governor-General connected with ‘’Nandakumar episode’’ : 
Warren Hastings
33 Headquarters of Benares Hindu University : 
Varanasi
34 In which country Easter Rebellion took place in 1916 :
Ireland
35 In which year the first election using indelible ink was held in India : 
1962
36 Islam Renaissance in Kerala is led by : 
Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
37 Jessie Owens Award is connected to : 
Sports
38 Kerala Government Department for Non Residents :
NORKA
39 The metal which is a liquid at room temperature :
 Mercury
40 Second Ezhava Memorial was submitted to : 
Lord Curzon
41 St. Patrick belonged to : 
Ireland
42 The first Administrator designated as the Governor-General of India instead of Governor-General of Bengal  :
Lord William Bentinck
43 The first Mayor of Kolkata Corporation in 1924 : 
C.R. Das
44 The first woman chancellor of Kerala :
Jyothi Venkitachalam
45 The first woman police station in Kerala is at : 
Kozhikode
46 The Logo “ Kerala God’s Own Country “ is conceived by: 
Walter Mendez
47 The traditional architecture of Kerala :
 Naalukettu
48 The Viceroy who took steps to repair Taj Mahal : 
Lord Curzon
49 Viceroy when Madras, Bombay and Calcutta Universities came into being : 
Lord Canning
50 Vijayawada is on the banks of : 
River Krishna
51 When the treaty of Srirangapatnam  was signed between the British and Tipu the Governor General was : 
Lord Cornwallis
52 Who gave the title Vagbhatananda to Kunjikannan Gurukkal : 
Alathur Sivayogi
53 Who is known as the father of the industrial revolution: 
James Watt
54 Who was respectfully called as Superintendent Ayya by people: 
Thycaud Ayya
55 Next to  Chinese, Spanish and English, the language widely used is : 
Hindi
56 After the demise of C.R. Das who became the leader of the Swaraj Party :   
Motilal Nehru
57 Before the launch of Civil Disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi  wrote to which Viceroy giving details of 11 demands anticipating a way for peace :
 Lord Irwin
58 Buddha conducted his first religious discourse in Saranath which is near : 
Varanasi
59 The doctrine of Lapse introduced by Dalhousie was withdrawn by : 
Lord Canning
60 During the first Anglo Mysore War, the Governor-General  was : 
Warren Hastings
61 Headquarters of East Coast Railway: 
Bhuvaneshwar
62 Indian Air Force Museum is in : 
New Delhi
63 Name the Viceroy who made legal the punishment process framed by Lord Macaulay: 
Lord Canning
64 Nivedita the disciple of Swami Vivekananda was a native of : 
Ireland
65 Parswanathan the 23rd Tirthankara of Jain was a prince of : 
Varanasi
66 Pitch is related to the game : 
Cricket
67 Which organization influenced Ayyankali to launch Sadhujana Paripalana Sangam : 
SNDP
68 Cryolite is an ore of which metal: 
Aluminium
69 During which agitation parallel Governments in Baliya and Satara came into power: 
Quit India Movement
70 In which year Brahmananda Shivayogi was born : 
1852
71 In which year Moppila rebels and soldiers encountered at Pookkottur  : 
1921
72 Indian Scientist who passed away in an air crash in 1966:
Homi Jahangir Bhabha
73 Founder of “Indian Association”  the first political organization with a national perspective : 
Surendranath Banerjee
74 In which year Alexander attacked India : 
327-326 BC
75 Mother of Akbar : 
Hamidabhanu Begum
76 Rain clouds are : 
Nimbostratus
77 While presiding the Congress session on31 December 1929 at Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru declared that the aim of Congress is complete independence. The then Viceroy was : 
Lord Irwin
78 Who wrote ‘’Harivamsa Puranam’’ : 
Jinasena
79 The first State in India to establish two data centres:
Kerala
80 Thalakkal Chandu Memorial is at : 
Panamaram
81 The first woman detective novelist in Malayalam : 
Bhadra N. Menon
82 Author of ‘’Guru’’ a novel based on the life of Sree Narayana Guru : 
K.Surendran
83 Barabati Stadium is in : 
Cuttack
84 Basaveswar is a social reformer of : 
Karnataka
85 Chalukya King who conquered vengi in 611 from the Pallavas : 
Pulikesin II
86 Which is known as the ‘’Holy City’’ : 
Jerusalem
87 When did Marthanda Varma ascend the throne in Travancore: 
1729 AD
88 Home of Eskimos : 
Igloo
89 ‘Rajya Samacharam’ the first newspaper in Malayalam was published from: 
Thalassery
90 Titanium is purified by: 
Van Arkel Method
91 Where was Napoleon crowned as the French Emperor : 
Notre Dame Cathedral
92 The American President who resigned on allegations :
Richard Nixon
93 The Declaration of Independence of the U.S.A. is known as: 
The Perfume
94 The dynasty referred in Mudrarakshasam : 
Nanda Dynasty
95 The founder of Alexandria : 
Alexander the Great
96 Ural mountain ranges separate Europe from the continent : 
Asia
97 Where did Aryans settle in India first : 
Punjab
98 Which country is called the Sawmill of Europe :
Sweden
99 Which is known as ‘Desert continent’: 
Antarctica
100 Who established an independent dynasty in Bengal when Mughal dynasty declined: 
Murshid Ali Khan

Sign up to Receive Awesome Content in your Inbox, Frequently.

We don’t Spam!
Thank You for your Valuable Time

Also Read  BRANCHES OF SCIENCE

Share this post

error: Content is protected !!