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An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

The Knowledge Library

General Knowledge – Questions and Answers Part-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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