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“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

 

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.
MCQs on Sikkim🌸MCQs on Sikkim🌸Biology MCQs🌸GENERAL SCIENCE QUESTION AND ANSWERS🌸Famous Personalities MCQ for All Competitive Exams🌸Cold solstice or winter solstice | शीत अयनांत या विंटर सोलेस्टाइस 🌸International Human Unity Day | अंतरराष्ट्रीय मानव एकता दिवस 🌸Goa Liberation Day | गोवा मुक्ति दिवस 🌸Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaq Ullah Khan, Thakur Roshan Singh Martyrdom Day | रामप्रसाद बिस्मिल, अशफाक उल्ला खां, ठाकुर रोशन सिंह  बलिदान दिवस🌸Minority Rights Day | अल्पसंख्यक अधिकार दिवस 🌸International Migrant Day | अंतरराष्ट्रीय प्रवासी दिवस 🌸Victory Day | विजय दिवस 🌸 Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) Foundation Day |  केन्द्रीय विद्यालय संगठन (KVS) स्थापना दिवस 🌸Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | सरदार वल्लभ भाई पटेल🌸Ramanand Sagar | रामानन्द सागर 🌸International Universal Health Coverage Day | अंतरराष्ट्रीय सार्वभौमिक स्वास्थ्य कवरेज दिवस 🌸Maithili Sharan Gupt | मैथिलीशरण गुप्त 🌸World Children's Fund Day (UNICEF Foundation Day) | विश्व बाल कोष दिवस (यूनिसेफ स्थापना दिवस) 🌸Daily Current Affairs, News Headlines 04.05.2024🌸Daily Current Affairs, News Headlines 03.05.2024

“The Knowledge Library”

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

The Knowledge Library

Miscellaneous GK Questions and Answers-16

01 Next to Amazon the largest the tropical rain forest is found on the banks of the river: 
Congo
02 Founder of Hindustan Times in Delhi : 
Sardar KM Panicker
03 The old name of the city Sialkot : 
Sakala
04 When did Karthika Thirunal (Dharmaraja) come to power in Travancore : 
1758
05 King of cartoons : 
William Steig
06 The first Buddhist Council was held at : 
Rajagriha
07 A native of Thiruvananthapuram who served as the External Affairs Minister in the Government of Independent India established with Kabul as capital :
Chempakaraman Pillai
08 S I Unit of time : 
Second
09 The ground in which Proclamation for Quit India was announced : 
Gowalia Tank (now, August Kranti Maidan)
10 Siam is the name of the country : 
Thailand
11 The venue of Salt Satyagraha (1930) in Tamil Nadu :
Vedaranyam beach
12 The continent with Buddhist countries : 
Asia
13 Founder of Khalsa, the organization of Sikh Warriors :
Govind Singh
14 Post equivalent to Attorney General  in the State :
Advocate General
15 Theory of Evolution was put forward by :
Charles Darwin
16 Mother of Buddha : 
Mahamaya
17 Pala dynasty existed in : 
Bengal
18 The 73rd Amendment of the Constitution is included in which part: 
9
19 The first Muslim country in the world to have a woman prime minister  in power:
Pakistan
20 In which State is renowned physicist E C G Sudarshan born: 
Kerala
21 Headquarters of Catholic Syrian Bank : 
Thrissur
22 Former Union Minister Lekshmi N Menon was a Malayalee. Which state she represented in the Parliament : 
Bihar
23 Name the Viceroy when George V visited India: 
Lord Hardinge
24 Who wrote Canterbury Tales : 
Geoffrey Chaucer
25 The first Pazhassi Revolt was held in : 
1793-97
26 During vulcanization of rubber the element added is :
Sulphur
27 Lal Bagh is in : 
Bangalore
28 Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri football stadium:
Hyderabad
29 The leader who came to power with the largest number of seats in Lok Sabha: 
Rajiv Gandhi
30 Ancient River Aksini  is presently known as   : 
Chenab
31 Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Airport is in : 
Patna
32 Alfred Nobel who instituted Nobel prize was a native of: 
Sweden
33 Who wrote ‘Suthanthira Perumai’ : 
Subramania Bharati
34 Gulistan Palace is in : 
Iran
35 Mughal emperor related to the name Alamgir:
Aurangzeb
36 Waterloo of Vijayanagaram   : 
Battle of Talikota
37 The first President to vote in the Lok Sabha election :
K.R. Narayanan (1998)
38 The first rubberized road in Kerala : 
Kottayam – Kumily
39 Who was the founder of the Green belt movement: 
Wangari Maathai (Kenya)
40 Sangam works are in the language : 
Tamil
41 Which is the first open-defecation free state in India:
Sikkim
42 Vision 2020 is connected with the Organization : 
ASEAN
43 Chairman of the State Reorganization Commission :
Fazal Ali
44 Silk route is : 
Nathula Pass
45 Districts in Kerala without railway line:
Idukki and Wayanad
46 St Angelo Fort in Kannur was built by : 
The Portuguese
47 Place in Kerala which is closely related to 3 C’s namely Cricket, Cake and Circus : 
Thalassery
48 Full name of the traveler Al Masudi : 
Abdul Hassan Ali Almas Udhi
49 Protein in wool : 
Alpha Keratin
50 The skin of the animal used for making Ganjira : 
Monitor Lizard (Udumbu)
51 Rajatarangini deals with the history of : 
Kashmir
52 The country which got separated from Sweden in 1905: 
Norway
53 Victoria waterfalls was discovered by : 
David Livingston
54. Protein-rich source for the vegetarians : 
Soybeans
55 The Indian Prime Minister who lost in the Confidence motion :
 V. P Singh
56 The final resting place of Morarji Desai : 
Abhay Ghat, Ahmedabad
57  ‘Discovery of India’ &  ‘Letters from  Father to His Daughter’ were authored by: 
Jawaharlal Nehru
58 Mona Lisa is preserved in the Louvre Museum in : 
Paris
59 The nine gems in the court of Vikramaditya : 
Dhanwantari, Kshapanaka, Amarasimha, Sanku, Vethala Bhatti, Ghatakarpara, Kalidasa, Varahamihira and Vararuchi
60 Movement connected with Rene Descartes : 
Scepticism
61 The first Indian state to distribute identity card to all voters : 
Haryana
62 The region of Earth where life exists : 
Biosphere
63 Viswanathan Anand is related to the sport : 
Chess
64 The district in Kerala with the least plain : 
Idukki
65 Mahatma Gandhi wrote an article in ‘Young India’ on which tribe of Kerala: 
Nayadi
66 The only district in Kerala with only one railway station: 
Pathanamthitta
67 Who wrote ‘Buddha and His Dharma’  : 
Dr. Ambedkar
68 The paddy species which has medicinal values : 
Njavara
69 Which treaty put an end to the conflict  between the British and the French in India : 
Paris
70 The major component of the hydrosphere: 
Pacific Ocean
71 Notre Dame Cathedral is in : 
France
72 Who called Samudragupta as Indian Napoleon :
Vincent A Smith
73 The first thermal project in Kerala which functions with Naphtha : 
Kayamkulam
74 Which city is known as Pittsburgh of Japan : 
Yuvata
75 Law of multiple proportions was first stated by: 
John Dalton
76 Sangam work which forms the basis of Thottam Pattu :
Chilappathikaram
77 Department of Agriculture was formed in Travancore during the reign of : 
Sree Moolam Thirunal
78 Calico Textile Museum is in : 
Ahmedabad
79 Place in Tamil Nadu known for silk industry :
Kancheepuram
80 Gilbert islands are in : 
Pacific Ocean
81 Kushans  came to India from : 
North Central Asia
82 Lore on Kalaripattu which has a significant role in society : 
Vadakkan Pattukal
83 In the Lok Sabha and in Assembly who has the right to apply to cast vote : 
Speaker
84 The Dynasty that succeeded Sunga : 
Kanva dynasty
85 The deepest natural harbour in Kerala : 
Vizhinjam
86 In which year Napoleon was born : 
1769
87 Law of constant proportion was first stated by the French chemist: 
Joseph Louis Proust
88 Indian Institute of Indology is in : 
Puducherry
89 Tashkent is located in : 
Uzbekistan
90 Union territory in India where French is spoken language:  
Puducherry
91 The first litter-free city in Kerala : 
Kozhikode
92 Who gave his thumb as the fee to the Master Dronacharya: 
Ekalavya
93 The most powerful Sikh ruler : 
Ranjith Singh
94 In which year Spanish War  of succession was started :
1701
95  ‘Grandma’ is the official newspaper of the communist country : 
Cuba
96 Who laid the foundation for the Library Movement in Kerala : 
P. N. Panicker
97 Kerala’s own species of cow : 
Vechur
98 Which is known as the City of Fashion : 
Paris
99 Mozart belonged to : 
Austria
600 The largest Volcano on Earth : 
Mauna Loa

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