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