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General Knowledge – Questions and Answers Part-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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