“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

General Knowledge – Questions and Answers Part-20

3801. ‘Dreams from My father’ is the autobiography of: 
Barak Obama 
3802. Who is called the father of Modern Medicine : 
Hippocrates
3803. River Sabari is the tributary of: 
Godavari 
3804. Capital. of Ganga Dynasty in Karnataka : 
Kolar 
3805. The bird that can dive to the deepest extent : 
Penguin 
3806. “Chirasmarana” by Niranjana is based on the strike :
Kayyur 
3807. A.G.Ve\ayudan became a martyr while fighting against untouchability in connections against satyagraha held : 
Paliyam
3808. As per the Government of India Act of 1935, Burma was separated from India. The then Viceroy was: 
Lord Linlithgow 
3809. Captial of Afghanistan: 
Kabul
3810. Dupleix was the Governor of the European power : 
French
3811. During their stay in exile, which Pandava disguised as “Valalan”, the cook : 
Shima
3812. The gestation period of a cow is : 
9 months 
3813. Hamas is related to : 
Palestine
3814. In 1925 whom did Sree Narayana Guru declare as his successor:
Bodhananda
3815. In which district is Mullapperiyar dam: 
Idukki
3816. Abraham Lincoln was killed at: 
Washington D.C. 
3817. The average weight of one kidney of man in grams : 
130
3818. In which year Akbar put an end to the regency of Bairam Khan :
1560
3819. In which year Malayalee Memorial was submitted to Sree Mulam Tirunal : 
1891
3820. Novel authored by Vikram Seth in the poetry form: 
The Golden Gate 
3821. Who wrote the foreword for History of Indian National Congress by Pattabhi Seetharamaih: 
Rajendra Prasad 
3822. Renaissance leader who became minister in Travancore-Kochi : 
Sahodaran Ayyappan 
3823. The most earthquake-prone country : 
Mexico
3824. ‘Paschimodayam’ is published by : 
Herman Gundert
3825. ‘Prithviraj Raso’ is an epic poem in Hindi on the bravery of : 
Prithviraj Chauhan
3826. ‘Saragrahi’ is a magazine launched by the Renaissance leader : 
Brahamanda Siva Yogi
3827. After 44 years, India won Olympic medal in Atlanta (1996) for the event :
Tennis
3828. Among the Pancha Pandavas, who is the son of Indra : 
Arjuna
3829. Penicillin Factory at Maharashtra is at : 
Pimpri
3830. The basic raga in Carnatic Music : 
Mayamalava Gaula
3831. The first actress to become Chief Minister of an Indian state: 
V.N. Janaki Ramachandran
3832. The first woman to conquer Mount Everest: 
Junko Tabei
3833. The number of basic ragas in Carnatic music : 
72
3834. Where is Air Force Academy located : 
Hyderabad
3835. Where is the factory of Travancore Titanium: 
Thiruvananthapuram 
3836. Who designed the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai:
George Wittel 
3837. Who is regarded as the father of Indian National Move­ment : 
Surendranath Banerjee 
3838. Who is regarded as the father of Modern Mysore :
M. Visvesvaraih 
3839. Whose death anniversary is observed as anti-terrorism day : 
Rajiv Gandhi 
3840. The Governor-General who appointed the first Law Commission : 
Lord William Bentinck 
3841. The Governor-General who visited Allahabad to assess the Mahalvari Revenue system:
William Bentinck 
3842. The largest Indo -Aryan language : 
Hindi
3843. The organization which supervise Indian Telecommunication: 
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India 
3844. The Viceroy when the Indian Council Act came into be­ing: 
Lord Canning 
3845. Tulasidas composed ‘Ramcharitmanas’ at the banks of: 
Varanasi 
3846. Which country is known as the Land of Geysers : 
Ice­land 
3847. Who was the viceroy when Lala Lajpat Rai passed away on sustaining injury m police lathicharge : 
Lord Irwin 
3848. William Barton Yeasts who wrote the foreword to Rabindranath Tagore’s English version of Gitanjali be­ longed to :
Ireland 
3849. The Governor-General who introduced the Press Act of 1799: 
Lord Wellesley 
3850. The second Indian to confer with the World Food Prize :
Dr. Varghese Kurien 
3851. Mary Robinson is the first woman President of which country : 
Ireland 

3852. Who passed the proposal for Non-Cooperation in the Congress session held in 1920 : C.R. Das 
3853. Who is the oldest American President : 
Donald Trump 
3854. ‘Malayalee’ the political magazine was launched by :
C.Krishna Pillai, 
3855. Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal in memory of :
Mumtaz Mahal 
3856. Average weight in grams of brain of an adult man : 
be­tween 1300 and 1400
3857. Court poet of Muhammad Ghazni .; 
Firdausi 
3858. From where Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March :
Ahmedabad 
3859. Full form of SMS : 
Short Message Service 
3860. Headquarters of African Union : 
Addis Ababa
3861. In which year Mumtaz Mahal passed away : 
1631 
3862. Naval Academy in Kannur is at : 
Ezhimala
3863. The only South Asian country which is a member of G 20 : 
India 
3864. Irom Chanu Sharmila is a native of : 
Manipur 
3865. Hero of the novel lndulekha: 
Madhavan 
3866. Queen of the mountain ranges of south India : 
Ooty 
3867. Nenthran and aeththan are species of : 
Plantain 
3868. Russia supplied the Submarine Nerpa to India. Now it is known as: 
INS Chakra 
3869. Name the Malayalee who represented Lok Sabha from North Mumbai in 1957: 
V.K. Krishna Menon 
3870. Sergei Bubka the sports legend in pole vault is a native of: 
Ukraine 
3871. Who was known as Amarajeevi”:
Potti Sriramulu 
3872. When Rabindranath Tagore visited Kerala Kumaranasan composed “Divyakokilam” which was re­cited by: 
C. Keasvan 
3873. The first floating ATM in the world was designed by: 
SBI 
3874. World Development Report is annually published by the: 
World Bank
3875. Place in Kerala mentioned in “Mushaka Vamsam” :
Kolathunadu 
3876. The animal which never gets hurt even if moves through sharp blade : 
Snail 
3877. The country which launched India’s Aryabhatta to outer space : 
U.S.S.R. (former) 
3878. The first Marxist country in Africa : 
Guinea
3879. The first person to confer the post of Honorary Group captain of Indian Air Force: Sachin Tendulkar 
3880. The first women President in Africa : 
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 
3881. The hot wind that blows from Africa and reaches Eu­rope via the Mediterranean : 
Sirocco 
3882. The Indian state is surrounded by neighbouring countries on three sides : 
Tripura 
3883. The most famous Lodi Sultan : 
Sikander Lodi 
3884. The youngest Lok Sabha Speaker : 
G.M.C. Balayogi 
3885. The Viceroy who shifted the capital from Kolkata to Delhi: 
Lord Hardinge 11 
3886. The Viceroy who through Factory Act prevented child labour in 1881 : 
Lord Ripon 
3887. When Archeological Survey of India was formed the Vice­roy was : 
Lord Curzon 
3888. Which gas has the least density: 
Hydrogen 
3889. Which Sikh ruler covered the tower of Amritsar temple with gold : 
Raja Ranjit Singh 
3890. Who called Mannathu Padmanabhan “Madan Mohan Malevya of Kerala”: 
Sardar K. M. Panicker 
3891. Who is called the “Milkman of India” : 
Dr Varghese Kurien. 
3892. Who ruled England when Parliament was formed : 
Henry I
3893. With the difference of opinion with the Congress leader­ ship, which leader with Motilal Nehru formed Swaraj Party on 1st January 1923: 
C.R. Das 
3894. In which year Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham became Pulaya Maha Sabha : 
1938 
3895. India’s first railway factory established in Kolkata in 1950 is named after : 
C.R. Das 
3896. Internet Security Day : 
February 6
3897. What is called the saviour of personal freedom : 
Habeas Corpus 
3898. What is produced through Mond Process: 
Nickel
3899. Which organ is affected by Eczema: 
Skin
3900. Who was known as the Socrates of Maharashtra : 
Gopal Krishna Gokhale 
3901. The largest lake in Africa : 
Victoria

3902. The Indian State where the largest quantity of diamond is mined : 
Madhya Pradesh 
3903. The first Roman Catholic who became the President of America’: 
John F. Kennedy 
3904. ‘Deccan ulcer’ which destroyed Aurangzeb : 
Marathas
3905. “Emergency is the new era of discipline” who said this: 
Vinobha bhave·
3206. 176. Aim of ‘Antyodaya’ Project: 
Upliftment of the poorest of the poor 
3907. Which country is called the “Switzerland of Central Asia”: 
Kyrgyzstan 
3908. Which country is known as the “Land of Letter Box companies” : 
Lichtenstein 
3909. Which incident is also known  as “Thonnoorarnand Lahala” in Travancore history: 
Ooruttambalam revolt 
3910. While in prison Nelson Mandela was given the number:
46664 
3911. The first Indian State to permits the use of laptop and I pad in the Assembly: 
Kerala 
3912. Brihadeswara Temple is in : 
Tanjavur
3913. Barthruhari caves are in : 
Ujjain 
3914. When Prince of Wales visited India in 1921, the Viceroy was : 
Lord Reading 
3915. Dead language included in the Blh Schedule of the Con­stitution : 
Sanskrit
3916. Founder of Akhila Thiruvithamkur Muslim Mahajana Sabha : 
Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
3917. Who hailed Kumaranasan as “Viplavathinte Kavi” : 
Thayat Sankaran . 
3918. Childhood name of Ayya Vaikundar : 
Muthukutti
3919. The capital of Bahamas: 
Nassau 
3920. The culprit of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack who was sentenced to death : 
Ajmal Kasab 
3921. America became free on : 
4 July 1776
3922. Autob1ography of Mahatma Gandhi was first published in : 
Navjeevan · 
3923. Gulbarga was renamed by Alauddin Bahaman Shah as: 
Ahsanabad 
3924. In which year Vietnam War was ended : 
1973
3925. In which year William Hawkins reached the Court of Jahangir : 
1608 
3926. Krishnadevaraya was born in which dynasty of Vijayanagara : 
Tuluva 
3927. Main port at Karnataka : 
Mangalore
3928. “Mission of Life Museum’ is established in honour of: 
A.P.J . Abdul Kalam 
3929. Muloor Memorial in at : 
Elavumthitta 
3930. Oil seeps through wicks because of : 
Capillary action 
3931. Prince Muazzam, who succeeded Aurangzeb ascended throne in the name of : 
Bahadur Shah I 
3932. Ratnakara was maiden name of : 
Valmiki 
3933. Strait between America and Cuba: 
Florida 
3934. The American President who was elected four times:
Franklin D. Roosevelt 
3935. The country, which has the lengthiest national anthem:
Greece 
3936. The famous Buddhist Centre at Maharastra : 
Amaravati 
3937. The river that connects the capital cities of Vienna, Belgrade, Budapest, Bratislava: Danube 
3938. Union Territory which shares boundaries with three states : 
Puducherry 
3939. What is known as an Emergency hormone : 
Adrenalin
3940. Which state is called the Playground of America : 
Cali­fornia
3941. Bom Jesus Basilica where the mortal remains of St.Xavier is kept: 
Panaji
3942. The main festival of Maharastra : 
Ganesh Chaturthi 
3943. The city is regarded as the capital of Western classical music : 
Vienna 
3944. The Committee which recommended the formation of NABARD:
Sivaraman Committee 
3945. The concept of “Keala Dalit” was put forward by : 
Poikayil Appachan
3946. The first Indian Document in the Memory Book of UNESCO : 
Rig Veda
3947. The first test-tube baby in South India : 
Kamala Ratnam (1990). 
3948. King Elara who conquered Sri Lanka in the 2nd century BC and ruled for 50 years belong to which dynasty: 
Chola 
3949. The lightest bone in the human body: 
Stapes
3950. The only edible orchid : 
Vanilla 
3951. The sea with least depth : 
Azov Sea 

3952. When did Kumaranasan become the President of SNDP : 
1923 
3953. Which country is called the “land of blue sky”: 
Mongolia 
3954. Which country is called the” Pearl of Persian Gulf’: 
Bahrain
3955. Who calculated the height of Mount Everest for the first time: 
George Everest 
3956.  Alexander Pushkin was born in : 
Russia 
3957. Bird that Swims the best : 
Penguin
3958. Hill station where Malayalee Temple is located : 
Yercaud
3959. Jnanpit Award-winner who served as the Vice Chancel­lor of the M.G. University : 
U.R. Anathamurthy 
3960. Prince Mausam who succeeded Aurangzeb ascended the throne in the name of :
Bahadur Shah I 
3961. Residence of Amitabh Bachchan ‘Pratheeksha’ is in :
Mumbai 
3962. Strait between America and Russia : 
Bering Strait
3963. The final resting place of Maharaja Ranjit Singh is at : 
Lahore 
3964. The first person to confer Honorary citizenship of U.S.A {1963): 
Sir Winston Churchill
3965. The only city, which is the Headquarters of three administrative units of Indian Union: 
Chandigarh 
3966. The President to vote in the Assembly election :
A.P.J.Abdul Kalam 
3967. The South American country which is the longest coun­try in the world while comparing to its breadth : 
Chile 
3968. When Alexander attacked India the ruler of Taxilla was :
Ambhi 
3969. When did Aurangzeb give permission to the East India Company to trade in Bengal:
1667 
3970. Which award ls known as the British Oscar : 
BAFTA 
3971. Bhagavat Gita i:s composed in : 
Sanskrit 
3972. Who is called the King of Devas in Indian mythology:
Indra 
3973. The metal was discovered by Humphrey. Dewey in 1808 :
Calcium 
3974. The headquarters of Gurukul Kangri University established by Swami Shradananda in 1902 is at: 
Haridwar
3975. Portuguese West Africa is now known as : 
Angola 
3976; Jain Scholar Jinasena was the advisor of :
Amoghavarsha 
3977. Which place is called the Mecca for fighter planes :
Jamnagar 
3978. Famous writer known as Beypore Sultan: 
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer 
3979. The third longest river in Kerala : 
Pamba
3980. Working Principle of Transformer : 
Mutual induction
3981.  Leader of Narmada Bachavo Andolan : 
Medha Patkar 
3982. NATPAC is related to : 
Transport 
3983. The Viceroy when the Constituent Assembly was formed: 
Lord Wavell (6 December 1946) 
3984. Brindavan where Lord Krishna spent his childhood is in: 
Mathura 
3985. Viceroy ‘when Criminal Procedure Code was implemented : 
Lord Canning 
3986. Who wrote Jeevakarunya Nirupanam : 
Chattampi Swamikal
3987. Proofreader of Mangalodayam who became a renais­sance leader : 
V. T. Bhattathirippad
3988. Where the first press was established in Kerala to print Malayalam : 
Kottayam ·
3999. “To Err is Human. But only intelligent people learn from mistakes” who said this: 
Sir Winston Churchill 
4000. ‘Malayalam belongs to the linguistic family : 
Dravidian

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