Selected 100 General Knowledge Questions

1. The first actress to become Chief Minister of an Indian state: 
V .N. Janaki Ramachandran

2. The first woman to conquer Mount Everest : 
Junko Tabei

3. The number of basic ragas in Carnatic music : 
72

4. Where is Air Force Academy located : 
Hyderabad


5. Where is the factory of Travancore Titanium:
Thiruvananthapuram

6. Who designed the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai:
George Wittet

7. Who is regarded as the father of Indian National Movement: 
Surendranath Banerjee

8. Who is regarded as the father of Modern Mysore :
M.Visvesvaraih

9. Whose death anniversary is observed as anti-terrorism day : 
Rajiv Gandhi

10. The Governor General who appointed the first Law Commission: 
Lord William Bentinck

11. The Governor General who visited Allahabad to assess the Mahalvari Revenue system :
William Bentinck

12. The largest Indo-Aryan language : 
Hindi

13. The organization which supervise Indian Telecommunication: 
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

14. The Viceroy when the Indian Council Act came into being: 
Lord Canning

15. Tulasidas composed ‘Ramcharitmanas’ at the banks of: 
Varanasi

16. Which country is known as the Land of Geysers : 
Iceland

17. Who was the Viceroy when Lala Lajpat Rai passed away on sustaining an injury in police lathicharge : 
Lord Irwin

18. William Barton Yeasts who wrote the foreword to Rabindranath Tagore’s English version of Gitanjali belonged to : 
Ireland

19. The Governor General who introduced the Press Act of 1799: 
Lord Wellesley

20. The second Indian to confer with the World Food Prize :
Dr. Varghese Kurien

21. Mary Robinson is the first woman President of which country: 
Ireland

22. Who passed the proposal for Non-Cooperation in the Congress session held in 1920 : 
C.R. Das

23. Who is the oldest American President : 
Donald Trump


24. ‘Malayalee’ the political magazine was launched by :
C.Krishna Pillai

25. Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal in memory of :
Mumtaz Mahal

26. Average weight in grams of the brain of an adult man : 
between 1300 and 1400

27. Court poet of Muhammad Ghazni : 
Firdausi

28. From where Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March :
Ahmedabad

29. Full form of SMS : 
Short Message Service

30. Headquarters of African Union : 
Addis Ababa

31. In which year Mumtaz Mahal passed away : 
1631

32. Naval Academy in Kannur is at : 
Ezhimala

33. The only South Asian country which is a member of G 20 : 
India

34. Irom Chanu Sharmila is a native of : 
Manipur

35. Hero of the novel Indulekha : 
Madhavan

36. Queen of the mountain ranges of south India : 
Ooty

37. Nenthran and aeththan are species of : 
Plantain

38. Russia supplied the Submarine Nerpa to India. Now it is known as : 
INS Chakra

39. Name the Malayalee who represented Lok Sabha from North Mumbai in 1957: 
V.K. Krishna Menon

40. Sergei Bubka the sports legend in the pole vault is a native of: 
Ukraine

41. Who was known as ‘Amarajeevi’’: 
Potti Sriramulu

42. When Rabindranath Tagore visited Kerala, Kumaranasan composed ‘’Divyakokilam’’ which was recited by : 
C. Keasvan

43. The first floating ATM in the world was designed by : 
SBI

44. World Development Report is annually published by the: 

World Bank

45. Place in Kerala mentioned in ‘’Mushaka Vamsam’’ :
Kolathunadu

46. The animal which never gets hurt even if moves through sharp blade: 
Snail

47. The country which launched India’s Aryabhatta to outer space: 
U.S.S.R. (former)

48. The first Marxist country in Africa : 
Guinea

49. The first person to confer the post of Honorary Group captain of Indian Air Force: 
Sachin Tendulkar

50. The first women President in Africa : 
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

51. The hot wind that blows from Africa and reaches Europe via Mediterranean : 
Sirocco

52. The Indian state surrounded by neighbouring countries in three sides : 
Tripura

53. The most famous Lodi Sultan : 
Sikander Lodi

54. The youngest Lok Sabha Speaker : 
G.M.C. Balayogi

55. The Viceroy who shifted the capital from Kolkata to Delhi: 
Lord Hardinge II

56. The Viceroy who through Factory Act prevented child labour in 1881 : 
Lord Ripon

57. When Archeological Survey of India was formed the Viceroy was : 
Lord Curzon

58. Which gas the least density: 
Hydrogen

59. Which Sikh ruler who covered the tower of Amritsar temple with gold : 
Raja Ranjit Singh

60. Who called Mannathu Padmanbhan “Madan Mohan Malavya of Kerala” : 
Sardar K. M. Panicker

61. Who is called the ‘’Milkman of India’’ : 
Dr. Varghese Kurien

62. Who ruled England when Parliament was formed : 
Henry I

63. With the difference of opinion with the Congress leadership, which leader with Motilal Nehru formed Swaraj Party on 1st January 1923: 
C.R. Das

64. In which year Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham became Pulaya Maha Sabha : 
1938

65. India’s first railway factory established in Kolkata in 1950 is named after : 
C.R. Das

66. Internet Security Day : 
February 6

67. What is called the savior of personal freedom : 
Habeas Corpus

68. What is produced through Mond Process: 
Nickel

69. Which organ is affected by Eczema : 
Skin

70. Who was known as the Socrates of Maharashtra : 
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

71. The largest lake in Africa : 
Victoria

72. The Indian State where the largest quantity of diamond is mined : 
Madhya Pradesh

73. The first Roman Catholic who became the President of America: John F. Kennedy

74. ‘Deccan ulcer’ which destroyed Aurangzeb : 
Marathas

75. “Emergency is the new era of discipline” who said this:
Vinobha Bhave

76. Aim of ‘Antyodaya’ Project: 
Upliftment of the poorest of the poor

77. Which country is called the ‘’Switzerland of Central Asia’’: 
Kyrgyzstan

78. Which country is known as the ‘’Land of Letter Box companies’’: 
Lichtenstein

79. Which incident is also known as ‘’Thonnooramand Lahala’’ in Travancore history : 
Ooruttambalam revolt

80. While in prison Nelson Mandela was given the number :
46664

81. The first Indian State to permits the use of laptop and I - pad in the Assembly: 
Kerala

82. Brihadeswara Temple is in : 
Tanjavur

83. Barthruhari caves are in : 
Ujjain

84. When Prince of Wales visited India in 1921, the Viceroy was : 
Lord Reading

85. Dead language included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution: 
Sanskrit

86. Founder of Akhila Thiruvithamkur Muslim Mahajana Sabha : 
Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi

87. Who hailed Kumaranasan as ''Viplavathinte Kavi’’ :
Thayat Sankaran

88. Childhood name of Ayya Vaikundar : 
Muthukutti

89. The capital of Bahamas: 
Nassau

90. The culprit of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack who was sentenced to death : 
Ajmal Kazab

91. America became free on : 
4 July 1776

92. Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi was first published in : 
Navjeevan

93. Gulbarga was renamed by Alauddin Bahaman Shah as: 
Ahsanabad

94. In which year Vietnam War was ended : 
1973

95. In which year William Hawkins reached the Court of  Jahangir: 
1608

96. Krishnadevaraya was born in which dynasty of Vijayanagara : 
Tuluva

97. Main port at Karnataka : 
Mangalore

98. ‘’Mission of Life Museum’ is established in the honor of: 
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

99. Muloor Memorial in at : 
Elavumthitta


100. Oil seeps through wicks because of : 
Capillary action