SELECTED 100 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Prince Mausam, who succeeded Aurangzeb ascended throne in the name of : 
Bahadur Shah I

2. Ratnakara was the maiden name of 
Valmiki

3. Strait between America and Cuba : 
Florida

4. The American President who was elected four times:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. The country, which has the lengthiest national anthem:
Greece

6. The famous Buddhist Centre at Maharastra : 
Amaravati

7. The river that connects the capital cities of Vienna, Belgrade, Budapest, Bratislava: 
Danube

8. Union Territory which shares a boundary with three states : 
Puducherry

9. What is known as an Emergency hormone : 
Adrenalin

10. Which state is called the Playground of America : 
California

11. Bom Jesus Basilica where the mortal remains of St. Xavier is kept: 
Panaji

12. The main festival of Maharastra : 
Ganesh Chaturthi

13. The city regarded as the capital of Western classical music : 
Vienna

14. The Committee which recommended the formation of NABARD :
Sivaraman Committee

15. The concept of ‘’Keala Dalit’’ was put forwarded by :
Poikayil Appachan

16. The first Indian Document in the Memory Book of UNESCO : 
Rig Veda

17. The first test-tube baby in South India : 
Kamala Ratnam (1990).

18. The King Elara who conquered Sri Lanka in 2nd century BC and ruled for 50 years belong to which dynasty: 
Chola

19. The lightest bone in the human body : 
Stapes

20. The only edible orchid : 
Vanilla

21. The sea with least depth : 
Azov Sea

22. When did Kumaranasan become the President of SNDP : 
1923

23. Which country is called the ‘’land of blue sky’’: 
Mongolia

24. Which country is called the’’ Pearl of Persian Gulf’’:
Bahrain

25. Who calculated the height of Mount Everest for the first time: 
George Everest

226. Alexander Pushkin was born in : 
Russia

27. A bird that Swims the best : 
Penguin

28. Hill station where Malayalee Temple is located : 
Yercaud

29. Jnanpit Award winner who served as the Vice Chancellor of the M.G. University : 
U.R. Anantha Murthy

30. Prince Muasam who succeeded Aurangzeb ascended throne in the name of :
Bahadur Shah I

31. Residence of Amitabh Bachchan ‘Pratheeksha’ is in :
Mumbai

32. Strait between America and Russia : 
Bering Strait

33. The final resting place of Maharaja Ranjit Singh is at :
Lahore

34. The first person to confer Honorary citizenship of U.S.A. (1963): 
Sir Winston Churchill

35. The only city, which is the Headquarters of three administrative units of Indian Union: 
Chandigarh

36. The President to vote in the Assembly election :
A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

37. The South American country which is the longest country in the world while comparing to its breadth : 
Chile

38. When Alexander attacked India the ruler of Taxila was :
Ambhi

39. When did Aurangzeb give permission to the East India Company to trade in Bengal:
1667

40. Which award is known as the British Oscar : 
BAFTA

41. Bhagavat Gita is composed in : 
Sanskrit

42. Who is called the King of Devas in Indian mythology:
Indra

43. The metal discovered by Humphrey Dewey in 1808 :
Calcium

44. Headquarters of Gurukul Kangri University established by Swami Shradananda in 1902 is at:
Haridwar

45. Portuguese West Africa is now known as : 
Angola

46. Jain Scholar Jinasena was the advisor of :
Amoghavarsha

47. Which place is called the Mecca for fighter planes :
Jamnagar

48. The famous writer is known as Beypore Sultan: 
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

49. The third longest river in Kerala : 
Pamba

50. Working Principle of Transformer : 
Mutual induction

51. Leader of Narmada Bachavo Andolan : 
Medha Patkar

52. NATPAC is related to : 
Transport

53. The Viceroy when the Constituent Assembly was formed : 
Lord Wavell (6 December 1946)

54. Brindavan where Lord Krishna spent his childhood is in : 
Mathura

55. Viceroy when Criminal Procedure Code was implemented : 
Lord Canning

56. Who wrote Jeevakarunya Nirupanam : 
Chattampi Swamikal

57. Proofreader of Mangalodayam who became a renaissance leader : 
V.T. Bhattathirippad

58. Where the first press was established in Kerala to print Malayalam : 
Kottayam

59. “To Err is Human. But only intelligent people learn from mistakes” who said this:
Sir Winston Churchill

60. Malayalam belongs to the linguistic family : 
Dravidian

61. “Desire is the root of all miseries” who said this: 
Sree Buddha

62. Alauddin Bahman Shah chose his capital : 
Gulbarga

63. Awami League is the political party of which country:
Bangladesh

64. Birthplace of Mahavira: 
Kundagrama near Vaisali

65. Chairman of Malabar Cancer Centre : 
Chief Minister

66. Composer of the national anthem of U.S.A. : 
Francis Scott Key

67. ‘’Leeds’’ is famous in among the sport : 
Cricket

68. Marble Rocks is in the river : 
Narmada

69. Nonmetal with the highest density : 
Iodine

70. Pet name of Chattampi Swamikal : 
Kunjan (real name Ayyappan)

71. Shah Jahan bought the land from which Maharaja to build Taj Mahal :
Raja Jaising

72. The basic living species : 
Monera

73. The city of Sanghli in Maharashtra is on the banks of the River : 
Krishna

74. The River that emerges from the Amarkandak mountain ranges in Madhya Pradesh : 
Narmada

75. The basic unit of quantity of molecule : 
Mole

76. ‘Naalu Suvisheshnagal’ is related to religion : 
Christianity

77. Travancore king who invited Thycaud Ayya to his palace : 
Swati Tirunal

78. When the British Parliament passed the Pitts India Act in the Governor General was : 
Warren Hastings

79. Headquarters of the European Union: 
Brussels

80. Hindu ruler of Sind when Muhammad Bin Qasim attacked :
Dahir

81. Major reform of Alauddin Khilji : 
Market regulation

82. Muhammad Bin Tughluq changed his capital in 1327 from Delhi to :
Daulatabad (Devagiri)

83. Name the famous poet who lived in the court of Alauddin Khilji : 
Amir Khusru

84. Name port India lost during partition and subsequently, India developed port Kandla: 
Karachi

85. The preamble of the Indian Constitution was drafted by :
Jawaharlal Nehru

86. The Chalukya king who assumed the title of
‘’Avantinathan’’ : 
Jayasimha Siddha Raja

87. The first digital film in Malayalam : 
Moonamathoral

88. The first Indian to receive the French Chevalier Award :
Shivaji Ganesan

89. The first Malayalam Bible was printed at : 
Kottayam

90. The first meeting of the All Indian Trade Union Congress was held in : 
Mumbai

91. The first printed book in Malayalam :
Samkshepavedartham

92. The first south Indian to conquer Mount Everest : 
P.N. Ganesh

93. The home of Rabindranath Tagore within the
Viswabharati University : 
Utharayan

94. The metal mostly used in making idols: 
Copper

95. The State Award is given to the best farmer :
Karshakothama

96. Who proposed the theory that Aryans came from the Arctic : 
Balgangadhar Tilak

97. 23rd Province of Muhammad Bin Tughluq : 
Daulatabad

98. Headquarters of the United Nations in Europe : 
Geneva

99. Headquarters of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : 
Geneva

100. ‘’ Preethi Bhojanam’’ in Kozhikode was organized by :
Vagbhadananda