Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1. Nicolo Conti, the traveller, who visited Vijayanagara kingdom in 1420 A.D., belongs to which country?
Italy
2. Who is the author of Summer in Calcutta?
Kamala Das
3. By whom was capital of the Mughal Empire shifted from Agra to Delhi?
Shahjahan
4. Wireless communication is reflected back to the earth"s surface by the which zone?
Ionsphere
5. Who is the author of “The Pathology of Corruption”?
S.S. Gill
6. In which year, UN General Assembly terminated South Africa"s mandate over Namibia?
1966
7. Karl Marx"s book "Das Kapital" was published in which year?
1867
8. The Currency of Iceland?
Krona
9. Which is used as the logo of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ?
Panda
10. The writer of Mahabhasya "Patanjali" was a contemporary of which ruler?
Pushyamitra Sunga
