Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1. Who is the author of “The Pickwick Papers”?
Charles Dickens
2. What does increase in carbon dioxide in atmosphere cause?
Rise in earth temperature
3. The Ramsar Convention(1971) is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of wetlands. It was held at?
Ramsar in Iran
4. Who is the author of “Family Reunion”?
TSEliot
5. Who abolished ‘Sucheendran Kaimukku’ in Travancore?
Swathi Thirunal.
6. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India?
Aurangzeb
7. The United Nations declared 2008 as which International Year?
Planet Earth
8. Who is known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’ ?
Dadabhai Naoroji
9. Which was the first country to adopt Rolling Plan?
Sweden
10. ‘The Naked Face’; a very popular book is written by which author?
Sidney Sheldon
