Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1. Heat given to an ideal gas under isothermal conditions is used in which work?
In doing external work
2. City of Rome was founded in ?
BC 153
3. At the beginning of the twentieth century, who published ‘The Economic: History of India’ ?
Romesh Chandra Dutt
4. Which river crosses the Equator twice?
Congo
5. By which fission does Leishmania, the causative agent of kala-azar, multiply asexually?
By binary fission
6. Name the author of' Aenid'; a famous Roman poet?
Vergil
7. Which fuel causes minimum environmental pollution?
Hydrogen
8. The Idukki Arch Dam is constructed across the river?
Periyar
9. In 1983;an American company Eli Lily; produced the first genetically engineered insulin. Name it?
Humulin (with the help of Escherichia Coli (or E-coli))
10. Chlorophyll is a naturally occuring chelate compound in, what is the which the central metal in this?
Magnesium
