Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1001. Name the scientist who was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine in 1905 for antiseptic surgery by using Carbolic Acid (Phenol) ?
Joseph Lister
1002. Highly Populated City (India)?
Mumbai (Maharashtra)
1003. Socrates the Greatest of the Greek philosphers was forced to commit suicide by drinking which poison ?
Hemlock; in 399 BC
1004. Which Agriculture export item is second in case of India?
Rice
1005. Who was the Mughal emperor at the time of Ahmed Shah Abdali’s invasion of India?
Shah Alam II
1006. Headquarters of OECD is at ?
Paris; (France)
1007. To which battle of the beginning of the British political sway over India can be traced?
Plassey
1008. What was the greatest invention of man in Palaeolithic Age?
Fire
1009. What is the real name of George Eliot?
Mary Ann Evans
1010. *Which was the first college in Kerala?
The C M S College opened in Kottayam under the Church Mission Society in 1816
