Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1001. Christopher Cockerel invented what?
Hovercraft
1002. Who stated that there was no slavery in India?
Megasthenes
1003. The Capital of Poland?
Warsaw
1004. Who is the author of “Flames from the Ashes”?
P.D.Tandon
1005. Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?
Eucalyptus
1006. Which are the “Horn of Africa�
Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia
1007. Which was the first scholar; who read Ashokan edicts?
James Princep
1008. The most important stimulant in coffee leaves is?
Caffeine.
1009. What is the distance between two consecutive longitudes (910 E and 920 E) at-the Poles?
0 km
1010. Which civilization were credited for the invention of the system of dividing a circle into 360 degrees?
Assirians
