Questions from Basic General Knowledge

141. The scientific name of Wheat is?

Triticum aestivum

142. The human body is immune to which disease?

Small pox

143. The change in temperature of a body is 50°C. What is the change on Kelvin scale?

50 K

144. Quick Mail Service was started in?

1975

145. Priyadarshini Planetarium, inaugurated in 1994, is located in?

Thiruvananthapuram

146. Land of White Elephant?

Thailand

147. The word 'Cold War' was first coined by ?

Bernard Baruch in 1946

148. Which Sultan of Delhi has been described by the historians as the 'mixture of opposites' ?

Muhammad Tughluq

149. Who is the author of “Pickwick Papers”?

Charles Dickens

150. PINCODE was started in the year?

1972

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