Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1551. Which reservoir is constructed on Chambal?
Gandhi Sagar
1552. What is the difference between IST and GMT?
hours 30 minutes
1553. Which of the element of group 17 is radioactive?
Astatine
1554. What speed of rotation of the earth?
9.72 km/sec.
1555. Which transition metal is in liquid state?
Mercury
1556. What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914?
The murder of Arch Duke Ferdinant of Austria by a Serbian student Gavle Prince on June 28; 1914
1557. First India’s Spaceman?
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
1558. Who is the inventor of Insulin?
F.Banting
1559. What is the distance of the nearest star besides the sun from the earth?
4.2 light years
1560. Who is the author of “Pinjar”?
Amrita Pritam
