Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1681. Who became the Rajapramukh of the New State of Travancore -Cochin?
The Maharaja of Travancore
1682. Which local wind is not characteristically hot and dry?
Mistral
1683. Who was the first Chief Justice of America ?
John Jai (1789-95)
1684. Who is the author of “Triumph”?
John Kenneth Galbraith
1685. Who is the author of “Harvard Crimson; How Opal Mehta Got Kissed; Got Wild and Got a Life”?
Kaavya Viswanathan
1686. Which is called philosopher’s wool?
Zinc oxide
1687. Who discovered the laws of planetary orbits?
Johannes Kepler
1688. In 1643 Evangalisa Torichelli invented the first what?
Barometer
1689. Who is the author of View from Delhi; ?
A Chester Bowles
1690. Which geomorphic processes is associated with the work of glaciers?
Plucking
