Questions from Basic General Knowledge

1701. Land of Five Seas?

South West Asia

1702. First woman cosmanaut of world?

Valentina Tereskhova; the Russian

1703. Who is the author of Song of Solomon?

Toni Morrison [He was first African American writer (1993) to be awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1704. Where was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held?

New Delhi

1705. The tropopause occurs at the equator at a height of howmany kilometers?

17 km

1706. The word Mesopotamia means?

Land between rivers

1707. Which Maratha Peshwa followed the ideal of Hindu Pada-Padshahi?

Baji Rao I

1708. Which shipyard is known for the manufacture of bargets, coasters and dredgers?

Garden Reach Shipyard

1709. Why does the International Dateline deflects to a side?

To avoid Aleutian Islands

1710. Suez Canal joins which two Sea?

Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea

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