Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1701. Which planet is known as the ‘Watery Planet’?
Earth
1702. In which country has maximum damage to the forests been caused by acid rain?
Poland
1703. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny book was written by which person?
Swami Vivekananda
1704. Who authored the "Gitanjali", an anthology of poems?
Rabindranath Tagore
1705. The time at Cairo is hours ahead of Greenwich. Hence, where is it located?
30° E longitude
1706. Which is the official newspaper of Chinese Communist Patty?
‘Renin Ribao' (People's Daily)
1707. Which lake in India has the highest water salinity?
Sambhar
1708. Cochin became a subsidiary state of the British in?
1809
1709. In which year Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Welfare Economics?
1998
1710. Who is the author of “The Waste Land”?
T.S. Eliot
