Questions from Basic General Knowledge

171. Who is the author of “Love in the time of Cholera”?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

172. Plants contain one of the polysaccharide in the cell wall in form of ?

Cellulose

173. A body has a mass of 6 kg on the Earth; when measured on the Moon, what would be its mas?

6 kg

174. Opium War (1839-1842) was fought between?

China and Britain

175. Kala-azar (Leishmaniasis) is transmitted by ?

Sand flies.

176. Who is the author of Memories of World War II ?

Winston Churchill

177. Which Upanishads were translated into Persian by Dara Shikh?

Sirr-i-Akbar

178. What is a line on a map which joins places having the same rainfall called?

Isohyet

179. Which is the time required for the Earth to return to a given point in its orbit with reference to fixed star?

Sideral year

180. Who is the author of “Hamsters”?

C.P. Snow

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