Questions from Basic General Knowledge
1931. Sugar metabolism is the function of which hormone?
Insulin produced by Pancreas
1932. Who is the author of Future Shock?
Alvin Toffler
1933. Which American President gave orders to drop atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Harry S Truman
1934. HDI stands for?
Human Development Index
1935. Who was the Sikh Guru to be slaughtered by Aurangzeb?
Teg Bahadur
1936. In which year was the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) founded?
1969
1937. Aluminium surface are often ‘anodized’. This means deposition of a layer of which oxide?
Zinc oxide
1938. The Currency of Algeria?
Dinar
1939. In which year Travancore University was renamed as Kerala University?
1957
1940. Nehru Trophy is associated with?
Hockey
