Questions from Basic General Knowledge
2551. In India; what is the main limiting factor for cultivation?
Indequacy of water supply
2552. Who did the USA buy the Virgin islands from?
Denmark
2553. What is the energy of the winds and the waves?
Kinetic
2554. What is known as venus’s flower?
Euplectella
2555. Who was a great ruler of Kalinga in ancient times?
Kharavela
2556. Amarya Sen; the NRI Nobel laureate got the honour for which work?
Poverty and famines
2557. Who said “My boy no, you are an Indian first and then a Muslim”?
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
2558. If the dew point is below freezing, it is referred to which point?
Frost point
2559. The year in which Anchal Service was amalgamated with Telegraph department is?
April 1951.
2560. Who was first African to receive Nobel Prize for Literature?
Wole Soynika; the Nigerian author and dramatist
