Questions from Basic General Knowledge

271. Who deciphered the Brahmi script?

James Princep

272. Who is the inventor of Gunpowder?

Roger Bacon

273. An Indian born American biochemist; won Nobel Prize in 1968 for making artificial gene. Who is he ?

Har Gobind Khorana

274. The Sun City is located in which continent?

South Africa

275. Who is the author of Dead Reckoning - Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh war?

Sarmila Bose

276. The Currency of Gambia?

Dalasi

277. Who is the author of “India- The Critical years”?

Kuldip Nayar

278. Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?

Mahatma Gandhi

279. Which King of Travancore opened the First modern factory for the manufacture of coir at Alleppey (1859)?

Utram Thirunal Marthanda Varma.

280. Which is the only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ?

Great Pyramid at Giza

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