Questions from Basic General Knowledge

291. Name the disease resulting from mercury poisoning that causes brain damage ?

Minamata

292. Bahadur Singh is a distinguished athlete of which game?

Athletics

293. Father of DNA Finger Printing ?

Prof.Alec Jeffreys

294. Which place is known as the Granary of Travancore?

'Nanjianadu'

295. Why is "Beaufort Scale" used?

To measure wind velocity

296. Who is the author of “Baburnama”?

Babur

297. Which has the largest number of sugar mills?

Uttar Pradesh

298. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LITE) was set up Prabhakaran in?

1976

299. From which fund are the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court drawn?

Consolidated Fund

300. Who usurped the throne of Magadlia in 322 B. C. ?

Chandragupta Maurya

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