Questions from Basic General Knowledge

431. Sound travels faster in which thing?

Iron than in air

432. Who is the inventor of Rubber (waterproof)?

Macintosh

433. The year in which Israel was formed in Palestine?

1948

434. Which missionary is the author of Varthamanapustakam (1785)?

Paramekkal Thomakathanar

435. Sergei Bubkha; an athlete of international repute; belongs to which country?

Ukraine

436. Which is the chief characteristics of wet and dry tropics?

Constant heating

437. During adiabatic compression of a gas; what is the its temperature?

Rises

438. What is the slow wobbling of Earth as it spins on its axis called?

Precession

439. Who is the author of As You Like it ?

William Shakespeare

440. Who was the first Foreign Minister of free India?

Jawaharlal Nehru

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