Questions from Basic General Knowledge
431. Chepauk Ground (Chennai) is associated with which Sport?
Cricket
432. St Angelo Fort in Kannur was built by?
Dom Francisco de Almeida; the first Portuguese Viceroy of India (1505)
433. Where are red blood corpuscles formed?
In bone marrow
434. Plants growing well in full sunlight are called?
Helio-phytes.
435. Who is the author of “House Divided”?
Pearl S Buck
436. Who is the author of “Self Reliance”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
437. Who proved that DNA is the basic genetic material?
Hershey and Chase
438. What is the a biological process in which glucose and fat is oxidised to librate energy?
Respiration
439. Who, according to Jains, was the founder of Jainism ?
Rishabha
440. Who invented the Flying Shuttle for weaving cloth?
John Kay (1733)
