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
