Questions from Basic General Knowledge

481. Who is the author of “The Third World in the Age of Globalisation”?

Ash Narain Roy

482. The scheme of Travancore Devaswam Board to plant trees on barren temple premises is called?

Devaranyam scheme

483. Who was the great sailor who reached Phillipines in 1521 and died there fighting its aborgins?

Ferdinant D Megallan of Portugal

484. The intensity of insolation depends on which line?

Latitude

485. Who set up the Atmiya Sabha in Kolkata in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ram Mohan Roy

486. The Capital of Zambia?

Lusaka

487. Who was appointed as the first British Resident in Travancore ?

Col. Macaulay.

488. Who said; ‘Child is the father of Man’?

William Wordsworth

489. Archemedes the originator of the law of specific gravity lived in which age ?

The Hellenistic Age

490. Blue Mountains?

Nilgiris Hills

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