Questions from Basic General Knowledge
481. Which country is known as the 'Britain of the East'?
Japan
482. Comets revolve around which body?
Sun
483. The first Muslim conquest of the Hindu Kingdoms of Deccan was effected by whose forces?
Alauddin Khilji
484. A fruity smell is obtained by the reaction of ethanol with which compound?
CH3 COOH19
485. Who made primary education compulsory in Travancore in 1817?
Rani Gauri Parvathi Bai
486. In India; the bank NABARD does not provide refinance to which bank?
Export-Import Banks
487. What do ligaments join?
Bone to bone
488. Prague is on the bank of which River?
Vitava
489. Where was the world"s first oil-well drilled in the nineteenth century?
Titusfills in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
490. Who said ‘At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom’ ?
Jawaharlal Nehru
