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
