Questions from Basic General Knowledge
511. The first Olympic Games were held in which year?
776 BC
512. On which scale the intensity of earthquakes is measured?
Richter scale
513. What are Alpha rays emitted from a radioactive substance?
Helium nuclear
514. In which state has India"s largest private sector sea port been commissioned recently?
Andhra Pradesh
515. The Second World War led to the foundation of UNO in?
1945
516. Who was the great sailor who reached Phillipines in 1521 and died there fighting its aborgins?
Ferdinant D Megallan of Portugal
517. Dibrugarh is on the bank of which River?
Brahmaputra
518. What is Isomerism exhibeted by acetic acid and methyl formate?
Functional group
519. Where was the first state-owned fertilizer plant set-up in 1951?
Sindri
520. In human body, into which does the pancreas secretes its enzymes?
Duodenum
