Questions from Basic General Knowledge

551. Why are Venice in Italy and Vienna in Austria famous?

For glass industry

552. First university in the world was started in ?

Paris

553. The longest circle which can be drawn on the earth"s surface passes through where?

Equator

554. Trivandrum Museum building and the main building of Trivandrum University College were constructed during the reign of ?

AyilyamThirunal.

555. Who is the author of Asian Drama ?

Gunnar Myrdal

556. Of which metal was the The famous figure of a dancing girl found in the excavations of Harappa ?

Bronze

557. In 1643 Evangalisa Torichelli invented the first what?

Barometer

558. Mycology is the branch of botany, what do we study about in that branch?

Fungi

559. *Which was the first college in Kerala?

The C M S College opened in Kottayam under the Church Mission Society in 1816

560. Who is the author of “House of the Dead”?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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