Questions from Basic General Knowledge
8541. National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP)was launched in the year?
1955
8542. Who was the first to calculate the circumference of the Earth?
Erathosthenes
8543. Islands of Sunshine?
West Indies
8544. Indira Gold Cup is associated with?
Hockey
8545. Who is the author of “As You Like It”?
Shakespeare
8546. Who is the author of “My Presedential Years”?
R. Venkatraman
8547. Which is the World"s largest producer of wool?
Australia
8548. Where was the world"s first oil-well drilled in the nineteenth century?
Titusfills in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
8549. With which man Al Beruni came to India?
Mahmud of Ghazni
8550. For international payments; to which currency is the Indian currency linked?
American Dollar
