Selected 100 General Knowledge Questions


1. The first actress to become Chief Minister of an Indian state: 
V .N. Janaki Ramachandran

2. The first woman to conquer Mount Everest : 
Junko Tabei

3. The number of basic ragas in Carnatic music : 
72

4. Where is Air Force Academy located : 
Hyderabad


5. Where is the factory of Travancore Titanium:
Thiruvananthapuram

6. Who designed the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai:
George Wittet

7. Who is regarded as the father of Indian National Movement
Surendranath Banerjee

8. Who is regarded as the father of Modern Mysore :
M.Visvesvaraih

9. Whose death anniversary is observed as anti-terrorism day : 
Rajiv Gandhi

10. The Governor General who appointed the first Law Commission
Lord William Bentinck

11. The Governor General who visited Allahabad to assess the Mahalvari Revenue system :
William Bentinck

12. The largest Indo-Aryan language : 
Hindi

13. The organization which supervise Indian Telecommunication
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

14. The Viceroy when the Indian Council Act came into being
Lord Canning

15. Tulasidas composed ‘Ramcharitmanas’ at the banks of
Varanasi

16. Which country is known as the Land of Geysers : 
Iceland

17. Who was the Viceroy when Lala Lajpat Rai passed away on sustaining an injury in police lathicharge : 
Lord Irwin

18. William Barton Yeasts who wrote the foreword to Rabindranath Tagore’s English version of Gitanjali belonged to : 
Ireland

19. The Governor General who introduced the Press Act of 1799: 
Lord Wellesley

20. The second Indian to confer with the World Food Prize :
Dr. Varghese Kurien

21. Mary Robinson is the first woman President of which country: 
Ireland

22. Who passed the proposal for Non-Cooperation in the Congress session held in 1920 : 
C.R. Das

23. Who is the oldest American President : 
Donald Trump


24. ‘Malayalee’ the political magazine was launched by :
C.Krishna Pillai

25. Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal in memory of :
Mumtaz Mahal

26. Average weight in grams of the brain of an adult man : 
between 1300 and 1400

27. Court poet of Muhammad Ghazni : 
Firdausi

28. From where Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March :
Ahmedabad

29. Full form of SMS : 
Short Message Service

30. Headquarters of African Union : 
Addis Ababa

31. In which year Mumtaz Mahal passed away : 
1631

32. Naval Academy in Kannur is at : 
Ezhimala

33. The only South Asian country which is a member of G 20 : 
India

34. Irom Chanu Sharmila is a native of : 
Manipur

35. Hero of the novel Indulekha : 
Madhavan

36. Queen of the mountain ranges of south India : 
Ooty

37. Nenthran and aeththan are species of : 
Plantain

38. Russia supplied the Submarine Nerpa to India. Now it is known as : 
INS Chakra

39. Name the Malayalee who represented Lok Sabha from North Mumbai in 1957: 
V.K. Krishna Menon

40. Sergei Bubka the sports legend in the pole vault is a native of
Ukraine

41. Who was known as ‘Amarajeevi’’: 
Potti Sriramulu

42. When Rabindranath Tagore visited Kerala, Kumaranasan composed ‘’Divyakokilam’’ which was recited by : 
C. Keasvan

43. The first floating ATM in the world was designed by : 
SBI

44. World Development Report is annually published by the

World Bank

45. Place in Kerala mentioned in ‘’Mushaka Vamsam’’ :
Kolathunadu

46. The animal which never gets hurt even if moves through sharp blade: 
Snail

47. The country which launched India’s Aryabhatta to outer space: 
U.S.S.R. (former)

48. The first Marxist country in Africa : 
Guinea

49. The first person to confer the post of Honorary Group captain of Indian Air Force: 
Sachin Tendulkar

50. The first women President in Africa : 
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

51. The hot wind that blows from Africa and reaches Europe via Mediterranean : 
Sirocco

52. The Indian state surrounded by neighbouring countries in three sides : 
Tripura

53. The most famous Lodi Sultan : 
Sikander Lodi

54. The youngest Lok Sabha Speaker : 
G.M.C. Balayogi

55. The Viceroy who shifted the capital from Kolkata to Delhi
Lord Hardinge II

56. The Viceroy who through Factory Act prevented child labour in 1881 : 
Lord Ripon

57. When Archeological Survey of India was formed the Viceroy was : 
Lord Curzon

58. Which gas the least density: 
Hydrogen

59. Which Sikh ruler who covered the tower of Amritsar temple with gold : 
Raja Ranjit Singh

60. Who called Mannathu Padmanbhan “Madan Mohan Malavya of Kerala” : 
Sardar K. M. Panicker

61. Who is called the ‘’Milkman of India’’ : 
Dr. Varghese Kurien

62. Who ruled England when Parliament was formed : 
Henry I

63. With the difference of opinion with the Congress leadership, which leader with Motilal Nehru formed Swaraj Party on 1st January 1923: 
C.R. Das

64. In which year Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham became Pulaya Maha Sabha : 
1938

65. India’s first railway factory established in Kolkata in 1950 is named after : 
C.R. Das

66. Internet Security Day : 
February 6

67. What is called the savior of personal freedom : 
Habeas Corpus

68. What is produced through Mond Process: 
Nickel

69. Which organ is affected by Eczema : 
Skin

70. Who was known as the Socrates of Maharashtra : 
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

71. The largest lake in Africa : 
Victoria

72. The Indian State where the largest quantity of diamond is mined : 
Madhya Pradesh

73. The first Roman Catholic who became the President of America: John F. Kennedy

74. ‘Deccan ulcer’ which destroyed Aurangzeb : 
Marathas

75. “Emergency is the new era of discipline” who said this:
Vinobha Bhave

76. Aim of ‘Antyodaya’ Project: 
Upliftment of the poorest of the poor

77. Which country is called the ‘’Switzerland of Central Asia’’
Kyrgyzstan

78. Which country is known as the ‘’Land of Letter Box companies’’
Lichtenstein

79. Which incident is also known as ‘’Thonnooramand Lahala’’ in Travancore history : 
Ooruttambalam revolt

80. While in prison Nelson Mandela was given the number :
46664

81. The first Indian State to permits the use of laptop and I - pad in the Assembly: 
Kerala

82. Brihadeswara Temple is in : 
Tanjavur

83. Barthruhari caves are in : 
Ujjain

84. When Prince of Wales visited India in 1921, the Viceroy was : 
Lord Reading

85. Dead language included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution
Sanskrit

86. Founder of Akhila Thiruvithamkur Muslim Mahajana Sabha : 
Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi

87. Who hailed Kumaranasan as ''Viplavathinte Kavi’’ :
Thayat Sankaran

88. Childhood name of Ayya Vaikundar : 
Muthukutti

89. The capital of Bahamas: 
Nassau

90. The culprit of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack who was sentenced to death : 
Ajmal Kazab

91. America became free on : 
4 July 1776

92. Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi was first published in : 
Navjeevan

93. Gulbarga was renamed by Alauddin Bahaman Shah as
Ahsanabad

94. In which year Vietnam War was ended : 
1973

95. In which year William Hawkins reached the Court of  Jahangir: 
1608

96. Krishnadevaraya was born in which dynasty of Vijayanagara : 
Tuluva

97. Main port at Karnataka : 
Mangalore

98. ‘’Mission of Life Museum’ is established in the honor of
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

99. Muloor Memorial in at : 
Elavumthitta


100. Oil seeps through wicks because of : 
Capillary action
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