General Knowledge Questions & Answers

1. Who described the Directive Principles 'like a cheque payable at the convenience of Bank'?
Ans: KT Shah

2. Which Part of the Constitution represents the philosophy or soul of the Constitution?
Ans: The Preamble


3. Indian Constitution copied the procedure for impeachment from which country?
Ans: USA

4. The Constitution modeled the idea of nominating eminent persons to Rajya Sabha from?
Ans: Ireland

5. The Constitution borrowed the idea of joint sitting of two houses of Parliament from which country?
Ans: Australia

6. From which country the Constitution borrowed the idea of appointment of Governors of the State by the Centre?
Ans: Canada

7. Which Article of the Constitution provides the President of India to grand pardons?
Ans: Article-72

8. Under which Act of the British the Governor General of India was renamed Viceroy of India?
Ans: Government of India Act-1858

9. The Indian Independence Act got the assent of the British King on?
Ans: 18 July 1947

10. Which was the first Act passed by the British Parliament for the administration of India?
Ans: The Regulating Act of 1773

11. Who is known as the Babur of British India'?
Ans: Robert Clive

12. Which Governor General is called as 'the Akbar of British India'?
Ans: Wellesley

13. Which Viceroy was called as the Aurangazeb of British India'?
Ans: Curzon

14. Which Act of the British introduced diarchy or dual government for the first time in India?
Ans: Govt. of IndiaAct-1919

15. The change of frequency experienced by the receiver either because of the relative motion of the source or receiver or both is known as?
Ans: Doppler effect

16. Which solution is used to conduct the glucose test?
Ans: Benedict solution

17. When an iodine solution turns blue black, it indicates the presence of:
Ans: Starch

18. Which is the only part of human body that remains in the same size from birth to death?
Ans: Eyeball

19. Which part of the human body absorbs oxygen directly from the air?
Ans: Cornea of eye

20. Microfarad is the commonly used unit of:
Ans: Capacitance

22. Which metal is used for making the filament of an incandescent lamp?
Ans: Tungsten

23. Isomerism with a difference in the position of the functional group are known as?
Ans: Position isomerism

24. Who started the newspaper 'Sujananandini' in 1891?
Ans: Kesavan Asan

25. Which is the second highest peak in Kerala?
Ans: Agastyarkoodam

26. In which part of the Himalayas are the Karewa formations found?  
Ans: Kashmir Himalayas

27. In which state is the Simlipal Biosphere Reserve situated?
Ans: Odisha

28. What is the peculiar feature of a pumice stone?
Ans: It floats on water

29. What is the focal length of a concave lens?
Ans: Negative

30. What is the stationary part in the armature and the field magnet of a generator?
Ans: Stator

31. Who discovered the radio carbon dating?
Ans: Willard Libby

32. Which element is used for radiographic imaging?
Ans: Barium

33. Which type of mirror is used in the searchlights?
Ans: Parabolic

34. Who was the founder of the Tatwa Prakashika Ashramam at Kozhikode?
Ans: Vagbhatananda

35. The only poet in Malayalam who became a Mahakavi without writing a Mahakavyam?
Ans: Kumaranasan

36. Who was called by Sardar K M Panicker as 'the Madan Mohan Malavya of Kerala'?
Ans: Mannathu Padmanabhan

37. In the history of Kerala, which was the first planned & organised agitation for denied rights?
Ans: Vaikkom Satyagraha

38. Who is considered as the founder of the Ahmadia movement?
Ans: Mirza Gulam Ahmad

39. Which Governor General of British India introduced Sunday as the weekly holiday for government offices?
Ans: Hardinge-I  

40. Who was the Viceroy when the capital of India shifted from Kolkata to Delhi?
Ans: Hardinge II       

41. Which King of Travancore shifted the capital from Padmanabhapuram to Thiruvananthapuram?
Ans: Dharma Raja 
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