General Knowledge – Basic – 083

12436 : Who is the author of “Years of Pilgrimage”?
Ans : Dr. Raja Ramanna

12437 : Who is the author of “Moby Dick”?
Ans : Herman Melville

12438 : Who is the author of “India We Left”?
Ans : H u m p h r e y Trevelyan

12439 : Who is the inventor of Locomotive?
Ans : Richard Travithick

12440 : First Chief Justice of a High Court?
Ans : Justice H.L.Kania (Men); Ms. Leila Seth (Women)

12441 : Who is the author of “Kipps”?
Ans : H.G.Wells

12442 : Diphtheria and Tetanus vaccine was discovered by ?
Ans : Emil Adolf Von Belming and Shibasaburo Kitasato (1891)

12443 : Trachoma causing bacteria is ?
Ans : Chlmydia trachomatis

12444 : Who is the author of “Far from the Madding Crowd”?
Ans : Thomas Hardy

12445 : Manchester of Japan?
Ans : Osaka (Japan)

12446 : First commercial computer is called?
Ans : UNIVAC

12447 : In which year Marco Polo, the great Venician traveller, visited Kollam?
Ans : 1275

12448 : Where is the Indo-Swiz Project situated?
Ans : Mattuppetti.

12449 : Botulism causing bacteria is ?
Ans : Clostridium botulinum

12450 : Who is the inventor of Disc Brake?
Ans : Lanchester

Author: Freshers