Basic General Knowledge Questions and Answers – 3

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1. Folk painting ‘Madhubani’ is famous in which state?
Answer: Bihar

2. Which is the tree requiring minimum water for its growth?
Answer: Babul

3. Which post does the Constitution of India does not mention?
Answer: The Deputy Prime Minister

4. Which country is the largest producer of Bauxite?
Answer: Australia

5. Which Indian rulers was a contemporary of Akbar?
Answer: Rani Durgawati

6. How are Oxygen and ozone?
Answer: Allotropes

7. From where did India introduce the cultivation of tobacco/tapioca/ pineapple?
Answer: South America

8. When was the Reserve Bank of India taken over by the Government?
Answer: 1948

9. Which is found on the western coast of continents between 30° and 40° latitudes?
Answer: Mediterranean Climate Region

10. Which school of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period?
Answer: The Bijapur School

11. In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’ found?
Answer: Cattle

12. Who decides the number of Judges in a High Court?
Answer: President

13. What denotes the smallest temperature?
Answer: 1° on the Kelvin scale

14. In which latitudes largest quantities of bauxite is found?
Answer: Tropical latitudes

15. Which was the first English ship that came to India?
Answer: Red Dragon

16. Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be an environmental hazard?
Answer: Eucalyptus

17. Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this caused?
Answer: Bacterium

18. In which animal is respiration done by skin?
Answer: Frog

19. The Ruhr-Westphalia region is a famous industrial region of which country?
Answer: Germany

20. Which was the first newspaper to be published in India?
Answer: Bengal Gazette