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Friday 24 July 2015

General Knowledge Answers - Day 25

1. Agriculture

2. Excise Duties
   An excise or excise tax (sometimes called an excise duty) is a type of tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from  outside the country). It is a tax on the production or sale of a good. This tax is now known as the Central Value Added Tax (CENVAT).

3. Mustard
    Mustard seeds are the small round seeds of various mustard plants. The seeds are usually about 1 or 2 mm in diameter. Mustard seeds may be colored from yellowish white to black.

4. South Africa

5. Mannuthi
   College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is a veterinary college located at Mannuthy, Thrissur city of Kerala. The college is affiliated to Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

6. 1839

7. Wilson Jones
   Wilson Lionel Garton-Jones (2 May 1922 – 5 October 2003) was a professional player of English billiards from India. Jones, a dominant national amateur champion for more than a decade, won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958 and 1964. He was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1963, the Padma Shri Award in 1965, and the Dronacharya Award in 1996.ones, an Anglo-Indian, was born in Pune in Maharashtra, and studied at Bishop High School and St. Vincent's High School, before joining the War Service in 1939.


8. Bauxite
   Bauxite, an aluminium ore, is the world's main source of aluminium. It consists mostly of the minerals gibbsite Al(OH)3, boehmite γ-AlO(OH) and diaspore α-AlO(OH), mixed with the two iron oxides goethite and haematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2.

9.  Major Somnath Sharma

10. Emergency

11. GNP minus Depreciation Allowances

12. N.E. Borlaug

13. Kanyakumari
      Kanyakumari; also known as Kanniyakumari, formerly known as Cape Comorin, is a town in Kanyakumari District in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The name comes from the temple, Devi Kanya Kumari Temple in the region

14. Bharuktish

15. Wrestling

16. Perambur
    Perambur is a locality in Northern part of the metropolitan city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India.

17. To ensure Social justice

18. Patiala
    Patiala is a city in southeastern Punjab, in northern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the Qila Mubarak.

19. Ganga

20. Supreme Court 

21. 2005

22. Wular Lake
       Wular Lake, One of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia, is in Bandipora district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The lake basin was formed as a result of tectonic activity and is fed by the Jhelum River.

23. Bihar

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