1. For internal financing of the Five Year Plans, the Government depends on:
Ans: Taxation, public borrowing & deficit financing
2. Which is the octopus shaped lake in Kerala?
Ans: Ashtamudi Lake
3. Advaita Chinthapaddathi is the literary work of?
Ans: Chattampi Swamikal
4. Who is known as the 'First labour leader of India'?
Ans: Ayyankali
5. Which Article of the Constitution guarantees Public Service Commission for the Union & the States?
Ans: Article 315
6. Which Article of the Constitution ensures duties & powers of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
Ans: Article 149
7. Which Amendment Act reduced the voting age from 21 to 18?
Ans: 61st Amendment Act, 1989
8. Valmiki Ambedkar Awaas Yojana was launched for the benefit of?
Ans: Urban slum dwellers
9. Indian Constitution adopted the concept of basic structure from the Constitution of:
Ans: United States
10. Which are the two provisions in the Constitution connected to the Right to Education?
Ans: Article 21A & 51A
11. What is the maximum age fixed by the Food Security Act for providing nutritional entitlements to children of school going age?
Ans: 14
12. In which year was the Wild Life Protection Act enacted?
Ans: 1972
13. Who presided over the Fourth All Kerala Political Conference held at Payyannur?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru
14. Who built the famous Grant Trunk Road?
Ans: Shershah Suri
15. In which Session the Indian National Congress split into two groups?
Ans: Surat
16. Which social reformer of Kerala is associated with Ayyavazhi?
Ans: Ayya Vaikundar
17. Who wrote the book 'Kristhu Maths Chedanam'?
Ans: Chattambi Swamikal
18. Which work of Kumarannasan portrays the story of Matangi?
Ans: Chandala Bikshuki
19. Which is the famous Megalithic burial site in Kerala?
Ans: Cherumanangad
20. Which national leader is known as 'Sarhadi Gandhi'?
Ans: Khan Abdul Gaffer Than
21. Which Commission submitted the recommendations for setting up States on linguistic basis?
Ans: Fazal Ali Commission
22. Which British Viceroy repealed the Partition of Bengal in 1911?
Ans: Lord Hardinge
23. 'Ente Jeevitha Samarangal' is the autobiography of?
Ans: Mannathu Padmanabhan
24. Who was the President of the Lahore Session of Congress which passed the resolution Poornaswaraj in 1929?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru
25. Name the journal published by Gandhiji in South Africa?
Ans: Indian Opinion
26. Which National Movement began after the failure of Cripp's Mission?
Ans: Quit India Movement
27. Name the wind blowing from sub tropical high pressure belts to the equatorial low pressure belts?
Ans: Trade Winds
28. Which south Indian dynasty was famous for its village administration? Ans: Chola Dynasty
29. Rourkela Steel Plant was established with the support of?
Ans: Germany
30. Which type of soil is most suited for plantations of tea, coffee & spices? Ans: Forest soil
31. Which Five Year Plan's slogan was 'Garibi Hatao'?
Ans: Fifth Plan
32. Which committee enquired the IPL spot fixing scandal?
Ans: Justice Mudgal Committee
33. Which foreigners built the St.Angelo Fort at Kannur?
Ans: The Portuguese
34. Which was the last temple to be consecrated by Sree Narayana Guru?
Ans: Kalavancode
35. Who organised Villuvandi strike in 1893?
Ans: Ayyankali
36. Which plant is known as the queen of Western Ghats?
Ans: Neelakurinji
37. Which organ of the body is known as 'sweet bread'?
Ans: Pancreas
38. In which year Doordarshan started Malayalam programmes?
Ans: 1985
39. What is the name of the National school computerisation programme? Ans: Vidyavahini
40. 'The Tales of Athiranipadam' is the English translation of which Malayalam work?
Ans: Oru Desathinte Katha