2015-07-10


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 Which British Viceroy repealed the Partition of Bengal in 1911?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

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