Kerala Renaissance Questions

1. Who started the Swadeshabhimani newspaper on January 19, 1905?
Ans: Vakkom Muhammed Abdul Khader Moulavi

2. Which Diwan of 'Travancore was criticized by Swadeshabhimani Ramalcrishna Pillai?
Ans: P Rajagopalachari

3. Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillal was exiled from the Travancore in the year?
Ans: September 26, 1910

4. Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai died in the year?
Ans: 1916

5. Where is the resting place of Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai?  
Ans: Payyambalam Beach (Kannur)

6. In which year Rabindranath Tagore & C F Andrews met with Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri?
Ans: November 1922

7. Who founded the Thatwa Prakashika Ashram at Kozhikode?  
Ans: Vagbhatananda

8. Who founded the `Jananodayam Sabha' at Edakochi?
Ans: Pandit Karuppan

9. Who is the author of 'Moksha Pradeepa Khandanam'?
Ans: Chattampi Swami

10. Who gave the name `Vagbhatananda' to VK Gurukkal?
Ans: Brahmananda Sivayogi

11. Which work of Kumaran Asan states that 'Mamsanibadhamalla Ragam'? Ans: Leela

12. Who started the newspaper Sujanandini from Paravur in 1891?
Ans: Kesavan Asan

13. What was the significance of the Thiruvithamcore rock edict of 1696?
Ans: Repealed Mannappedi & Pulappedi

14. Which historical land legislation in Travancore in the year of1865 June is hailed as the Magna Carta of Travancore Ryots'?
Ans: Pandara Pattam Proclamation

15. Which Act passed in 1974 by Kerala Legislative Assembly is hailed as ‘the Magna Carta of Agricultural Labourers in Kerala'?
Ans: The Kerala Agricultural Workers Act

16. Where was the first annual session of the SNDP held in 1904?
Ans: Aruvippuram

17. The NSS was founded on:
Ans: October 31, 1914

18. On the pattern of the which national organization was the NSS organised?
Ans: Servants of India Society

19. Who founded the Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham?
Ans: Ayyankali

20. Who established the Muslim Mahajana Sabha?
Ans: Abdul Khader Moulavi

21. Whose slogan was 'One caste, One religion, One clan, one world and God'?
Ans: Vaikunda Swamikal

22. In which year Chattampi Swamikal met Sree Narayana Guru?
Ans: 1882

23. Which work is considered as the philosophical masterpiece of Sree Narayana Guru?
Ans: Atmopadesa Satakam

24.Who founded the Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha in 1908?
Ans: Poikayil Yohannan

25. Where is the headquarters of the Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha?  
Ans: Eraviperoor in Pathanamthitta

26. In 1959, which leader of Kerala was decorated with the sir name `Bharatha Kesari by the President of India?
Ans: Mannathu Padmanabhan

27. Who was the founder President of NSS?
Ans: K Kelappan

28. Who called Travancore king as Ananthapuri Neechan', Brahmins as ‘Karineechanmar' and condemned British people as ‘Venneechan'?
Ans: Vaikunda Swamikal

29. Which King of Travancore imprisoned Vaikunda Swamikal?
Ans: Swathi Thirunal

30. Which social reformer put forward the idea of the reign of ‘Dharma Yuga'?
Ans: Vaikunda Swamikal 

31. The followers of which social reformer are generally called ‘Ayya Vazhi Makkal’?
Ans: Vaikunda Swamikal

32. With regard to the entry into which temple, Congress held a limited referendum among the Hindus of Ponnani Pala in order to ascertain the views of the people?
Ans: Guruvayur Temple

33. Social reformer AG Velayudhan met with tragic death in police lathicharge while leading which temple entry agitation?
Ans: Paliyam Satyagraha

34. In which year the Channar women got the right to cover their upper body through Roya1Proclamation?
Ans: July26, 1859

35. In 1925, who was declared his successor by Sree Narayana Guru?
Ans: Bodhananda

36. In which year Acharya Vinoba Bhave met Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri Mutt?
Ans: 1925

37. Gandhiji, C Rajagopalachari, E. V Ramaswami Naicker and Mahadeva Desai met Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri Mutt in the year?
Ans: 1925

38. In which year was the Athmavidya Sangham founded?
Ans: 1917 

39. Which journal was known as the mouthpiece of Athmavidya Sangham? Ans: Abhinava Keralam

40. The Abhinava Keralam started publication in the year of?
Ans: 1921

41. The motto of which journal was 'Awake! Pray to the Lord of the Universe! Arise now itself, and oppose injustice’?
Ans: Abhinava Keralam