(a) National Rural Livelihood Mission
(b) Integrated Rural Development Programme
(c) National Rural Health Mission (d) Swavalamban Scheme
Ans: a
2. Which agency selects Gram Panchayats to award the Nirmal Gram Puraskar?
(a) State Governments
(b) Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation
(c) Ministry of Rural Development (d) Ministry of Health
Ans: a
3. Which is the pension scheme to the unorganised sector in India?
(a) PMGSY (b) IRDP (c) PMGY (d) Swavalamban Scheme
Ans: d
4. The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls is popularly known as;
(a) Swavalamban Scheme (b) Sabala
(c) Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (d) Balika Samridli Yojana
Ans: b
5. In which year was the Hortus Malabaricu’s first volume published;
Ans: 1678
6. Which king is considered to have established the Kollam Era?
Ans: Udaya Marthanda Varma
7. Which Arab traveler visited Calicut six times?
Ans: IbnBatuta
8. Which Europeans built the St. Angelo Fort
Ans: Portuguese
9. Which Chera Emperor is mentioned in Adi Sankara's 'Sivanandalahari’?
Ans: Rajashekhara Varma
10. Which one of the following type of glasses can cut off ultraviolet rays?
(a) Crookes Glass (b) Burners Glass
(c) Lime Glass (d) Pyrex Glass
Ans: a
11. Which among the following non-metals is a good conductor of electricity?
(a) Phosphorus (b) Sulphur (c) Bromine (d) Selenium
Ans: d
12. Combination of two light nuclei to form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy is known as;
(a) Nuclear fission (b) Ionisation
(c) Nuclear fusion (d) Half life
Ans: c
13. Which of the following lights are strongly absorbed by plants?
(a) Red & Blue (b) Violet & Green
(c) Yellow & Orange (d) Indigo & Green
Ans: a
14. Which acid dissolves sand?
(a) Sulphuric Acid (b) Hydrochloric Acid
(c) Nitric Acid (d) Hydrofluoric Acid
Ans: d
15. The Constituent Assembly was set up under;
(a) Cripps Mission Plan (b) Cabinet Mission Plan
(c) Mountbatten Plan (d) Simon Commission Plan
Ans: b
16. How many times the Preamble of the Constitution has been amended so far?
Ans: Once
17. The disputes regarding the election of Vice-President is decided by;
(a) Election Commission (b) The President
(c) Supreme Court (d) Parliament
Ans: c
18. The creation of new Al India Services is the exclusive power of;
(a) Rajya Sabha (b) Lok Sabha
(c) The President (d) The Vice President
Ans: a
19. The Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was passed in the year;
Ans: 1975
20. On the banks of which river was the city of Vijayanagar located?
Ans: Thungabhadra
21. Which Bahraini ruler earned the title of 'Friend of the Poor'?
(a) Muhammed Adil Shah (b) Ibrahim Adil Shah II
(c) Mahmud Gawan (d) Ghazni Khan
Ans: b
22. Which ruler set up the famous Chain of Justice?
Ans: Jahangir
23. In which year was the Battle of Karnal?
Ans: 1739
24. How many times Vasco da Gama visited India?
Ans: Thrice
25. Who gave the slogan of 'Jai Hind’?
Ans: Subhash Chandra Bose
26. Who presided over the Madras Session of Congress in 1927, which decided to boycott the Simon Commission?
Ans: Dr. Ansari
27. In which year Subhash Chandra Bose founded the Forward Block?
Ans: 1939
28. Who was the Viceroy of India when the Quit India Movement started?
Ans: Linlithgow
29. Where was the All India Muslim League founded in 1906?
Ans: Dhaka
30. Which is the first country to decipher the genetic code of all its citizens?
Ans: Iceland
31. Likud party is a major political party of?
Ans: Israel
32. Which celestial body is the target of NASA's DAWN mission?
Ans: Ceres
33. Which is the new capital of Andhra Pradesh?
Ans: Amaravathi
34. Who is the winner of the Saraswathy Samman 2014?
Ans: Veerappa Moily
35. The Kerala Agricultural Workers Act was passed in the year?
Ans: 1974
36. Who founded Ezhava Mahasabha?
Ans: Dr. Palpu
37. Whose slogan was 'One caste, One religion, One clan, One world & One God'?
Ans: Vaikunda Swamikal
38. Who started the magazine 'Yukthivadi' in 1928?
Ans: Sahodaran Ayyappan
39. Who was the author of 'Shakunthalam Vanchipattu'?
Ans: Pandit Karuppan
40. Which river forms meanders in the Kashmir Valley?
Ans: Jhelum
