1. The first actress to become Chief Minister of an Indian state:
V .N. Janaki Ramachandran
2. The first woman to conquer Mount Everest :
Junko Tabei
3. The number of basic ragas in Carnatic music :
72
4. Where is Air Force Academy located :
Hyderabad
5. Where is the factory of Travancore Titanium:
Thiruvananthapuram
6. Who designed the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai:
George Wittet
7. Who is regarded as the father of Indian National Movement:
Surendranath Banerjee
8. Who is regarded as the father of Modern Mysore :
M.Visvesvaraih
9. Whose death anniversary is observed as anti-terrorism day :
Rajiv Gandhi
10. The Governor General who appointed the first Law Commission:
Lord William Bentinck
11. The Governor General who visited Allahabad to assess the Mahalvari Revenue system :
William Bentinck
12. The largest Indo-Aryan language :
Hindi
13. The organization which supervise Indian Telecommunication:
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
14. The Viceroy when the Indian Council Act came into being:
Lord Canning
15. Tulasidas composed ‘Ramcharitmanas’ at the banks of:
Varanasi
16. Which country is known as the Land of Geysers :
Iceland
17. Who was the Viceroy when Lala Lajpat Rai passed away on sustaining an injury in police lathicharge :
Lord Irwin
18. William Barton Yeasts who wrote the foreword to Rabindranath Tagore’s English version of Gitanjali belonged to :
Ireland
19. The Governor General who introduced the Press Act of 1799:
Lord Wellesley
20. The second Indian to confer with the World Food Prize :
Dr. Varghese Kurien
21. Mary Robinson is the first woman President of which country:
Ireland
22. Who passed the proposal for Non-Cooperation in the Congress session held in 1920 :
C.R. Das
23. Who is the oldest American President :
Donald Trump
24. ‘Malayalee’ the political magazine was launched by :
C.Krishna Pillai
25. Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal in memory of :
Mumtaz Mahal
26. Average weight in grams of the brain of an adult man :
between 1300 and 1400
27. Court poet of Muhammad Ghazni :
Firdausi
28. From where Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March :
Ahmedabad
29. Full form of SMS :
Short Message Service
30. Headquarters of African Union :
Addis Ababa
31. In which year Mumtaz Mahal passed away :
1631
32. Naval Academy in Kannur is at :
Ezhimala
33. The only South Asian country which is a member of G 20 :
India
34. Irom Chanu Sharmila is a native of :
Manipur
35. Hero of the novel Indulekha :
Madhavan
36. Queen of the mountain ranges of south India :
Ooty
37. Nenthran and aeththan are species of :
Plantain
38. Russia supplied the Submarine Nerpa to India. Now it is known as :
INS Chakra
39. Name the Malayalee who represented Lok Sabha from North Mumbai in 1957:
V.K. Krishna Menon
40. Sergei Bubka the sports legend in the pole vault is a native of:
Ukraine
41. Who was known as ‘Amarajeevi’’:
Potti Sriramulu
42. When Rabindranath Tagore visited Kerala, Kumaranasan composed ‘’Divyakokilam’’ which was recited by :
C. Keasvan
43. The first floating ATM in the world was designed by :
SBI
44. World Development Report is annually published by the:
World Bank
45. Place in Kerala mentioned in ‘’Mushaka Vamsam’’ :
Kolathunadu
46. The animal which never gets hurt even if moves through sharp blade:
Snail
47. The country which launched India’s Aryabhatta to outer space:
U.S.S.R. (former)
48. The first Marxist country in Africa :
Guinea
49. The first person to confer the post of Honorary Group captain of Indian Air Force:
Sachin Tendulkar
50. The first women President in Africa :
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
51. The hot wind that blows from Africa and reaches Europe via Mediterranean :
Sirocco
52. The Indian state surrounded by neighbouring countries in three sides :
Tripura
53. The most famous Lodi Sultan :
Sikander Lodi
54. The youngest Lok Sabha Speaker :
G.M.C. Balayogi
55. The Viceroy who shifted the capital from Kolkata to Delhi:
Lord Hardinge II
56. The Viceroy who through Factory Act prevented child labour in 1881 :
Lord Ripon
57. When Archeological Survey of India was formed the Viceroy was :
Lord Curzon
58. Which gas the least density:
Hydrogen
59. Which Sikh ruler who covered the tower of Amritsar temple with gold :
Raja Ranjit Singh
60. Who called Mannathu Padmanbhan “Madan Mohan Malavya of Kerala” :
Sardar K. M. Panicker
61. Who is called the ‘’Milkman of India’’ :
Dr. Varghese Kurien
62. Who ruled England when Parliament was formed :
Henry I
63. With the difference of opinion with the Congress leadership, which leader with Motilal Nehru formed Swaraj Party on 1st January 1923:
C.R. Das
64. In which year Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham became Pulaya Maha Sabha :
1938
65. India’s first railway factory established in Kolkata in 1950 is named after :
C.R. Das
66. Internet Security Day :
February 6
67. What is called the savior of personal freedom :
Habeas Corpus
68. What is produced through Mond Process:
Nickel
69. Which organ is affected by Eczema :
Skin
70. Who was known as the Socrates of Maharashtra :
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
71. The largest lake in Africa :
Victoria
72. The Indian State where the largest quantity of diamond is mined :
Madhya Pradesh
73. The first Roman Catholic who became the President of America: John F. Kennedy
74. ‘Deccan ulcer’ which destroyed Aurangzeb :
Marathas
75. “Emergency is the new era of discipline” who said this:
Vinobha Bhave
76. Aim of ‘Antyodaya’ Project:
Upliftment of the poorest of the poor
77. Which country is called the ‘’Switzerland of Central Asia’’:
Kyrgyzstan
78. Which country is known as the ‘’Land of Letter Box companies’’:
Lichtenstein
79. Which incident is also known as ‘’Thonnooramand Lahala’’ in Travancore history :
Ooruttambalam revolt
80. While in prison Nelson Mandela was given the number :
46664
81. The first Indian State to permits the use of laptop and I - pad in the Assembly:
Kerala
82. Brihadeswara Temple is in :
Tanjavur
83. Barthruhari caves are in :
Ujjain
84. When Prince of Wales visited India in 1921, the Viceroy was :
Lord Reading
85. Dead language included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution:
Sanskrit
86. Founder of Akhila Thiruvithamkur Muslim Mahajana Sabha :
Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
87. Who hailed Kumaranasan as ''Viplavathinte Kavi’’ :
Thayat Sankaran
88. Childhood name of Ayya Vaikundar :
Muthukutti
89. The capital of Bahamas:
Nassau
90. The culprit of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack who was sentenced to death :
Ajmal Kazab
91. America became free on :
4 July 1776
92. Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi was first published in :
Navjeevan
93. Gulbarga was renamed by Alauddin Bahaman Shah as:
Ahsanabad
94. In which year Vietnam War was ended :
1973
95. In which year William Hawkins reached the Court of Jahangir:
1608
96. Krishnadevaraya was born in which dynasty of Vijayanagara :
Tuluva
97. Main port at Karnataka :
Mangalore
98. ‘’Mission of Life Museum’ is established in the honor of:
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
99. Muloor Memorial in at :
Elavumthitta
100. Oil seeps through wicks because of :
Capillary action
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