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Who was the first English President of the Indian National Congress - George Yule
Provincial Autonomy was one of the important features of - Government of India Act, 1935
Which day was declared as the 'Direct Action Day' by the Muslim League - 16 August, 1946
The Indian councils Act of 1909 is also known as - The Morley-Minto Reforms
Name the social reformer related to 'Muthira Kinar' - Ayya Vaikundar
Who authored 'Dhruvacharitham' - Pandit Karuppan
Who founded 'Balaprabodhini Sankrit Patasala' - C.Krishnan
Who was the exponent of Pacha Malayalam Movement - Kodungallur Kunhikkuttan Thampuran
At which place Sree Narayana Guru established Thiruppatheeswara temple - Mangalore
Mannath Padmanabhan delivered the famous Muthukulam Speech in which year - 1947
The women who bravely faced police during the Malabar revolt - Kammath Chinnamma
Who founded English School at Mattancheri in 1818 - J.Dawson
Author of the book 'Chorayum Kanneerum Nananja Vazhikal' - K.Devayani
Who authored '1114-nte katha' - Akkamma Cheriyan
Under whose leadership Kochi Rajya Prajamandalam was formed in 1941 - V.R.Krishnanezhuthachan
Who was the main leader of salt satyagraha in Kerala, which was organised as a part of Civil Disobedience movement - K.Kelappan
Kayyur strike was in - 1941
The year in which Sree Narayana Guru gave the message 'One caste, one religion, one god for man' at a conference held at 'Adwaithasramam' - Aluva-1924
Who was appointed in 1934 to examine the matter of appointment to Government Services in Travancore - G.D.Knox
Who was the first secretary of the SNDP Yogam, formed in 1903 - Kumaranasan
In which year Rabindranath Tagore visited Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri - 1922
Who wrote a book on 'Karl Marx' in 1912 - K.Ramakrishna Pillai
Who wrote 'Dhyanasallapangal' - Kuriakose Elias Chavara
Who wrote the book 'Purushanmar Illatha Lokam' - K.Saraswati Amma
'Purogamana Sahitya Prathanam' was formed in - 1981
Who led 'Achippudava samaram' - Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker
Who submitted counter petition against Malayali Memorial - E.Ramayyar
Who was the General Secretary of Travancore Defence Committee - M.M.Cheriyan
Based on whose life, the drama 'Thozhil Kendrathilekk' was written - Kavumkod Bhargavi
In which year Gandhiji and Ayyankali met - 1937
In which year Jnanodayam Sabha was founded - 1906
Who authored 'Vichara Viplavam' - Kuttippuzha Krishna Pillai
Who launched the publication Sadhujana Doothan - Pambadi John Joseph
Who was known as the 'Martin Luther of Kerala' - Abraham Malpan
Where did Benjamin Bailey established printing press - Kottayam
The social reformer who met Gandhiji at Neyyattinkara - Poikayil Yohannan
Vaikunda Swami proclaimed himself as an incarnation of which deity - Mahavishnu
Who established the first English School at Southern Travancore - William T.Ringle Taube
Who wrote the book 'Benjamin Franklin' in Malayalam - K.Ramakrishna Pillai
Who founded Maha Bodhi Mission at Kozhikode - C.Krishnan
Who started a branch of Theosophical Society at Kozhikode - Mancheri Ramayyar
Who took initiative to establish Antharjana Samajam at Chettupuzha - Parvathy Nenmenimanglam
Who was known as the first martyr of Kerala renaissance - Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker
Who was the founder President of Mahila Deshasevika Sangham established at Kozhikode - Margaret Pavamani
The novel by Kesavdev based on the background of partition of India - Bhranthalayam
Who led 'Mukkuthi Agitation' - Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker
Who was known as 'Kali' in childhood - Ayyankali
Who translated Rbaiyat by Omar Khayyan into malayalam with the title 'Vilasalahari' - G.Sankarakurup
Which scheme is an initiative of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan to prepare physical health and fitness profile card for students - Swasth Bachche, Swasth Bharat
Which scheme was launched to the care facilities for pregnant women, especially the poor - Pradhan Manthri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA)
In which year was the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan launched - 2016
Which scheme of the Central Government is known as 'Saubhagya' - Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
In which year was the Saubhagya Yojana launched - 2017 (September 25)
Which scheme is aimed at providing electricity to all households in India by December 2018 - Saubhyagya Scheme
Which scheme aims to esure 24*7 power for all - Integrated Power Development Scheme
In which year was the Integrated Power Development scheme launched - 2015 (Septembet 18)
Which scheme of the India governement is also known as 'Prakash Path (Way to Light)' - National LED Programme
In which year was the National LED Programme launched - 2015 (January 5)
Which scheme was launched to obtain operational and financial turn around of State owned Power distribution Companies (DISCOMs) - UDAY (UJWAL Discom Assurance Yojana)
In which year was the UDAY scheme launched - 2015 (November 20)
Which scheme aims to distribute free LPG connections to the women belonging to 5 crore BPLfamilies across the country - Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
In which year was the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana launched - 2016 (May 1)
Which scheme aims to provide subsidy to farmers for setting up of solar power plants on their barren land - KUSUM Scheme (Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan)
Which scheme is aiming to manage and convert cattle dung and solid wastes in farms to compost, bio-gas and bio CNG - GOBAR-DHAN (Galvanizing Organic Bio Agro Resources Dhan)
What is the aim of Central Government's NABH Nariman Scheme - Growth in passenger traffic of Civil aviation
Which scheme was introduced to connect 56 unserved airports and 31 unserved helpads across the country - UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik)
Which scheme was introduced to develop world class tourism infrastructure - Swadesh Darshan Yojana
In which year was the Swadesh Darshan Yojana launched - 2015 (March 9)
As part of which scheme is theme based tourism circuits identified for infrastructure development - Swadesh Darshan Yojana
Which scheme aims to develop world class tourism infrastructure in spirtitual centres - PRASAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive)
Which scheme was inaugurated by the President of India on the World Tourism Day (September 27), 2017 - Adopt a Heritage Scheme
In which year was the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' Yojana launched - 2015 (January 22)
Which scheme was launched to consolidate information of Labour Inspection and its enforcement through a unified web portal - Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shramev Jayate Yojana (PDUSJY)
In which year was the PDUSJY launched - 2014 (October 16)
Which scheme was launched to identiy sporting talent among students in the age group 8 - 12 years - National Sports Talent Search Scheme (NSTSS)
In which year was the National Sports Talent Search Scheme launched - 2015 (Februrary 20)
Which scheme has been acknowledged as the world's largest cash transfer program (households) by the Guinness Book of World Records - PAHAL Scheme (Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh)
The objective of which scheme is to send the subsidy money of LPG cylinders directly into the bank accounts of the consumers - PAHAL
In which year was the PAHAL Scheme extended nationwide - 2015 (January 1)
Which scheme was launched to safeguard health, environment and economic conditions of the tribal people affected by mining related issues - Pradhan mantri Khanij Kshetra kalyan Yojana - (PMKKKY)
In which year was the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana launched - 2015 (September 17)
Which scheme was launched with the objective to free all national highways form railway level crossings and renovate the old bridges on national highways by 2019 - Setu Bharatam Project
In which year was the Setu Bharatam Project launched - 2016 (March 3)
Which scheme was introduced for providing unemployment allowance to workers rendered jobless due to the changing employment pattern - Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana
Which scheme was launched to ensure the conservation of high Himalayan ecosystem - Secure Himalaya
In which year was the Secure Himalaya project launched - 2017 (October 2)
In which year was the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) introduced - 1993 (December 23)
Which programme was aimed to provide useful and relevant elementary education for all children in the 6-14 age group - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
In which year was the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan scheme launched - 2001
In which year the Right to Education Act came into force - 2010 (April 1)
Which programme was popularly called 'Mid-Day Meal Scheme' - The National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NPNSPE)
In whcih year was the Mid-Day Meal Scheme formally launched -1995 (August 15)
Which programme was launched in March 2009 for improving the quality of secondary education in the country - Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
What is the popular name of the Rajeev Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls - SABLA
First cyber police station in India started at - Bengaluru
World computer literacy day - December 2
A 'Menu' contains a list of - Commands
Unsolicited commercial email is commonly known as - Spam
Creation of email messages with a forged sender address - email spoofing
Sending of massive volumes of email to a specific e-mail address for abuses is called - email Bombing
Full form of ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
First fully Wi-Fi enabled municipality in India - Malappuram
Who developed LISP language - John McCarthy
Graphical representation of a computer program - Flow Chart
The first known use of the word "computer" was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer - Richard Braithwaite
Author of the book 'Passage from the Life of a Philosopher' - Charles Babbage
Who invented the first mechanical calculator - Balise Pascal
Who invented Jacquard Loom - Joseph Marie Jacquard
Father of Computer Science - Alan Turing
World's first computer programmer - Ada Lovelace
Who invented 'Analytical Engine' - Charles Babbage
Who wrote the book 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' - Alan Turing
First electronic Computer - ENIAC
First Wi-Fi enabled train in India - Rajadhani Express
India passed the IT Act 2000 and notified it for effectiveness on - 2000 October 17
Loosely organized groups of Internet criminals are called as - Web gangs
_____ is the practice and study of Hiding Information - Cryptography
Feeling guilty or defensive about our internet use is symptom of - Cyber addiction
Making distributing and selling the software copies those are fake, known as - Counterfeiting
Which memory is known as 'work area of a computer' - RAM
Storage capacity of a Floppy Disk - 1.44 MB
Who discovered CD ROM - James T Russel
A Computer program that is used to convert an assembly language to machine language is - Assembler
Data going into the computer is called - Input Data
Obtaining credit cards and loans in someone else's name or someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data - Identity theft
Where was India's first computer installed - Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta)
The default font available in MS WORD is - Times New Roman
Unauthorized access of a computer system and networks - Hacking
The social network Facebook was founded by - Mark Zuckerberg
The brain of any computer system is - CPU
Which was the first search engine in the Internet - Archie
The programs which are as permanent as hardware and stored in ROM is known as - Firmware
Which virus is treated as the first computer virus - Creeper virus
The number of functional keys in a keyboard - 12
India's first banking Robot - Lakshmi
ASCII stands for - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
In IT Act 2000, which section deals with the punishment of cyber terrorism - 66 (F)
First High Level Language - FORTRAN
Second High Level language - LISP
Which technology is used in Compact disks - Laser
The Indian President who gave assent to Information Technology Act 2000 - K.R.Narayanan
The first Cyber Police Station in Kerala was inaugurated in - 2009
India's first Cyber dome is established at - Thiruvananthapuram
In IT Act, Chapter 3 related to - Electronic governance
Paintbrush belong to - Application-group
Cyber Laws are included in - Residuary Powers
A digital signature is an - Encrypted information
Laptop was developed by - Adam Osborne
A website's main page is called - Home page
The inventor of www (world wide web) -Tim Berner's Lee
Server on internet is also known as - Host
Computer Mouse was invented by - Douglas Engelbart
Baidu is a most popular Search engine in - China
HTML is considered as a - Markup language
A computer on internet is identified by - IP address
Free of cost repair of software bug available in internet is called - Patch
____ is the process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program - Debugging
Full form of SMPS - Switched-mode power supply
A combination of Hardware and Software - Firmware
A device which converts human-readable data into machine language is - Character reader
MICR stands for - Magnetic Ink Character Reader
ENIAC was a research that was sponsored by - U.S military
The disk's surface is divided into a number of invisible concentric circles called - Tracks
COBOL is an acronym for ____ - Common Business Oriented Language
A mechanism for arranging controlled access to a shared resource is - Lock-out
VLSI stands for - Very Large Scale Integration
Which output device is known as Soft Copy Output device - Monitor
A ___ is a group of computers and network devices connected together, usually within the same building - LAN (local area network)
The network of Networks - Internet
___ is a type of cybercrime in which data is altered as it is entered into a computer system - Data diddling
How many Toggle keys are there in a keyboard - Three
The authority to specify as to which castes shall be deemed to be Scheduled Castes rests with the - President
Which article is related to "Equal Justice and free legal aid - Article 39 A
Which article is related to Special Address by the President - Article 87
The Supreme Court Judge must have been a High Court Judge for at least a period of - Five years
Which amendment seeks to extend reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Anglo-Indian up to 2020 - The Ninety-fifth Amendment
The Indian Constitution does not clearly provide for the freedom of press, but this freedom is implicit in Article - Article 19(1) (a)
The Inter-State Council, a non-permanent constitutional body set up by a presidential order on the basis of provisions in Article 263 of the Constitution of India in - 1990
Which Indian artist decorated the handwritten copy of the Constitution - Nandalal Bose
In which Constitutional Amendment Act seats of Lok Sabha were increased from 525 to 545 - 31st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1973
How are legislative excesses of Parliament and State Assemblies checked - Judicial review
Which functionary can be invited to give his opinion in the Parliament - Attorney-General of India
In which House of the Parliament, the Presiding Officer is not a member of the House - Rajya Sabha
The Speaker's vote in the Lok Sabha is called - Casting Vote
The first mid-term elections for Lok Sabha were held in which year - 1971
Which type of authority is attributed to the President of India - Constitutional and nominal
Which Article of the Constitution permits the Supreme Court to review its own judgement or order - Article 137
Who has the right to transfer any case anywhere in India - Supreme Court
Who is the final authority to interpret the Constitution - The Supreme Court
Under which Article of the Indian Constitution can the President be impeached - Article 61
What is the minimum strength of the Legislative Assemblies of India prescribed by the Constitution - 60
Any political party in India can be recognized as a national party if it has state party status in - Four States
How many states in India have two houses, namely Legislative Assembly and Legislative council - Seven
The ordinance of Governor has to be passed by the Assembly within how many months - 6 weeks
Money Bill can be introduced in the State Legislature with the prior consent of - Governor
Who remains in office as long as the President of India wishes - Governor
The ordinance issued by the Governor are subject to approval by which body - State Legislature
The total number of members of the Legislative Council can in no case be less than how many members - 40
U.C.Banerjee Commission was constituted to probe - Godhra incident
In which year was Mandal Commission Report implemented - 1990
Who is the author of the book 'A Foreign Policy of India' - I.K.Gujral
Which State can nominate two women members of the Legislative Assembly - Jammu and Kashmir
The legislative council of a state can be created or abolished by the - Parliament on recommendation of concerned state legislative assembly
Which is the Upper Chamber of State Legislature in India - Legislative Council
What is the period for the Legislative Council to detain the ordinary bills - 3 months
The procedure for creation o Legislative Council in States has been described in which article of the Constitution - Article 169
Who is authorised to transfer the judges of one High /court to another High Court - President
A High Court Judge addresses his letter of resignation to - President
Which High Court has the largest number of benches - Guwahati High Court
Which High Court has the Territorial Jurisdiction over Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Calcutta High Court
To which State the Special Marriage Act, 1954 does not apply - Jammu and Kashmir
What does the 74th Amendment Act, 1993 of the Constitution mentions - The Municipalities
When was the Panchayat Raj System introduced in India - October 2, 1959
A committee appointed in 1977 to review working of the Panchayat Raj was chaired by - Ashok Mehta
The constitutional status has been given to Panchayat under Article - Article 243
The power, authority and responsibilities of municipalities are listed in which schedules of the Constitution of India - 12th schedule
The Panchayati Raj system was first started in India in the states of Rajasthan. What is Second state - Andhra Pradesh
The Panchayati Raj institution at the block level is known by which name - Panchayat Samiti
What is the middle unit in the three-tier Panchayati Raj System - Panchayat Samiti
Public Health and Sanitation ti included in the Constitution of India in which list - State list
Which Schedule of the Indian Constitution prescribes distribution of seats in Rajya Sabha - Fourth Schedule
Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act was enacted in Indian Constitution in which year - 2003
the Election Commission was converted into 'Three Members Commission' in which year - 1990
The 42nd Amendment Act (1976) has incorporated into the Constitution of India a new chapter on which matter - Fundamental Duties
Which was the most controversial Amendment passed during the emergency - 42nd Amendment
The method of Constitutional Amendment is provided in which article - Article 368
Under the Preventive Detention a person can be detained without trial for how many months - Three months
In which General Election did the Congress Party lost majority in the Parliament for the first time - 1977
Which is the only State in India to have the Common Civil Code - Goa
As per Article 100(3), the quorum to constitute a meeting of either House of Parliament is - One-tenth of the total number of members of that House
The Secretary-General of Lok Sabha, who is the Chief of its Secretariat, is appointed by the - Speaker
The proclamation of Emergency under Article 352 was made by the President for the first time in - 1962
The Government of India Act, 1935, envisaged the introduction of - Federal form of Government
The system of Proportional Representation is used in the election of the - President
Which authority should an Indian citizen approach for securing his fundamental right of personal freedom guaranteed by the Constitution - The Supreme Court or a High Court
The first Official Language Commission, as required under Article 344 of the constitution, was constituted by the President in - 1955
Under which article, the Supreme Court has been given the powers to review any judgement pronounced or order made by it previously - Article 137
Who can recommend abolition or creation of the Legislative Council in a State - Legislative Assembly of the State
Which Constitutional Amendment introduced the anti-defection provisions in the Constitution -52nd Amendment
Who appoints "Ad hoc" judges of the Supreme Court - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with permission of President
Rajya Sabha can delay the Finance Bill sent for its consideration by the Lok Sabha for a maximum period of - 14 days
Dapsone immunotherapy is related to - Leprosy
Which rays are mainly used to find out invisible hand-writings, forged documents and fingerprints - Ultraviolet rays
Which chemical is used for the preservation of foods - Sodium Benzoate
For the treatment of which gland disease is radioactive iodine used - Thyroid
Which carbon compound is used as a fire-extinguisher - Carbon Tetrachloride
How many vertebrate does a human being have - 33
Fibula is the bone of which organ of the body - Leg (beneath the knee)
A tablet of which vitamin should be advised to be used after purification of water by iodine as a disinfectant - Vitamin C
A genetic code specifies how many kinds of amino acids - 20
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