Welfare Officer Gr.II-Jail Exam GK Questions



1. Which of the following rivers is NOT originated from the Himalayas?
(A) The Sindhu                      (B) The Ganga
(C) The Brahmaputra            (D) The Krishna
Ans: D

2. The smallest neighbouring country of India is
(A) Nepal             (B) Bangladesh
(C) Bhutan                    (D) Myanmar
Ans: C

3. Where was the headquarters of Lakshadweep before Kavaratti?
(A) Kochi             (B) Kozhikode
(C) Andrott         (D) Bangaram
Ans: B

4. Who was the first martyr of the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Nana Saheb            (B) Rani Lakshmi Bhai
(C) Tantia Tope            (D) Mangal Pandey
Ans: D

5. Who named the association Indian National Congress?
(A) A.O. Hume             (B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) W.C. Banerjee         (D) Lord Dufferin
Ans: B


6. Who among the following persons is NOT a moderate leader of Indian National Congress?
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai                 (B) Pherozeshah Mehta
(C) Surendra Nath Banerjee (D) Dadabhai Naoroji
Ans: A

7. When did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre happen?
(A) April 30,1919         (B) 1919, April 13
(C) 1918, April 13         (D) 1919, December 28
Ans: B

8. As per the historic Lahore Congress of 1929, which date was observed as the Independence Day of our country?
(A) August 15               (B) August 8
(C) November 1            (D) January 26
Ans: D

9. 'Ezhimala', the headquarters of the Mushaka dynasty, is in which of the following districts today?
(A) Kozhikode     (B) Kannur
(C) Kasaragod     (D) Wayanad
Ans: B

10. Marthandavarma, the famous ruler of Travancore, defeated whom in the 'Battle of Colachel' in 1741?
(A) The Dutch     (B) The British
(C) The French   (D) The Portuguese
Ans: A


11. Which of the following social reformers called the British rule as 'White Devil Rule'?
(A) Ayyankali                (B) Sree Narayana Guru
(C) Thycaud Ayya          (D) Vykunda Swamikal
Ans: D

12. Who was the first harijan member of Sreemoolam Prajasabha?
(A) K.P. Karuppan       (B) P.K. Chathan Master
(C) Ayyankali                (D) Velukkutty Arayan
Ans: C

13. Who is known as the Jhansi Rani of Travancore?
(A) A.V. Kuttimalu Amma    (B) Lalithambika Antharjanam
(C) Arya Pallam                      (D) Akkamma Cheriyan
Ans: D

14. The Malayalam Poet, who called Sree Narayana Guru as 'Second Budha"
(A) G. Sankara Kurup                     (B) Kumaran Asan
(C) Ulloor S. Parameswara lyer      (D) Vallathol
Ans: A

15. The leader who is known as 'Kerala Gandhi'
(A) T.K. Madhavan                (B) K. Kelappan
(C) Mannath Padmanabhan  (D) C. Krishnan
Ans: B


16. Who won the Jnanpith Award in 2017?
 (A) Shankha Ghosh              (B) Krishna Sobti
(C) Raghuveer Choudhari      (D) Amarkant
Ans: B

17. I.P.L. (Indian Premier League), a Twenty-Twenty cricket league in India was founded by
(A) B.C.C.I.          (B) I.C.C.
(C) K.C.A.            (D) C.A.B.
Ans: A

18. Who won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor in 2016?
(A) Dulquer Salmaan   (B) Nivin Pauly
(C) Vinayakan               (D) Prithviraj
Ans: C

19. The present Chairman of ISRO is
(A) K. Sivan                            (B) G. Madhavan Nair
(C) A.S. Kirankumar              (D) K. Radhakrishnan
Ans: A

20. Who is the present Chairman of Rajya Sabha?
(A) Hamid Ansari         (B) Ghulam Nabi Azad
(C) Arun Jaitley            (D) Venkaiah Naidu
Ans: D

21. Name the founder of Brahma Samaj.
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy                         (B) Swami Dayananda Saraswathy
(C) Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa      (D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ans: A


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