Facts About Kerala PSC Questions

1. In which year was the Kerala Kalamandalam established?

Ans: 1930

2. Where is the National University of Advanced Legal Studies situated?  

Ans: Kochi 

3. In which year was the Kudumbasree programme inaugurated?

Ans: 1998

4. Mamankam was a festival of _____ days?

Ans: 28

5. Name the first Indian President to address the Kerala Legislative Assembly?

Ans: K R Narayanan

6. Who was the first Malayali to be appear in the postal stamp?

Ans: Sree Narayana Guru

7. Which place is known as the Mecca of Kerala?

Ans: Ponnani

8. Which is the only state capital in India that did not undergo foreign rule?

Ans: Trivandrum

9. Which is the first Eco Touris centre in India?

Ans: Thenmala

10. Which is the largest irrigation project in Kerala?

Ans: Kallada (Kollam)

11. The oldest Malayalam newspaper in Publication is?

Ans: Deepika

12. Which is the only District Kerala that did not has any reserve forest?  

Ans: Alappuzha

13. Athirappilly and Vazhachal waterfalls are situated on which river?  

Ans: Chalakkudi River

14. Which is the only district in Kerala that shares border with two states? Ans: Wayanad

15. Kerala was declared as the first total literate state of India on?

Ans: April 18, 1991  

16. The Sanskrit educational centre Kanthalloor Salai was on the banks of the river?

Ans: Killiyar

17. Which Malayalam film won the coveted British Film Institute Award for the most original and imaginative film in 1982?

Ans: Elippathayam 

18. Which art form of Kerala was ' recognised by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?

Ans: Koodiyattom

19. Which art form was later developed in to Kathakali?

Ans: Ramanattom 

20. What is known in the scientific name strobilanthes kunthiyana?

Ans: Neelakurinji

21. Which is the major soil type of Kerala?

Ans: Laterite Soil

22. Which is the highest peak in the Western Ghats?

Ans: Anamudi (2,695 M)

23. What is the major break in the Western Ghats?

Ans: Palakkad Gap

24. With only 16 KM length, which is the smallest river of, Kerala?

Ans: Manjeswaram River

25. In which year was the Kerala Agrarian Relations Bill passed?

Ans: October 15, 1960

26. Who set up the organisation COSTFORD for spreading awareness for low cost housing?

Ans: Laurie Baker 

27. Which political leader is the author of the works 'Njan orn puthiya lokam Kandu and Ente Poorvakala Smaranakal'?

Ans: A K Gopalan

28. In which year was the first Kerala ministry dismissed and President's rule imposed?

Ans: July 31, 1959

29. Who was the only Keralite to become the leader of opposition (recognised) in Indian Parliament?

Ans: C M Stephen

30. Who was the first Keralite to be nominated to Rajya sabha?

Ans: Sardar K M Panicker

31. What is the total number of Lok Sabha seats from Kerala?

Ans: Twenty

32. What is the number of Rajya Sabha members from Kerala?

Ans: Nine

33. The ministry of which state was dissolved by imposing Article 356 of the Constitution for the first time in India?

Ans: Kerala

34. The Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation was set up in?

Ans: 1974

35. Which housing minister of Kerala envisaged the idea of 'Laksham Veedu'?

Ans: M N Govindan Nair

36. Which dam of Kerala is situated between the Kuravanmala & Kurathimala?

Ans: Idukki Arch Dam

37. Which country aided the Idukki Arch Dam project with long term loans & grants?

Ans: Canada

38. In which script was the Malayalam language first written?

Ans: Vattezhuthu 

39. Which is the largest fresh water lake of Kerala?

Ans: Sasthamcotta (Kollam)

40. Which is the oldest river boat fiesta in Kerala?

Ans: Aranmula Boat Race

41. Which is the only known Namboothiri Kingdom of Kerala?  

Ans: Chempakasseri

42. The plain-woven textile exported from Kozhikode is popularly known as?

Ans: Calico

43. Brown's Plantation is famous for?

Ans: Cinnamon

44. In which district is the Chethalayam waterfalls?

Ans: Wayanad

45. The famous Soochippara waterfall is in ____district?

Ans: Wayanad

46. The centre of the Salt Sathyagraha in Kerala in the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930?

Ans: Payyanur

47. Nelliyampathy hills are situated in the district?

Ans: Palakkad

48. The National Highway running between Quilon and Madura'?

Ans: NH 208.

49. The river of Kerala in which large number of dams are constructed? 

Ans: Periyar

50. The river which is merging with Arabian Sea at Beypore?

Ans: Chaliyar