GENERAL KNOWLEDGE- Questions and Answers -103

2551. What is the importance of 1831 in the history of Travancore?

Answer: The first census was conducted in Travancore

2552. Who was known as the ‘Kerala Simham’?

Answer: Pazhassi Raja

2553. Who abolished slave trade in travancore in 1812?

Answer: Rani Lakshmi Bai

2554. Who shifted the capital from Padmanabhapuram to Thiruvananthapuram?

Answer: Rama Varma

2555. Who introduced a scheme for the development of Vizhinjam Port?

Answer: Dalava Ummini Thampi

2556. Who was popularly known as the ‘Jhansi of Travancore’?

Answer: Accamma Cheriyan

2557. During whose reign General Hospital Thiruvananthapuram was established (in 1864)?

Answer: Ayilyam Thirunal

2558. Who published the monthly ‘A1-Essam’?

Answer: Abdul Khader Maulavi

2559. Who founded Sahodara Samajam?

Answer: K. Ayyappan

2560. Who was elected as the first Chief Minister of Travancore?

Answer: Pattom Thanupillai

2561. When was the first railway line in Kerala opened for traffic?

Answer: On March 12, 1861  (Between Beypore and Tirur),

2562. Which is the first baby friendly state in India?

Answer: Kerala,

2563. Which is the 6th Medical College in Kerala?

Answer: Kannur Medical College (Started in 1995)

2564. Name the first Chief Minister of Kerala who completed one full term?

Answer: Achuta Menon (1970 to 1977),

2565. Who is the second Chief Minister of Kerala?

Answer: Pattom Thanupillai

2566. Who was the first Congress Chief Minister of Kerala?

Answer: R. Shankar

2567. Who was the first speaker of the Kerala Assembly?

Answer: R. Sankara Narayanan Thampy

2568. Name 5 corporations of Kerala?

Answer: Thrissur, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode & Cochin,

2569. Who is the single member ombudsman for Local Self Government in Kerala?

Answer: Justice K.P. Radhakrishnan Menon

2570. In Kerala Assembly, how many reservation seats are there for scheduled castes?

Answer: 13

2571. Which is the Kerala’s only export processing zone (EPZ)?

Answer: Kochi

2572. Name the first ship built in cochin shipyard?

Answer: Rani Padmini (Launched on January 27, 1980),

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