KPSC Previous Questions: General Awareness   (Jr Clerk -2017)

1. The United Nations (UN) has declared the year 2017 a,
     

            International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development

2. Name the weekly newspaper started by Gandhi in the year 1903
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         Indian Opinion

    Note : 

             Young India - from 1919 to 1931

             

              Harijan -1933 

              Navjivan -  from Sep 7,1919  to 1931 

3. Which of the work won odakkuzhal Award to S.Joseph 

          Chandranodoppam

4. Which malayalee poet was honoured by the British in 1922?

         Kumaranasan

5.Chudala muthu and his son Mohanan are characters in

         Thottiyude makan by Thakazhi

6.world's first oil paintings have been found in which country ?

          Afganisthan 

7. Who founded Samathwa samajam a reform movemnet for Nadar community  

        Ayya vaikunda swamikal

8. Lincoln of kerala - Pandit Karuppan

9. Which is the subject matter covered under Article 12 to 35 in the Indian           constitution ?

        Fundamental Rights 

10. Who invented Laser?

         Charles H Townes

11.Who won Nobel prize twice for same subject ?

       John Bardeen (physics) and Frederick Sanger in Chemistry

         Note : Marie Curie won the Nobel prize in 1903 for Physics and 1911 

                 in  Chemistry; Linus Pauling in 1954 (for Chemistry) and 1962 (for            Peace)