1. Who gave the revolutionary message - No Caste, No Religion, No God for Man?

(a) Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai

(b) Ayya Vaikundar

(c) Sahodaran Ayyapan

(d) Mannathu Padmanabhan

Sahodaran Ayyapan is the right answer.
He founded the Vidhya Poshini Sabha. In 1917 he started the a movement for interdining and founded the ‘‘Sahodara sangham’’. "Sahodaran" was a paper started by Sahodaran Ayyappan.

2. Who is known as the Father of Kerala Renaissance?

(a) Pandit Karuppan

(b) Ramakrishna Pillai

(c) Narayana Guru

(d) Mannathu Padmanabhan

Narayana Guru is the right answer.
S.N.D.P Yogam was founded in 1903 and Guru became the life time President and Kumaranasan as Secretary. The Vavoottuyogam started at Aruvippuram is considered as the predecessor of S.N.D.P. Yogam. Guru founded the Sarada temple at Varkala in 1915 (1087 KE) and the Advaitasrama at Aluva on the banks of Periyar. ‘Atmopadesha Satakam’, ‘Nirvriti Panchakam’,‘Darsanamala’, ‘Jati meemamsa’ ,‘Ardhanareeswara Sthothram’ etc are the major works of Guru.

3. "Ente Nadukadathal" is the autobiography of

(a) Ayya Vaikundan

(b) Ayyankali

(c) Sri Narayana Guru

(d) Ramakrishna Pillai

Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is the right answer.
‘Karl Marx’, ‘‘Kerala Bhasholpathy’ ‘‘Benjamin Franklin’’ Mohandas Gandhi, ‘‘Socrates’, ‘‘Dharmaraja Nirupanam’ are his famous works.

4. K. Kelappan & A.K. Gopalan were famous leaders of?

(a) Channar Revolt

(b) Vaikkom Sathyagraha

(c) Guruvayur Sathyagraha

(d) Pattini Jatha

Guruvayur Sathyagraha is the right answer
Guruvayur Sathyagraha aimed to enable all sections of Hindus to enter temples. Sathyagraha was started on 1. November 1931. Temple Entry Proclamation was issued on November 12, 1936 by Sri Chitira Tirunal Balarama Varma. Gandhiji hailed it as “a miracle of modern times” and “a smriti which is the people’s charter of spiritual emancipation”.

5. Chattampi Swamikal was born in ?

(a) 1851

(b) 1852

(c) 1853

(d) 1854

1853 is the right answer.
Vaikunda Swami (1810 – 1851)
Ayyavu Swamikal (1814–1909)
Arattupuzha Velayudha panikkar (1825 - 1874)
Brahmananda Sivayogi (1852 – 1929)
Chattampi Swamikal (1853–1924)
Narayana Guru (1854–1928)
Ayyankali (1863–1941)
Mannathu Padmanabhan (1878 - 1970)
Vagbhatandan (1885 – 1939)
Pandit Karuppan (1885 – 1938)
T. K. Madhavan (1885—1930)
Sahodaran Ayyappan(1889 – 1968)
V. T.(1896-1982)

6. Who was the founder of Kerala Kaumudi?

(a) Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker

(b) Vallathol Narayana Menon

(c) C. V. Kunhiraman

(d) Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

C. V. Kunhiraman is the right answer.
An activist in the SNDP Yogam, he was elected its general secretary in 1928 and 1931. Valmiki Ramayanam, a prose rendering of the great epic, was his first work to come out in print, in 1901. It won him wide acclaim prompting him to write Vyasabharatam and Panchavadi. In 1911, C.V. launched Kerala Kaumudi as a weekly newspaper. He was the proprietor - editor, printer, publisher and even the proofreader. Started in 1911, in Mayyanad, it had grown over the years as one of the most influential dailies in Malayalam. He had the rare distinction in Malayalam journalism being the founder of Kerala Kaumudi and founder editor of Malayalarajyam.

7. Who founded International Pro-India Committee and based its headquarters in Zurich?

(a) Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker

(b) K. P. Kesava Menon

(c) Chempakaraman Pillai

(d) Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

Chempakaraman Pillai is the right answer.
Chempakaraman Pillai, alias Venkat, was an Indian-born political activist and revolutionary. Pillai lived in Germany for most of his active years, and died in Berlin in 1934. After the outbreak of the First World War, he founded the International Pro-India Committee and based its headquarters in Zurich, appointing himself president in September 1914.
During the same period an Indian Independence Committee was formed in Berlin by a group of Indian expatriates in Germany. This latter group was composed of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhupendranath Dutta, A. Raman Pillai, Taraknath Das, Maulavi Barkatullah, Chandrakant Chakravarty, M. Prabhakar, Birendra Sarkar, and Heramba Lal Gupta. In October 1914, Pillai moved to Berlin and joined the Berlin Committee, merging it with his International Pro-India Committee as the guiding and controlling institution for all pro-Indian revolutionary activities in Europe.

8. Who established the first English language newspaper in South India, the Madras Standard?

(a) Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker

(b) K. P. Kesava Menon

(c) Chempakaraman Pillai

(d) G. P. Pillai

G. P. Pillai is the right answer.
G. P. Pillai was the earliest leader of the INC from Kerala, and twice served as its General Secretary. He was well known as editor of the Madras Standard and as an activist for civil rights in Travancore State. A forceful writer and orator, he had wide contacts in Britain as well as India. Mahatma Gandhi acknowledged the help and guidance given to him by Pillai in the South African Indian issue and also in the temperance movement- a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

9. Who has the distinction of being the only Keralite to become the president of the INC during its long history spanning over a century?

(a) Sankaran Nair

(b) K. P. Kesava Menon

(c) Chempakaraman Pillai

(d) G. P. Pillai

Sankaran Nair is the right answer.

Sankaran Nair was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1897 held at Amraoti. Until present he is the only Keralite to hold the post.

10. Atmopadesa Satakam was written by

(a) Narayana Guru

(b) Chattampi Swamikal

(c) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

(d) Kumaranashan

Narayana Guru is the right answer.
Narayana's literary and philosophical masterpiece is claimed to be Atmopadesa Satakam (one hundred verses of self-instruction), written in Malayalam around 1897. In 1913, he founded the Advaita Ashram at Aluva, dedicating it to the principle of Om Sahodaryam Sarvatra (all men are equal in the eyes of God).

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