Q 01/05

Which legendary king's annual homecoming, granted by Vishnu's Vamana avatar, does Kerala celebrate at Onam?

A) Ravana

B) Dasharatha

C) Mahabali

D) Bharata

Answer · why

C) Mahabali

Mahabali granted the dwarf Vamana three steps of land, but Vamana grew vast, covered earth and heaven in two strides and took the third on Mahabali's ...

Q 02/05

Kerala Piravi marks the 1956 redrawing of India's states on what basis?

A) Language

B) Population

C) River basins

D) Old princely borders

Answer · why

A) Language

Language: Andhra was carved out in 1953 after Potti Sreeramulu died on hunger strike for a state for Telugu speakers.

Q 03/05

Which explorer died at Cochin on Christmas Eve 1524 and was first buried in the city's St Francis Church?

A) Vasco da Gama

B) Ferdinand Magellan

C) Pedro Álvares Cabral

D) Afonso de Albuquerque

Answer · why

A) Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama had come back to India as viceroy but caught malaria soon after landing, and his body was moved out of the church for reburial in 1539.

Q 04/05

Which apostle, by tradition, landed on the Kerala coast in 52 AD and founded the state's Syrian Christian community?

A) Philip

B) Andrew

C) Matthew

D) Thomas

Answer · why

D) Thomas

Thomas is said to have landed on the Malabar Coast, and tradition holds he was martyred at Mylapore on India's east coast, where San Thome Basilica st...

Q 05/05

Kerala was the first Indian state to run a government what, launched in 1967?

A) Liquor shops

B) Lottery

C) Bus service

D) Film studio

Answer · why

B) Lottery

Lottery money also pays medical bills: income from Kerala's Karunya draw funds treatment for poor patients with cancer, haemophilia, kidney and heart ...