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Chapter 1: Humanism

Question: Who was the scientific philosopher who stated, "To neglect knowledge is to neglect virtue..."?
Answer: Roger Bacon, who lived in England in the 13th century.

Question: What are the two most important civilisations that existed in ancient Europe, also known as classical civilisations?
Answer: Greek and Roman civilisations.

Question: What is the meaning of the word "Renaissance"?
Answer: "Rebirth".

Question: Around which century did the revival of ancient Greco-Roman culture (Renaissance) begin?
Answer: Around the 14th century.

Question: What epidemic ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351?
Answer: The Black Death.

Question: Which ancient Greek philosopher's ideas were disseminated throughout Europe by the Arabs?
Answer: Aristotle.

Question: Which Italian city was the centre of the Renaissance in Italy?
Answer: Florence.

Question: Who painted the world-renowned 'The Last Supper' and 'Mona Lisa'?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.

Question: Who authored the political work, The Prince?
Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli.

Question: Who established the first printing press in Europe (made of metal and movable type)?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg.

Question: In which year did Martin Luther paste his 'Ninety-Five Theses', marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: 1517.

Question: What organization, set up by Ignatius Loyola, played a prominent part in the Counter Reformation?
Answer: 'The Society of Jesus'.

Chapter 2: Liberty Equality Fraternity

Question: What was the name of the tax (one-tenth of the total produce) levied by the clergy on common peasants in France?
Answer: The tithe.

Question: On what date did the members of the Third Estate declare themselves the French National Assembly?
Answer: June 17, 1789.

Question: The event where the representatives of the Third Estate vowed not to leave until a constitution was drafted (on June 20) is known as what?
Answer: The Tennis Court Oath.

Question: What was the symbol of Bourbon despotism that the crowd stormed on July 14, 1789?
Answer: The Bastille.

Question: What was the name of the paper currency issued in France in 1789 to stabilize the economy and pay off national debt?
Answer: The Assignat.

Question: The system of government consisting of five members that ruled France after the end of the Reign of Terror (1795) was called what?
Answer: The Directory.

Question: Who seized power by overthrowing the Directory and later declared himself the Emperor of France?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte.

Question: What was the name of the legal reforms implemented by Napoleon that abolished feudal laws and recognized equality and religious freedom?
Answer: Napoleonic Code.

Question: In which year did Napoleon face his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: 1815.

Chapter 3: Social Analysis: Through Sociological Imagination

Question: What term refers to the direct understanding individuals acquire about the world through personal experiences, social interactions, and cultural knowledge?
Answer: Commonsense Knowledge.

Question: Who introduced the concept of sociological imagination in his book The Sociological Imagination (1959)?
Answer: Charles Wright Mills.

Question: What is the scientific study of society?
Answer: Sociology.

Question: Which is the framework of rules established by society to stabilize and regulate social relations?
Answer: Social institutions.

Question: Which sociologist studied the social causes behind suicide in his book Suicide (1897)?
Answer: Emile Durkheim.

Question: What is the skill to critically evaluate one’s own thoughts and actions?
Answer: Self-reflexivity.

Chapter 4: Wealth and the World

Question: Which Portuguese sailor reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
Answer: Bartolomeu Dias.

Question: In which year did Vasco da Gama reach the shores of Kappad in Kozhikode, India?
Answer: 1498.

Question: Which Italian navigator, with Spanish financial aid, reached the Bahamas Islands in 1492?
Answer: Christopher Columbus.

Question: Which explorer completed the first circumnavigation of the globe through the oceans?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan.

Question: What is the name of the trade system developed by Europeans linking Europe, Africa (via slave trade), and the Americas?
Answer: Triangular Trade.

Question: What is the economic policy where nations aimed to accumulate wealth, primarily gold and silver, through trade?
Answer: Mercantilism.

Question: The profound changes in the production process between 1780 and 1850 are referred to as what?
Answer: The Industrial Revolution.

Question: In which industry did the Industrial Revolution primarily begin?
Answer: The textile industry.

Question: What is the practice by which a country establishes and maintains political, economic, and social control over regions beyond its own borders?
Answer: Imperialism.

Question: In which year did the First World War begin and end?
Answer: Lasted from 1914 to 1918.

Question: Which international organization was established on January 10, 1920, to restore global peace and security after WWI?
Answer: The League of Nations.

Question: What is the system where the state exerts complete control over all aspects of life, disregarding individual privacy and civil rights?
Answer: Totalitarianism.

Question: Who was the founder of Fascism in Italy?
Answer: Benito Mussolini.

Question: Who led Nazism in Germany?
Answer: Adolf Hitler.

Question: What was the ideological confrontation between capitalist countries (led by the USA) and socialist countries (led by the Soviet Union) after WWII?
Answer: The Cold War.

Question: When was the United Nations Organization established?
Answer: October 24, 1945.

Chapter 5: Public Opinion in Democracy

Question: What is the general opinion of the people about the issues affecting them?
Answer: Public opinion.

Question: What is the ability to find information from the digital world and evaluate it efficiently using digital equipment and technology?
Answer: Digital literacy.

Question: Which law was passed by the Parliament in 1985 through the 52nd Constitutional Amendment to prevent defection?
Answer: The Anti-Defection Law.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE I (Part 2)

Chapter 6: Mass Movement for Freedom

Question: Where did Mahatma Gandhi's 'Great Trial' take place on March 18, 1922?
Answer: Government Circuit House at Ahmedabad.

Question: In which year did Gandhiji intervene in the issues faced by indigo cultivators in Champaran district, Bihar?
Answer: 1917.

Question: Which repressive law, implemented in 1919, allowed anyone to be arrested without a warrant or jailed without trial?
Answer: The Rowlatt Act.

Question: Who led the Khilafat Movement in India?
Answer: Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali.

Question: Which book, written by Gandhiji and published in 1909, explained that British rule existed only due to the cooperation of Indians?
Answer: Hind Swaraj.

Question: Which two leaders formed the Swaraj Party in 1923?
Answer: C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru.

Question: What was the tribal movement in Andhra Pradesh led by Alluri Sitarama Raju?
Answer: Rampa Rebellion.

Question: Who led the significant peasant movement in Bardoli, Gujarat, in 1928?
Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Question: In which year and session did the Congress first demand complete independence?
Answer: Lahore Congress, December 1929.

Question: On what date did Gandhiji initiate the Civil Disobedience Movement by making salt on Dandi beach?
Answer: April 6, 1930.

Question: Who was known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’ for leading the movement in Northwestern India?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

Question: Which agreement, signed on March 5, 1931, resulted in the suspension of the Civil Disobedience Movement?
Answer: Gandhi-Irwin Pact.

Question: Who became the first Secretary of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP)?
Answer: Jayaprakash Narayan.

Question: In which year was the All India Kisan Sabha formed?
Answer: 1936.

Question: What was the first labour organization in India to be formed on a national basis?
Answer: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC).

Question: On what date did Gandhiji deliver the 'Do or Die' address, marking the beginning of the Quit India Movement?
Answer: August 8, 1942.

Question: Who led the parallel government in Satara, Maharashtra, which lasted until 1945?
Answer: Nana Patil.

Question: Who was the Malayali leader of the INA's women's unit, the 'Rani Jhansi Regiment'?
Answer: Captain Lakshmi Sahgal.

Question: What was the name of the British plan (June 3, 1947) that proposed partitioning the country into India and Pakistan?
Answer: Mountbatten Plan.

Chapter 7: The Glimpses of Free India

Question: Who was assigned the task of drawing the detailed boundary map for the partition of India (the Radcliffe Line)?
Answer: Cyril Radcliffe.

Question: On what date was Mahatma Gandhi shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse?
Answer: January 30, 1948.

Question: By what year was the refugee crisis from West Pakistan completely resolved?
Answer: By 1951.

Question: Who were the key individuals who led the effort to integrate the princely states into the Indian Union?
Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and V.P. Menon.

Question: In which year were the Portuguese territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu liberated through military operation and merged with the Indian Union?
Answer: 1961.

Question: Who died after undertaking a hunger strike for the creation of a separate Andhra state in 1952?
Answer: Potti Sreeramulu.

Question: In which year did the state of Andhra come into existence?
Answer: October 1, 1953.

Question: Who was the chairman of the State Reorganisation Commission appointed by the Central Government in 1953?
Answer: Justice Fazal Ali.

Question: On what date were 14 linguistic states and 6 Union Territories formed, based on the State Reorganisation Bill?
Answer: November 1, 1956.

Question: When was the National Planning Commission appointed in India, with Nehru as chairman?
Answer: March 15, 1950.

Question: Which body replaced the Planning Commission in 2015?
Answer: NITI Aayog.

Question: Which country provided assistance for the Rourkela Iron and Steel Industry (Odisha)?
Answer: Germany.

Question: Who is known as the Father of the Green Revolution in India?
Answer: Dr. M. S. Swaminathan.

Question: What movement, led by Dr. Verghese Kurien, initiated changes in milk production in India?
Answer: The White Revolution.

Question: India conducted its first nuclear test ('Smiling Buddha') in 1974 at which location?
Answer: Pokhran, Rajasthan.

Question: Who is known as the 'Missile Man of India'?
Answer: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

Question: Who signed the Panchsheel Principles along with Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954?
Answer: Zhou Enlai, the then Premier of China.

Question: The state of Kerala officially came into existence on which date?
Answer: November 1, 1956.

Question: Who was the first Chief Minister of Kerala?
Answer: E. M. S. Namboodiripad.

Question: Kerala became India's first fully literate state on which date?
Answer: April 18, 1991.

Chapter 8: Democracy An Indian Experience

Question: When was the Election Commission formed in India?
Answer: January 25, 1950.

Question: When was the first general election held in independent India?
Answer: From October 1951 to February 1952.

Question: When was the internal Emergency declared in India?
Answer: June 25, 1975.

Question: Which commission was appointed in 1953 to study the social and educational backwardness of backward classes?
Answer: The Kaka Kalelkar Commission.

Question: Which commission, appointed in 1979 by the Janata Party government, recommended 27% reservation for backward classes in government jobs?
Answer: The Mandal Commission (Second Backward Classes Commission).

Question: Which Dalit movement was formed in Maharashtra in 1972?
Answer: The Dalit Panthers movement.

Question: Which women's movement emerged in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh in the 1990s, protesting alcohol abuse?
Answer: The Anti-Arrack Movement.

Question: What military operation was carried out in 1984 to suppress the Khalistan militants who had infiltrated the Golden Temple?
Answer: Operation Blue Star.

Question: Which constitutional article granted special rights to Jammu and Kashmir, which was revoked in 2019?
Answer: Article 370.

Question: Which commission was appointed by the Central Government in 1983 to study Centre-State relations?
Answer: The Sarkaria Commission.

Question: Which article empowers the President to dismiss democratically elected governments in states (Presidential rule)?
Answer: Article 356.

Question: In which year was the Right to Information Act passed by the Indian Parliament?
Answer: 2005.

Question: Which organization started the Right to Information (RTI) Movement in Rajasthan in 1990?
Answer: The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS).

Chapter 9: Know the Indian Social System

Question: Which sociologist compared society to a living organism and developed the concept of Social Organism?
Answer: Herbert Spencer.

Question: Who was a pioneering sociologist in India who wrote about the Indian social system?
Answer: G. S. Ghurye.

Question: Who conducted several insightful studies about the caste system in the Indian social system?
Answer: M. N. Srinivas.

Question: Which Act, passed by the Indian Parliament in 1955 and renamed in 1976, prohibits the practice of untouchability?
Answer: The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955.

Question: What is the movement or shift in an individual's social status from one status to another?
Answer: Social mobility.

Question: What percentage of India's total population is tribal (as per the 2011 census)?
Answer: 8.6 percent.

Question: Who led the Munda Revolt (Ulgulan Movement, 1899-1900) in the Chota Nagpur region?
Answer: Birsa Munda.

Question: The term that implies various diverse elements coexist in a society is what?
Answer: Pluralism.

Question: What is the process by which people from different backgrounds are respected for their diversity, leading to a unified state?
Answer: National integration.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE II (Part 1)

Chapter 1: Weather and Climate

Question: What term is used for the atmospheric conditions such as temperature, pressure, wind, humidity, and precipitation for a shorter period of time?
Answer: Weather.

Question: The average weather condition experienced for a longer period (about 35 to 40 years) over a larger area is termed as the what?
Answer: The Climate.

Question: What is the name given to the amount of the Sun's rays reaching the Earth’s surface?
Answer: Insolation.

Question: The absorption of terrestrial radiation by atmospheric gases (like carbon dioxide) that heats up the atmosphere is called what?
Answer: Green House Effect.

Question: What is the phenomenon of gradual decrease in temperature at the rate of 6.4º Celsius per kilometre of altitude?
Answer: Normal Lapse Rate.

Question: What are the imaginary lines drawn on maps to connect places having equal atmospheric pressure?
Answer: Isobars.

Question: Winds blowing constantly over a particular direction throughout the year are called what?
Answer: Permanent winds (or prevailing winds and planetary winds).

Question: What are low pressure systems towards which winds whirl from the surroundings?
Answer: Cyclones.

Question: What is the invisible water content in the atmosphere?
Answer: Humidity.

Question: What is the instrument that records earthquake waves?
Answer: A seismograph.

Chapter 2: Climatic Regions and Climate Change

Question: What is an extensive geographical area in which similar climate characteristics are observed?
Answer: A climatic region.

Question: Which climatic region is characterized by high temperatures and high rainfall throughout the year, extending up to 10˚ North and South of the equator?
Answer: Equatorial climatic region.

Question: What is the name for the tropical grasslands found between 10° and 30° latitudes in both hemispheres?
Answer: Savanna.

Question: Where are hot deserts mostly located in the tropical region?
Answer: On the western margins of continents.

Question: Which climatic region experiences dry summers and humid winters and is located around the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Mediterranean Climatic Region.

Question: What is the name of the temperate grasslands in North America, often referred to as the world’s granary?
Answer: Prairies.

Question: What is the extreme cold zone extending north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Europe, and Asia?
Answer: Tundra region.

Question: What is the increase in atmospheric temperature caused by the excessive production of greenhouse gases?
Answer: Global warming.

Chapter 3: From The Rainy Forests to The Land of Permafrost

Question: In the Equatorial Climatic Region, which basin's rainforest is called Selvas?
Answer: The Amazon Basin.

Question: The equatorial evergreen rainforests are often referred to as what due to their massive oxygen production?
Answer: The 'Lungs of the World'.

Question: What term is used for animals that spend most of their lives in trees?
Answer: Arboreal animals.

Question: What are the dome-shaped, temporary shelters made out of blocks of snow by Eskimos in the Tundra region?
Answer: Igloo.

Question: Which nomadic tribes inhabit Greenland, North Canada, and Alaska?
Answer: Eskimos or Inuit.

Chapter 4: Consumer : Rights and Protection

Question: What is the want-satisfying power of a commodity/good?
Answer: Utility.

Question: What law states that Marginal Utility from consuming each additional unit of a commodity declines as its consumption increases?
Answer: Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility.

Question: What tax, aimed at "One Nation, One Tax," came into effect in India on 1 July 2017?
Answer: Goods and Exercises Tax (GST).

Question: Which day is observed as National Consumer Day in India?
Answer: 24th December.

Question: Which Act replaced the Consumer Protection Act of 1986 and established the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA)?
Answer: Consumer Protection Act 2019.

Question: What quality mark, issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), is found on industrial products like cement and gas cylinders?
Answer: ISI mark.

Question: Which symbol is used to ensure the quality of agricultural and forestry products?
Answer: AGMARK.

Chapter 5: Money and Economy

Question: What term describes the general increase in the prices of goods and services, which causes the purchasing power of money to decrease?
Answer: Inflation.

Question: What is the central bank of India?
Answer: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Question: When was the Reserve Bank of India established?
Answer: 1 April 1935.

Question: Who prints and issues one rupee notes and coins in India?
Answer: The Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Question: What is the rate of interest charged by the Reserve Bank of India on the loans taken by commercial banks from the RBI?
Answer: Repo Rate.

Question: What is the amount of money commercial banks must keep as reserves with the Reserve Bank out of their deposits?
Answer: Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR).

Question: What is the system that allows a current account holder to withdraw more than the amount in the account within a predetermined limit?
Answer: Overdraft.

Question: What is the payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for real-time money transfers?
Answer: Unified Payment Interface (UPI).

Question: What non-banking financial company was established in Kerala in 1969 to provide financial services?
Answer: KSFE.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE II (Part 2)

Chapter 6: The Changing Earth

Question: What term is generally referred to as a situation that poses a threat to life, health, property, or the environment?
Answer: A hazard.

Question: What are the processes that are caused by the forces within the Earth?
Answer: Endogenic Movements.

Question: What is the continuous cyclic movement of magma in the mantle, driven by thermal variations?
Answer: Convection Current.

Question: What is the uplifted block of the Earth’s crust formed due to faulting?
Answer: A horst (block mountain).

Question: The molten rock material present in the upper mantle is called what?
Answer: Magma.

Question: The point inside the Earth from which the energy of an earthquake is released is called what?
Answer: The focus or hypocentre.

Question: What is the scale devised by Charles F. Richter in 1935 to measure an earthquake’s magnitude?
Answer: The Richter scale.

Question: What is the sudden movement of rock debris and soil mixed with water down a steep slope?
Answer: A debris flow.

Chapter 7: Indian Economy: Growth and Transformation

Question: What is the term for the increase in a country's Gross Domestic Product compared to the previous year?
Answer: Economic growth.

Question: According to the World Bank classification, which category does India fall under based on its PCI ($1146 to $4515)?
Answer: Lower middle income.

Question: What index, developed by the United Nations, is used to measure economic development based on life expectancy, knowledge, and GNI per capita?
Answer: Human Development Index (HDI).

Question: Who is considered the Father of Indian economic planning?
Answer: M Visvesvaraya.

Question: What three areas are commonly referred to as LPG in the context of the 1991 Economic Reforms?
Answer: Liberalization, Privatization, Globalization.

Question: What is the most important process of privatization, implemented through the sale of shares?
Answer: Disinvestment.

Question: Which international organization, established in 1995 and headquartered in Geneva, sets and enforces the rules of global trade?
Answer: World Trade Organization (WTO).

Question: Which institution was established in 2020 with the aim of transforming Kerala into a global digital education hub?
Answer: Digital University of Kerala.

Chapter 8: Towards Sustainability

Question: Which sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, was transformed into the Aralkum Desert due to overexploitation?
Answer: The Aral Sea.

Question: Resources that are continuously produced or replenished in nature (e.g., Sunlight, Wind) are called what?
Answer: Renewable Resources.

Question: What are Earth materials from which one or more metals can be extracted profitably?
Answer: Ores.

Question: Which country is the world’s leading producer of copper?
Answer: Chile.

Question: What is the fuel that originates from rocks and is also referred to as 'black gold'?
Answer: Petroleum.

Question: Which international airport in India runs entirely on solar energy?
Answer: Cochin International Airport.

Question: What is the definition of sustainable development?
Answer: Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.