Thursday, December 16, 2010

River Or Canal

Q.  Ahmedabad is situated on the banks of the river?
A.  Sabarmati
Q.  Allahabad is situated on the banks of the river?
A.  Confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna
Q.  Badarinath is situated on the banks of the river?
A.  Ganga
Q.  “Thein Dam” is being constructed on which river in India?
A.  Ravi
Q.  On which river the “Gandhi Sagar dam” is being constructed?
A.  Chambal
Q.  Srisailam Hydroelectric Project is based upon which river in India?
A.  Krishna
Q.  Amravati is a tributary of which river?
A.  Kaveri
Q.  Which river flows between Vindhyan & satpura ranges in India?
A.  Narmada
Q.  Joint river valley between India & Nepal is?
A.  Kosi
Q.  What are Kayals?
A.  Narrow water area attached with a main landin the form of channel found in Kerala
Q.  Which river originates from Amarkantak?
A.  Narmada Note: Mahanadi from Singhava, Godawari from Braham Saka
Q.  On the bank of which river the city of Vijayanagar is located?
A.  Tungbhadra
Q.  Which river is associated with TulBul Project?
A.  Jhelum
Q.  Ahmedabad is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Sabarmati
Q.  Allahabad is situated on the banks of which river of India
A.  Confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna
Q.  Ayodhya is situated on the banks of which river of India?
A.  Sarayu
Q.  Badarinath is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Ganga
Q.  Agra is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Yamuna
Q.  Which is called, Sorrow of Bengal?
A.  River Damodar
Q.  Allahabad is situated on the banks of the river
A.  confluence of the Ganga and YamunaQ.  Ayodhya is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Sarayu
Q.  Kolkatha is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Hooghly
Q.  Cuttack is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Mahanadi
Q.  Delhi is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Yamuna
Q.  Guwahati is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Brahmaputra
Q.  Haridwar is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Ganga
Q.  Luckow is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Gomati
Q.  Kanpur is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Ganga
Q.  Jabalpur is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Narmada
Q.  Kota is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Chambal
Q.  Ludhiana is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Sutlej
Q.  Srinagar is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Jhelum
Q.  Surat is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Tapti
Q.  Vijayawada is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Krishna
Q.  Sambalpur is situated on the banks of the river
A.  Mahanadi

Ramayana

Q.  Who was the writer of Sundarkaand?
A.  Tulsidas, Sunadarkand is a part of Ramcharitamanas.

Person

Q.  Who introduced Gurumukhi Script?
A.  Guru Angad
Q.  Who organized ‘Bratachari’ Movement?
A.  Gurusaday Datta
Q.  Who was the first editor of ‘Yugantar’?
A.  Barindra Ghosh
Q.  Who was the founder of Muslim League of India?
A.  Nawab Salim Ullah
Q.  Who founded Gadar Party in America?
A.  Hardayal
Q.  Who used the word ‘Swarajya’ First?
A.  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q.  Who were associated with Lahore Conspiracy Case?
A.  Bhagat Singh, Rajguru & Sukhdev
Q.  What is the name of the Indian origin Management Guru awarded as greatest Management Thinker alive in the world by Thinkers 50?
A.  CK Prahalad
Q.  Who founded National Mela?
A.  Naba Gopal Mitra
Q.  Who was the court Poet of Samudra Gupta?
A.  Harishena
Q.  Who was the founder of Swadesh Bandhav samiti?
A.  Aswini Kumar Datta
Q.  Who is famous as Father of Modern India?
A.  Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q.  Who was the first Indian to become the President of World Squash Federation?
A.  N Ramchandran
Q.  Who founded PURA?
A.  PURA is providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas, and was founded by Honorable Former President APJ Abdul Kalam
Q.  Who wrote the book-“The Man of Killed Gandhi”?
A.  Manohar Malgaonkar
Q.  Whose Biography is “My Country My Life”?
A.  LK Advani
Q.  Who was the first India Scholar who treated Mathematics as a different subject
A.  Aryabhatta
Q.  Who defeated Harshvardhan on the bank of Narmada?
A.  Pulakesin II
Q.  Author of "God of Small Things"
A.  Arundathi Roy
Q.  Who was Dadaji Kondadeva?
A.  Shivaji’s Guardian TutorQ.  Who was the founder of the autonomous Kingdom of Awadh?
A.  Saadat Khan
Q.  “Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India” – Whose utterance is this?
A.  Bankim Chandra Chattarjee
Q.  Who was called the saint of Dakshineshwar?
A.  Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Q.  Who was the first Buddhist nun?
A.  Gautami.
Q.  Who is the author of BUDDHA CHARITA?
A.  Ashvagosha.
Q.  Who is the founder of the Satavahana Dynasty?
A.  Simukha
Q.  Who was the first Indian scholar who treated Mathematics as a distinct subject?
A.  Aryabhatta
Q.  Who was the court physician of Kanishka?
A.  Charaka
Q.  Name the founder of the Chalukyas of Badami?
A.  KirtiVarman-II
Q.  Who was the most famous Saka ruler in India?
A.  Rudradaman-I
Q.  Who credited BinduSara with conquering the land between the two seas?
A.  Taranath
Q.  Which pala ruler founded the famous Vikramasila University for the Buddhists?
A.  Dharmapala
Q.  Which Prathihara ruler had the famous poet , Rajasekhara, at his court?
A.  Mahipala
Q.  Who wrote KATHASARITSAGARA?
A.  Somadeva
Q.  Which saint was greatly influenced by Tantricism?
A.  Vrajayana
Q.  Who founded the Lingayat Movement?
A.  BasvaRaja
Q.  Who was the Rajaguru or the great royal teacher of KrishnadevaRaya?
A.  Vyasaraja
Q.  Who were the earliest Vaishnava Bhakti saints from the South?
A.  Alvars
Q.  Who founded the Varkari sect in Maharashtra?
A.  Tukaram.
Q.  The first Indian to win the World Champion title in Chess
A.  Viswanathan AnandQ.  Who was the First Indian woman civil engineer?
A.  Lalitha from Madras in 1937
Q.  Who is known as Father of Kissan Movement
A.  Pro. N.G. Renga
Q.  Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a Journalist
A.  Surendranath Banerjee
Q.  The first person to conduct heart transplantation in India was
A.  Dr. Venugopal
Q.  Who was the first Indian pilot?
A.  J.R.D Tata
Q.  The first woman graduate of the Calcutta University addressed the AICC session in 1890. Who was she?
A.  Kadambini Ganguly
Q.  Bhoodan movement is associated with
A.  Vinoba Bhave
Q.  Ramakrishna Mission is associated with
A.  Swami Vivekananda
Q.  Arya Samaj is associated with
A.  Dayanand Swaraswati
Q.  Brahma Samaj is associated with
A.  Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q.  Dev Samaj is associated with
A.  Siva Narayan Agnihothri
Q.  Prarthana Samaj is associated with
A.  Keasab Chandra Sen
Q.  Sudhi Movement is associated with
A.  Swami Shradhanand
Q.  Chinmaya Mission is associated with
A.  Swami Chinmayananda
Q.  Servants of India Society is associated with
A.  Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Q.  Peoples Education Society is associated with
A.  Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Q.  Father of civil Aviation in India
A.  J.R.D. Tata
Q.  The first woman I.P.S Officer of India
A.  Kiran Bedi
Q.  Who was the first Ramon Magsaysay Award winner from India
A.  Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Q.  Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?
A.  Arati SahaQ.  Name the first man to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen.
A.  Phu Dorji
Q.  Name the first Indian who got an Oscar.
A.  Bhanu Athaiya (Best Costume Designer for Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi in 1982)
Q.  Who was the first Indian to be honored with the Param Vir Chakra?
A.  Major Som Nath Sharma
Q.  Who was the first woman to become the Lt. General of the Indian Army?
A.  Lt General (Mrs) Punita Arora
Q.  Name the first woman Chief Minister of India.
A.  Sucheta Kriplani
Q.  Who was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Services?
A.  Satyendranath Tagore
Q.  Which famous Indian actor was honored with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994?
A.  Dilip Kumar
Q.  Who was the first Indian musician to receive the Padma Bhusan?
A.  MS Subbulakshmi
Q.  Name the youngest grandmaster in India.
A.  Parimarjan Negi
Q.  Who was the first Indian to participate in the Olympic Games?
A.  Norman G Pritchard
Q.  Who was the first Indian to get the Nobel Prize?
A.  Rabindranath tagore (1913)
Q.  Two Indians have received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Can you name them?
A.  Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (1930) and Subramanium Chandrasekhar (1983)
Q.  Who was the famous Indian musician in charge of the opening music at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996?
A.  Ustad Zakir Hussain
Q.  Who was the first Indian to be honored by the Royal Society in the field of Science?
A.  Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Q.  Name the first President of India.
A.  Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Q.  Who was the first woman Governor of India?
A.  Sarojini Naidu
Q.  Name the living Indian legend who has found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for having sung in almost 20 languages for over 1,825 ms and working with 165 composers.
A.  Lata Mangeshkar
Q.  Who is the Indian sportsperson to have won the maximum number of international track and field medals?
A.  P.T.Usha
Q.  Who is the only Indian to have won an Oscar for lifetime achievement in films?
A.  Satyajit Ray

India | Mughals

Q.  Who built Jama masjid?
A.  Shahjahan
Q.  Whose court visited Sir Thomas Roe?
A.  Jehangir
Q.  Who constructed Red fort of Delhi?
A.  Shah Jahan
Q.  Who was the Mughal emperor , from whom East India Company Secured Diwani?
A.  Shah Aaalam II
Q.  Which Mughal emperor was defeated by Shershah in 1540?
A.  Humayun
Q.  Who got the Qutub Minar Finished?
A.  Firoz Shah Tuglaq
Q.  The fort of Tughlaqabad near Delhi was formed by whom?
A.  Ghiyasuddin Tuglaq
Q.  Who among the Moghul Emperors was a perfect player of Veena?
A.  Aurangazeb.
Q.  Who was the first Muslim ruler of Delhi?
A.  Qutbuddin Aibak
Q.  What was “Abwab”?
A.  Miscellaneous kinds of taxes like the house taxes, grazing tax, irrigation tax etc
Q.  Which of the contemporary historians was appointed as the chief quazi of Delhi by Sultan Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq?
A.  Ibn-Batutah
Q.  What was the term used for measurement of land in the Sultanate period?
A.  Masahat
Q.  Who was the founder of the city of Agra?
A.  Sikander Lodi
Q.  Which Bahmani Sultan shifted the capital from Gulbarga to Bidar?
A.  Ahmed Shah Wali
Q.  Why did Mahmud Begarha attack Dwarka?
A.  To suppress the pirates who preyed on the pilgrim traffic to Mecca
Q.  Who founded the fortress city Mandu-the capital of Malwa?
A.  Hushang-Shah
Q.  Whose reign has been called the “Golden Age of the Mughals’?
A.  Shah-Jahan
Q.  Who was the last royal patron of the Mughal School of painting?
A.  Aurangzeb
Q.  What was the original name of Tansen?
A.  Ramtanu Pande
Q.  In which language did Babur write his memories ,called Tuzuk-i-Baburi?
A.  Turkish
Q.  What was the “Tanab”in the Mughal Period?
A.  A measuring instrument made of Bamboo sticks joined by iron rings