India Quiz 71

India Quiz 71

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1. Which Indian state is known as the "Land of Lamps"?

Tamil Nadu
Bihar
Kerala
Andrha Pradesh

2. The Shore Temple was named because it overlooks the shore of the Bay of Bengal. In which state it is located?

Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Gujrat

3. "Rani ki Vav" (Queen's stepwell) was selected as the “Cleanest Iconic Place” in India at the Indian Sanitation Conference (INDOSAN) 2016. Where is it located?

Gujrat
Maharashtra
Rajasthan
Uthar Pradesh

4. Who among the following established their first trading port in India at Tharangambadi, formerly Tranquebar?

British
Portuguese
French
Danish

5. In which state the Udvada Atash Behram, one of the eight fire temples of the Zoroastrian religion in India, is situated?

Maharashtra
Gujrat
Madhya Pradesh
Haryana

6. Sattriya dance was originated in which one of the following states?

Assam
Meghalaya
Orissa
Tamil Nadu

7. Where is Rakhigarhi village, declared by Global Heritage Fund as one of the 10 most endangered heritage sites in Asia, situated?

Maharashtra
Haryana
Uthar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh

8. Who authored the book "A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century"?

Asima Chatterjee
Jnan Chandra Ghosh
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Prafulla Chandra Roy

9. Name the British architect who, along with Edward Lutyens, designed the Rashtrapathi Bhavan and Parliament House of India?

Herbert Baker
Larry Baker
Augustus Pugin
Gilbert Scott

10. Where is th Heliodorus pilla, the first known inscription related to Vaishnavism in India, located?

Odisha
Gujrat
Tamil Nadu
Madhya Pradesh

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