India Quiz 92

India Quiz 92

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1. Kundala Valley Railway, the first monorail system in India, was operational in which Indian state?

Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala

2. One of the most influential novelists in the Kannada language, this Jnanpith Award winner of 1978, returned his Padma Bhushan honour in protest against the emergency imposed in 1975. Can you name the writer?

K Shivaram Karanth
P Lankesh
Gopalakrishna Adiga
Kuvempu

3. Who was the recipient of the 53rd Jnanpith Award (2017)?

Raghuveer Chaudhari
Shankha Ghosh
Krishna Sobti
Bhalchandra Nemade

4. Who among the followingg composed many bandishes using the pen name "Nath Piya"?

Sadarang
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Ajoy Chakrabarty
Vilayat Khan

5. Who was the President of India when emergency was declared in 1975?

Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
V V Giri
Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
Zakir Hussain

6. Who founded Athmavidya Sangam?

Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Vagbhatananda
Sree Narayana Guru
Swami Dayananda Saraswati

7. Who started the Bhoodan movement?

Mahatma Gandhi
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Jayaprakash Narayan
Ishwarachandra Vidyasagar

8. With which one of the following religions will you associate the Fourteen Purvas?

Budhism
Jainism
Islam
Sikhism

9. From which country India adopted the concept of Judicial Review?

USA
United Kingdom
France
Russia

10. What is Kharoshti?

Ancient script
Ancient Book
A dance form
A dynasty

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