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"INDIA QUIZ"
1. Gojri, Balti, Shina, Poonchi and Dogri are languages or dialects spoken in
2. What is located at 8.08 degrees North, 77.57degrees East?
3. Which Indian state has the longest coastline?
4. What is common to Nargisi Kofta, Devil, Akuri, Bhurji?
5. Thang-ta is a martial art in which fighters use swords and spears. Which is its state of origin?
6. Whose debut film as a director was Dhobi Ghat?
7. Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian doctor based in the US, received which international honour or award a few months ago?
8. Put the two words in Malayalam that mean, (1) a woman who enchants onlookers and (2) graceful body movements together, and you will get the name of a classical dance form. What is the dance form?
9. Who is the only person to have held these three posts: President of India, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Chief Minister of his state (Andhra Pradesh)?
10. Which Indian was on board Salyut 7 on 3 April 1984?
Answers:
1. Kashmir
2. Kanyakumari
3. Gujarat
4. Eggs
5. Manipur
6. Kiran Rao
7. Pulitzer Prize
8. Mohini-attam
9. Neelan Sanjeeva Reddy
10. Rakesh Sharma
This
quiz is on the amazing man-made structures found in India.
1. The
Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in New Delhi
has a 24ft high iron pillar which has six lines in Sanskrit inscribed on it.
What is so special about the pillar?
2. Which
Indian city has been the site for seven different capitals from the medieval
period?
3. Which is the largest concrete dam in India?
4. More
than 60,000 vehicles cross it daily it is Indias busiest bridge. Name it.
5. Where was the countrys first
artificial ice-skating rink set up?
6. Which is Asias
largest permanent exhibition ground?
7. The
Lodi Gardens in Delhi are actually a garden tomb built in the
15th century. Whose tomb is it?
8. The Jantar Mantar, Delhi, is the worlds oldest observatory.
Who
built it?
9. Which is Indias highest gateway?
10. The
two great minarets of Sidi Bashiras mosque in Ahmedabad have three balconies
at different levels. When one is shaken, the other also moves. What are these
minarets called by the local people?
ANSWERS.
1. It has not rusted even after almost
1500 years.
2. Delhi.
3. The Nagarjunasagar Dam on the River Krishna.
4. Howrah Bridge.
5. In Calcutta.
6. The Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
7. Sikandar Lodi.
8. Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur in the
18th century.
9. The Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri.
10. Jhulta Minar.
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