Monday, July 12, 2010

MPSC Quiz 3

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Q 1:Third Largest state in India?
Gujarat
Maharashtra
Rajasthan



Q 2:..............., a peak in the Sahyadris,near Nashik City is the highest elevated point in Maharashtra.

Anjani Parvat
Kalsubai
Salher




Q 3:The city of Bhusawal is situated on banks of river?
Godawari
Narmada
Tapi




Q 4:The earliest inhabitants of the seven islands of Mumbai were the ?
Korkus
Kolis
Kulas




Q 5:The world famous Prince of Wales Museum houses an exquisite collection of Rajput and Mughal miniatures, as well as rare pieces of Tibetan, Japanese and Chinese art.Where is it situated?
Nashik
Mumbai
Pune




Q 6:The British developed Pune as a military town when they captured it in?
1886
1905
1818




Q 7:Bajaj Auto, the world’s largest manufacturer of scooters and three wheelers, TELCO (Tata Electric and Locomotive Company), the manufacturer of India’s primary commercial vehicles and trucks, and the luxury car-maker, Mercedes Benz are located in ?
Nashik
Pune
Aurangabad




Q 8:Nashik is located at a distance of ..... km approximately from Mumbai by road on the Bombay-Agra highway.
250
195
120




Q 9:Malik Ambar, the Prime Minister of Murtaza Nizam Shah II, and the then ruler of the Deccan (central parts of Southern India), founded ............. in 1610.
Malegoan
Miraj
Aurangabad




Q 10:The Bibi-ka-Maqbara is the only example of Mughal architecture in the Deccan plateau; it was built in 1679 as a tribute to Aurangzeb’s wife, Begum Rabia Durani, by his son.Where is situated?
Pune
Aurangabad
Nagpur



Q 11:................is famous for Paithani saris, himroo shawls and bidri work (zinc with silver embedding).
Aurangabad
Bhusawal
Miraj



Q 12:Which among the following city is situated on banks of the river Panchganga?

Aurangabad
Kolhapur
Paithan




Q 13:The ......................... contains sizeable deposits of illimenite.
Nagpur
KG Basin
Ratnagiri Coast




Q 14:Maharashtra has how many districts?
35
32
30




Q 15:Whose present Maharashtra Governor?
Alexander
K. Sankaranarayanan
SC Jamir




Q 16:Name the region which is famous for growing oranges and cotton and it also holds two-thirds of Maharashtra’s mineral resources, three quarters of its forest resources and is a net producer of power.
Khandesh
Marathwada
Vidharbha




Q 17:Originally The Khandesh state was found and ruled by Faruqi dynasty with capital at .................
Burhanpur
Malegoan
Dhadgaon




Q 18:The source of river Purna is?
Amarkantak hills
Ajantha Hills
Kalsubai




Q 19:.................provided many freedom fighters to the country, Dhanaji Nana, Dadusinh, Vyankatrao randheer, Shivaji Patil, Uttamrao Patil, Lilatai Patil, Shirishkumar were the famous characters. Late Sonusingh Patil, Dadasaheb Raval, P.K. Patil, Udesing Anna Pawar, Pundlik Jibhau, KakaBaba(Purmepada) are the main faces who representated this area.
Marathwada
Vidharba
Khandesh




Q 20:..............is the hometown of the Smt. Pratibha Patil, President of India.
Jalgoan
Akola
Dhule


Q 21:Which of the following is not situated on NH6?
Nashik
Dhule
Nagpur



Q 22:Dhule lies in the Khandesh region, which forms the northwest corner of southern India's Deccan Plateau in the valley of the Tapi river along the banks of ............river

Panchganga
Panzara
Pravara




Q 23:Bombay State had three chief ministers in its history. ............... was the first Chief Minister of Bombay after India gained independence.
Yashwantrao Chavan
Morarji Desai
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher




Q 24:In year, 1957 Yashwantrao Chavan was elected from .......... constituency. This time he was elected as Leader of Congress Legislative Party and became Chief Minister of bilingual Bombay state.
Karad
Khamgoan
Chopada




Q 25:The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) New Delhi established the Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University in 1994 at?.
Pune
Nashik
Nagpur

Sunday, July 11, 2010

MPSC Quiz (Focus --- Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra)

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Q 1:He was the first editor of Kesari, a prominent Marathi weekly in his days which was started by Lokmanya Tilak in 1880-81. He subsequently left Kesari out of ideological differences with Tilak concerning the primacy of political reforms versus social reforms, and started his own periodical Sudharak.Who is he?
Hamid Dalwai
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Raghunath Dhondo Karve


Q 2:He was a professor of mathematics and a visionary social reformer from Maharashtra, India. He was a pioneer in initiating family planning and birth control for masses in Mumbai in 1921.He was also the eldest son of Bharat Ratna winner? Who was he?

M V Dhond
Raghunath Dhondo Karve
Yashawant Dinkar Phadke



Q 3:................worked as a journalist. He works include Lat (लाट) (The Wave) and Indhan (इंधन) (Fuel) in Marathi, and Muslim Politics In Secular India in English.
Azis-un-Nisa
Syed Ahmed Khan
Hamid Dalwai



Q 4:................. through his shatpatre (a bunch of letters numbering 100 - exact no. is 108) attacked orthodox Brahmans opposing social and religious reforms in Maharashtra.
Jotirao Phule
Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Balshastri Jambhekar



Q 5:Who started Seva Sadan for the care of women of all castes?
Justice Ranade
Behramji Malbari
Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar



Q 6:................founded the Sharada Sadan in 1890 to help upper-class widows.
Jotirao Phule
Shahu Maharaj
Pandita Ramabai



Q 7:...........established Satyashodhak Samaj.
Pandita Ramabai
Jotirao Phule
Shahu Maharaj



Q 8:...............fought for the eradication of untouchability through his Depressed Classes Mission.
Justice Ranade
Vitthal Ramji Shinde
Shahu Maharaj



Q 9:......... was the architect of the Rayat Shikshan Sanstha.
Jotirao Phule
Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil



Q 10:................ was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and the creator of a social and political awareness among the Scheduled Castes of India.
CD Deshmukh
BR Ambedkar
Malvankar


Q 11:................., the spiritual heir of Gandhi, sacrificed his life for sarvodaya.
Vinoba Bhave
Tarabai Modak
Baba Amte


Q 12:.................is also known as Father of Marathi journalism for his efforts in starting journalism in Marathi language with the first newspaper in the language named 'Darpan' in the early days of British Rule in India.

Lokhitwadi
Balashastri Jambhekar
Justice Ranade



Q 13:The Crawford Market in Mumbai is officially named after him.He was a member of Pune municipality from 1876 to 1882.Dhananjay Keer, his biographer, rightly notes him as "the father of Indian social revolution". Who is he?
BR Ambedkar
Shahu Maharaj
Jotirao Phule



Q 14:He is credited with doing much to further the lot of the lower castes, and indeed this assessment is warranted. He did much to make education and employment available to all: he not only subsidized education in his state, eventually providing free education to all, but also opened several hostels in Kolhapur for students hailing from many different non-brahmin communities, thereby facilitating the education of the rural and low-caste indigent. He also ensured suitable employment for students thus educated, thereby creating one of the earliest Affirmative action programs in history. Many of these measures were effected in the year 1902.There is one college named Rajaram college built by him. Who is he?
Shahu Maharaj
BR Ambedkar
Dhondo Karve



Q 15:Click wrong option
Pandita Ramabai -Sharada Sadan
Anutai Wagh-Prarthana Sabha
Behramji Malbari-Seva Sadan



Q 16:He spent the later part of his life at his ashram in Paunar, Maharashtra. He controversially backed the Indian Emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, calling it Anushasana Parva (Time for Discipline).Who are we talking about?
Jotiba Phule
BR Ambedkar
Vinoba Bhave



Q 17:.............founded the Lok Biradari Prakalp to work among the Madia Gond tribal people of Gadchiroli District.
Baba Amte
Tukdoji Maharaj
BR Ambedkar



Q 18:..................in his book The Rise of Maratha Power comments on the role played by the saints thus: The saints reduced the inequality amongst various castes. By creating an atmosphere of equality in Maharashtra they prepared the ground, in which Shivaji Maharaj could sow the seed of freedom later.
G Malvankar
Justice Ranade
BR Ambedkar



Q 19:Who writes in his autobiobraphy "… I was married at the age of fourteen and my wife was then eight. Her family lived very near to ours, and we knew each other very well and had often played together. However, after marriage, we had to forget our old relation as playmates and to behave as strangers, often looking toward each other but never standing together to exchange words…. We had to communicate with each other through my sister…… My marital life began under the parental roof at Murud when I was twenty…".?
Gopalrao Khedkar
Dr Shivaji Patwardhan
Dhondo Keshav Karve



Q 20:Strong advocate of education of the masses, he was the founder of Rayat Education Society, one of the most important educational institution in Maharashtra.Whose he?
Karamveer bhaurao Patil
Shahu Maharaj
Justice Ranade

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Quiz1 (MPSC)

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Q 1:In 90 A.D. Vedishri,son of the Satavahana king Satakarni, the "Lord of Dakshinapatha, wielder of the unchecked wheel of Sovereignty", made ..........., thirty miles north of Pune, the capital of his kingdom.
Vadagoan
Junnar
Phursungi



Q 2:The great ruler ....................... (also known as "Shalivahan") ruled around 78 CE He started the Shalivahana era, a new calendar, still used by Maharashtrian populace and as the Indian national calendar.

Ashoka
Gautamiputra Satkarni
Vikramaditya




Q 3:Maharashtra came under Islamic influence for the first time after the Delhi Sultanate rulers Ala-ud-din Khalji, and later Muhammad bin Tughluq conquered parts of the Deccan in the .....th century.
10
15
13




Q 4:Shivaji's son and successor Chhatrapatti Sambhaji Bhosale became the ruler of the Maratha kingdom in 1680. He was captured, tortured and brutally put to death by....................
Bahadur Shah
Aurangzeb
Afzalkhan




Q 5:In 1714, Shahu's Peshwa (chief minister) Balaji Vishwanath, helped him seize the Maratha throne in 1708, with some acrimony from Rajaram's widow,...........?
Ahilyabai
Tarabai
Jijabai




Q 6:.................. remained in power in Nagpur even after loss of Marathas at Panipat in 1818, till 1853. Nagpur Kingdom was the last of the Kingdoms or Princely States in entire India to be annexed to British India in 1853.
Scindias
Holkars
Bhonsles




Q 7:After suffering a stinging defeat at the hands of Afghan chieftain ,........................ in the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761, the Maratha Confederacy broke into regional kingdoms.
Ghazni
Ahmad Shah Abdali
Babur




Q 8:With the arrival and subsequent involvement of the British East India Company in Indian politics, the Marathas and the British fought the ....... Anglo-Maratha wars between 1777 and 1818, culminating in the annexation of Peshwa-ruled territory in Maharashtra in 1819, which heralded the end of the Maratha empire.
five
three
one




Q 9:1919: Congress Democratic Party includes demand of state of Maharashtra in its manifesto. The manifesto is drafted under leadership of .................
Lokhitwadi
Agarkar
Tilak




Q 10:Oct 15, 1938: A Marathi literary meet, presided over by .........., passes a resolution for a separate state for Marathi speaking areas including Vidharbha.
Tilak
VD Sawarkar
RD Chaphekar



Q 11:Jun 17, 1948: The Union government appoints a commission to be headed by the president of the constitutional council, .................., to study the formation of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.
SK Dhar
BR Ambedkar
Sardar Patel



Q 12:Dec 1948: The Congress accepts the principle of the formation of the states on linguistic lines at its Jaipur conclave. A committee comprising .................., Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel is formed to reconsider this issue.

SK Dhar
Pittabhi Sitaramiya
BR Ambedkar




Q 13:Nov 20, 1955: Morarji Desai and SK Patil hold rally at ....................challenging the supporters of Samyukta Maharashtra.
LalBagh
Fountain
Girgaum Chowpatty




Q 14:Third largest state in India?
Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan




Q 15:...................., a peak in the Sahyadris,near Nashik City is the highest elevated point in Maharashtra.
Anjani Parwat
Kalsubai
Jejuri




Q 16:A crater lake is situated on the outskirts of Lonar town in district Buldhana, Maharashtra. The impact of a huge meteor that descended on earth from space carved out a bowl roughly ...... kilometre in diameter believed to be formed 50,000 years ago.
1.1
1.5
1.8




Q 17:Lonar Lake is the third largest natural salt-water lake in the ........
world
India
Asia




Q 18:According to Sanskrit literature, ............. was called ‘Viraj Kshetra’ in ancient times
Pune
Lonar
Junnar




Q 19:Navegaon National Park, located near ............. in the eastern region of Vidarbha is home to many species of birds, deer, bears and leopards.
Gadchiroli
Bhandara
Gondia




Q 20:Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project, a prominent tiger reserve near ............ in Vidarbha.
Chandrapur
Gondia
Gadchiroli


Q 21:Chandoli National Park, located in ............. district has a vast variety of flora and fauna. The famous Prachitgad Fort and Chandoli dam and scenic water falls can be found around Chandoli National Park.
Sangli
Satara
Solapur



Q 22:Gugamal National Park, also known as Melghat Tiger Reserve is located in ............ district.

Nagpur
Amravati
Akola




Q 23:Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in .................. is the busiest port in India.
Alibaug
Mumbai Suburban
Navi Mumbai




Q 24:Shri Guru Gobind Singhji institute of engineering and technology is located at?
Nanded
Nashik
Nagpur




Q 25:National Defence Academy is located at?
Nashik
Pune
Mumbai