Bihar Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers

Seleucus was the Macedonian general who took over Alexander's eastern conquests and tried to recover the Indian provinces around 305 BCE.

Coal, iron ore, manganese, limestone and water lie close together there, so the country's iron and steel plants crowded into it: Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Burnpur and Durgapur on its edges and Rourkela just beyond.

The Gandak rises in the Nepal Himalaya, where it is called the Narayani or the Sapta Gandaki, enters India at Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran and flows south east across north Bihar to join the Ganga opposite Patna, near Sonpur and Hajipur.

Champaran is a district of north Bihar, with Motihari as its headquarters, and the satyagraha of 1917 was fought there against the indigo planters' tinkathia system.

Cotton is a kharif crop, sown with the onset of the monsoon in June and July and picked from October onwards, because it needs warmth and rainfall during growth and dry weather at picking.

Ashoka's Thirteenth Rock Edict names the Hellenistic kings to whom he sent dhamma missions, and their kingdoms are known from Greek history: Antiochus II Theos ruled the Seleucid kingdom of Syria, Ptolemy II Philadelphus ruled Egypt, Antigonus II Gonatas ruled Macedonia and Magas ruled Cyrene in north Africa.

Shulka was a duty on goods, collected at the gates of towns and at ferries and frontiers on trade, not on land or its produce.

Tripitaka is a Pali and Sanskrit word in which pitaka means a basket, so the whole means three baskets, a name that came from the practice of keeping the palm leaf manuscripts of each collection in a separate basket.

Nalanda was a Buddhist monastic university, a mahavihara, where the main course of study was the Mahayana canon along with logic, grammar, medicine and astronomy.

The company was registered in that year at Sakchi, the village on the Subarnarekha that grew into Jamshedpur, and the site was chosen for the iron ore, coal and water around it.