Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 15

Three states were created in quick succession in 2000: Chhattisgarh on 1 November as the twenty-sixth, Uttaranchal on 9 November as the twenty-seventh, and Jharkhand on 15 November as the twenty-eighth.

The Province of Bihar and Orissa came into being on 22 March 1912, with Patna as its capital and Sir Charles Stuart Bayley as its first Lieutenant Governor.

The tomb of Sher Shah Suri rises on a stone plinth in the middle of a tank at Sasaram, an octagonal chamber under a single large dome with smaller domed kiosks around it, and it is the high point of Indo-Afghan building in India.

The excavated remains of the ancient university at Nalanda were added to the World Heritage List in 2016 as an archaeological site, and they are the second World Heritage Site of Bihar.

Parliament passed this law under Article 3 of the Constitution, which lets it form a new state by separating territory from an existing one, and Jharkhand came into being on 15 November 2000.

The word tinkathia comes from the obligation to plant indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of land, twenty kathas making one bigha in the local measure.

The Kumhrar mound in Patna has yielded the remains of a Mauryan hall whose roof was carried on eighty polished sandstone pillars, read as an assembly or audience hall of Pataliputra, together with the Arogya Vihara of a later period.

The Santhals of the Damin-i-Koh, pressed by moneylenders, revenue farmers and the railway contractors, rose under the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, and declared an end to Company rule in their country in 1855.

Birsa Munda led the Ulgulan, the great tumult, among the Munda people of the Chhotanagpur region at the end of the nineteenth century, demanding the restoration of tribal land rights, and he died in Ranchi jail in 1900.

The Sadak e Azam ran from Sonargaon in eastern Bengal through Bihar, Agra, Delhi and Lahore to the Indus in the northwest, and Sher Shah lined it with wells, shade trees and sarais.

Two Ashokan pillars were found at Rampurva in West Champaran district, one crowned by a bull capital and the other by a lion capital; the bull capital is the best known animal capital from Bihar after the Sarnath lions and is kept in New Delhi.

Kunwar Singh was wounded in the fighting of his last campaign and died at Jagdishpur on 26 April 1858, three days after his victory over Captain Le Grand.

He had captained the Indian hockey team that won gold at the 1928 Olympics, led the Adivasi Mahasabha from 1938, and converted it into the Jharkhand Party in 1950 to seek a separate state for the Chhotanagpur and Santhal Parganas region.

The second council met at Vaishali about a century after the Buddha's death, under king Kalashoka of the Shishunaga dynasty, with Sabakami presiding.

The Vishwa Shanti Stupa or World Peace Pagoda was built in 1969 on Ratnagiri hill at Rajgir in Nalanda district by a Japanese Buddhist order, and the ropeway that climbs to it is one of the best known in eastern India.

Atisha was the most famous head of Vikramshila and left for Tibet in the eleventh century at the invitation of its western kings.

Known across the state as Shri Babu, he headed Bihar's government from 1946 and continued as Chief Minister after independence until his death in 1961.

Pawapuri in Nalanda district is held to be the place where Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara, attained nirvana, and the Jal Mandir of white marble stands in the middle of a lotus tank said to have formed where his ashes were taken.

The Mundeshwari temple stands on the Pawra hill at Ramgarh in Kaimur district. It is an octagonal shrine of stone, Shaiva and Shakta in its images, carries an early inscription and has been in continuous worship, which is why it is listed among the oldest functioning temples of the country.

The gurdwara at Patna Sahib marks the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh in 1666 and is one of the five Takhts of the Sikhs, the only one in Bihar.