Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 19

Domkach is a wedding dance of the women of the household: once the men go off with the barat, the women of the groom's family sing and dance through the night in the courtyard, taking the men's parts themselves in a comic imitation.

Jhijhiya is danced by women of the Mithila region during Navratri, each carrying on her head an earthen pot pierced with many holes and holding a lighted lamp; the dance is offered to the Goddess and is traditionally believed to turn away witchcraft and evil spells.

Dinkar, born at Simaria in Begusarai district and honoured as Rashtrakavi for his nationalist verse, received the Jnanpith Award for Urvashi, a long poem that treats the love of Pururava and the apsara Urvashi as a meeting of the earthly and the divine.

Vidyapati was the poet of the Mithila court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and his Maithili padavali of songs about Radha and Krishna is still sung in north Bihar.

Rajendra Prasad was born there on 3 December 1884, worked with Gandhi during the Champaran inquiry of 1917, presided over the Constituent Assembly from December 1946 and became the first President of India in January 1950.

Kalamkari is the pen and dye work on cloth of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, practised at Srikalahasti and Machilipatnam, and has nothing to do with Mithila.

The Bihar Legislative Assembly returns 243 members from single-member territorial constituencies by universal adult suffrage, and every calculation about the state, from the majority mark to the ceiling on the Council of Ministers, is worked out from that figure.

Thekua is a hard sweet made from wheat flour and jaggery, fried in ghee or oil and pressed in a wooden mould, and it is the offering most closely identified with Chhath.

Sharda Sinha, called the Bihar Kokila, carried the Chhath songs of Bihar from the river ghats to recordings heard across the country, and she sang Maithili and Bhojpuri wedding, Sohar and Sama-Chakeva songs as well.

Jharkhand came into being on that day under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, with Ranchi as its capital, Babulal Marandi as first Chief Minister and eighteen districts taken from Bihar.

Renu, born at Aurahi Hingna in the Purnia country of north east Bihar, set the novel in a village called Meriganj just after independence, and made the village itself the hero, with its castes, quarrels, politics, superstitions and hopes.

The Golghar was built in 1786 to a design by Captain John Garstin of the Bengal Engineers, as a store of grain against another famine like that of 1770; its beehive shape and the two spiral stairways on the outside make it the best known colonial building of Patna.

Called Bihar Kesari, he headed the provincial government from 1946 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Bihar until 1961.

Vikramashila was founded by Dharmapala, the second and most powerful king of the Pala dynasty, in the Bhagalpur region on the Ganga, and it became second only to Nalanda as a seat of Buddhist learning, with Atisha Dipankara among its heads.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act of 2003, says the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly, subject to a floor of twelve.

The library complex of Nalanda was called Dharmaganja, the treasury of truth, and later accounts say it stood in three buildings, Ratnasagara, Ratnodadhi and Ratnaranjaka, of which Ratnodadhi is described as nine storeys high.

Reshma-Chuharmal is sung and staged in the Magahi speaking tract south of the Ganga, around Patna, Nalanda and Mokama.

Born on 11 October 1902 at Sitabdiara on the border of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, he escaped from Hazaribagh jail during the Quit India movement, built the socialist movement after independence and in 1974 gave the call for Sampoorna Kranti, or Total Revolution, which became the centre of the agitation…

The Bihar Legislative Council, the second chamber of the state legislature, has seventy-five members. Article 171 allows a Legislative Council a strength of not more than one-third of the Assembly of the state and not fewer than forty, and seventy-five sits comfortably inside that band for an Assembly of 243.

The zamindar of Jagdishpur in the Shahabad tract, now Bhojpur district, took command of the sepoys at Arrah when he was nearly eighty, fought the British through 1857 and died in 1858 soon after recovering his estate.