Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 21

She took office in 1997 and was the first woman to head the government of Bihar. The question is usually set alongside the other state firsts, so the three names that follow are worth keeping apart from hers.

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.

Undivided Bihar had a Legislative Assembly of 324 elected members. When the Bihar Reorganisation Act of 2000 carved out Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, eighty-one of those constituencies fell in the new state and became its Assembly, leaving Bihar with the 243 seats it has today.

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

The Patna High Court was created by Letters Patent in February 1916 and began sitting on 1 March 1916, which is why its centenary fell in 2016.

Bhojpuri is spoken by crores of people in western Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and the Indian diaspora of Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname and Trinidad, and it has a rich folk theatre, yet it has not been added to the Eighth Schedule.

The 73rd Amendment Act was passed by Parliament in 1992 and was brought into force on 24 April 1993, which is why that date is observed every year as National Panchayati Raj Day.

Tikuli takes its name from the tikuli or tikli, the decorated dot worn by women on the forehead, which was once made at Patna out of thin glass fused with gold foil and coloured enamel.

She was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar in 1997 and is the only woman so far to have held that office in the state; she later served several terms and also led the Opposition in the state legislature.

The Harihar Kshetra fair at Sonepur opens on the full moon of Kartik and runs for about a month, with cattle, horses, birds and handicrafts on sale, a theatre ground, and traders from several states.

Bihar formed part of the Bengal Presidency, and its appeals therefore went to the High Court at Calcutta, which had been established in 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act, 1861.

Bismillah Khan was born at Dumraon in 1916, in the present Buxar district, into a family of shehnai players, and later settled at Varanasi.

Under the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 the head of a Gram Panchayat is the Mukhiya, who is elected directly by all the voters of the panchayat area, with an Up-Mukhiya as deputy chosen by the elected ward members.

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 correct answer is A, Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier, who became the first Chief Justice of the Patna High Court when it began sitting in 1916.

He took over the command in Shahabad after 26 April 1858 and kept the struggle alive in the district for several months, moving through the forests with the remaining rebels, and he was the last leader of the revolt in Bihar whom the British had to hunt down.

The Gram Kachahari is a feature of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 and is a bench of the directly elected Sarpanch and the elected Panches of the panchayat area; it decides small disputes between villagers and may impose a fine in the matters the Act lists, while serious offences…

Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on that date under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, and the Ranchi Bench of the Patna High Court became the High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi.

Article 243A, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, says that a Gram Sabha may exercise such powers and perform such functions at the village level as the legislature of a state may by law provide, so the body is constitutional but its powers are decided by state law.

It is the opening article of Part VI, Chapter V of the Constitution and says that there shall be a High Court for each state.