Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 4

The Bhimbandh sanctuary lies in the Kharagpur hills of Munger district and is famous for the hot springs that bubble out of its forest, the best known of them giving the place its name; pilgrims and visitors come for the water, which is believed to cure skin ailments.

Valmiki in West Champaran district is the only national park of Bihar and also its only tiger reserve: the sanctuary was notified in 1978, the national park declared in 1989 and the tiger reserve in 1990.

The Shahi litchi of Muzaffarpur and the neighbouring districts of north Bihar is known for its thin skin, small stone and high juice content, it received a geographical indication tag in 2018, and Muzaffarpur is called the litchi capital of the country and houses the National Research Centre on Litchi.

Makhana is the seed of Euryale ferox, a thorny aquatic plant of still shallow water whose large round leaves cover the surface of ponds and chaurs; the seeds are gathered from the pond bed, dried, roasted and popped into the white kernels sold as makhana or phool makhana.

It is a great oxbow lake left behind by a shifting channel of the Burhi Gandak, one of the largest freshwater wetlands of the Ganga plain, and it fills every winter with migratory ducks, geese and waders while also supporting fishing and singhara cultivation by the villages around it.

The Kosi rises in the Himalaya, carries an enormous load of silt and deposits it on the almost flat plain of north Bihar, raising its own bed until it breaks out and takes a new course.

Magahi paan takes its name from the Magadh region and is grown in Gaya, Nawada, Aurangabad and Nalanda, where the soft leaf with its sweet taste and lack of sharpness has made it famous; it carries a geographical indication tag of its own.

The Kosi project that followed the 1954 agreement between India and Nepal has three parts: a barrage at Bhimnagar on the border, long embankments on both banks of the river downstream, and canals, of which the Eastern Kosi Main Canal is the largest.

Both are small irrigation reservoirs in the hills of Jamui district in southern Bihar, built across seasonal streams, and over the years their shallow margins have become a winter home for thousands of waterbirds, including bar-headed geese; they were recognised as Ramsar sites in 2024 and were the state's second…

South of the Ganga, between the river and the higher ground inland, lies a stretch of low saucer-like land called tal, of which the Mokama tal is the largest.

The tal lands are low saucer shaped tracts of south Bihar that fill with water during the monsoon and cannot carry a kharif crop; as the water drains in October and November the moist soil gives an excellent rabi crop of gram, lentil, pea and khesari, and Mokama Tal is…

The reserve occupies the north-western corner of Bihar in West Champaran, where the Himalayan foothills of the Someshwar and Dun ranges meet the Gandak, and its northern boundary is the international border with Nepal.

The house sparrow is the state bird, the peepal the state tree and the marigold the state flower, and exams often set all four in one question.

Mithila Makhana was registered as a geographical indication in 2022, the tag going to a producers body of the Mithila region so that growers of Darbhanga, Madhubani and the neighbouring districts, rather than traders elsewhere, gain from the name.

West Bengal grows far more jute than any other state, and Bihar comes next, its crop concentrated in the north-eastern districts of Purnia, Katihar, Araria and Kishanganj, where high rainfall, standing water for retting and alluvial soil suit the fibre.

The Son rises on the Amarkantak plateau in Madhya Pradesh, flows north-east through the hard rock country of the south and joins the Ganga near Maner, west of Patna.

The Chitwan national park of Nepal lies immediately across the border from Valmiki, so the two together form one continuous block of Terai forest and grassland; tigers, leopards and the occasional one-horned rhinoceros move between them, and the two countries manage the landscape as a shared corridor.

The Sone canal system takes off at Dehri in Rohtas district, where a weir across the Sone feeds the eastern and western main canals that water Rohtas, Aurangabad, Gaya, Patna and Bhojpur; it is the oldest major canal work of the state and the mainstay of irrigation in south Bihar.

The three dates of this one area are the whole question: the wildlife sanctuary was notified in 1978, the national park came in 1989 and the tiger reserve in 1990, so Option A and Option B are both true statements about Valmiki but answers to different questions, which is exactly…

Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University stands at Pusa in Samastipur district, on the campus where the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute was founded before it moved to New Delhi, and it was given the status of a central agricultural university in 2016.