Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 7

Bihar had 10,40,99,452 people in 2011, about 10.41 crore, which placed it third after Uttar Pradesh with about 19.98 crore and Maharashtra with about 11.24 crore.

Jharkhand was carved out of the southern districts of Bihar on that day, which is also the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, and the date is observed as the foundation day of the new state.

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

The Gandak barrage was built at Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran district, on the border with Nepal, under an agreement between the two countries.

Bihar recorded 1,106 persons per square kilometre in 2011, the highest of any state, because the alluvial plain of the Ganga is fertile, level and watered, and the state has very little forest or hill to thin the settlement.

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.

Udayin, the son and successor of Ajatashatru, built a fort at the meeting point of the Ganga and the Son and moved the Magadhan capital there from Rajagriha.

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…

Bihar had a literacy rate of 61.80 per cent in 2011, the lowest of any state, with male literacy at 71.20 per cent and female literacy at 51.50 per cent, so barely half the women of the state were counted as literate.

The Kaimur plateau is a block of Vindhyan sandstone that continues into Bihar from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and occupies the south-western corner of the state in Rohtas and Kaimur districts.

The First Buddhist Council met at the Sattapanni cave in Rajagriha soon after the death of the Buddha, under the patronage of Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty.

A chaur is a shallow, saucer-shaped basin in the flat North Bihar plain that holds water for much of the year because the land has almost no slope and the rivers have raised their own beds.

Bihar grew by 25.42 per cent between the censuses of 2001 and 2011, the fastest among the large states of India, which is why its share in the population of the country keeps rising.

It is spread across Kaimur and Rohtas districts on the Kaimur plateau in the south-west of the state, and by area it is the largest protected area in Bihar.

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.

The refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation at Barauni was built with Soviet assistance in the nineteen sixties and became the nucleus of the only heavy industrial cluster in the state, with a thermal power station, a fertiliser plant and a large dairy around it.

Bihar had 918 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, while its child sex ratio for ages nought to six was 935, which is better than the national child sex ratio.

Mahapadma Nanda overthrew the Shishunagas and founded the Nanda dynasty in the fourth century BCE.

Sheikhpura, a small district carved out of Munger, had the smallest population of all the districts of Bihar in 2011, while Patna had the largest.

Harisena was Samudragupta's court poet and a high officer, and he composed the long eulogy engraved on an older Ashokan pillar now at Allahabad.