Set 35 of the Indian States & UTs mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 8 different topics of the subject: Lakshadweep GK, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu GK, Official Languages of States and Union Territories and more. 1 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.
20 questions with answers and explanations
On which island of Lakshadweep do the people speak Mahl, written in the Thaana script?
Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, stands apart in language and culture from the rest of the territory.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu? 1. The merger of the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu was given effect to by an Act of the Parliament of India 2. After the merger of the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, three seats have been allocated in the House of People 3. The jurisdiction of the High Court of Bombay continues to extend to this Union Territory Select the answer using the code given below:
The merger was made by an Act of Parliament and the Bombay High Court still has jurisdiction, but the merged UT has two Lok Sabha seats, not three.
Read the full explanation →How many languages are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution?
The Eighth Schedule began with fourteen languages in 1950, and three amendments took the list to twenty-two: Sindhi in 1967, Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali in 1992, and Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali by the Ninety-second Amendment passed in 2003.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution declares Hindi in the Devanagari script to be the official language of the Union?
It says that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script and that the international form of Indian numerals shall be used, with English to continue for fifteen years from the commencement of the Constitution; the Official Languages Act, 1963 then allowed English to continue…
Read the full explanation →How many islands of Lakshadweep are inhabited?
Lakshadweep is made up of thirty-six islands, reefs and submerged banks, of which ten are inhabited: Kavaratti, Agatti, Amini, Kadmat, Kiltan, Chetlat, Bitra, Andrott, Kalpeni and Minicoy.
Read the full explanation →What is the capital of the union territory of Lakshadweep?
Kavaratti is the capital and administrative headquarters of Lakshadweep, the seat of the Administrator appointed by the President, and the island where the naval base INS Dweeprakshak was commissioned in 2012.
Read the full explanation →Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added to the Eighth Schedule by which amendment?
The correct answer is C, the Ninety-second Amendment, passed in 2003, which took the Eighth Schedule from eighteen languages to twenty-two by adding Bodo of Assam, Dogri of the Jammu region, Maithili of Bihar and Santhali, the language of the Santhal people spread over Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
Read the full explanation →Chandigarh became a Union Territory on which date?
On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force, Haryana was created as a separate state out of Punjab on a largely linguistic basis, parts of the hill areas went to Himachal Pradesh, and the capital city was constituted a Union Territory and made the joint capital of…
Read the full explanation →Which is the smallest union territory of India by area?
The thirty-six islands, reefs and banks of Lakshadweep together have a land area of only thirty-two square kilometres, the smallest of any state or union territory of India.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to actually establish the institution of Lokayukta?
The idea came from the First Administrative Reforms Commission, which recommended a Lokpal at the Centre and a Lokayukta in the states to look into complaints of corruption and maladministration against public functionaries.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following states has adopted English as the official language of the state?
The state has many tribal languages and no single dominant tongue, so English, already the language of administration and of education through the churches and schools, was adopted as the official language; Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have done the same, Meghalaya using Khasi and Garo as associate languages.
Read the full explanation →In September 2024 the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Port Blair, was renamed as:
The Government of India announced in September 2024 that the capital of the union territory would be renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, replacing a name that came from the colonial period.
Read the full explanation →The Pitti Bird Sanctuary, an important nesting site for terns, is located in which union territory?
Pitti is a tiny uninhabited rock and sandbank in the Lakshadweep group, declared a bird sanctuary because terns, including the sooty tern and the brown noddy, nest there in large numbers.
Read the full explanation →The Yanam region of the Union Territory of Puducherry is an enclave within which state?
Yanam is a small region of about seventeen square kilometres in the delta of the Godavari, surrounded by Andhra Pradesh, and Telugu is its official language.
Read the full explanation →The official language of Goa is
The Goa, Daman and Diu Official Language Act of 1987 made Konkani the official language, and the same year Goa became a full state; the script is specified because Konkani is written in more than one script.
Read the full explanation →The living root bridges, grown from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees, are found in which state?
In the Khasi and Jaintia hills villagers train the aerial roots of the Indian rubber fig across streams and let them thicken over decades into bridges that strengthen with age rather than rotting, as a wooden bridge would in that rainfall; the double-decker bridge at Nongriat near Cherrapunji is the…
Read the full explanation →The islands then known as the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands were renamed Lakshadweep in which year?
The group became a union territory on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, when it was separated from the Malabar district of the old Madras State, and it carried the long name Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands until 1973, when it was renamed Lakshadweep.
Read the full explanation →Sanskrit is the second official language of which two states?
Uttarakhand made Sanskrit its second official language in 2010 and Himachal Pradesh followed in 2019, both keeping Hindi as the first official language; the step is largely symbolic but is asked very often.
Read the full explanation →The only airport of Lakshadweep is located on which island?
Agatti has the only airport of Lakshadweep, so every visitor who flies to the territory lands there and travels on to other islands by boat or helicopter.
Read the full explanation →The official language of the union territory of Lakshadweep is
The islands lie off the Kerala coast, their people speak a dialect close to Malayalam except on Minicoy, where Mahl is spoken, and the administration works in Malayalam along with English.
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