Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 26

The Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, established in 1983, is the state's leading referral and postgraduate medical institute, and it stands at Lucknow along with King George's Medical University and the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences.

The UP Board has its headquarters at Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, with regional offices elsewhere in the state, and the Basic Shiksha Parishad that looks after classes one to eight is seated in the same city.

The circuit was built at Greater Noida, which lies in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district next to Delhi, and it held the Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the first of them won by Sebastian Vettel.

Dhyan Chand was born there on 29 August 1905, joined the army and rose to the rank of Major, and became the centre forward of the Indian teams that won three successive Olympic hockey gold medals.

IIT Kanpur was founded in 1959 and was built up in its early years with the help of a consortium of American universities, which gave it an early lead in computer science and aeronautical engineering.

Firozabad has been the centre of the Indian glass industry for more than a century, and its furnaces turn out bangles, chandeliers and glassware that are sold across the country; the trade is also the district product under the One District One Product programme.

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, called K. D. Singh Babu, came from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, won Olympic gold with the Indian hockey team at London in 1948 and at Helsinki in 1952, where he was the captain, and the Lucknow stadium carries his name.

The scheme, launched in 2019 and run by the Department of Women and Child Development, pays in six stages: at birth, after the full course of vaccination in the first year, on admission to Class 1, on admission to Class 6, on admission to Class 9, and on admission to…

In the Census of 2011 Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of Noida on the edge of Delhi, recorded the highest literacy rate in the state, while Shrawasti in the eastern districts recorded the lowest; the state's own rate was 67.68 per cent.

Article 219 says that every person appointed to be a judge of a High Court shall, before he enters upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the Governor of the state, or some person appointed in that behalf by him, in the form set out in…

Uttar Pradesh gives its highest sporting honour under two names, the Laxman Award for men and the Rani Laxmi Bai Award for women, the latter named after the queen of Jhansi, a city of the state; both carry a cash prize and a citation.

In Uttar Pradesh the Zila Panchayat, the district tier of panchayati raj, is headed by an elected Adhyaksh, with an Up-Adhyaksh as the deputy, under the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961.

The Central Drug Research Institute stands at Lucknow, which also holds the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, the National Botanical Research Institute and the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, all of them laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Dhyan Chand was born at Allahabad on 29 August 1905, grew up at Jhansi and played in the Indian teams that won the hockey gold at Amsterdam in 1928, Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936, the last as captain.

The Yash Bharti Samman, instituted in 1994, is the highest civilian honour of Uttar Pradesh and has been conferred on writers, artists, musicians, sportspersons and others for distinguished achievement, with a cash award.

Sucheta Kripalani took charge of the Uttar Pradesh government in October 1963 and became the first woman to head a state government anywhere in India, a fact that is asked in both the state and the national general knowledge papers.

The Gorakhpur and Basti divisions of eastern Uttar Pradesh form the country's best-known belt of acute encephalitis syndrome and Japanese encephalitis, and Baba Raghav Das Medical College at Gorakhpur is the main centre treating it, with a Regional Medical Research Centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research in the…

The Indian Grand Prix was run for three seasons at the Buddh International Circuit at Greater Noida, beginning with the 2011 race won by Sebastian Vettel, after which the event was taken off the Formula One calendar.

Mohammed Shahid, celebrated for his dribbling and close stick work, came from Varanasi, was a member of the Indian hockey team that won the Olympic gold at Moscow in 1980, and received the Padma Shri in 1986 after the Arjuna Award earlier in the decade.

Sudha Singh belongs to the Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh and won the gold medal in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Asian Games held at Guangzhou in 2010, going on to represent India at the Olympic Games; she is the best known woman distance runner the state has produced.