Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 8

The airport at Ayodhya Dham is named after Maharishi Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana, and was inaugurated at the end of December 2023 to carry pilgrim traffic to the city.

The Purvanchal Expressway runs about 341 km from Chand Sarai near Lucknow to Haidaria in Ghazipur district, passing through Barabanki, Amethi, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh and Mau.

The census of 1881 was the first in which the count was taken across the country on one reference date, and W. C. Plowden served as the first Census Commissioner of India; from then on a census has been held every ten years.

The exact count was 19,98,12,341 persons, which is usually rounded to twenty crore in discussion, and candidates should recognise both the rounded and the exact form.

Magadha lay on the southern bank of the Ganga, in the region of present day Patna, Gaya and Nalanda, with its early capital at Rajagriha among the hills and later at Pataliputra at the meeting of the Ganga and the Son.

The sarus is the tallest flying bird in the world, standing about as high as a man, and it nests in the shallow marshes and flooded fields of Mainpuri, Etawah, Etah and Aligarh, which makes Uttar Pradesh its stronghold in India; the pair that stays together for life has made…

Chandawar lies on the Yamuna near present day Firozabad, and the battle fought there in 1194 ended the power of the Gahadavala ruler Jaichand, who was killed.

The Bhadawari buffalo comes from the Bhadawar tract along the Yamuna and Chambal in Agra, Etawah and the neighbouring districts, and although its yield is modest the fat percentage of its milk is the highest among Indian buffalo breeds, which makes it valued for ghee.

The Vatsa mahajanapada lay in the Ganga and Yamuna doab with its capital at Kaushambi, and its best known ruler was Udayana, who appears in Sanskrit literature and in Buddhist texts alike.

The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq founded Jaunpur in 1359 and named it after his cousin and predecessor Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whose earlier name was Juna Khan.

The Agra Canal starts at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna near Delhi and was opened in 1874.

After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to the five ascetics who had been his companions.

Uttar Pradesh is landlocked, so it can have no coastal plain at all. The state is divided into three physical regions only: the Bhabhar and Terai belt in the north, the Ganga plain in the middle and the southern plateau and hills beyond the Yamuna.

After the invasion of Timur shattered Tughlaq authority, Malik Sarwar, who held the title Malik us Sharq or lord of the east, made Jaunpur independent in 1394, and his successors ruled as the Sharqis until 1479.

Bakhira, in Sant Kabir Nagar district of eastern Uttar Pradesh, is the largest natural lake of the state. It is protected as a bird sanctuary for the migratory birds that winter there and is also listed as a Ramsar wetland of international importance.

Kushinara, the Kushinagar of today in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was a town of the Malla mahajanapada, and the Buddha died there between two sal trees at the age of eighty, a death traditionally dated to 483 BCE and remembered as the mahaparinirvana.

The battle of Kannauj, also called the battle of Bilgram, was fought in 1540 and completed the work begun at Chausa a year earlier.

The capital of the Ashokan pillar at Sarnath carries four lions standing back to back on an abacus bearing four wheels and four animals, and it was adopted as the State Emblem of India on 26 January 1950.

The Buland Darwaza is the towering southern gateway of the Jama Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri, raised by Akbar as a gate of victory in memory of his conquest of Gujarat.