Which river is known as the Sorrow of Bihar?
- A.Sone
- B.Kosi
- C.Falgu
- D.Punpun
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Kosi. The Kosi rises in Nepal, carries an enormous load of Himalayan silt and keeps raising its own bed, so it spills over and abandons its channel again and again. It has shifted its course far to the west over the last two centuries and floods a wide belt of northern Bihar almost every year, which is how it earned the name.
Option A, the Sone, joins the Ganga from the south and is the largest southern tributary in the state; it does not behave in this way. Option C, the Falgu, flows past Gaya and is famous for the Pitrapaksha rites rather than for floods. Option D, the Punpun, is another southern river of the Ganga basin. Note the parallel names asked in the same papers: the Damodar is the Sorrow of Bengal and the Hwang Ho the Sorrow of China.
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Practice Questions
View allBihar Diwas is celebrated every year on which date?
- A.22 March
- B.15 November
- C.1 November
- D.26 January
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On 22 March 1912 the province of Bihar and Orissa was carved out of the Bengal Presidency, which gave Bihar a separate administrative identity for the first time.
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- A.1956
- B.1972
- C.2000
- D.2014
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Jharkhand was created on 15 November 2000, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, out of the southern plateau districts of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only national park of Bihar?
- A.Valmiki National Park
- B.Betla National Park
- C.Dudhwa National Park
- D.Kanha National Park
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It lies in the West Champaran district on the border with Nepal, in the basin of the Gandak, and forms the core of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, the only tiger reserve of the state.
Read the full explanation →Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment at which place in present day Bihar?
- A.Sarnath
- B.Bodh Gaya
- C.Kushinagar
- D.Lumbini
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The Buddha attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree on the bank of the Falgu at Bodh Gaya in the Gaya district.
Read the full explanation →Mahatma Gandhi's first satyagraha in India, launched in Bihar in 1917, is known as the
- A.Kheda Satyagraha
- B.Champaran Satyagraha
- C.Bardoli Satyagraha
- D.Dandi March
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Gandhi went to Champaran in northern Bihar in 1917 at the repeated request of the cultivator Raj Kumar Shukla, to look into the tinkathia system under which peasants had to grow indigo on a fixed part of their holding for European planters.
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