Haryana GK Questions 2026

Parmar led the hill states movement from the 1940s, headed the government through the Union Territory years and took office as the first Chief Minister of the full state on 25 January 1971; the horticulture university at Nauni near Solan is named after him.

The Great Himalayan National Park lies in the upper Beas basin of Kullu district and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014 for its alpine biodiversity; it protects the western tragopan, the monal and the Himalayan brown bear.

The Sutlej, which rises from the Rakshastal near Mansarovar in Tibet, crosses into India at Shipki La in Kinnaur district, and it is the longest river of Himachal Pradesh, carrying the Bhakra, Nathpa Jhakri and Kol Dam projects.

Dharamshala, the headquarters of Kangra district and the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, was declared the second or winter capital of Himachal Pradesh in 2017, while Shimla remains the capital and the seat of the High Court.

The State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 came into force on that day and Indira Gandhi inaugurated the new state at Shimla, with Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar as its first Chief Minister.

Guru Gobind Singh died at Nanded in 1708, and before his death he had sent Banda Singh Bahadur to Punjab to lead the Khalsa against Mughal authority.

Ropar, the modern Rupnagar on the left bank of the Sutlej, was the first Harappan site excavated after Independence, and its trenches showed a sequence of occupation from the Harappan period through Painted Grey Ware to later historical levels.

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha is a single chamber house of 117 elected members, the strength fixed for the state after the reorganisation of 1966 and the delimitation that followed; Punjab has no Legislative Council.

Giddha, also spelt Gidda, is the women's folk dance of Punjab, danced in a ring to the clapping of hands and to boliyan, short verses sung by the dancers themselves.

On Baisakhi in 1699 Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru, initiated the Panj Piare there and founded the Khalsa, giving it the five articles of faith.

Punjab was annexed by Lord Dalhousie at the close of the Second Anglo Sikh War, after the battles of Chillianwala and Gujrat, and the young Maharaja Dalip Singh was pensioned off.

It was Baisakhi day, and a crowd had gathered in the walled Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of local leaders.

The correct answer is B, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, who founded the settlement around the sacred tank that gave the city its name.

Harike, also called Hari ke Pattan, was formed by a barrage built where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and it is the largest wetland of northern India.

Bhakra is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej in the Shivalik gorge at Bhakra, and the lake behind it is the Gobind Sagar.

The name Punjab joins the Persian words panj, five, and ab, water, for the land watered by the Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum.

Chandigarh was planned in the 1950s as the new capital of Punjab after Lahore went to Pakistan.

On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force: Haryana was created as a separate state, the hill districts such as Kangra, Kullu and Shimla were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh was made a Union Territory to serve as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana.

In the colour code used for fire extinguishers, a black band or label marks a carbon dioxide extinguisher. The body of the cylinder is signal red and a coloured patch near the label tells you the filling at a glance, so the right cylinder can be picked in a hurry.

Fires are sorted into classes by what is burning, and Class A covers ordinary solid fuels — wood, paper, cloth, straw, rubber and many plastics.