Q 01/05

Which author of Animal Farm was born in Motihari, Bihar, in 1903, to an Opium Department official?

A) George Orwell

B) Rudyard Kipling

C) E. M. Forster

D) Graham Greene

Answer · why

A) George Orwell

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair, son of a sub-deputy opium agent, and restoration of his Motihari birthplace began in 2014.

Q 02/05

Which Mauryan-era caves in Bihar were E. M. Forster's model for the cave episode of A Passage to India?

A) Ajanta

B) Barabar

C) Ellora

D) Elephanta

Answer · why

B) Barabar

The Barabar Caves are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, and Ashoka's inscriptions there record his gift of several of them to the Ajivika ...

Q 03/05

Which Bihar labourer spent 22 years cutting a 110-metre path through a hill with a hammer and chisel?

A) Jadav Payeng

B) Dashrath Manjhi

C) Baba Amte

D) Sunderlal Bahuguna

Answer · why

B) Dashrath Manjhi

Dashrath Manjhi began in 1960 after his injured wife died with the nearest doctor 70 km away round the ridge, and finished the 9-metre-wide cut in 198...

Q 04/05

Which native of Ziradei in Siwan district was the first President of India, from 1950 to 1962?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Rajendra Prasad

C) Zakir Husain

D) S. Radhakrishnan

Answer · why

B) Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad was elected by the Constituent Assembly when India became a republic, and as a student he helped found the Bihari Students Conference ...

Q 05/05

Which river, called the 'Sorrow of Bihar', jumped back into a long-abandoned channel in August 2008?

A) Gandak

B) Kosi

C) Punpun

D) Mahananda

Answer · why

B) Kosi

The Kosi's floods hit about 21,000 square kilometres of fertile farmland in a normal year, and on 18 August 2008 it picked up a course it had left mor...