More Questions on Maharashtra
- Q. How many Padma Shri Award recipients were from Maharashtra when it was first awarded in 1954?
A)4 Recipients
B)5 Recipients
C)3 Recipients
D)6 Recipients
Answer: 6 Recipients
- Q. Which National Highway runs through Mumbai?
A)NH-48
B)NH-16
C)NH-44
D)NH-42
Answer: NH-48
- Q. Who was the first Principal of Fergusson College, Pune
A)Vaman Shivram Apte
B)Mahadeo Ballal Namjoshi
C)Vishnushastri Chiplunkar
D)Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Answer: Vaman Shivram Apte
- Q. The Gateway of India was erected to commemorate the landing of which King in 1911?
A)George III
B)George IV
C)George II
D)George V
Answer: George V
- Q. Who is the mayor of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (2022)?
A)Suhas Wadkar
B)Snehal Ambekar
C)Kishori Pednekar
D)Vishwanath Mahadeshwar
Answer: Kishori Pednekar
- Q. Maharashtra State Board of Secondary Education, Pune came in existence in the year of?
A)1st January, 1977
B)1st January, 1955
C)1st January, 1966
D)1st January, 1988
Answer: 1st January, 1966
- Q. Who of the following is the author of the well-known book ‘History of Dharmasastra’?
A)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B)Pandurang Sadashiv Sane
C)Pandurang Vaman Kane
D)R. G. Bhandarkar
Answer: Pandurang Vaman Kane
- Q. On whose marriage, Bombay was handed over to England as part of the dowry by Portugal
A)Catherine of Braganza
B)Dona Maria I
C)Henrietta Maria
D)Maria Isabel of Braganza
Answer: Catherine of Braganza
- Q. Which city is known as the “Financial Capital Of India”?
A)Nagpur
B)Pune
C)Mumbai
D)Thane
Answer: Mumbai
- Q. Who established the first cotton mill in Bombay
A)Jamshedji Tata
B)Cowasjee Nanabhoy
C)Dadabhai Naoroji
D)Mafatlal
Answer: Cowasjee Nanabhoy
- Q. The river Koyna joins the river Krishna at ________
A)Karad
B)Kolhapur
C)Satara
D)Mahabaleshwar
Answer: Karad
- Q. When was the University of Mumbai established?
A)1857
B)1957
C)1757
D)1975
Answer: 1857
- Q. Who was the first recipient of the Maharashtra Bhushan Award?
A)Sachin Tendulkar
B)Ratan Tata
C)Lata Mangeshkar
D)Purushottam Deshpande
Answer: Purushottam Deshpande
- Q. Who was the first athlete from India to win an individual medal in the Olympics who belongs from Maharashtra?
A)K. D. Jadhav
B)Leander Paes
C)Vijender Kumar
D)Abhinav Bindra
Answer: K. D. Jadhav
- Q. The Maratha King became a nonentity and the Peshwa the virtual ruler from the time of
A)Baji Rao I
B)Balaji Rao
C)Balaji Vishwanath
D)Madnav Rao I
Answer: Baji Rao I
- Q. Who was Maharashtra’s home minister on 26 November 2008?
A)Shivrai Patil
B)Prtibha Patil
C)Jayant Patil
D)Raosaheb Patil
Answer: Raosaheb Patil
- Q. Marathi Rangabhoomi Din is celebrated on
A)26th October
B)28th October
C)5th October
D)5th November
Answer: 5th November
- Q. Who was the first peshwa of the Maratha Empire
A)Madhav-Rao I
B)Moropant Trimbak Pingle
C)Balaji Vishwanath
D)Raghunath-Rao
Answer: Moropant Trimbak Pingle
- Q. In which year Portuguese occupied Mumbai
A)1531
B)1534
C)1528
D)1537
Answer: 1534
- Q. The Treaty of Bassein was signed in the year
A)1802
B)1803
C)1801
D)1804
Answer: 1802
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