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. What is area rank According to 2011
A)4th
B)3rd
C)5th
D)6th
Answer: 3rd
- Q. Which one is a right tributaries of Godavari river
A)Kadva
B)Kadam
C)Banganga
D)Nasardi
Answer: Nasardi
- Q. The Peshwaship was abolished by the British at the time of Peshwa
A)Narayan Rao
B)Madhav-II
C)Ragunath
D)Baji Rao - II
Answer: Baji Rao - II
- Q. Abhinav Bharat Society was founded in the year
A)1904
B)1907
C)1902
D)1910
Answer: 1904
- Q. Which is the largest district in Maharashtra in terms of area?
A)Ahmednagar
B)Naglur
C)Pune
D)None of these
Answer: Ahmednagar
- Q. Who is serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharastra since 2010?
A)R. R. Patil
B)Chhagan Bhujbal
C)Prithviraj Chavan
D)Ajit Pawar
Answer: Ajit Pawar
- Q. Which Governor of Bombay approved the building of the great sea wall to prevent flooding of low lying areas
A)Thomas Hodges
B)William Hornby
C)Charles Crommelin
D)Rawson Hart Boddam
Answer: William Hornby
- Q. What is the State Tree of Maharashtra?
A)Gamhar
B)Sacred Fig
C)Mango
D)Jammi Chettu
Answer: Mango
- Q. Who established the Literary Society of Bombay
A)Robert Fergusson
B)James Mackintosh
C)William Hill
D)James Fergusson
Answer: James Mackintosh
- Q. Which one film was honoured with the first president’s Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Marathi
A)Mahatma Phule
B)Shevagyachya Shenga
C)Ha Majha Marg Ekla
D)Rangalya Ratree Ashya
Answer: Mahatma Phule
- Q. Historically, the Desh division of Maharashtra is coterminous with which among the following?
A)Nagpur
B)Pune
C)Amravati
D)Aurangabad
Answer: Pune
- Q. What was the former name of Mumbai Port Trust?
A)Bandra Port Trust
B)Thane Port Trust
C)Bombay Port Trust
D)Indira Gandhi Port Trust
Answer: Bombay Port Trust
- Q. Chand Minar at Daulatabad was built by
A)Khusro Khan
B)Muhammad bin Tughluq
C)Malik Kafur
D)Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah
Answer: Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah
- Q. Who had published the first dictionary of Marathi in devanagari script
A)William Carey
B)Robert Brown
C)Thomas Candy
D)James Thomas Molesworth
Answer: William Carey
- Q. Which place of Maharashtra is considered to be one of Asia’s largest Slums?
A)Banganga
B)Dharavi
C)Sonapur
D)Antop Hill
Answer: Dharavi
- Q. How many tiger reserves are in Maharashtra?
A)Six
B)Eight
C)Three
D)Eleven
Answer: Six
- Q. Which political party did former Chief Minister Vasantrao Banduji Patil belong to?
A)BJP
B)SHS
C)INC
D)NCP
Answer: INC
- 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. In Maharashtra, Journalist Day is celebrated on
A)4th April
B)12th June
C)6th January
D)5th September
Answer: 6th January
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