General Awareness · Geography

Indian State Culture and Geography

4,025 Questions

Test your knowledge of regional cuisines, traditional handlooms, agricultural belts, and iconic monuments across various Indian states. These questions form a core part of the static general knowledge syllabus. This material is highly relevant for SSC, railway, state PSC, and civil services examinations.

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Indian State Culture and Geography Questions

Multiple choice mysuru division our karnataka history bengaluru division

Which place is known as the Kashmir of Karnataka?

  1. Chikkamagaluru

  2. Kodagu

  3. Mandya

  4. Chikkamagalur

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Kodagu is a hill station with valleys, forests, waterfalls, woods, wildlife, history and trekking trails. It is also known as Coorg. Climatic characteristics of Coorg remain pleasant throughout the year, specially in summer. Some upper hilly region it may be below 0C in winter. Thus, it is also called the Kashmir of Karnataka.

Multiple choice social studies climatic regions weather in different seasons and classification of objects physical factors of earth seasons in india

Which group of the states is associated with mango showers?

  1. Kerala and Jammu & Kashmir

  2. Gujarat and Rajasthan

  3. Kerala and Karnataka

  4. Karnataka and West Bengal

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

  • Mango showers are the rains that include light showers to heavy rains with thunders. These are due to the thunderstorm developed in the Bay of Bengal. These result in falling apart of mangoes from trees.
  • Mango showers are common especially, in Kerala, Karnataka coasts.

Multiple choice gujarat: agriculture, industry and transportation transport, communication and trade geography

Which region of Gujarat is famous for its wheat production?

  1. Kanam

  2. Charotar

  3. Bhal

  4. Nalkantha

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Bhal region is situated on the deltas of the Sabarmati, Bhogawo, Bhada, Lilka and other rivers that flow east and southeast off the Kathiawar peninsula into the Gulf of Cambay. Bhalia Wheat is a major farm cultivation in the region.

Multiple choice gujarat: agriculture, industry and transportation transport, communication and trade geography

 Which region is well known for the production of Bhalia wheat in Gujarat?

  1. Bhal region of Surat

  2. Bhal region of Kutch

  3. Bhal region of Kheda

  4. Bhal region of Ahmedabad

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Wheat is produced in the black and loamy soil which holds moisture. For the better production of wheat moderate temperature, rainfall and sufficient sunlight is required at the time of harvest. Wheat production is more in Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar and Surendranagar districts of Gujarat. Bhal region of Ahmedabad (Dhandhuka Taluka) is well known for the production of Bhalia wheat. Bhalia, a long grain wheat variety rich in protein is grown under conserved soil moisture conditions in Bhal region of Gujarat.

Multiple choice evs - ii stone age: stone tools stone age tools early human life pre-historic india

Edakkal cave is a major Neolithic site. Where is it located?

  1. Tamil Nadu

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Andhra Pradesh

  4. Kerala

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Edakkal cave is situated at Ambukuthi Hills in Sulthan Bathery is in Wayanad district, Kerala. The rock engravings of Edakkal cave is 3000 to 6000 years old. It is the only known place for stone age carvings in South India. The contain drawings range over periods from the Neolithic as early as 5,000 BC to 1,000 BCE.

Multiple choice gujarat: location, boundary and physiography geography

Gujarat is located on which part of India?

  1. Eastern

  2. Western

  3. Northern

  4. Southern

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Gujarat is spread over an area of 196,024 sq km (6 per cent of India’s land area). It is located on the Western coast of India and has the longest coastline of 1,600 km in the country.

Multiple choice history tribals, dikus and the vision of a golden age indigo rebellion struggles storms jungles the revolts of peasants and the tribals

Konds are the tribal communities found in which of the following places?

  1. Bihar

  2. Odisha

  3. Andhra Pradesh

  4. All of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Khonds are an ethnic indigenous tribal people of India. They are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal.

Multiple choice history architecture as power: forts and sacred places cholas of tanjore forts and temples in medieval period cultural heritage of india

In which state is the sun temple of Konark located?

  1. Tamil Nadu

  2. Odisha

  3. Gujarat

  4. Madhya Pradesh

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century CE sun temple at Konark about 35 kilometres northeast from Puri on the coastline of Odisha, India.The temple is attributed to king Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty about 1250 CE.

Multiple choice geography agriculture in india - ii : food crops pulses cultivation in india production of agricultural crops food crops in india

Which region is known as the 'Rice Bowl of India'?

  1. Indo-Gangetic Plain

  2. Krishna-Godavari Delta region

  3. North-East region

  4. Kerala and Tamil Nadu

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
rice bowl of Krishna-Godavari Delta region
Krishna-Godavari Delta region is historically called the “Rice Bowl of India”, although the same term is also used for Chhattisgarh. In Andhra Pradesh itself, East Godavari district is known as the rice bowl of Andhra Pradesh.
Multiple choice evs improvement in food resources crop yield improvement food supply crop improvement methods and organisations

In India, the state famous for peanut cultivation is

  1. Gujarat

  2. Goa

  3. Punjab

  4. Tamil nadu

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Peanut is grown mostly in five states namely Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Maharashtra, and together they account for about 90 percent of the crop's total area. Two of these states (Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat) account for more than half of the cultivated area.

So, the correct option is 'Gujrat'.