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Haryana SI Female Exam 26.09.2021(Morning Shift)

📆 April 29, 2025

Total Questions: 100

1. The Elephanta cave temples were so named during the times of which rulers?

Correct Answer: (D) The Rashtrakutas
Solution:The Elephanta Caves (earlier known as Gharapuri) are a network of sculpted caves located on Elephanta Island in (Mumbai) Maharashtra.
  • The date of the famous Elephanta Caves is still very much debated and varies from the 6th century to the 8th century.
  • The cave temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, was excavated sometime in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta kings.

2. In which place were the Vijayanagara empire ruins found?

Correct Answer: (2) Hampi
Solution:The site of Hampi (Vijayanagara district, Karnataka) comprises mainly the remnants of the capital city of the Vijayanagara Empire (14th-16th century CE), the last great Hindu Kingdom.
  • The Vijayanagara Empire was defeated by a coalition of sultanates: in 1565 (Battle of Talikota), after which Hampi remained in ruins.

3. After suppression of the 1857 rebellion. Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to

Correct Answer: (4) Myanmar
Solution:Bahadur Shah Zafar (also known as Aboo Zafar) ascended the Mughal throne in 1837 at the age of 62. He succeeded his father, Emperor Akbar Shah II.
  • On 4th December 1858, he along with his family was transported from Diamond Harbor to Rangoon (Myanmar) on the Ship 'Magoera, and reached there on 10 December 1858

4. Where was the headquarters of the Theosophical Society established in India?

Correct Answer: (4) Adyar
Solution:The Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and Col. Olcott in 1875 in New York.
  • It was only in 1879. that this ideology gained its roots in the Indian culture and Society.
  • It was crystallised in the Madras Presidency with its head quarters in Adayar.

5. Who surrendered the knight-hood 'Sir' after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?

Correct Answer: (4) Rabindranath Tagore
Solution:Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood after the Jallian walaBagh massacre.
  • The massacre took place in Amritsar on April 13, 1919 when the crowd in Jallianwala Bagh was fired upon by British Indian Army.

6. The Cellular jail built in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is presently named after which eminent personality person?

Correct Answer: (1) Veer Savarkar
Solution:The construction of cellular jail was started in 1896 and completed in 1910 based on suggestion from LyallLeth-bridge Commission.
  • In 1911. freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkarwas sentenced to 50 years in the cellular jail of Andamans (also known as Kala Pani) for revolting against the Morley Minto reforms (Indian Councils Act 1909).
  • He was released in 1924.
  • Cellular Jail built in Andaman is named after Veer Savarkar.

7. Who was honoured with the title 'Rai Bahadur' in Haryana?

Correct Answer: (4) Sir Chhotu Ram
Solution:Chhotu Ram was a co-founder of the National Unionist Party(a cross communal alliance of Hindu and Muslim agriculturists) which ruled the United Punjab Province in pre Independent India.
  • He was awarded the title of 'Rao Bahadur'.
  • He was knighted in 1937 and was popularly known as Deen Bandhu.

8. Who called the Brahma Sarovar of Haryana as a miniature sea?

Correct Answer: (1) Abul Fazl
Solution:Brahma Sarovar is an ancient water pool sacred to Hinduism in Thanesar, Haryana.
  • Having seen its huge water body Abul-Fazl the courtier of Mughal emperor Akbar during solar eclipse has described the vast water body of this sarovar as miniature Sea.

9. At which place of Haryana did Muhammad Ghori defeat Prithviraj Chauhan?

Correct Answer: (3) Taraori
Solution:Muhammad of Ghori of the Muslim Ghurid dynasty defeated Prithviraj Chauhan of the Chauhan dynasty at the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192.
  • It took place near Tarain (modern Taraori in Haryana).

10. Who among the following was not the Governor of Haryana?

Correct Answer: (2) Acharya Devvrat
Solution:Mahaveer Prasad served as Governor of Haryana From 14 June 1994 to 1999.
  • Acharya Devvrat is the Governor of Gujarat since July 2019.
  • JaisukhlalHathi was appointed Governor of Haryana on 14 August 1976 to 1977.
  • Babu Parmanand served as Governor of Haryana from 19 June 1999 to 2 July 2004.
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