Hssc Mandi Supervisor Exam, 2016 (Evening Shift)

1. Which incident led to riotic condition on 30th January. 1970?

(1) Formation of Haryana
(2) Division of Haryana and punjab
(3) Announcement of handing over chandigarh to punjab
(4) Revolt of the farmers

Correct Answer: (3) Announcement of handing over chandigarh to punjab

Solution:Announcement of handing over chandigarh to Punjab Created a riotic condition on 30th January, 1970.

2. Bhindawas wildlife sanctuary is situated in which district?

(1) Jhajjar
(2) Rewari
(3) Gurgaon
(4) Faridabad

Correct Answer: (1) Jhajjar

Solution:Bhindawas is a village in Jhajjar district, Haryana, India. It is about 15 km from Jhajjar. It is in matenhail sub-district. Bhindawas wildlife sanctuary is nearby.

3. Which cricket player is associated with pataudi nagar?

(1) Kapil dev
(2) Nawab mansoor ali
(3) Virendra sehwag
(4) Ajay ratra

Correct Answer: (2) Nawab mansoor ali

Solution:Nawab mohammad mansoor ali khan siddiqui, mansur ali khan, or M. A. K. Pa-taudi (5 january 1941 22 september 2011), nicknamed tiger pataudi, was an indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team. He was associated with Pataudi Nagar.

4. Who was the eminent writer to use Haryanvi in jain poetry?

(1) Jaitram
(2) Bansilal
(3) Sridhar
(4) Nityananda

Correct Answer: (3) Sridhar

Solution:Vibudh Shridhar ог. Vibudha shridhara (wrote during Vikram samvat 1189-1230) was an accomplished apabhra-msha writer and poet in north India. Sridhar Aparwal was an eminent writer who used Haryanvi in Jain poetry.

5. Ratnavali is the famous writing of which poet?

(1) Jaydev
(2) Banabhatta
(3) Madhvacharya
(4) Harshavardhana

Correct Answer: (4) Harshavardhana

Solution:Ratnavali is a sanskrit drama about a beautiful princess named Ratnav ali, and a great king named Udayana. It is attributed to the indian emperor Harsha (606-648). It is a natika in four acts. One of the first textual references to the celebration of holi, the festival of colours has been found in this text.

6. 'Agroha dham'is known in entire india

(1) due to maharaj agrasen
(2) due to maurya dynasty
(3) due to Harshavardhana
(4) due to swami Dayananda

Correct Answer: (1) due to maharaj agrasen

Solution:Agroha is a hindu temple complex in agroha, Hisar district of Haryana. The central wing is dedicated to hindu goddess mahalakshmi, western wing to goddess saraswati and eastern wing to maharaja Agrasena.

7. The first sainik school of Haryana is situated in

(1) Hisar
(2) Kunjpura
(3) Madhuban
(4) Manesar

Correct Answer: (2) Kunjpura

Solution:Sainik school, Kunjpura is one of the first five sainik schools (military school) es-tablished in 1961 in india and was the first sainik school in the state of Haryana. It is situated in Karnal district.

8. Swami Dayananda saraswati, on reaching Rewari, first started.

(1) The construction of a temple
(2) The construction of Dayananda math
(3) The Dharamshala
(4) The Gaushala (cowshed)

Correct Answer: (4) The Gaushala (cowshed)

Solution:Afterwards he became the disciple of swami dayanand. In rewari swami dayanand-gave eleven religious discourses and participated in discussions. He made a violent attack on puranic gossips and incarnatism. A goshala was set up in rewari which was perhaps the first goshala in northern India.

9. In which language did lord macaulay first show his atrocity?

(1) Arabic
(2) Sanskrit
(3) Urdu
(4) Persian

Correct Answer: (2) Sanskrit

Solution:Macaulay argued that sanskrit and persian were no more accessible than English to the speakers of the indian vernacular languages and existing sanskrit and persian texts were of little use for 'useful learning'.

10. In the mutiny of 1857, the bravers of Haryana were defeated

(1) Due to non-participation of the other princely states
(2) Due to dearth of arms and ammunitions
(3) Due to lack of leadership
(4) All of the above

Correct Answer: (4) All of the above

Solution:10. The violence started on may 10. 1857 in meerut, when Mangal Pandey, a sol-dier in the army shot his commander for forcing the Indian troops to use the contro-versial rifles. Indians consti-tuted 96% of the 300,000 British army and the violence against British quickly spread (hence the name sepoy mutiny). In the mutiny of 1857.

the bravers of Haryana were defeated because of-

(1) non-participation of princely states

(11) dearth of arms and ammunitions

(iii) Due to lack of leadership.