Uttarakhand Gk in English

 

Q. When was Uttarakhand established?

Answer: November 9, 2000

Q. Which state of India is Uttarakhand?
Answer: The 27th

Q. When was the Uttarakhand State Bill passed in the Lok Sabha?

Answer: August 1, 2000

 

Q. Which Prime Minister announced the creation of Uttarakhand?
Answer: (H. D. Deve Gowda)

 

Q. When was the Uttarakhand State Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha?

Answer: (August 10, 2000)

 

Q. When was the name of Uttarakhand changed from ‘Uttaranchal’ to ‘Uttarakhand’?

Answer: (January 1, 2004)

 

Q. What is the name of Uttarakhand’s State Bird?

Answer: (Monal)

 

Q. What is the name of Uttarakhand’s State Tree?

Answer: (Rhododendron arboreum)

 

Q. What is the name of Uttarakhand’s State Tree?

Answer: (Rhododendron arboreum)

 

Q. What is the name of Uttarakhand’s State Bird?

Answer: (Lophophorus impejanus)

 

Q. Where is the High Court of Uttarakhand located?

Answer: (Nainital)

 

Q. What is Uttarakhand’s State Tree?

Answer: (Buransh)

 

Q. What is Uttarakhand’s State Flower?

Answer: (Brahm Kamal)

 

Q. What is the scientific name of Uttarakhand’s State Animal?

Answer: (Moschus chrysogaster)

 

Q. By what name is the Himalayan Musk Deer known?

Answer: (Kasturi Mrig / Musk Deer)

 

Q. The Monal is the State Bird of which country?

Answer: (Nepal)

 

Q. Does the State Emblem feature a mountain range?

Answer – (Three)

 

Q. What is ‘Kaulpadam’ called in the local language?

Answer – (Brahm Kamal)

 

Q. Which ruler founded Tehri?

Answer – (Sudarshan Shah)

Q. According to the Chandpur inscriptions, which dynasty was established in Chandpur, Garhwal, in 888 AD?

Answer – (Panwar Dynasty)

 

Q. Who was the founder of the Chand Dynasty?

Answer – (Somchand)

 

Q. After which dynasty did the Katyur Dynasty emerge?
Answer – (Kartikeya Dynasty)

 

Q. Which ruler spent most of his time in Haridwar?
Answer – (Jahangir)

 

Q. What is Garhwal referred to as in the Skanda Purana?

Answer – (Kedar Khand)

 

Q. Where did Adi Shankaracharya attain *Mahasamadhi* (leave his mortal body) in 820 AD?
Answer – (Kedar Khand)

 

Q. What was the old name of Gopeshwar?
Answer – (Gosthal)

 

Q. What was the old name of Haridwar?
Answer – (Mayavati)

 

Q. What was the old name of Rudraprayag?
Answer – (Punad)

Q. What was the name of the Garhwal-Kumaon region?

Answer – (Brahmapur)

 

Q. Who laid the foundation of the city of Almora?
Answer – (Kalyan Chand – 1563)

 

Q. Where have inscriptions been found in Uttarakhand?

Answer – Kalsi (Dehradun)

 

Q. Who is famous in the history of Garhwal by the name ‘Nak-Kati Rani’ (The Nose-Cutting Queen)?

(Maharani Karnavati)

 

Q. When did the Gorkhas establish their rule over Garhwal?
Answer – (1803)