States PCS: West Bengal GK Questions for WBPSC Examinations
For all West Bengal Public Service Commission (WBPSC) exams including WBCS, JE, AE, and other state-level competitive examinations.
1. What are the Mesolithic sites excavated in Bengal?
[A] Burdwan & Murshidabad
[B] Midnapore & Burdwan
[C] Burdwan, Midnapore and Birbhum
[D] All of the above
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Correct Answer: C [Burdwan, Midnapore and Birbhum]
Notes:
Only three sites, namely Birbhanpur in Burdwan district, Paruldanga in Birbhum
district and Chamargora in Midnapore district have been excavated in West Bengal.
2. Which of these is not a currency used in Sena Dynasty?
[A] Purana
[B] Putara
[C] Dharan
[D] Dramma
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Correct Answer: B [Putara]
Notes:
Various currency names have been regularly mentioned in the Sena writings, such as Purana, Dharan, Dramma. These terms were used to mean a silver coin weighing 32 ratis (56.6 grains) or a karshapan weighing scale.
3. According to copperplate, who was Srichandra’s son?
[A] Govindachandra
[B] Ladahachandra
[C] Kalyanachandra
[D] Trailokyachandra
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Correct Answer: C [Kalyanachandra]
Notes:
Only one copperplate of Srichandra’;s son and successor Kalyanachandra (c 975-1000 AD) has so far been discovered. The copperplates of Kalyanachandra’;s successors mention that he made his power felt in Gauda and Kamarupa.
4. Which title among these was not held by king Harishchandra?
[A] Parama-bhattaraka Maharajadhiraja Parameshvara
[B] Ashva-pati Nara-pati Gaja-pati Rajatrayadhipati
[C] Vividha-vidya-vichara-vachaspati
[D] Maharajadhiraja paramsanghita
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Correct Answer: D [Maharajadhiraja paramsanghita]
Notes:
After Jayachandra was defeated and killed by the Muslim Ghurid invaders, Harishchandra succeeded him on the Gahadavala throne. He was around 19 years old at the time. According to one theory, he was a Ghurid vassal. However, in an inscription found at Kotwa, he assumes the traditional sovereign titles: Parama-bhattaraka Maharajadhiraja Parameshvara, Ashva-pati Nara-pati Gaja-pati Rajatrayadhipati, and Vividha-vidya-vichara-vachaspati.
5. Name which of these is not an archeological site of Bengal.
[A] Mangalkot in Burdwan district
[B] Lal Qilla in Agra
[C] Pandu Rajar Dhibi
[D] Tarafeni Valley in West Midnapore
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Correct Answer: B [Lal Qilla in Agra]
Notes:
Some of the archaeologically oldest sites where history goes back at least to the early first millennium BC are Paharpur on the Atrai River (now in
Bangladesh); Mahasthangarh, also known as Pundravardhana on the
Karatoya River (in Bogra district in Bangladesh); Mainamati in the Comilla
district of Bangladesh; Mangalkot in Burdwan district, Chandraketugarh in North 24 Parganas district; Pandu Rajar Dhibi and some prehistoric sites on
the Ajay River in Birbhum district; and Tarafeni Valley in West Midnapore
district, all in West Bengal.
6. Who wrote Brahmagupta?
[A] Al-Biruni
[B] Al-Mirza
[C] Al-Sadr
[D] Al-Quidi
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Correct Answer: A [Al-Biruni]
Notes:
Emperor Shalivahana, grandson of legendary emperor Vikramaditya defeated the Shakas in 78 CE, and the Shaka era marks the day of this conquest. This legend has been mentioned in the writings of Brahmagupta (7th century CE), Al-Biruni (973-1048 CE), and others.
7. Name a book that Alaol wrote–
[A] Sati Kanyama
[B] Padmabat
[C] Panchatantra
[D] Sarbhagyashalini
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Correct Answer: B [Padmabat]
Notes:
The name of Alaol, an inhabitant of Faridpur district of
Eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh), in the seventeenth century is very important in this field. His best work is ‘Padmabat’, which was written in 1651 at the request of Magan Thakur, a minister of
Arakan Raj. It is the Bengali adoption of ‘Padmabat’ of the Awadhi
poet, Malik Muhammad Jayasi
8. Nripati Tilak was the title of–
[A] Alibardi Khan
[B] Alauddin Hussain Shah
[C] Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
[D] Bakhtiyar Khilji
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Correct Answer: B [Alauddin Hussain Shah ]
Notes:
Alauddin Hussain Shah was a prominent personality of Bengali literature. The
Hindus honoured him as an avatar of Krishna, ‘Nripati Tilak’(Crown of Kings) and
‘Jagat Bhushan’ (Adornment of the Universe).
9. Tughlaq Nama was written by–
[A] Amir Qyeedi
[B] Syeed Javeri
[C] Shah Kazim Qadri
[D] Amir Khusrau
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Correct Answer: D [Amir Khusrau]
Notes:
Tughlaq Nama (Book of the Tughlaqs), 1320 – a historic masnavi of the reign of the Tughlaq dynasty written by Amir Khusrau.
10. After Bangladesh, the next available epigraphic record was–
[A] Vijayanagar inscription
[B] Palassi inscription
[C] Munshiganj inscription
[D] Susunia Hill inscription
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Correct Answer: D [Susunia Hill inscription ]
Notes:
After Bangladesh, the next available epigraphic record is the well-known Susunia Hill inscription (third century AD) of one Chandravarman
—who was perhaps a local ruler in Bankura district from the Chandra of
Mehrauli iron pillar in Delhi or from Maharaja Chandra mentioned in the Allahabad pillar inscription of the Gupta emperor Samudragupta.
