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HP GK Questions with Answers & Quiz

  1. Three Zero Campaign is associated with which disease?

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    Ans: AIDS

    Description: The Himachal Pradesh Government has launched a decisive campaign against AIDS with the goal of three zero which includes Zero infection, Zero death and Zero discrimination.

  2. In Which Year Sher Jung surrender to the Ambala Police?

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    1930

    Description: After failed train robbery, Sher Jung sought refuge in the Shivalik jungles and dodged his British pursuers until a reward of Rs. 30,000 was declared on his head. Sher Jung then said to have surrendered for the sake of the reward money that would be used for furthering the cause of the revolutionary struggle. Sher Jung’s surrender to the Ambala Police in March 1930. Sher Jung was tried and sentenced to death in 1930 but the sentence was later commuted to life sentence.

  3. Baspa river is a tributary of which river?

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    Satluj

  4. On which river bank Alexander erected huge altars as a mark of his invasion of India?

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    Answer – Beas

    Description: Alexander, after gaining control of the former Achaemenid satrapy of Gandhara, including the city of Taxila, Alexander advanced into Punjab, where he engaged in battle against the regional king Porus, whom Alexander defeated in the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC.

    Thereafter, Alexander’s marched east put him in confrontation with the Nanda Empire of Magadha and the Gangaridai of Bengal. As per documents, the Nanda army was supposedly five times larger than the Macedonian army.

    Alexander’s army was exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain, mutinied at the Hyphasis (modern Beas River) and refused to march further east. Alexander, after a meeting with his officer, Coenus, and after hearing about the lament of his soldiers, eventually relented, being convinced that it was better to return. Alexander, then erected huge altars as a mark of his invasion of India. With the time those altars faded and completely demolished.

  5. When British completed a narrow-gauge railway between Shimla and Kalka?

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    1903

    Description: In 1903, the British had completed a narrow-gauge railway, whose diminutive locomotive led to its being called the “toy” train, to Shimla from Kalka. The UNESCO-recognized train route passes through 102 tunnels and crosses over 850 bridges.

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