Answer: Lahaul-Spiti
HP GK Questions with Answers & Quiz
Q. In which district of Himachal Pradesh is the famous Tabo Monastery, often referred to as the “Ajanta of the Himalayas”?
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Q. Yamuna river leaves Himachal Pradesh at which place?
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Tajewala
Q. Which Pass connects Lahaul with Zanskar?
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Kang La Pass
Description: The Kang La Pass connects Lahaul with Zanskar valley on to the Ladakh. Kang La Pass was the traditional route used by Lahaulis to cross over into Zanskar.
Q. 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.
Q. 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.