HP GK Questions with Answers & Quiz
Q. Hamta Pass is located in which district?
Kullu
Description: Hamta Pass lies at an altitude of 4270 m (14039 ft) on the Pir Panjal range in the Himalayas. It is a small corridor between Lahaul’s Chandra Valley and Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Hamta pass is frequently used by shepherds of the lower Himalayan region, seeking high altitude grasslands in the summer, when the dry cold desert of Lahaul is barren.
Q. At which place Rabindra Nath Tagore spent few months in Himachal Pradesh?
Dalhousie
Description: Great Poet, novelist and Novel Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore spend few months at Dalhousie. During the summer of 1873 Tagore with his father Maharishi Debendra Natha Tagore visited Dalhousie. He had also mentioned his visit to the Dalhousie in a letter to his friend in 1910 and acknowledged his debt to the Himalayas for providing the initial inspiration and motivation for writing.
Q. Yamuna river leaves Himachal Pradesh at which place?
Tajewala
Q. Who win Noble Economics Prize 2019?
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer
Description: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Kremer of Harvard University were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Q. Which festival is celebrated in Lahaul and Spiti during winter, where people engage in masked dances to ward off evil spirits?
Answer: Losar Festival.
