Haryana GK: Most Repeated Questions (MCQ Compilation 2024)

1. Who is considered the pioneer of the Sufi tradition in Haryana?

Answer: Fariduddin Shakar Ganj

2. Where was the Sufi saint Bu Ali Shah Qalandar born?

Answer: Panipat

3. Where was the founder of the Garibdas sect, Saint Garibdas, born?
Answer: Chhudani (Jhajjar)

4. Where was Saint Nihal Das born?

Answer: Kungar (Bhiwani)

5. Who founded the Satnami sect?

Answer: Virbhan

6. Where is the Civil Aviation Institute in Haryana located?

Answer: Karnal

7. Where is the Haryana Police Headquarters located?

Answer: Panchkula

8. Who is the new Chief Election Commissioner of Haryana?

Answer: Vijay Singh Dahiya

9. Where is the Haryana Police Training Center situated?

Answer: Sunaria (Rohtak District)

10. Where are the Nar-Narayan caves located in Haryana?

Answer: Yamunanagar

11.  When was the Haryana Chess Association established?

Answer: 1983

12.  Where is the Asigarh Fort located?

Answer: Hansi

13.  Anup Kumar is associated with which sport?

Answer: Kabaddi

14.  Where is the famous Adi Digambar Jain Pilgrimage Site located?
Answer: Rani Lal (Bhiwani)

15.  When did the Satnami Rebellion of Narnaul take place?

Answer: 1672 AD

16.  When did the British gain control over Haryana?

Answer: 1803 AD

17.  Where is the Forensic Science Laboratory located in Haryana?

Answer: Madhuban

18.  Which state's police laws are followed in Haryana?

Answer: Punjab
19.  When were Punjab Police rules first established?
Answer: 1934

20.  What type of police stations has Haryana established for the safety and convenience of
women?
Answer: Women’s Police Stations

21.  When did women’s police stations begin functioning in Haryana?

Answer: August 29, 2015 (on Raksha Bandhan)

22.  Who was appointed to investigate the role of officers and police during the Jat agitation?
Answer: Prakash Singh, former DGP of Uttar Pradesh

23.  Which commission was established to investigate land deals during the previous
government's tenure?
Answer: Dhingra Commission (headed by Justice S.N. Dhingra)

24.  Where is the newly appointed Chief of Navy, Sunil Lanba, from?
Answer: Amarpur village, Palwal District

25.  Who established the Archaeological Museum in Jhajjar Gurukul?

Answer: Swami Omanand in 1959

26.  What is the second-largest district of Haryana?

Answer: Sirsa

27.  Which commission is tasked with investigating the conspiracy behind the violence during
the Jat agitation?
Answer: Justice S.N. Jha Commission

28.  Where is the Samadhi of Gulzarilal Nanda, who served as India’s acting Prime Minister
twice?
Answer: Kunjpura

29.  Where is the Chaneti Stupa located?

Answer: Jagadhri

30.  Where is the Gau Karna Pond located?

Answer: Rohtak

31.  Where is Sheikh Chilli’s Tomb located?

Answer: Thanesar

32.  What are the "Tricity" cities?

Answer: Chandigarh, Mohali, and Panchkula

33.  Where is Asia’s largest Cactus Garden located?

Answer: Panchkula

34.  Where is Gurdwara Manji Sahib located?

Answer: Ambala

35.  Where is Tahal Das Dera located?

Answer: Kamana village, Fatehabad
36.  Where is the Wheat Research Institute located in Haryana?
Answer: Karnal

37.  Where is the National Institute of Technology (NIT) located in Haryana?

Answer: Kurukshetra

38.  What is the name of Kurukshetra University’s publication?

Answer: Kalantirth

39.  Who constructed the Navagraha Kund in Kaithal, making it known as “Chhoti Kashi”?
Answer: Dharmaraj Yudhishthira

40.  In which district is the Phagu Teerth of Pharal village (the village of fairs) located?
Answer: Kaithal

41.  Where was the police commando unit first established in 2008 in Haryana?
Answer: Gurgaon

42.  Where is Bhuteshwar Mahal located?

Answer: Jind

43.  Who constructed the Kos Minars along the Grand Trunk Road for travelers’ convenience?
Answer: Sher Shah Suri (88 Kos Minars in Haryana)

44.  Which stepwell in Haryana is known for its connection to the tunnel of Jani Chor?
Answer: Maham (Rohtak)

45.  Where was the early Indian cinema playback singer Zohrabai from?
Answer: Ambala

46.  What is the ancient name of Viratnagar, now known as Pinjore?

Answer: Panjpur (from Mahabharata times)

47.  Which region is known as the "Land of Harar Production" in Haryana?

Answer: Morni Hills

48.  Which city in Haryana is known as the Science City?

Answer: Ambala

49.  Where is Kabuli Bagh located?

Answer: Panipat

50.  Where is the tomb of Bu Ali Shah Qalandar located?

Answer: Karnal

51. Where is Maharishi Ved Vyas's Tapobhumi (place of penance) located in Haryana?
Answer: Baltali (Karnal)

52. Which district has the Gadra region, known for being the Ashram of Gautam Rishi?
Answer: Karnal

53. Where is the Ashram of Maharishi Ved Vyas’s father, Parashar, located?
Answer: Bahlolpur (Karnal)

54. What was the capital of the ancient Srikanth region?

Answer: Thanesar (Kurukshetra)
55. Which revolutionary Maulvi Qalandar raised the flag against the British in 1857?
Answer: Panipat

56. Which town is referred to as the “City of Rivers” due to five canals originating from it?
Answer: Tohana (Fatehabad)

57. In which space shuttle tragedy did Kalpana Chawla lose her life?
Answer: Columbia (February 1, 2003)

58. Where is the historical Mughal Sarai called Mama-Bhanja located?

Answer: Gharaunda (Karnal)

59. Which village in Karnal district is referred to as the "Village of Fairs"?

Answer: Salwan

60. Where is Karan Stadium located?

Answer: Karnal

61. At which Kurukshetra lake do pilgrims bathe during Surya Grahan (solar eclipse)?
Answer: Brahmasarovar (excavated by King Kuru)

62. Who played a pivotal role during the 1857 revolt in Farrukhnagar (Gurgaon)?
Answer: Nawab Ahmed Ali Ghulam Khan

63. What is the new name of Mustafaabad in Yamunanagar?

Answer: Saraswati Nagar

64. What is the current name of the ancient village mentioned in Jain and Buddhist texts as
“Thuna”?
Answer: Thanesar

65. Who is referred to as the sister of Surya (the Sun) and Yama (the God of Death) in ancient
scriptures?
Answer: Yamuna River

66. Who built the Surajkund reservoir?

Answer: Raja Surajmal of the Tomar Dynasty

67. Where is the White Palace located?

Answer: Pataudi Mahal

68. Which tree is referred to as the “Sandalwood of Haryana”?

Answer: Jand or Khejri

69. Where in India was the first wheat gene bank established?
Answer: Karnal

70. Who was the Kotwal (Police Chief) of Meerut during the 1857 revolt?
Answer: Rao Kishan Gopal (Nangal Pathani, Rewari)

71. Who was the first recipient of the Bhim Award in Haryana?
Answer: Geeta Zutshi

72. What is Haryana’s largest railway junction?

Answer: Rewari (with six railway lines)
73. Where did Mahatma Gandhi visit in Haryana on December 9, 1947?
Answer: Ghasera (Gurgaon)

74. Where was Mahatma Gandhi first arrested in India?

Answer: Palwal (April 10, 1919)

75. Who laid the foundation of Vaishya High School in Rohtak on February 17, 1921?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

76. Where did Mahatma Gandhi participate in a Congress meeting on October 22, 1920?
Answer: Bhiwani

77. Which monument in Haryana is referred to as the “Taj Mahal of Haryana”?

Answer: Sheikh Chilli’s Tomb in Thanesar

78. Where was renowned classical singer Pandit Jasraj born in Haryana?
Answer: Pili Mandori, Hisar (now in Fatehabad)

79. In which district are the Nar-Narayan caves located?

Answer: Yamunanagar

80. Sunita Sharma, Sandhya, and Nirmala Gulia are associated with which sport?
Answer: Gymnastics

81. Where is Asia’s largest livestock farm located?

Answer: Hisar

82. Which canal is Jawaharlal Nehru Canal connected to?

Answer: Bhakra Canal

83. Who is Guru Ramdev’s disciple?

Answer: Acharya Balkrishna

84. Who authored the Haryana Ramayana?

Answer: Khuda Baksh Ahmed

85. Which region in Haryana is significant for the sanitary industry?

Answer: Bahadurgarh

86. Who is referred to as the Kalidas of Haryana?

Answer: Pandit Lakhmi Chand

87. Who founded the Vardhan Dynasty?

Answer: Pushyabhuti

88. Which countries were partners in the 30th Surajkund Mela in 2016?
Answer: China and Japan

89. Where is the Mundhoga Temple located?

Answer: Tosham (Bhiwani)

90. Who wrote the Prithviraj Raso?

Answer: Chand Bardai

91. Which language has been declared as Haryana’s second official language?
Answer: Punjabi
92. From which dialect has the Haryanvi language evolved?
Answer: Kauravi

93. Where is the ancient Shiv Mandir at Bhaghoth located?

Answer: Mahendragarh

94. How many monuments in Haryana are classified as national heritage by the Archaeological
Survey of India?
Answer: 24

95. What is the aim of the Sakhi Scheme launched by Haryana’s Women and Child Development
Department?
Answer: To support distressed women

96. Where is Nada Sahib Gurudwara located?

Answer: Panchkula

97. Which district is film actor Manoj Kumar associated with?

Answer: Kaithal

98. Which district is film actor Sunil Dutt associated with?

Answer: Yamunanagar

99. Where are Harsha and Karna mounds located?

Answer: Thanesar (Kurukshetra)

100. Where is Dera Sacha Sauda situated?

Answer: Sirsa

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102. Which canal originates from the Yamuna at Okhla Barrage?

Answer: Gurgaon Canal

103. Chotang and Tangri are tributaries of which river?

Answer: Ghaggar

104. During which geological era did significant changes occur in Haryana's terrain?
Answer: Mesozoic Era

105. Which fort in Haryana was established as the capital by George Thomas?
Answer: Hansi Fort

106. Which inscription mentions Haryana with Delhi as its capital?

Answer: Laadnu Inscription

107. Which inscription mentions the victory of the Chauhan kings in Haryana?
Answer: Bijolia Inscription

108. Where is the main site of Kushan-era sculptures in Haryana?

Answer: Rohtak

109. Who was the first freedom fighter to hoist the tricolor on Manipur soil?
Answer: Major Suraj Mal
110. Queen Suraj Kaur was associated with which princely state?
Answer: Kaithal

111. Which inscription dated 1385 describes Haryana as "Heaven on Earth"?

Answer: Sarwan Inscription (Delhi)

112. Which site in Haryana has the earliest evidence of agriculture?

Answer: Siswal (Hisar)

113. Where was the first Arya Samaj branch in Haryana established?
Answer: Rewari (1880)

114. From which station was Mahatma Gandhi arrested on April 10, 1919?
Answer: Palwal

115. Which natural region of Haryana has the maximum area?

Answer: Plains

116. What is the Shivalik foothills region in Haryana called?

Answer: Giri-Pad Region

117. In which districts is the Giri-Pad Region located?

Answer: Yamunanagar, Ambala, and Panchkula

118. What is the term for Haryana’s alluvial plain?

Answer: Bangar

119. Which is Haryana’s oldest and main canal?

Answer: Western Yamuna Canal

120. Where are Sal forests found in Haryana?

Answer: Kalesar Forest (Yamunanagar)

121. Where is "Silana Hill" found in Haryana?

Answer: Kalyana (Bhiwani)

122. Which district has the lowest density of paved roads in Haryana?
Answer: Sirsa

123. Where is the Satkumbha Fair held in Haryana?

Answer: Kheri Gujjar (Sonipat)

124. Where is Sarai Alauddin Mosque located?

Answer: Gurgaon (built by Alauddin Khilji)

125. Where is Thakur Dwara located?

Answer: Kutana (Jhajjar)

126. Where is Ibrahim Lodhi's Tomb located?

Answer: Panipat

127. Who constructed the Devi Talab Temple in Panipat?

Answer: Maratha leader Mangal Raghunath

128. Who looted Fatehabad, Sirsa, and Karnal in 1398?

Answer: Timur Lang
129. Who constructed the Thanesar Mahadev Temple?
Answer: Raja Pushyabhuti of the Vardhan Dynasty (descendant of Harsha)

130. Who built the Geeta Bhawan in Kurukshetra?

Answer: Maharaja of Rewa in 1921

131. Who constructed the Sarveshwar Mahadev Temple in Kurukshetra?

Answer: Baba Swarnnath

132. Where is the Mata Mansa Devi Temple located?

Answer: Panchkula

133. What is referred to as the "Nandanvan of North India"?

Answer: Yadavindra Garden

134. What is referred to as the “Queen of the Hills” in Haryana?

Answer: Morni Hills

135. Where was the princely state of Mandal, ruled by Rajput king Mohan Singh,
located?
Answer: Kaithal

136. Who is the new chairman of the Haryana School Education Board?
Answer: Shri Jagbir Singh

137. In which districts was MGNREGA implemented first in Haryana in 2006?

Answer: Mahendragarh and Sirsa

138. When was MGNREGA extended to all districts in Haryana?

Answer: April 1, 2008

139. What does the Salamat Yojana relate to?

Answer: Family Planning

140. Who started the Haryana Tilak newspaper?

Answer: Shriram Sharma

141. Where was the Bharat Kesari wrestling competition organized by the Haryana
government?
Answer: Chaudhary Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon

142. Who won the Bharat Kesari wrestling competition?

Answer: Mausam Khatri

143. What was the prize money awarded to the Bharat Kesari winner?
Answer: ₹1 crore

144. Who was the first Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana?

Answer: Ch. Chand Ram

145. What is the name of the upcoming skill development university being built in
Faridabad?
Answer: Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Skill Development University
146. What is Gurgaon’s new official name?
Answer: Gurugram

147. What is Mewat district’s new name?

Answer: Nuh

148. Where is the Shri Krishna Museum located?

Answer: Kurukshetra

149. Which 8-year-old boy from Haryana became a Google Maps expert?
Answer: Kautilya

150. When was the "Aapki Beti Hamari Beti" scheme launched in Haryana?
Answer: March 8, 2015 (providing ₹21,000 for the first daughter of SC/BPL families or the
second daughter of other families)

151. Where will an international-level museum be established in Haryana?

Answer: Panchkula

152.  Where will the Maharishi Valmiki Sanskrit University be established in Haryana?
Answer: Mundri (Kaithal)

153.  Where was the first State Cyber Crime Branch in Haryana established?
Answer: Gurgaon

154.  What percentage of Haryana’s total area is under plains?

Answer: 97%

155.  Who first demanded that Haryana be separated from Punjab and merged with
Delhi?
Answer: Pirzada Muhammad Hussain in 1926

156.  Which is the smallest district in Haryana by population?

Answer: Panchkula

157.  Which is the smallest district in Haryana by area?

Answer: Faridabad

158.  Who wrote Ratnavali, Nagananda, and Priyadarshika?

Answer: Harshavardhana

159.  Which towns of Haryana are mentioned in Buddhist texts as centers of learning?
Answer: Rohtak and Aroha

160.  Who published Sandesh Patrika from Bhiwani?

Answer: Pandit Nekiram Sharma

161.  Which town is associated with the Jain scholar Lohacharya?

Answer: Aroha

162.  Where was the “Sugh Inscription,” considered the oldest example of Indian script,
discovered?
Answer: Jagadhri
163.  Where have coins of Kushan rulers and Samudragupta been found in Haryana?
Answer: Mitathal (Bhiwani)

164.  Which rivers in southern Haryana include Sahibi, Krishnavati, Dohania, and
Indauri?
Answer: Rivers of Southern Haryana

165.  Where are the slate hills of Kund located in Haryana?

Answer: Rewari

166.  What percentage of Haryana's land is used for agriculture?

Answer: 81%

167.  Where is the Elephant Rehabilitation and Research Center in Haryana located?
Answer: Ban Santaur (Yamunanagar)

168.  Who is the chairman of Haryana’s fifth State Finance Commission?

Answer: Mukul G. Asher

169.  Who is the current DGP of Haryana Police?

Answer: B.S. Sandhu

170.  With which two states did Indian Railways sign an agreement to plant trees along
railway tracks?
Answer: Haryana and Punjab

171.  What is the new name for the Agriculture Department in Haryana?
Answer: Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department

172.  Where is the Horticulture University being established in Haryana?

Answer: Anjanthali (Karnal District)

173.  Which exam system has been discontinued in Haryana schools this year?
Answer: Semester System

174.  Where will the regional center of the Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and
Animal Sciences (Hisar) be located?
Answer: Rewasan (Mahendragarh)

175.  What is the name of the publication of Haryana Urdu Academy?

Answer: Jamna Tat

176.  What is the name of the publication of the Haryana Punjabi Sahitya Academy,
Panchkula?
Answer: Shabd Bund

177.  What is the name of the monthly magazine published by Haryana Sanskrit
Academy?
Answer: Haribha

178.  What is the name of the monthly magazine published by Haryana Sahitya
Academy?
Answer: Harigandha
179.  What are the names of the monthly magazines published by Haryana Art
Academy?
Answer: Katha Samay and Sapt Sindhu

180.  Where was the litterateur Pandit Madhav Prasad Mishra born?
Answer: Kungar Village, Bhiwani District

181.  Where was the famous editor Babu Balmukund Gupta born?
Answer: Gundyani Village, Rewari District

182.  Who wrote the book Hindi Bibhaiyan in 1952?

Answer: Udaybhanu Hans

183.  In which dialect did Surdas compose his works?

Answer: Braj

184.  Surdas is regarded as the pioneer of which rasa (aesthetic flavor)?

Answer: Vatsalya Rasa (Parental Love)

185.  Who wrote Sursagar, Sur Saravali, and Sahitya Lahari?

Answer: Surdas

186.  Who was a contemporary of Surdas?

Answer: Mughal Emperor Akbar

187.  What is the name of the Horticulture University being built in Anjanthali, Karnal?
Answer: Maharana Pratap Horticulture University

188.  Haryanvi or Bangru and Hindi dialects fall under which group of languages?
Answer: Western Hindi

189.  Where is Kishori Mahal located?

Answer: Hodal (Palwal)

190.  Who is regarded as the first poet of the Hindi language?

Answer: Jain Acharya Shridhar

191.  Who founded the Adil Bohar Monastery in Rohtak?

Answer: Baba Chauranginath

192.  Where was the saint Baba Mastnath born?

Answer: Kansret (Rohtak)

193.  Where is the IIM in Haryana located?

Answer: Rohtak

194.  When was the Haryana Sahitya Academy established?

Answer: July 9, 1970

195.  Where is the Surajkund International Crafts Fair held?

Answer: Surajkund (Faridabad)

196.  Who is regarded as the most renowned folk poet of Haryana?

Answer: Pandit Lakhmi Chand
197.  Where is Sultanpur National Park located?
Answer: Gurgaon

198.  Where is Kalesar National Park situated?

Answer: Yamunanagar

199.  Where is the Crocodile Breeding Center located in Haryana?

Answer: Bhoria Saidan (Kurukshetra)

200.  Where is the Peacock and Chinkara Breeding Center located in Haryana?
Answer: Jhabua (Rewari)

201.  Where is the Indian National Defense University being established in Haryana?
Answer: Binola (Gurgaon)

202. Where is the Central University of Haryana located?

Answer: Jant-Pali (Mahendragarh)

203. Between which latitudes is Haryana located?

Answer: 27.39' N to 30.55' N

204. Between which longitudes is Haryana located?

Answer: 74.28' E to 77.36' E

205. Which river marks Haryana’s eastern boundary and separates it from Uttar Pradesh?
Answer: Yamuna River

206. Which is the only state in India where all tourist spots are named after birds?
Answer: Haryana

207. What is the population of Haryana as per the 2011 Census?

Answer: 25.35 million

208. What is the sex ratio of Haryana as per the 2011 Census?
Answer: 877 females per 1000 males

209. What is the population density of Haryana according to the 2011 Census?
Answer: 573 persons per square kilometer

210. When did the British merge Haryana with Punjab?

Answer: 1858

211. Which commission demarcated Punjab and Haryana?

Answer: J.C. Shah Commission

212. Which state has the lowest female-to-male ratio in India as per the 2011 Census?
Answer: Haryana

213. Where did Razia Begum pass away?

Answer: Kaithal

214. In which year did Razia Begum die?

Answer: 1240 AD

215. When was the First Battle of Panipat fought?

Answer: 1526 AD
216. Who fought in the First Battle of Panipat?
Answer: Ibrahim Lodhi and Babur

217. Who emerged victorious in the First Battle of Panipat?

Answer: Babur

218. Where did Sher Shah Suri spend his childhood in Haryana?
Answer: Mahendragarh

219. Where is the tomb of Sher Shah Suri's grandfather, Ibrahim Sur, located?
Answer: Narnaul

220. When was the Second Battle of Panipat fought?

Answer: 1556 AD

221. Who fought in the Second Battle of Panipat?

Answer: Hemu and Akbar

222. Who won the Second Battle of Panipat?

Answer: Akbar

223. Who is considered the architect of the Bhakra Dam?

Answer: Chaudhary Chhotu Ram

224. How many divisions are there in Haryana?

Answer: 6 (Ambala, Karnal, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Faridabad)

225. Which districts are included in the Gurugram division?

Answer: Gurugram, Rewari, Mahendragarh

226. Which districts are included in the Ambala division?

Answer: Ambala, Yamunanagar, Panchkula, Kurukshetra

227. Which districts are included in the Rohtak division?

Answer: Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonipat, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri

228. Which districts are included in the Hisar division?

Answer: Hisar, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Jind

229. How many districts were part of Haryana when it was formed on November 1, 1966?
Answer: 7 districts (Ambala, Rohtak, Mahendragarh, Gurgaon, Karnal, Hisar, Jind)

230. Which is the 21st district of Haryana, and when was it formed?
Answer: Palwal, August 13, 2008

231. Which district's headquarters is located in another town?

Answer: Mahendragarh (headquarters in Narnaul)

232. Where is the National Cancer Institute being built in Haryana with an investment of
₹2035 crores?
Answer: Badsa (Jhajjar)

233. Where is the nuclear power plant being constructed in Haryana?

Answer: Gorakhpur (Fatehabad)
234. Who was the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic medal?
Answer: Karnam Malleswari

235. What is Haryana's rank in terms of area among Indian states?

Answer: 20th

236. Who is known as the “Iron Man of Haryana”?

Answer: Chaudhary Bansi Lal

237. Which was the first state in India to introduce an online grievance redressal system?
Answer: Haryana (in 2010)

238. Where is Chaudhary Devi Lal University located?

Answer: Sirsa

239. The southern part of Haryana includes which hill range?

Answer: Aravalli Hills

240. Haryana was formed under which constitutional amendment?

Answer: 17th Amendment

241. Haryana became which numbered state of India?

Answer: 17th

242.