| Question | Which personality from Assam known as “Dhwani Kabi”? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Ananda chandra Agarwala | incorrect |
| Option | Binanda Chandra Baruah | correct |
| Option | Rudra Baruah | incorrect |
| Option | Parvati Prasad Baruah | incorrect |
| Solution | Binanda Chandra Barua was a noted Indian writer and poet of Assamese literature from Teok, Assam. | |
| Question | Noonmati refinery was established in- | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 1960 | incorrect |
| Option | 1950 | incorrect |
| Option | 1962 | correct |
| Option | 1982 | incorrect |
| Solution | Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Noonmati is a locality located in Guwahati, Assam in North East India. It is the place where Indian Oil Company (now the Indian Oil Corporation) commissioned its first oil refinery, the Guwahati Refinery on 1 January 1962 | |
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| Question | Assam is located in which of the following longitudes? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 39°22′ E to 42°09′ E | incorrect |
| Option | 27°29’E to 39°39’E | incorrect |
| Option | 89°42’E To 96°30′ E | correct |
| Option | 91°32’E to 98°02′ E | incorrect |
| Solution | Geographically the state is extending from 22°19′ to 28°16′ North Latitude and 89°42′ to 96°30′ East Longitude between the foot hills of the Eastern Himalayas and the Patkai and Naga Hill Ranges. The state is bordered in the North by Bhutan and in the East by Arunachal Pradesh. | |
| Question | What is the name of the river Brahmaputra in Bangladesh? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Padma | incorrect |
| Option | Yarlong Tsangpo | incorrect |
| Option | Jamuna | correct |
| Option | Meghna | incorrect |
| Solution | Flowing almost due south, the Meghna receives the combined waters of the Padma and Jamuna (the name of the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh) rivers near Chandpur. | |
| Question | Which of the following river is not a North bank tributary of Brahmaputra? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Pagladia | incorrect |
| Option | Subansiri | incorrect |
| Option | Puthimari | incorrect |
| Option | Krishnai | correct |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Which is the first daily English newspaper published in Assam? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Purbanchal Prahari | incorrect |
| Option | The sentinel | incorrect |
| Option | The Assam Tribune | correct |
| Option | The Assam Express | incorrect |
| Solution | The Assam Tribune is an Indian English daily newspaper published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam. | |
| Question | Vasco Da Gama discovered the sea route to India in which one of the following years? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 1498 | correct |
| Option | 1492 | incorrect |
| Option | 1494 | incorrect |
| Option | 1453 | incorrect |
| Solution | Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who reached India by sea on May 17, 1498. His fleet reached Kappakadavu near Calicut in the current Indian state of Kerala. | |
| Question | Who was the only Assamese to take part in Dandi March? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Chandradhar Baruah | incorrect |
| Option | Liladhar Baruah | correct |
| Option | Tarun Ram phukan | incorrect |
| Option | Debakanta Barua | incorrect |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Who was the in charge of Northern division of a Ahom army in the battle of saraighat- | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Atan Buragohain | correct |
| Option | Lachit Borphukan | incorrect |
| Option | Laluk Sola Borphukan | incorrect |
| Option | None of these | incorrect |
| Solution | The Battle of Saraighat was a naval battle fought in 1671 between the Mughal Empire (led by the Kachwaha raja, Ram Singh I), and the Ahom Kingdom (led by Lachit Borphukan) on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati, Assam, India | |
| Question | In which of the following Mlechchha dynasty’s Inscription? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Ulubari,Darang Copper Plate Inscription | incorrect |
| Option | Parbatia Copper Plate Inscription | incorrect |
| Option | Deopani image Inscription | incorrect |
| Option | Hayunthal Copper Plate Inscription | correct |
| Solution | Hayunthal copper plate inscription is located in Karbi Anglong. | |
| Question | Which Assamese won the pradhan Mantri Rashtriy Bal puraskar 2022- | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Dhritishman chakraborty | correct |
| Option | Anupam Das | incorrect |
| Option | Heuj kakati | incorrect |
| Option | Jutu Kalita | incorrect |
| Solution | The five-year-old from ONGC Colony in Assam’s Nazira town can sing in over half a dozen languages and has now been awarded the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) 2022. | |
| Question | The Jaintia Kingdom went into the hand of the British from the Jayantia King, Rajendra Singha in the year- | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 1820 | incorrect |
| Option | 1837 | incorrect |
| Option | 1835 | correct |
| Option | 1842 | incorrect |
| Solution | the Jaintia Raja declined to find the culprits, the British finally marched to the Jaintia Kingdom and annexed it on 15 March 1835 The king was handed over his property in Sylhet along with a monthly salary of Rs 500 | |
| Question | National Highway 38 joins- | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Tinsukia to Dangari | incorrect |
| Option | New Bongaigaon to Jogikhopa | incorrect |
| Option | Silchar to kolkata | incorrect |
| Option | Makum to Lekhapani | correct |
| Solution | National Highway 38 (NH 38) was a short National Highway of India entirely within the state of Assam that connected Makum and Lekhapani. It covered a distance of 54 km (34 mi). | |
| Question | Who presents the Budget in the Assam Legislative Assembly? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Finance Minister | correct |
| Option | Home Minister | incorrect |
| Option | Education Minister | incorrect |
| Option | Chief Minister | incorrect |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Assam Micro Finance Institution (Regulations of Money Lending) it was passed in which year? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 2015 | incorrect |
| Option | 2017 | incorrect |
| Option | 2020 | correct |
| Option | 2022 | incorrect |
| Solution | It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-first Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- Short. title, extent and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Micro Finance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Act, 2020. (2) It extends to the whole of Assam. | |
| Question | Who was the author of the book ” Axomor Arthoniti”? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Birendra Nath Dutta | incorrect |
| Option | Jyoti Prasad Agarwala | incorrect |
| Option | Bhabananda Deka | correct |
| Option | Lakhinandan Borah | incorrect |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Where is the Maidam of Lachit Borphukan located? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Sonapur | incorrect |
| Option | Amingaon | incorrect |
| Option | Jorhat | correct |
| Option | Mangaldai | incorrect |
| Solution | Located in Gohain Gaon of Meleng Hulungapar, Lachit Borphukan’s Maidam is around 15 kilometres from Jorhat Railway station and it would around 32 minutes to reach via AT Road. Jorhat Airport is around 23.8 kilometres away and it would take around 41 minutes to reach via NH715. | |
| Question | Which Ahom king established the norm that an Ahom prince had to be free from any physical disability, defects or deformities to become a king? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Rudra Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Prataap Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Gadadhar Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Ratnadhwaj Singha | correct |
| Solution | Sulikphaa (r. 1679–1681) also, Ratnadhwaj Singha was the twenty-eighth king of the Ahom Kingdom. He was only 14 years of age when LaluksolaBorphukan, the Ahom viceroy of Guwahati and Lower Assam, raised him to the throne, after deposing the former king, Sudoiphaa. | |
| Question | ‘Darrang Rajvansavali’ was written by | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Baladev Suryakari Doibojna | correct |
| Option | Pandit Vidyavinod | incorrect |
| Option | Kaviratna Saraswati | incorrect |
| Option | Durgabor Kayastha | incorrect |
| Solution | Under the patronage of Darrang Rajas many books on different subjects were also composed. One such book is Darrang Rajvansavali, written by Suryakhadi Daivagna. It is a metrical chronicle of Darrang Rajas composed at the initiative of its tenth ruler Samudranarayana. | |
| Question | Name the chief architect who planned and constructed the city of Rangpur? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Ghanashyam Khanikar | correct |
| Option | Gunaram Khanikar | incorrect |
| Option | Deepak Khanikar | incorrect |
| Option | Radhas Khanikar | incorrect |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Who was Bisa Nong? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | A Mughal Chief | incorrect |
| Option | A Naga Chief | incorrect |
| Option | A Singphou Chief | correct |
| Option | A Kachari Chief | incorrect |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Which of the following invited the Burmese to Assam? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Peoli Phukan | incorrect |
| Option | Badan Chnadra Barphukan | correct |
| Option | Lalok Sola | incorrect |
| Option | Moniram Dewan | incorrect |
| Solution | In 1816, Badan Chandra Borphukan came to the court of Burmese King Bodawpaya and sought help to defeat his political rival Purnananda Burhagohain. The Burmese monarch agreed and send an expedition under a general of Bhamo, with Badan Chandra Borphukan which entered Assam in January 1817. | |
| Question | Gandhiji’s first visit to Assam was in the year | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 1826 | incorrect |
| Option | 1842 | incorrect |
| Option | 1845 | incorrect |
| Option | 1921 | correct |
| Solution | The first visit of Mahatma Gandhi took place in the year 1921. He was invited by APCC to propagate the message of non-cooperation in Assam. Gandhi’s second Assam visit was in 1926. | |
| Question | Who made weaving compulsory during the reign of Ahom king? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Suhungmung | incorrect |
| Option | Mumai Tamuli | correct |
| Option | Rudra Singh | incorrect |
| Option | Aton Burahgoain | incorrect |
| Solution | In fact, Momai Tamuli Barbarua7 made it compulsory “for every adult male to make a bamboo basket and every able-bodied female to spin a certain quantity of thread every evening.”8 The Muga garments were made for the high officials of the government and used it as their status symbols. | |
| Question | Who was the first Principal of Cotton College? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Miles Branson | incorrect |
| Option | Nathan Brown | incorrect |
| Option | William Cotton | incorrect |
| Option | Frederic William Sudmerson | correct |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Two Ahom monarchs issued coins in Persian language. One was Rajeswar Singha and the other was? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Siva Singha | correct |
| Option | Suhungmung | incorrect |
| Option | Jayadhwij Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Rudra Singha | incorrect |
| Solution | ||
| Question | Tea was first discovered by | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Mirza Nathan | incorrect |
| Option | Nathan Brown | incorrect |
| Option | Robert | correct |
| Option | Captain Welsh | incorrect |
| Solution | The story of tea begins in China. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung, a renowned herbalist, decided to try the infusion that his servant had accidentally created. | |
| Question | Who was referred to as Dihingia Raja? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Suhungmung | correct |
| Option | Subinpha | incorrect |
| Option | Sudangpha | incorrect |
| Option | Suteupha | incorrect |
| Solution | Suhungmung is also called the Dihingia Raja, because he made Bakata on the Dihing River his capital. Suhungmung was the last progenitor Ahom king (all subsequent kings were his descendants). | |
| Question | Captain Thomas Welsh recorded that the Assam Patra-Mantri was composed of | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Eight ministers | incorrect |
| Option | Six ministers. | incorrect |
| Option | Four ministers | incorrect |
| Option | Five minister | correct |
| Solution | ||
| Question | The Ahom name of Gadadhar Singha was | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Supatpha | correct |
| Option | Sulikpha | incorrect |
| Option | Suhungmung | incorrect |
| Option | Subinpha | incorrect |
| Solution | Supaatpha established the rule of the Tungkhungia clan of the Ahom kings that ruled the Ahom kingdom till its climactic end. He was the son of Gobar Roja, a descendant of Suhungmung, and who had become the king for a mere 20 days. Previously known as Godapani, Supatphaa was able to stabilize the kingdom after the decade long turmoil following the Ahom victory in the Battle of Saraighat. | |
| Question | Who was the leader of the 1857 revolt in Assam? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Lachit Barphukan | incorrect |
| Option | Pioli Baruah | incorrect |
| Option | Maniram Dewan | correct |
| Option | Kanaklata | incorrect |
| Solution | Maniram Barua, popularly known as Maniram Dewan, an Assamese nobleman planned to stage a revolt simultaneously with that of the Revolt of 1857. Maniram Dewan was first appointed by the British administration as the Sheristadar of Upper Assam. | |
| Question | In which year did captain Welsh come to Assam? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 1592 A.D. | incorrect |
| Option | 1692 A.D. | incorrect |
| Option | 1700 A.D. | incorrect |
| Option | 1794 A.D. | correct |
| Solution | In 1794, Februbary Captain Welsh reaches Jorhat to restore the Ahom Monarchy in upper Assam to its ‘ancient form’. | |
| Question | The place where last Ahom-Mugal war fought : | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Jorhat | incorrect |
| Option | Koch Behar | incorrect |
| Option | Saraighat | correct |
| Option | Itakhuli | incorrect |
| Solution | The Battle of Saraighat was the last battle in the last major attempt by the Mughals to extend their empire into Assam. Though the Mughals managed to regain Guwahati briefly later after a Borphukan deserted it, the Ahoms wrested control in the Battle of Itakhuli in 1682 and maintained it till the end of their rule. | |
| Question | The name of the Ahom king when Mir Jumla invaded Assam was : | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Pratap Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Chakradhwaj Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Jayadhwaj Singha | correct |
| Option | Suhungmung | incorrect |
| Solution | The Ahom king Sutamla had to take flight and hide in Namrup during Mir Jumla’s occupation of the capital. The defection of Baduli Phukan, a high ranking Ahom commander, precipitated the Treaty of Ghilajharighat in January 1663, with the Ahom king accepting tributary status. | |
| Question | The year in which Phulaguri uprising took place: | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | 1800 | incorrect |
| Option | 1810 | incorrect |
| Option | 1826 | incorrect |
| Option | 1861 | correct |
| Solution | On October 18, 1861 Lt Singer, Third Class Deputy Commissioner, arrived at Phulaguri along with a jail daroga and began negotiation with the peasants who had gathered there, but the situation soon turned violent and Singer, along with a few policemen, were beaten to death and his body was thrown into the Kollong river. | |
| Question | The name of the composer of the Hasti Vidyarnava: | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Sukumar Barkaith | correct |
| Option | Bhaskar Barman | incorrect |
| Option | Hari Dev | incorrect |
| Option | Madhav Dev | incorrect |
| Solution | Hasti-Vidyarnava or Hastividarnav is an ancient Assamese treatise on elephants or elephantology. It was composed by Sukumar Barkath in 1734 AD. Written under the orders of Ahom King Siba Singha, Hastividyarnava deals with classes or types of elephants, their management and care. | |
| Question | Krishnaram Bhattacharyya popularly known as Parbatiya Gossain was settled at | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Kalapahar | incorrect |
| Option | Pratap Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Kamakhya hill | correct |
| Option | Mumai Tamuli | incorrect |
| Solution | Krishnaram Bhattacharyya popularly known as Parbatiya Gossain was settled at.Krishnaram Bhattacharjya (Nyayavagish) or Parbatiya Gosain was a Shakta priest brought from Nabadwip in West Bengal by Ahom king Swargadeo Rudra Singha’s son Siba Singha who assumed the Ahom name Sutanphaa after ascending the throne. Parbatiya Gosain was the royal priest of Ahom dynasty. | |
| Question | Sayed Shah Milan was popularly known by which name in Assam? | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Ajan Fakir | correct |
| Option | Jonab | incorrect |
| Option | Muhammad | incorrect |
| Option | Nasuriddin | incorrect |
| Solution | Syed Milan Shah Baghdadi, popularly known as Ajan Peer, came to Assam in 17th century during the reign of Ahom king Pratap Singha. | |
| Question | The Ahom ruler who built the temple of Chandika at Chaygaon was : | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Siva Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Rajeswar Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Rudra Singha | incorrect |
| Option | Pratap Singha | correct |
| Solution | In no time the temple was built and Doloi (chief officer of Hindu temple), Purohit (priest) and five Paikars (tenant) were appointed for the management of the temple. Swargadeo Shiva Singha donated over 600 acres of land for the Chandika Dewalaya. | |
| Question | Ahom marriage is known as | |
| Type | multiple_choice | |
| Option | Homa | incorrect |
| Option | Chaklang | correct |
| Option | Sayambar | incorrect |
| Option | Gandharva | incorrect |
| Solution | Choklong is the unique marriage ceremony of the Tai-Ahom community of Assam. Choklong is the marriage ceremony performed in the divine presence of the Gods by lighting 101 earthen lamps. The Maral with 101 earthen lamps distinctive of a Choklong marriage ceremony. | |
