ADRE QUESTION PAPER | IMPORTANT MCQS FOR ASSAM DIRECT RECRUITMENT 2023

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.