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1. Geography and natural features
1. Largest City in Maharashtra by area.
Answer: Pune
2. What river descends through Mahabaleshwar?
Answer: Krishna River
3. Which place in Maharashtra is famous for its tigers?
Answer: Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
4. The biggest lake belongs to Maharashtra.
Answer: Shivaji Sagar Lake
5. Most famous hill station of Maharashtra?
Answer: Mahabaleshwar
6. Which river is called "the Gangotri of Maharashtra"?
Answer: Godavari
7. What is the name of Nagpur city?
Answer: Orange City
8. Which city is the "Wine Capital of India"?
Answer: Nashik
9. Which place is Kaas Plateau, also called the Valley of Flowers, situated at?
Answer: Satara (Maharashtra)
10. A dam that produces most electricity hydroelectrically when any dam has been built in Maharashtra is named after which dam?
Answer: Konya dam
2. Capitals and cities
1. What is the name of the Maharashtra city that was referred to as the 'Financial Capital of India'?
Answer: Mumbai
2. What is the winter capital of Maharashtra?
Answer: Nagpur
3. When was Mumbai declared the capital of Maharashtra?
Answer: 1960
4. Which colonial post monument in Mumbai is used as a gateway for British governors' entrances and departures?
Answer: The Gateway of India
5. Name the World Heritage Site that serves as the head office for the railway in Mumbai.
Answer: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
6. Which city, under Swachh Bharat rankings (2023), is the cleanest city in Maharashtra?
Answer: Sasvad
7. Which city is called the "Manchester of Maharashtra"?
Answer: Ichalkaranji
8. Which city is famous for its 'Ajanta and Ellora caves'?
Answer: Aurangabad
9. Which city is termed the 'Oxford of the East,' as there are found maximum educational institutions?
Answer: Pune
10. What is the name of the Maharashtra city identified as the 'Orange City'?
Answer: Nagpur
3. Cultural & Historical Superlatives
1. First capital of Maharashtra after its formation in 1960.
Answer: Mumbai
2. Largest fort in Maharashtra.
Answer: Raigad Fort
3. Oldest temple in Maharashtra.
Answer: Trivikram temple
4. First UNESCO World Heritage Site in Maharashtra.
Answer: Ajanta-Ellora Caves
5. most popular folk dance of Maharashtra.
Answer: Lavani
6. Largest trade fair in Maharashtra.
Answer: The Maharashtra International Trade Expo (MiTEX)
7. Most celebrated festival in Maharashtra.
Answer: Ganesh Chaturthi.
8. Largest cultural gathering in Maharashtra.
Answer: Mumbai Festival.
9. Most ancient art of Maharashtra.
Answer: Warli painting
10.
Answer: Lalbaugcha Raja
4. Economic & industrial Superlatives
1. The biggest industrial region in Maharashtra.
Answer: MIDC (Mumbai-Pune belt)
2. What is the main source of income in Maharashtra?
Answer: Service sector
3. Which port in Maharashtra handles the largest container traffic in India?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (Nhava Sheva)
4. The most produced export product by Maharashtra.
Answer: Gems & Jewellery
5. Which fruit crop is Ratnagiri famous for exporting?
Answer: Alphonso mangoes
6. Which one of the given cities was the biggest trading town for the British East India Company?
Answer: Mumbai
7. What percent contribution does Maharashtra account for in the Indian GDP(As of 2023-24)?
Answer: 13.3%
8. What is Maharashtra's rank in terms of the largest state economies in India?
Answer: first
9. Which Maharashtra-based pharmaceutical company is among the largest in India?
Answer: Sun Pharmaceutical
10. Which type of sarees is Aurangabad famous for producing?
Answer: Paithani sarees
5. Sports & records
1. Which cricket stadium in Maharashtra is said to have played the first-ever international cricket test in India?
Answer: The Bombay Gymkhana ground.
2. Which district in Maharashtra is popularly known as the "Wrestling Capital of India"?
Answer: Kolhapur
3. What is the name of the state sports complex in Maharashtra?
Answer: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
4. What is the name of the wrestling competition held annually in Maharashtra?
Answer: Maharashtra Kesari
5. Who is the first female wrestler from Maharashtra to win a medal in the national wrestling championship?
Answer: Reshma Mane
6. Which batsman from Maharashtra was the first to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket?
Answer: Sunil Gavaskar
7. Which sports complex in Maharashtra is used for the international swimming championships?
Answer: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
8. Which cricketer from Mumbai is known as the 'God of Cricket'?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
9. Which Maharashtrian wrestler won a bronze medal in the 2023 Asian Games?
Answer: Antim Panghal
10. Which Olympic sport has the most participants from Maharashtra?
6. Political superlative
1. Who is called the 'Father of the Indian Constitution' among the prominent Maharashtra leaders?
Answer: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
2. In which district is the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located?
Answer: Mumbai
3. Name the political leader who founded the Shiv Sena party.
Answer: Bal Keshav Thackeray
4. Which party was in power when Maharashtra was formed in 1960?
Answer: Indian National Congress
5. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters is in which city?
Answer: Nagpur
6. How many administrative districts are there in Maharashtra?
Answer: 36
7. What is the total number of seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly?
Answer: 288
8. Who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
Answer: Vasantrao Naik
9. Who is the present Governor of Maharashtra (January 2025)?
Answer: C. P. Radhakrishnan
10. Name the first woman president of India, who was a political leader from Maharashtra.
Answer: Pratibha Patil