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Tamil Nadu GK MCQ Question and Answer | State Gk MCQ

Tamil Nadu GK MCQ Question and Answer with easy explanations. Tamil Nadu State GK MCQ section provides you all type of GK mcq questions with explanations. Tamil NaduState GK MCQ is important for exams like State PCS, IBPS, SCC, UPSC, NEET etc. Page-7 section-3

Each section contains 100 MCQs on Tamil Nadu .
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Which is the smallest wildlife sanctuary in Tamil Nadu?
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Guindy National Park of Chennai with an area of 2.7 Sq.Km. is the smallest National park of Tamil Nadu.
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Which is the second largest beach in world ?
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Answer: Option A
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Marina beach in Chennai along the Bay of Bengal is India's longest and world's second longest beach.
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What is the old name of Kanchipuram?
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Answer: Option B
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Jaina Kanchi refers to the area around Tiruparutti Kundram. During the British rule, the city was known as Conjeevaram and later as Kanchipuram. The municipal administration was renamed Kancheepuram, while the district and city retains the name Kanchipuram.
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Where is the world first granite temple Brihadeswara temple located in India?
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Answer: Option C
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India is a land of rich heritage and culture, and temples form a huge part of that recognition. The Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu is the world's first ever all-granite temple and it is 1,000 years old.
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Which is the world's first granite temple in India?
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Answer: Option A
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Brihadeeshwara temple is the first granite temple in india and the temple architecture resembles chola king taste.
66
How many languages can be translated?
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Answer: Option C
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There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, 4,000 of which are written. Yet only 100 or so can be translated by automated tools such as Google Translate. New research promises to let us communicate with the others too.
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How tall is the Thiruvalluvar statue?
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Answer: Option D
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The overall height of this structure is 133 feet , including 38 feet high pedestal and 95 feet tall sculpture. Interestingly, the statue of Thiruvalluvar represents wealth and pleasure while the pedestal on which it stands depicts 38 chapters from the Thirukkural based on 'Virtue'.
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Who built Kanyakumari Thiruvalluvar statue?
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Answer: Option B
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The statue was sculpted by the Indian sculptor V. Ganapati Sthapati, who also created the Iraivan Temple, and was unveiled on the millennium day of 1 January 2000 by the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. It is currently the 25th tallest statue in India.
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How many Thirukkurals are there?
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Answer: Option C
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The book is considered to precede Manimekalai and Silapathikaram since they both acknowledge the Kural text. Thirukkural (or the Kural) is a collection of 1330 Tamil couplets organised into 133 chapters.
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How many days Swami Vivekananda meditated on the rock of Kanyakumari?
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Answer: Option A
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On 24 December 1892, Vivekananda reached Kanyakumari and meditated for three days on a large rock and took the resolution to dedicate his life to serve humanity. The event is known as the Kanyakumari resolve of 1892. He reportedly also meditated for a long time on the day of his death (4 July 1902).