Pongal Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. In Bhogi Pongal people worship which deity?

Correct Answer: B) Indra.

2. What is the correct meaning of Mattu in the context of Mattu pongal?

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

3. What is the first day of the four-day Makara Sankranti festival?

Correct Answer: A) Enjoyer.

4. When Uttarayana starts at time the sun is in which Zodiac house?

Correct Answer: B) 10th.

5. What is the meaning of the word 'Pongal' in Tamil literature?

Correct Answer: A) To boil.

6. Festival of Pongal marks the end of which solstice?

Correct Answer: D) Winter solstice.

7. Farming is the practice of working in the .....

Correct Answer: C) Fields.

8. Who banned Jallikattu in Tamilnadu?

Correct Answer: B) Supermecourt.

9. Mattu means the bull of God .....

Correct Answer: A) Shiva.

10. Bon fire is lighted during this festival

Correct Answer: A) Lohri.

11. Who is the bogie dedicated to?

Correct Answer: A) Indra.

12. Harvest festival of Maharashtra?

Correct Answer: B) Gudi Padwa.

13. Pongal is also know as

Correct Answer: A) Makar sankranti.

14. The bhogi festival is celebrated in honour of whom?

Correct Answer: D) Lord Indra.

15. At which place, the International Pongal is celebrated?

Correct Answer: D) Tuticorin.

16. NAME OF LORD SHIVA'S bull

Correct Answer: B) Basava.

17. The last day of Pongal is called ..... Pongal?

Correct Answer: B) Virgo.

18. This festival signals the end of winter and the onset of spring throughout the northern hemisphere.

Correct Answer: A) Pongal.

19. On the third day of the festival, the ..... are decorated.

Correct Answer: D) Cattle.

20. Pongal is celebrated in the mid of ..... every year.

Correct Answer: D) January.