All 11 Places & Monuments questions the Punjab PSC asked between 2016 and 2025, each with a worked answer and the exam it came from. First 10 free to read.
1 of these 11 were set in more than one exam — the Commission reuses this topic, which is the argument for working through it rather than skimming it.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, lies in the Rupandehi district of Nepal, so it cannot be one of seven pilgrimage sites within India. The Indian sites strung together on the Ministry of Tourism's Buddhist Circuit include Bodh Gaya (enlightenment), Sarnath (first sermon), Kushinagar (mahaparinirvana), Rajgir, Nalanda, Vaishali and Sravasti.
The National Maritime Heritage Complex is being built at Lothal in Gujarat, the site of a Harappan-era dockyard. It is a project of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways to showcase India's maritime history.
Veer Savarkar International Airport is at Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, named after the freedom fighter imprisoned in the Cellular Jail there. Indore's airport is Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, Siliguri's is Bagdogra and Raipur's is Swami Vivekananda Airport. Note the date: in September 2024 Port Blair was renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, so a later paper may use the new name.
Prabhas Giri (Pabhosa) is a pilgrimage site of the Jains. It stands on a hill near Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh. It is linked to the sixth Tirthankara Padmaprabha. Its cave carries a 2nd-century BCE inscription of King Ashadhasena. Kaushambi nearby is also a Buddhist site, but Prabhas Giri itself is a Jain tirtha.
Sabarmati Ashram stands on the bank of the Sabarmati river at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Mahatma Gandhi set it up in 1917 (after the earlier Kochrab Ashram) and lived there until 1930, when he set out from it on the Dandi Salt March. Gandhi's other famous ashram, Sevagram, is near Wardha in Maharashtra, and Champaran in Bihar was the site of his first satyagraha.
Nagpur is called the Zero Mile Centre. The British Great Trigonometrical Survey placed its Zero Mile Stone there. It took the spot as the geographical centre of undivided India and measured road distances to other cities from it. The sandstone pillar with its four horses still stands in the city and is a protected monument.
The Dhola-Sadiya bridge (Bhupen Hazarika Setu) in Assam, 9.15 km long, is built over the Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, and links Assam with Arunachal Pradesh. It was inaugurated in May 2017 and was then India's longest bridge; the Atal Setu in Mumbai, opened in 2024, is longer.
Haifa is a port city in northern Israel. Indian cavalry of the Jodhpur, Mysore and Hyderabad Lancers freed it on 23 September 1918, and Delhi's Teen Murti Chowk was renamed Teen Murti Haifa Chowk in 2018 in their memory.
Tokyo was known as Edo until 1868, when the Meiji Restoration moved the imperial capital there from Kyoto and renamed it Tokyo ('eastern capital'). Kyoto and Osaka are separate Japanese cities, and 'Samurai' is the name of the feudal warrior class, not a place.
Amaravati, on the Krishna river in Guntur district, is the capital of Andhra Pradesh. It was chosen as the capital after the state was bifurcated in 2014, and its foundation stone was laid in October 2015.
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See the printed book →The Commission set 11 Places & Monuments questions across 14 papers between 2016–2025. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 10 most-asked are on this page free.
Yes. 1 of these 11 were set in more than one exam, which is why they are worth working rather than reading. Each question here carries a badge showing how many sittings asked it.
Here. Every question on this page is a solved MCQ: the four options as printed, the correct answer, and a worked explanation in plain English — not just a letter. The rest of the 11 are in the book, in the same form.
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The questions are on screen rather than in a downloadable file, so they stay current and correct. The printed book has all 11 of these plus the rest of the General Knowledge section, and every buyer gets the whole thing online as well.
The exams behind these questions, most first. A paper here is a sitting: a question set in two papers of the same sitting counts once.
| Exam | Year | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Eighteen Posts | 2017 | 3 |
| Conservator (Group-B) | 2025 | 1 |
| Assistant Archaeological Engineer (Group-A) | 2025 | 1 |
| Assistant Conservator (Group B) | 2025 | 1 |
| Sanitary Inspector (Group-B) | 2024 | 1 |
| Deputy Director | 2020 | 1 |
| Joint Director | 2020 | 1 |
| Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2018 Mains Examinat | 2018 | 1 |
| Works Manager | 2018 | 1 |
| Punjab Civil Services (Executive Branch) to Be Filled From Registe | 2017 | 1 |
| Punjab Civil Services(Executive Branch) of Register C From Amongst t | 2017 | 1 |
| Recruitment of Three Hundred Inspectors, Cooperative Societies | 2016 | 1 |