In which Indian state capital city Sanchi stupa located ?
Answer: B
Sanchi is in Madhya Pradesh.
The Great Stupa was begun by Ashoka in the third century BC and is the oldest stone structure in India. The site, near Vidisha, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1989.
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Which is the famous hill station of Arunachal Pradesh?
Answer: C
Tawang is the famous hill station of Arunachal Pradesh.
It lies at about 3,000 m near the Chinese border and holds the Tawang Monastery, the largest in India and the second largest in the world after the Potala. The sixth Dalai Lama was born there.
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The famous Somnath Temple is in which of the following states?
Answer: D
Somnath is in Gujarat.
The temple stands at Veraval on the Saurashtra coast and is the first of the twelve jyotirlingas. It was destroyed and rebuilt many times, most famously after Mahmud of Ghazni's raid in 1026, and was last rebuilt in 1951 at Sardar Patel's instance.
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Which state is called the abode of the gods?
Answer: B
Uttarakhand is called the abode of the gods.
Devbhoomi is the name given to it for the Char Dham - Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri - and for the sources of the Ganga and Yamuna, which lie within it.
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The first Indian Satellite launched from Soviet Cosmodrome is?
Answer: D
It was Aryabhata.
India's first satellite was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975 by an Intercosmos rocket. It was built by ISRO at Peenya, weighed 360 kg, and is pictured on the old two-rupee note.
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The headquarters of the National Power Training institute is located in
Answer: C
The National Power Training Institute is at Faridabad.
Set up in 1965 under the Ministry of Power, it trains engineers and technicians for the power sector and runs simulator training for thermal and hydro plant operators.
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The Melghat Tiger reserve is in
Answer: A
Melghat is in Maharashtra.
It lies in the Satpura hills of Amravati district and was one of the nine reserves with which Project Tiger began in 1973. The name means 'meeting of the ghats'.
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Zawar (Rajasthan) is famous for
Answer: B
Zawar is famous for its zinc mines.
The mines in Udaipur district of Rajasthan are among the oldest in the world: zinc was smelted there by distillation from the twelfth century, a technique Europe did not master until the eighteenth.
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Anand Bhawan is situated at
Answer: A
Anand Bhavan is at Allahabad.
It was the Nehru family home, built by Motilal Nehru in the 1930s after he gave the older Swaraj Bhavan to the Congress. Indira Gandhi donated it to the nation in 1970 and it is now a museum.
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Dum Dum, known for its airport and its government ordnance factory, is in which state?
Answer: D
Dum Dum is in West Bengal.
It is a northern suburb of Kolkata, and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport stands there. Its ordnance factory gave its name to the dum-dum bullet, an expanding round later banned by the Hague Convention.
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