Famous Places in India Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The memorial of Rana Sanga is at Mandalgarh.

Rana Sanga of Mewar died in 1528, the year after his defeat by Babur at Khanwa. His cenotaph (chhatri) stands at Mandalgarh in Bhilwara district, where his last rites are said to have been performed.

Dholpur, Kumbhalgarh and Udaipur are places in Mewar's history, but none is the site of his memorial. Kumbhalgarh is associated with Rana Kumbha, who built it.

Answer: C

The city of forts and havelis is Jaisalmer.

Jaisalmer is dominated by its living fort, Sonar Qila, built of yellow sandstone, and is famous for its finely carved merchant havelis such as Patwon ki Haveli, Salim Singh ki Haveli and Nathmal ki Haveli. The combination is why it is called the city of forts and havelis.

Bundi is known as the city of stepwells, Jaipur as the Pink City, and Jodhpur as the Blue City or Sun City.

Answer: C

The 'Nine Identical Suites' are in Nahargarh fort.

Nahargarh, on the Aravalli ridge above Jaipur, contains the Madhavendra Bhawan built by Sawai Madho Singh II. It has nine identical suites for the king's queens, each with its own rooms, linked by corridors so the king could visit any queen without the others knowing.

Gagron is a water fort in Jhalawar, Taragarh the hill fort of Bundi (and of Ajmer), and Chittorgarh the old Mewar capital. None has this set of suites.

Answer: B

The correct pair is Chaurasi Khambon ki chhatri - Bundi.

The Chaurasi Khambon ki Chhatri (the cenotaph of 84 pillars) at Bundi was built in the 17th century by Rao Raja Anirudh Singh in memory of his foster brother Deva. It stands on a raised platform carrying 84 pillars.

The other pairs are wrong. The Musi Rani ki Chhatri is at Alwar, built in memory of Maharaja Bakhtawar Singh and his queen Musi, not at Ajmer. The cenotaph of Sawai Jai Singh II is at Gaitore near Jaipur, not at Kota. Since the question asks for the one correct pair, the Gopal Singh pairing falls with them.

Answer: C

The station that does not adjoin Bandikui Junction is Jatwara.

Bandikui is a junction of the Delhi-Jaipur line and the Agra-Bandikui line. Its neighbouring stations are Gulana on the Delhi side, Arnia on the Jaipur side, and Shri Ghasinagar on the line towards Agra.

Gulana, Arnia and Shri Ghasinagar are therefore the adjoining stations named in options B, D and A. Jatwara is not one of them.

Answer: C

The lake called 'Tirathraj' is Pushkar Lake.

Pushkar Lake in Ajmer district is one of the most sacred lakes in Hinduism and is called Tirthraj, the king of pilgrimage places, because a visit to other tirthas is held to be incomplete without a dip at Pushkar. The Brahma temple stands on its bank, and the Pushkar fair is held on Kartik Purnima.

Siliserh is a reservoir near Alwar, Sambhar is India's largest inland salt lake, and Nakki Lake is the hill lake at Mount Abu. None carries the title.

Answer: C

The baori at Abhaneri is the Chand Baori.

Chand Baori, in Abhaneri village of Dausa district, is one of the deepest and most elaborate stepwells in India. Built around the 9th century and traditionally credited to Raja Chanda of the Nikumbha dynasty, it has about 3,500 narrow steps arranged symmetrically on three sides, descending about 13 storeys, with the Harshat Mata temple beside it.

Rani Ji Ki Baori is in Bundi, and the Naulakha and Trimukhi baoris are elsewhere in Rajasthan; none of them is at Abhaneri.

Answer: D

The Jhalawar Garh Palace was built by Maharaj Rana Madan Singh.

Madan Singh became the first ruler of the princely state of Jhalawar when it was carved out of Kota in 1838, and he built the Garh Palace in the town in the following years. It now houses government offices and the Jhalawar museum.

Rana Kumbha built Kumbhalgarh and Maharana Pratap ruled Mewar from Gogunda and Chavand; Raja Rai Singh of Bikaner built Junagarh Fort. None of them built the Jhalawar palace.

Answer: A

The headquarters of WHO is in Geneva.

The World Health Organization was founded on 7 April 1948, the date now marked as World Health Day, and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

India hosts the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, which is a regional office, not the headquarters. Germany and America are not the seat of WHO.

Answer: A

The headquarters of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau is in New Delhi.

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, set up in 2007 under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 to combat organised wildlife crime. It collects intelligence, coordinates enforcement agencies and helps prevent illegal wildlife trade across borders.

It has regional offices in cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata, which makes them tempting, but its headquarters is in New Delhi. Patna is not where it is based.