Which river is known as Sorrow of Bihar?
Answer: C
The Kosi is called the Sorrow of Bihar.
Carrying an enormous silt load down from Nepal, it raises its own bed until it breaks its banks, and it has shifted its course by more than a hundred kilometres westward in two centuries. Its floods devastate north Bihar, most severely in 2008 when it broke through its embankment.
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Which of the following Indian biosphere reserves are on the UNESCO World Network?
Answer: D
All of them are on the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Nilgiri was the first Indian reserve admitted, in 2000, followed by Gulf of Mannar, Sundarban, Nanda Devi, Nokrek, Pachmarhi, Simlipal and others. India has eighteen biosphere reserves in all, of which twelve are on the international network.
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Sand stone, Conglomerate, Limestone, Shale, Chalk and Coal are example of:
Answer: B
These are sedimentary rocks.
Each forms by deposition: sandstone and conglomerate from transported fragments, shale from compacted mud, limestone and chalk from the remains of marine organisms, and coal from buried plant matter. They are laid down in strata, which is why they carry fossils and the others do not.
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Dr Wladimir Köppen, the German climatologist, suggested in his scheme of climatic classification
Answer: C
Köppen proposed five major types of climate.
They are A tropical, B dry, C warm temperate, D cold snow-forest and E polar, with a sixth, H, for highland added later. The scheme of 1918 classifies climate by monthly temperature and rainfall, using the boundaries of natural vegetation as its guide, and remains the most widely used system.
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The largest Indian mammal is:
Answer: D
The elephant is the largest Indian mammal.
The Indian elephant stands up to 3.5 m at the shoulder and weighs up to 5 tonnes. It is smaller than the African elephant, with smaller ears and a more level back, and only some males carry tusks.
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The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) were created in:
Answer: B
ICFRE was created in 1987.
The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, at Dehradun, is an autonomous body under the environment ministry that coordinates forestry research through nine institutes, among them the Forest Research Institute founded in 1906.
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The inner planets include:
Answer: D
The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
They lie inside the asteroid belt and are small, dense and rocky, having formed close enough to the sun for volatile compounds to be driven off. The four outer planets are gas and ice giants.
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The mean thickness of oceanic crust is:
Answer: C
Oceanic crust averages about 5 km thick.
It is basaltic and dense, formed at mid-ocean ridges and consumed at trenches, so none of it survives longer than about 200 million years. Continental crust averages some 30 km and is much older.
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The first large-scale modern machine tool factory in the public sector was set up in
Answer: A
It was set up in 1953.
Hindustan Machine Tools was established at Bangalore in 1953 in collaboration with Oerlikon of Switzerland, and became the country's principal maker of machine tools - and later, of watches.
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The first shore- based steel plant in India is:
Answer: D
The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was India's first shore-based steel plant.
Commissioned in 1992 and run by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, its coastal position lets it import coking coal and export finished steel directly, without the long inland haul the older plants require.
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