Waterloo is located in
Answer: B
Waterloo is in Belgium.
The battle of 18 June 1815, in which Wellington and Blucher defeated Napoleon, was fought a few kilometres south of the village, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It ended the Napoleonic wars.
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In the Lion Capital of Ashoka, which four animals are engraved at the bottom?
Answer: C
They are the lion, elephant, horse and bull.
The four animals are carved on the abacus of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath, each separated by a wheel. They are commonly read as the four quarters and the four stages of life; the wheel between them became the Ashoka Chakra on the national flag.
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The industrial organization of Atomic Minerals Division, Heavy Water Board (HWB) is located at
Answer: B
The Heavy Water Board is at Mumbai.
Constituted in 1989 under the Department of Atomic Energy, it runs the plants that produce the heavy water used as moderator and coolant in India's pressurised heavy water reactors.
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In which Indian state capital city Sanchi stupa located ?
Answer: A
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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The Dilwara temples, five Jain temples built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, are in which state?
Answer: A
The Dilwara temples are in Rajasthan.
They stand near Mount Abu and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries by the Solanki ministers Vimal Shah and Vastupala-Tejpal. Their marble carving, especially the ceilings and pillars, is among the finest in India.
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Which of the following is an UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Answer: A
The Sundarbans is a World Heritage site.
The Indian portion was inscribed in 1987 as the largest mangrove forest in the world and the only one supporting a tiger population; the Bangladeshi portion was listed separately in 1997.
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India's tallest stone statue of the Jain sage Gomateswara is at
Answer: B
It is at Shravanabelagola in Karnataka.
The 17 m monolithic statue of Bahubali, or Gomateshwara, was carved about 981 by Chavundaraya. Every twelve years the Mahamastakabhisheka is performed, when the figure is anointed from a scaffold with milk, saffron and vermilion.
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Central Drug Research institute is located at
Answer: D
The Central Drug Research Institute is at Lucknow.
Founded in 1951, it is a CSIR laboratory covering the whole chain from synthesis to clinical trial, and developed the antimalarial arteether and the contraceptive Centchroman.
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