Highest, Longest, Biggest, Largest, Deepest, Smallest of the World Questions and Answers

Answer: B

It is the Bhakra dam.

Bhakra on the Sutlej stands 226 m, the highest concrete gravity dam in India and the second highest in Asia. Nehru called it the temple of resurgent India. Tehri is higher but is an earth and rockfill dam.

Answer: A

It is the ostrich.

The common ostrich stands up to 2.8 m and weighs up to 150 kg. It cannot fly, but runs at 70 km/h, has the largest eye of any land vertebrate, and has two toes where other birds have three or four.

Answer: D

It is in Lahaul and Spiti.

Kaza, the sub-divisional headquarters of Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, stands at about 3,800 m, the highest town in India with a motorable road and a permanent administration.

Answer: D

It is the Roe River.

The Roe in Montana runs about 61 metres from Giant Springs to the Missouri. It held a Guinness entry as the shortest river until the category was retired, after a rival claim from the D River in Oregon.

Answer: C

It is the Mahabharata.

The Mahabharata has about 100,000 verses, roughly ten times the Iliad and Odyssey combined and about four times the Ramayana. Its eighteen parvas include the Bhagavad Gita.

Answer: A

It is Jammu and Kashmir.

Almost all Indian saffron comes from the Pampore karewas near Srinagar, where the porous plateau soil suits the crocus. Kashmiri saffron holds a GI tag and its Mongra grade is among the most valued in the world.

Answer: A

It was the Kheda district cooperative milk producers union.

Amul at Anand set up the world's first plant to make milk powder from buffalo milk, which the received wisdom of the time said could not be done. Verghese Kurien and H. M. Dalaya solved it, and the cooperative model spread from there.

Answer: C

It is Kolleru Lake.

Kolleru lies between the Krishna and Godavari deltas in Andhra Pradesh and spreads over 900 km² at high flood - among the largest freshwater lakes in India, and a designated Ramsar site.

Answer: A

It is the Escorts Heart Institute.

The Delhi hospital, founded in 1988 and now part of Fortis, was for many years India's largest dedicated cardiac centre by volume of procedures.

Answer: C

It is the Rongtong hydel scheme.

The Rongtong project in Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, stands at about 4,000 m, the highest hydroelectric station in India.