Which city ranked 40th among the top 50 global cities for women entrepreneurs?
Answer: D
Bangalore ranked 40th.
It was the only Indian city in the top 50 of the Dell Women Entrepreneur Cities Index, which ranks cities on capital, technology, talent, culture and markets for women in business.
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Which Indian festival coincides with Songkran in Thailand, Thingyan in Myanmar and Aluth Avurudda in Sri Lanka?
Answer: D
It is Baisakhi.
All four mark the solar new year in mid-April, when the sun enters Aries. Baisakhi in Punjab, Songkran in Thailand, Thingyan in Myanmar, Aluth Avurudda in Sri Lanka, Vishu in Kerala and Bihu in Assam all fall on the same days.
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Virginia in the USA is famous for growing
Answer: C
Virginia is famous for tobacco.
Tobacco has been grown there since John Rolfe planted West Indian seed in 1612, and it became the colony's staple export. Virginia gives its name to the flue-cured bright leaf used in most cigarettes.
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India’s first roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) ferry service was launched in which state?
Answer: B
It was launched in Gujarat.
The Ghogha-Dahej ferry across the Gulf of Khambhat, opened in 2017, cuts the road journey of some 360 km between Saurashtra and south Gujarat to a crossing of about 30 km.
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The Golden Temple, or Harmandir Sahib, is located in which city ?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Amritsar
The Harmandir Sahib stands in the middle of the sacred pool at Amritsar from which the city takes its name. Its doors on all four sides are traditionally read as a sign of openness to people of every background.
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_______ is the largest city in South Africa and very famous for goldmines.
Answer: B
Johannesburg is the largest.
It grew from the gold rush on the Witwatersrand after 1886 and is the largest city in South Africa, though neither the administrative capital, which is Pretoria, nor the legislative one, which is Cape Town. Kimberley is the diamond city.
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The Great Barrier Reef is located in which country?
Answer: A
The Great Barrier Reef is in Australia.
It stretches some 2,300 km along the Queensland coast, is made of nearly 3,000 individual reefs, and is the largest structure built by living organisms - visible from space. It was inscribed by UNESCO in 1981.
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Dona Paula, one of the most striking landmarks of its region, is in which state?
Answer: B
Dona Paula is in Goa.
The headland south of Panaji looks out over the meeting of the Zuari and Mandovi, and is named after Dona Paula de Menezes, whose story of a doomed love with a fisherman gives the place its legend.
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The Indian Cancer Research Institute is at
Answer: B
It is at Mumbai.
The Indian Cancer Research Centre, now the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, works with the Tata Memorial Hospital, which has been India's principal cancer centre since 1941.
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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is located at
Answer: C
The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is at Thiruvananthapuram.
It grew out of the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station and is ISRO's lead centre for launch vehicles - the SLV, ASLV, PSLV and GSLV were all developed there.
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