Famous Places in India Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The quote is about Kangra.

G.C. Barnes was the British officer who carried out the first regular land revenue settlement of the Kangra district in the 1850s. In his settlement report he described the Kangra valley, with the snow-covered Dhauladhar rising straight out of the green, terraced valley floor, in the words the question quotes, and the line is still the best-known description of the valley.

Kullu, Kinnaur and Chamba have their own famous descriptions, but Barnes wrote as settlement officer of Kangra, and the contrast he praised is the Dhauladhar standing over the Kangra valley.

Answer: A

The village is Modhera.

Modhera in Mehsana district, Gujarat, famous for its Sun Temple, was declared India's first round-the-clock solar-powered village in October 2022. Rooftop solar on homes and a ground-mounted solar plant with battery storage supply its electricity.

Punsari in Gujarat is known as a model 'smart' village with Wi-Fi and CCTV, not as the first solar village. Waghai and Madhapur do not hold this title.

Answer: D

The village of temples is Maluti.

Maluti, in Dumka district of Jharkhand, has a large cluster of terracotta temples, built by the local Baj Basanta kings in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Of the 108 once said to stand there, about 72 survive, which is why it is called the village (or town) of temples.

Sisai, Ramjari and Narasimhapur are not known for a cluster of temples of this kind; the name 'village of temples' is attached to Maluti alone.

Answer: C

The Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute is at Jhansi.

The IGFRI was set up in 1962 at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. It works on forage crops, grasslands and silvi-pasture systems, with regional stations in other parts of the country.

Jaipur, Kota and Lucknow host other ICAR and agricultural institutes, but not the IGFRI headquarters.

Answer: B

Ramrekha Dham is in Simdega district.

The shrine stands on a hill in Simdega district, in the south-west of the state near the Odisha and Chhattisgarh borders. Local tradition holds that Rama, Sita and Lakshmana stayed there during the exile, and a large fair is held at Kartik Purnima.

Santhal Parganas and Sahibganj are in the north-east of the state, and Saraikela Kharsawan in the south-east; none of them is the site of Ramrekha Dham.

Answer: D

Birsa Agricultural University has faculties of Agriculture, Veterinary Science and Forestry.

The university was set up at Kanke, Ranchi in 1981. It took over the Ranchi Agricultural College and Ranchi Veterinary College and added a Faculty of Forestry, so from the start it has covered all three fields.

Each of the other options is incomplete. Agriculture alone, Agriculture with Veterinary Science, or Agriculture with Forestry each leaves out one of the three faculties the university actually runs.

Answer: A

NIFFT was set up in collaboration with UNDP-UNESCO.

The National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology at Hatia, Ranchi was established in 1966 by the Government of India with assistance from the United Nations Development Programme, executed through UNESCO, to train engineers for the foundry and forging industry around Heavy Engineering Corporation. It is now the National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

UNICEF works on child welfare, the UGC funds universities and the DST funds science, so none of them was the partner in founding the institute.

Answer: B

The college is affiliated to Sidho Kanho Murmu University.

Phulo Jhano Murmu Medical College and Hospital is in Dumka, in the Santhal Parganas, and the university for that region is Sido Kanhu Murmu University, also at Dumka. The Commission's key gives B, the option with the full name of the university, 'Sidho Kanho Murmu University'.

Ranchi University and Nilamber Pitambar University (at Medininagar, Palamu) serve other regions of the state. 'Sidho Kanho University' in option C is the same name with 'Murmu' left out; the key accepts only the full form in B, and C is not the university's full name.

Answer: C

The Wildlife Institute of India is in Dehradun.

The Wildlife Institute of India, an autonomous institute of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, was set up in 1982 and is located at Chandrabani, Dehradun, in Uttarakhand. It trains wildlife managers and carries out research on wildlife and protected areas.

Bhopal is home to the Indian Institute of Forest Management, but neither Bhopal, Delhi nor Ranchi houses the WII.

Answer: D

Tanginath Dham is in Gumla district.

The Tanginath temple, on a hill in the Dumri block of Gumla district, is a Shiva shrine famous for a large iron trident (trishul) said never to rust, and for many old stone sculptures.

Lohardaga, Latehar and Simdega are neighbouring districts, but the temple is in Gumla.

Gumla district lies in the south-west of Jharkhand, and the hilltop shrine draws large crowds of pilgrims during Shivratri and the month of Shravan.