The Minjar Fair is celebrated in Chamba district. What does ‘minjar’ stand for?
Answer: D
Minjar stands for maize flowers.
The fair at Chamba in Himachal Pradesh takes its name from the tassel of the maize plant, which appears at that season, and is held to mark the victory of the Raja of Chamba over the ruler of Trigarta in 935.
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Victoria Falls is located between which two countries?
Answer: A
They lie between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The Zambezi falls 108 m into a narrow gorge on the border. The local name, Mosi-oa-Tunya, means 'the smoke that thunders'; David Livingstone named it after Queen Victoria in 1855.
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Which of the following Valleys is known as "Paradise of Earth" ?
Answer: D
The Kashmir valley is called the Paradise on Earth.
The phrase comes from a Persian couplet inscribed in the Diwan-i-Khas of the Red Fort: if there is a paradise on earth, it is here. Jahangir is said to have spoken it of Kashmir.
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Auckland is the largest city located in which country ?
Answer: B
Auckland is in New Zealand.
It is the country's largest city, with about a third of the national population, though Wellington is the capital. It is built on an isthmus between two harbours and on a field of some fifty volcanoes.
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Abu Simbel is located in which country?
Answer: D
Abu Simbel is in Egypt.
The two temples were cut into the cliff by Ramesses II in the thirteenth century BC. In the 1960s they were sawn into blocks and moved 65 m higher to save them from the rising waters of Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam.
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Which country is known as the Sugar Bowl of the World?
Answer: B
Cuba is called the Sugar Bowl of the World.
Sugar dominated its economy for two centuries and made up the bulk of its exports; the island's climate and soil suit cane exceptionally well. Brazil is now the largest producer, but the epithet belongs to Cuba.
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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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The State Hermitage Museum is located in which country?
Answer: D
The State Hermitage Museum is in Russia.
It occupies the Winter Palace and neighbouring buildings at St Petersburg, and was founded by Catherine the Great in 1764. It holds about three million items, one of the largest collections in the world.
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Where is the Morris Canal Located?
Answer: A
The Morris Canal is in New Jersey.
Opened in 1831, it ran 107 miles from the Delaware to the Hudson, carrying anthracite to the iron furnaces of New Jersey. It climbed some 1,674 feet using inclined planes rather than locks alone, a rare engineering solution.
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The largest and the oldest museum of India is located in the state/union territory of
Answer: B
It is in West Bengal.
The Indian Museum at Kolkata, founded in 1814 by the Asiatic Society, is the oldest and largest museum in India and among the oldest in the world. Its collection runs from the Bharhut stupa railing to Egyptian mummies.
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