Famous Places in India Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Nakki Lake is at Mount Abu.

Nakki Lake lies in the hill station of Mount Abu in Sirohi district, in the Aravalli range, at an altitude of over 1,100 m. It is one of the highest lakes in Rajasthan and a major tourist spot; legend says it was dug by the gods with their nails (nakh), which gives it its name.

Ajmer is known for Ana Sagar and Foy Sagar, Jaipur for Man Sagar and Ramgarh, and Alwar for Siliserh, so none of them is the site of Nakki Lake.

Answer: A

The Karni Mata temple is at Deshnok.

Karni Mata, the kuldevi of the Rathore rulers of Bikaner, is worshipped at Deshnok in Bikaner district. The temple is famous for the thousands of rats (kabbas) that live there and are regarded as sacred.

Sheel Dungri (Sheel ki Doongri) in Chaksu, Jaipur district, is known for the Sheetla Mata fair. Trikuta and Sikar are not the seat of Karni Mata.

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-II, b-I, c-III, d-IV.

• Churu Fort was built by Thakur Kushal Singh (II).
• Jaisalmer Fort (Sonar Qila) was founded by Rao (Rawal) Jaisal in the 12th century (I).
• Jaigarh Fort at Amer was built by Sawai Jai Singh II (III).
• Lohagarh, the 'iron fort' of Bharatpur, was built by Maharaja Surajmal (IV).

Option A swaps Churu and Jaisalmer, and option D swaps Jaigarh and Lohagarh.

Answer: C

The wrongly matched pair is Central Institute of Indian Languages - Mumbai.

The Central Institute of Indian Languages, set up by the Ministry of Education in 1969 to develop Indian languages and their teaching, is located in Mysuru, Karnataka, not Mumbai.

The other pairs are correct: the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) is in Nainital, Uttarakhand; the College of Defence Management is in Secunderabad, Telangana; and the Indian Institute of Science is in Bengaluru.

Answer: D

The correct code is a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1.

• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport: Nagpur.
• Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport: Lucknow.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport: Varanasi.
• Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport: Guwahati.

The other codes swap Lucknow and Varanasi or send the Bordoloi airport somewhere other than Assam, whose first Chief Minister it is named after.

Answer: B

The headquarters of North Eastern Railway is at Gorakhpur.

Despite its name, the North Eastern Railway zone serves eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand and Bihar, and its headquarters are at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The zone that serves the north-eastern states is the Northeast Frontier Railway, headquartered at Maligaon in Guwahati, which is the trap. Shimla and Imphal are not zonal headquarters.

Answer: B

The 'City of Joy' is Kolkata.

The name comes from Dominique Lapierre's 1985 novel The City of Joy, set among the poor of Kolkata, and its 1992 film adaptation. It has since become the city's best-known nickname, reflecting its warmth and cultural life.

Jaipur is the Pink City and Bhopal the City of Lakes. Itanagar is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh and does not carry this title.

Answer: A

Neermahal stands in the middle of Rudrasagar Lake.

The water palace at Melaghar in Sepahijala district was built between 1930 and 1938 by Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya as a summer residence, in a blend of Hindu and Mughal styles. It is the largest of the few water palaces in India.

Kaptai Lake is a reservoir in Bangladesh, Kamala Sagar is a lake near the Bangladesh border with the Kasba Kali temple, and Kalyan Sagar is the lake beside the Tripura Sundari temple at Udaipur.

Answer: A

The main campus of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is in Mumbai.

TIFR was founded in 1945 by Homi J. Bhabha with the support of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and its main campus is at Navy Nagar, Colaba, in Mumbai. It is a deemed university under the Department of Atomic Energy.

Bangalore is the trap: TIFR's National Centre for Biological Sciences and its International Centre for Theoretical Sciences are there, but they are centres of the institute, not its main campus. TIFR has no main campus in Delhi or Kolkata.

Answer: A

The North Eastern Police Academy is in Meghalaya.

The North Eastern Police Academy (NEPA) stands at Umiam (Barapani) in Ri-Bhoi district, near Shillong. Run by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, it trains police officers of the North Eastern states.

It is not in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh or Manipur, though those states send their officers there. Shillong's role as the region's old administrative capital explains the location.