The Sahyadri is another name for the
Answer: A
The Sahyadri is another name for the Western Ghats.
They run about 1,600 km from the Tapti valley to Kanyakumari, parallel to the Arabian Sea coast, and force the south-west monsoon to rise - which is why their windward slopes are among the wettest places in India and the Deccan behind lies in rain shadow.
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Which of the following pairs is correct?
Answer: C
Gujarat – Kandla is the correct pair.
Kandla, now Deendayal Port, is in the Gulf of Kutch and was developed after Partition to replace Karachi. Paradip is in Odisha, Mangalore in Karnataka and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, so the other three pairs are all wrong.
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During which of the following periods did the Constituent Assembly deliberate upon and finalise the Constitution of India?
Answer: C
From December 1946 to November 1949.
The Constituent Assembly first met on 9 December 1946 and adopted the Constitution on 26 November 1949 - 2 years, 11 months and 18 days, over eleven sessions and 165 sitting days. The Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950.
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The southernmost point of peninsular India, that is, Kanyakumari, lies in-
Answer: C
Kanyakumari lies north of the Equator.
It is at about 8°4′N, so it is north of the Equator and well south of the Tropic of Cancer, which crosses India at 23°30′N. The Tropic of Capricorn lies in the southern hemisphere and does not touch India at all.
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The Yarlung Zangbo River, in India, is named as-
Answer: C
The Yarlung Tsangpo is known in India as the Brahmaputra.
It rises near Mansarovar in Tibet and flows east for some 1,700 km before turning south through the Great Bend and entering Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, becoming the Brahmaputra in Assam and the Jamuna in Bangladesh.
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How many major ports are there in India?
Answer: B
India has thirteen major ports.
They are Kandla (Deendayal), Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Kamarajar, Chennai, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata-Haldia and Port Blair. Major ports are administered by the Centre; the roughly 200 minor ports are with the states.
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Which city is not on the river bank of Ganga-
Answer: A
Lucknow is not on the Ganga.
It stands on the Gomti, a tributary that joins the Ganga near Ghazipur. Bijnor, Varanasi and Kolkata all lie on the Ganga or its Hooghly distributary.
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Which of the following is the largest fort in India?
Answer: A
Chittorgarh is the largest fort in India.
It covers about 280 hectares on a hill in Rajasthan and was the capital of Mewar. Three jauhars were performed there, the first in 1303 when Alauddin Khalji besieged it. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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How many states lie within the Indian Deccan Plateau?
Answer: C
Eight states lie within the Deccan plateau.
They are Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The plateau is a triangular block bounded by the Satpuras in the north and the two Ghats on either side, tilting gently east.
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Valley of Flowers National Park is found on the mountain of-
Answer: A
The Valley of Flowers lies on Nanda Devi.
It is in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988. The alpine meadow blooms between July and September; the botanist Frank Smythe stumbled on it in 1931.
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