The Victoria Memorial is located in which city ?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Kolkata
The Victoria Memorial stands on the Maidan in Kolkata, built between 1906 and 1921 in white Makrana marble. It now functions as a museum of the colonial period.
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The Central Scientific Instruments Organisation is situated at
Answer: A
The Central Scientific Instruments Organisation is at Chandigarh.
A CSIR laboratory founded in 1959, it designs and develops scientific and analytical instruments, from medical devices to agri-electronics.
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Largest Mint in India is located at
Answer: B
The largest mint is at Kolkata.
The Alipore mint, established in 1757 and moved to its present site in 1952, is the largest of India's four government mints, the others being at Mumbai, Hyderabad and Noida.
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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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In which palace did Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, die?
Answer: C
She died at the Aga Khan Palace.
Gandhi, Kasturba and Mahadev Desai were interned there at Pune after the Quit India resolution of 1942. Desai died within days and Kasturba in February 1944; both are buried in the grounds. The Aga Khan gave the palace to the nation in 1969.
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The Dul Hasti Power Station is based on which one of the following rivers?
Answer: C
Dulhasti is on the Chenab.
The 390 MW station in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir was commissioned in 2007, a run-of-the-river scheme of the kind the Indus Waters Treaty allows India on the western rivers.
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National Science Center is located at
Answer: B
The National Science Centre is at Delhi.
Opened in 1992 near Pragati Maidan, it is a museum of the National Council of Science Museums, with galleries on the human body, prehistoric life and India's heritage in science.
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National Institute of Oceanography is located at
Answer: B
The National Institute of Oceanography is at Panaji.
A CSIR laboratory founded in 1966 in Goa, it studies the Indian Ocean and the Indian exclusive economic zone, and its ships have surveyed the polymetallic nodule fields of the central Indian basin.
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Which country is known as land of kangaroo ?
Answer: C
Australia is the land of the kangaroo.
The kangaroo is found nowhere else in the wild and appears with the emu on the Australian coat of arms, both chosen because neither animal can easily walk backwards.
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____________ is a famous beach in Chennai.
Answer: A
Marina is the famous beach in Chennai.
Running about 13 km along the Bay of Bengal, it is one of the longest urban beaches in the world. Bathing there is dangerous because of the undertow, so it is used for walking rather than swimming.
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