Among the following states, which has the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Answer: A
Among these, Tamil Nadu has the most.
It holds the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, the Great Living Chola Temples and the Nilgiri Mountain Railway. Across India, Maharashtra has the largest number with five, including Ajanta, Ellora and Elephanta.
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Besides petroleum, the important minerals of Assam are
Answer: A
They are coal and limestone.
Assam's petroleum is its best-known resource, but the state also has substantial coal in the Makum field of Upper Assam and limestone in the hills, used by the cement industry.
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Where are the Brindavan Gardens located?
Answer: D
They are at Mysore.
The Brindavan Gardens were laid out below the Krishna Raja Sagara dam on the Cauvery in the 1920s and 1930s, in the terraced Mughal style, and are known for the musical fountain lit in the evening.
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Darjeeling, the hill station famous for tea, oranges and cinchona, is in which state?
Answer: A
Darjeeling is in West Bengal.
It lies at about 2,000 m in the lesser Himalayas, and its tea, grown at that altitude in thin mountain soil, is prized for a distinctive muscatel flavour. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Pattan is located in which of the following states?
Answer: D
It is in Maharashtra.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva, across the harbour from Mumbai, was opened in 1989 to relieve the older port and now handles the largest share of India's container traffic.
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India’s integrated missile testing range at Chandipur-on-Sea, from which Agni-III was tested, is in which state?
Answer: B
Chandipur is in Odisha.
The Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, in Balasore district on the Bay of Bengal, is where the DRDO tests missiles - Prithvi, Agni, Akash and BrahMos among them.
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Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary at Tamil Nadu has reserves of
Answer: C
Vedanthangal is an important bird sanctuary.
It lies in Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu, about 75 km from Chennai, and is among the oldest in the country - villagers protected it from the eighteenth century. Migratory birds nest there from October to March.
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The first nuclear power station of the world is known by which of the following names?
Answer: C
It is the Obninsk nuclear plant.
The Soviet station at Obninsk, near Moscow, began supplying electricity to the grid on 27 June 1954 - the first nuclear power plant in the world to do so. It generated 5 MW and ran until 2002.
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Tajmahal was built on the bank of Which river ?
Answer: D
The Taj Mahal stands on the Yamuna.
Shah Jahan built it at Agra between 1632 and 1653 for Mumtaz Mahal. The river matters to the design: the tomb is set at the far end of the garden rather than the centre, so that it is seen reflected from across the water.
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Sanchi Stupa is located near
Answer: D
Sanchi is near Bhopal.
The stupa complex is about 46 km from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, close to Vidisha. The Great Stupa was begun by Ashoka in the third century BC, and the site was inscribed by UNESCO in 1989.
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