The 'satellite freight city' is being developed near which of the following cities?
Answer: C
It is being developed near Gurgaon.
The satellite freight city, planned along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, is intended to take goods traffic out of the capital by concentrating warehousing and freight handling outside it.
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In which city is the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) located?
Answer: A
ARCI is at Hyderabad.
The International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, an autonomous centre under the Department of Science and Technology, works on nanomaterials, fuel cells and solar energy materials.
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Which place in Tamil Nadu is famous for the monumental architecture of the Pallavas?
Answer: B
It is Mahabalipuram.
The Pallavas carved the rathas, the mandapas and the Descent of the Ganges relief there in the seventh century, and built the Shore Temple about 700. The group was inscribed by UNESCO in 1984.
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What is Khetri in Rajasthan famous for?
Answer: B
Khetri is famous for copper mines.
The Khetri belt in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan is one of India's two principal copper-producing areas, the other being Singhbhum. Hindustan Copper's Khetri complex has worked it since 1967.
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Where is the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, located?
Answer: C
It is at Ahmedabad.
The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium at Navrangpura has hosted Test and one-day cricket. The far larger Narendra Modi Stadium at Motera, the biggest cricket ground in the world, is in the same city.
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Which is the oldest monument?
Answer: A
The Ajanta caves are the oldest of these.
The earliest of them date from about the second century BC, in the Satavahana period. The Qutb Minar was begun in 1199, Khajuraho in the tenth century and the Taj Mahal in 1632.
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The important industries of Rajasthan are
Answer: D
All of these are important in Rajasthan.
The state has a large textile and woollen industry at Bhilwara and Bikaner, sugar and cement plants using its limestone, and glass works and zinc smelters drawing on the Zawar and Rampura Agucha ores.
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At which place do the East-West Corridor connecting Silchar and Porbandar and the North-South Corridor connecting Srinagar and Kanyakumari intersect?
Answer: C
They intersect at Jhansi.
The two corridors of the National Highways Development Project - Silchar to Porbandar and Srinagar to Kanyakumari - cross there, which is why Jhansi has long been a junction of routes across the subcontinent.
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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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Thumba in Kerala is famous because
Answer: B
Because it is a rocket launching station.
The Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station near Thiruvananthapuram was set up in 1962 and made its first launch in 1963, chosen because the earth's magnetic equator passes over it. It is where India's space programme began.
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