Genoa is leading seaport of:
Answer: C
Genoa is the leading seaport of Italy.
It lies on the Ligurian Sea in the north-west and has been a great trading port since the Middle Ages, when the Republic of Genoa rivalled Venice. Christopher Columbus was born there.
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Willandra Lakes Region-a Unesco Heritage site is located in:
Answer: B
The Willandra Lakes Region is in Australia.
It lies in New South Wales and was inscribed by UNESCO in 1981 for both natural and cultural value. Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were found there, human remains dated to about 40,000 years, among the oldest evidence of ritual burial and cremation anywhere.
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The headquarters of International Astronomical Union (IAU) is located in:
Answer: D
The International Astronomical Union is headquartered in Paris.
Founded in 1919, it is the body that names astronomical objects and defines their categories - it was the IAU that reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006.
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With which country in the year 2010 did India propose to develop a solar city in India?
Answer: A
India proposed to develop a solar city with Japan.
The proposal came in 2010 under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, drawing on Japanese technology and finance for solar photovoltaic development.
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The largest river of all the west flowing rivers of the peninsular India is:
Answer: D
The Narmada is the largest west-flowing river of peninsular India.
It runs about 1,312 km through a rift valley between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges to the Gulf of Cambay. Because it flows in a rift rather than a valley of its own cutting, it forms an estuary rather than a delta, as the Tapti also does.
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Umiam Multipurpose Power Project is located in:
Answer: B
The Umiam project is in Meghalaya.
Built on the Umiam river near Shillong and commissioned in 1965, it was the first hydroelectric project in the north-east. Its reservoir, Barapani, is now a well-known lake.
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The instrument which measures the intensity of solar radiation is called:
Answer: C
The instrument is a solarimeter, also called a pyranometer.
It measures the solar radiation falling on a horizontal surface, in watts per square metre, usually by the temperature difference between blackened and reflective sensors under a glass dome. Barometers measure air pressure.
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Any wind blowing down the slope of a mountain is called
Answer: B
It is called a katabatic wind.
Air on the slope cools at night, becomes denser than the air at the same level over the valley, and flows downhill under gravity. The reverse daytime flow up the slope is the anabatic wind. Antarctica produces the strongest katabatic winds on earth.
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The zone of low atmospheric pressure and ascending air located at or near the equator is called:
Answer: A
It is the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone.
The trade winds of the two hemispheres meet there, the air is forced to rise, and the result is a belt of low pressure, towering cloud and heavy rain. Sailors called it the doldrums, for its lack of steady wind. The zone shifts north and south with the sun, and its movement drives the monsoon.
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The Indian state known as the Garden of Spices is
Answer: C
Kerala is called the Garden of Spices.
Its wet climate and hill slopes suit pepper, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon and clove, and it was pepper that first drew Arab, Roman and later Portuguese traders to the Malabar coast. Vasco da Gama landed at Calicut in 1498 in search of it.
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