Famous Places in India Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The Centre is located at Dharwad.

The North Karnataka Agromet Forecasting and Research Centre was set up at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, by the India Meteorological Department with the University and the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, to serve farmers of North Karnataka. It was inaugurated in 2019 and has issued weekly agromet advisory bulletins since August 2020.

Bengaluru has the agrometeorology unit at GKVK, a separate research project and not the forecasting centre. Bagalkot and Mysuru do not host it.

Answer: B

The ancient name of Omkareshwar is Mandhata.

Omkareshwar, one of the twelve jyotirlingas, stands on an island in the Narmada in Khandwa district. The island and the town are traditionally called Mandhata, after the Ikshvaku king Mandhata who is said to have worshipped Shiva there.

Mahidpur is a town in Ujjain district known for the 1817 battle, and Kaknaya and Nalpur are not names of Omkareshwar or its island.

Answer: D

The Vidyapeeth is in Bhopal.

The Pandit Kunjilal Dubey Rashtriya Sansadiya Vidyapeeth was set up by the Madhya Pradesh government in Bhopal to study parliamentary and legislative practice and to train legislators and officials. It is named after Kunjilal Dubey, the first Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly after the 1956 reorganisation.

It is a state institution, not a body in New Delhi, and Jabalpur and Jaipur have no link with it.

Kunjilal Dubey held the office of Speaker from 1956 to 1967.

Answer: C

The Hindola Mahal is in Dhar district.

The Hindola Mahal, the 'swinging palace' named for its sloping side walls, is one of the main monuments of Mandu, the old capital of the Malwa sultans, which lies in Dhar district. It was built in the fifteenth century, probably as an audience hall.

Ujjain, Vidisha and Gwalior have their own monuments, but Mandu and the Hindola Mahal are in Dhar.

Answer: C

The Bagh Caves are in Dhar district.

The Bagh Caves are a group of Buddhist rock-cut caves on the bank of the Bagh river, a tributary of the Narmada, in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. Cut around the fifth and sixth centuries CE, they are known for wall paintings in a style related to the Ajanta murals, although much of the painting has been lost.

Shahdol, Dindori and Hoshangabad (now Narmadapuram) are districts in other parts of the state; Hoshangabad has the Adamgarh rock shelters, but not the Bagh Caves.

Answer: C

Jamgodrani in Dewas district is related to a wind energy plant.

The Jamgodrani hills near Dewas, on the Malwa plateau, have steady winds and are an early and well-known wind farm site in Madhya Pradesh, with rows of wind turbines along the ridge.

Madhya Pradesh's best-known solar project is the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Park, its waste-to-energy plants are in cities such as Jabalpur, and biomass plants are spread across agricultural districts; none of these is at Jamgodrani.

Answer: D

The site associated with the Gond rulers is the Moti Mahal of Ramnagar.

Moti Mahal at Ramnagar in Mandla district was built in the seventeenth century by the Gond king Hirde Shah of the Garha-Mandla kingdom, on the banks of the Narmada.

Gwalior Fort is associated with the Tomars and later the Scindias, the Dhamnar caves in Mandsaur district are Buddhist and Hindu rock-cut caves, and the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur was built by the Paramara king Bhoja. None is a Gond monument.

Answer: C

The pair not correctly matched is Chandoli National Park - Gujarat.

Chandoli National Park is in Maharashtra, in the Sahyadri range across Sangli, Satara and Kolhapur districts, and forms part of the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.

The other pairs are correct: Anshi National Park is in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, Balphakram National Park is in the South Garo Hills of Meghalaya, and Hemis National Park is in Ladakh, known for its snow leopards.

Answer: A

The National Institute of Virology is in Pune.

The National Institute of Virology, an institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research, was established in Pune in 1952 (as the Virus Research Centre). It is India's leading virology laboratory and played a central role in testing and in isolating the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hyderabad hosts the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Mumbai the Haffkine Institute, and Lucknow the Central Drug Research Institute, but not the NIV.

Answer: C

The institute is in Bhopal.

The Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis is the Madhya Pradesh Government's think tank on governance and public policy, based in the state capital, Bhopal.

New Delhi, Hyderabad and Jabalpur are not its location; this is a Madhya Pradesh state institution, not a central or Telangana body.

The institute advises the state government on policy, carries out research and evaluation, and is named after the former Prime Minister.