. Which of the following are correctly matched?
A B C
Establishment of Manufacturing Year Place
1. Setting up of the first cotton mill 1854 Bombay
2. Manufacture of the first machine-made paper 1870 Near
Calcutta
3. Setting up of the first cement factory 1904 Madras
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
The minimum age of voting in India was lowered from 21 to 18 years by the Constitutional Amendment Act 1 57th 2 59th 3 61st 4 63rd
The 13th Asian Track and Field Championship was organized recently in Jakarta. What was India?s rank in it? 1 First 2 Third 3 Fourteenth 4 Second
The best fertilizer for plants is (A) Compost (B) Ammonium sulphate (C) Super phosphate of lime (D) Urea
Which of the following articles of Indian Constitution ensures Freedom of the press in India? 1 Art.356 2 Art.19 3 Art.27 4 Art.327
The Pythagorean Theorem states that: (A) In any triangle, the square of the longest side equals the sum of the squares of the other sides (B) In any triangle, the square of the longest side equals the square of the sum of the other sides (C) In a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides (D) In an isosceles triangle, the third side equals the sum of the other two equal sides
The place where Lord Krishna explained the philosophy of Bhagwad Gita is: (a) Mathura (b) Dwarka (c) Kurukshetra (d) Gokul
During whose reign, the Grand Trunk Road was constructed ? (A) Babar (B) Sher Shah Suri (C) Akbar (D) Humayun
After the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in 2001, militant groups have targeted many countries. In September, they occupied a school in Russia and hundreds of hostages were killed in the gun battle. In which town was this school located? 1 Moscow 2 Vladivostok 3 St.Petersburg 4 Beslan
A term of experts/scientists has invented India?s first cryogenic tunnel. Which of the following is not related with the uses/benefits and nature of this invention? 1 Cryogenics is the study of very low temperatures 2 The invention will help food processing industry in a big way 3 The tunnel consumes less electricity, takes smaller space and is mobile 4 None of these
. Next to Hindi, the language spoken by the largest number of people in the Indian subcontinent is (a) Urdu (b) Telugu (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
Which of the following countries is the world?s largest producer of rubber? (a) Sri Lanka (b) Negeria (c) India (d) Zaire Republic (e) Malaysia
Who among the following is the author of the Suitable Boy? (a) Kamla Markandey (b) Khushwant Singh (c) Vikram Seth (d) Arundhati Roy