General facts about India - MCQs with answers - Part I

ANSWER: b) Great Himalayas

India is the seventh largest and the second most populous nation of the world. The Great Himalayas bounds India on its northern frontiers. It stretches southwards and beyond the Tropic of Cancer, it narrows down to form the Great Indian Peninsula which ends up in the Indian Ocean with Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari) as its southernmost tip.

ANSWER: a) the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.

The Indo-Gangetic Plains, about 2,400 km long and 240 to 320 km broad, are formed by the basins of three distinct river systems: the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. They are one of the most densely populated areas on earth.

ANSWER: a) Nilgiri Hills

The Nilgiri Hills forms the southern point of the plateau where Eastern and Western Ghats meet.

ANSWER: b) Cardamom Hills

The Cardomom Hills that lie beyond the southern point of the Peninsular plateau is regarded as a continuation of the Western Ghats.

ANSWER: a) Ganga

The largest river basin in India is Ganga basin, which receives waters from an area of about one-quarter of the total area of India. The Himalayas in the north and the Vindhya mountains in the south define its boundaries.

ANSWER: a) Gangotri glacier

The Ganga has the Bhagirathi and the Alakananda as the two main headwaters in the Himalayas. The former rises from the Gangotri glacier at Gaumukh and the latter from a glacial spout of the Alkapur glacier.

ANSWER: a) Yamuna

A number of Himalayan rivers including the Yamuna, Ghagra, Gomti, Gandak and Kosi join Ganga. Yamuna is the westernmost river of the Ganga system which rises in the Yamunotri glacier and joins the Ganga at Allahabad.

ANSWER: b) Godavari

The Godavari basin is the second largest in India which covers an area of about 10 percent of the area of India.

ANSWER: c) Anand Sharma

Mr. Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry unveiled the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014), on August 27, 2009 which incorporates provisions relating to export and import of goods and services . According to the Minister, the immediate objective is to capture and reverse the declining exports and provide greater support, especially to sectors badly hit by recession in the developed world (especially in USA and European Union which accounted for 55 percent of exports in 2008-09). The long term objective is to double India's share in global trade and services to 3.28% by 2020 against 1.64 percent in 2008-09.

ANSWER: d) Alipore Zoological Gardens

Alipore Kolkata zoological garden is national zoo of India. The zoo is located next to river Ganges and very near to race course and Police Training School and opposite to the famous hotel Taj. Alipore zoo occupies a large area (about 45 arcs) to be looked. Kolkata zoo is famous for its huge animal resource and especially for the Aldabra Giant Tortoise Adwaita (donated by Lord Clive) which expired in 2006 at its 250th age.