Genral facts about India - MCQs with answers - Part VII

ANSWER: d) Hawa Mahal

Hawa Mahal, is a palace in Jaipur, India, so named because it was essentially a high screen wall built so the women of the royal household could observe street festivities while being unseen from the outside.

ANSWER: b) Hazarduari

Hazarduari Palace, earlier known as the Bara Kothi, is located in the campus of Kila Nizamat in Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was built in the nineteenth century by architect Duncan Macleod, under the reign of Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (1824–1838).

ANSWER: b) Lake Palace

Lake palace is located on Lake Pichola, in Udaipur. It was built during the 18th century, by Maharana Jagat Singh and used as a summer residence.

ANSWER: d) Birla Planetarium, Kolkata

The Birla Planetarium in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is popularly known as taramandal. The planetarium was inaugurated on 2 July 1963 by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

ANSWER: d) Deccan plateau

This is the largest unit of the Peninsular Plateau of India covering an area of about five lakh sq km. This triangular plateau is bounded by the Satpura and the Vindhya in the north-west, the Mahadev and the Maikal in the north, the Western Ghats in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east.

ANSWER: b) Chennai

It was opened on 1786 at Fort. St. George Square.

ANSWER: d) Mumbai

The General Post Office of Mumbai was established by Mr. Charles Elphinstone the then appointed Postmaster General for Mumbai Presidency in 1794.

ANSWER: a) Tihar jail

Tihar Jail is operating from 1957 and has the capacity of 5,200 inmates.

ANSWER: a) Rajasthan

Rajasthan is India's largest state by area. It is located on the northern side of the country, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert and shares a border with Pakistan along the Sutlej-Indus river valley.

ANSWER: a) Goa

Goa is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population.