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Correct answer: (C) Hayley Matthews (West Indies)
The ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year for 2023 was Hayley Matthews of the West Indies, an all-rounder effective with both bat and ball.
Correct answer: (A) Miss Czech Kristina Piskova
The Miss World 2024 title was won at Mumbai by Kristina Pišková of the Czech Republic.
Correct answer: (B) Singapore
The Clean Energy Investor Forum of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) was held in Singapore.
Correct answer: (C) Myanmar
Sittwe port is in the Rakhine province of Myanmar, and India has got the right to operate it. It is part of the Kaladan project, which will link north-east India to the sea.
Correct answer: (A) Sunderban
The tidal forests of the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta are called the Sundarbans, named after the sundari tree. They are also a famous home of the tiger.
Correct answer: (B) Kosi
The Kosi shifts its channel again and again and lays down heavy silt, which is why it is called the ‘Sorrow of Bihar’.
Correct answer: (C) Capillary water
Roots draw the water held by capillarity in the fine spaces between soil particles. Hygroscopic water clings to the particles too tightly for the roots to pull it away.
Correct answer: (B) 43 km
The Earth is flattened at the poles, so its equatorial diameter is about 43 kilometres greater than the polar. That is why the Earth is called an oblate spheroid rather than a perfect sphere.
Correct answer: (A) 82.5° E
Indian Standard Time is taken at 82°30′ E longitude, which passes near Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh and is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich.
Correct answer: (B) Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
Correct answer: (B) Kanchenjunga
The highest peak within India's own borders is Kanchenjunga (8,586 m). Everest stands on the Nepal–China border and K-2 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, so neither counts as an Indian peak.
Correct answer: (A) Gondwanaland
The Indian peninsula was once part of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland. Pangaea was the still older single landmass, which later split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
Correct answer: (B) Kunwar Singh
The 1857 revolt in Bihar was led by Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur, who took on the British at the age of eighty. Tatya Tope and Nana Saheb were active in central India.
Correct answer: (C) Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda gave nationalism a spiritual ground, seeing India's soul in its culture and religion. His ideas awakened self-respect among the young.
Correct answer: (B) Amrit Bazar Patrika
The ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’ spread strong nationalist views during the freedom struggle. The ‘Pioneer’ and the ‘Statesman’ were pro-British papers.
Correct answer: (B) Mahatma Gandhi
In 1918 Mahatma Gandhi intervened in the dispute between the workers and the mill owners of Ahmedabad, and brought about a settlement by going on a hunger strike.
Correct answer: (A) Karyanand Sharma
The left-wing leader Karyanand Sharma did the most to turn the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha into a mass movement, organising the peasants of the Munger region.
Correct answer: (A) Dyarchy
The Muddiman Committee was appointed in 1924 to examine the working of the dyarchy introduced by the Act of 1919.
Correct answer: (C) Rajendra Prasad
The remark is about Dr Rajendra Prasad, who taught not bare tolerance but the willing acceptance of others. He was India's first President.
Correct answer: (C) Subhash Chandra Bose
The Provisional Government of Free India—the Azad Hind government—was proclaimed by Subhas Chandra Bose at Singapore on 21 October 1943. The government Raja Mahendra Pratap set up at Kabul in 1915 was called the Provisional Government of India, and Rash Behari Bose built the Indian Independence League and the INA, whose leadership he later handed to Subhas Chandra Bose.
Correct answer: (B) চর্যাপদ
Correct answer: (C) বৈষ্ণবপদের
Correct answer: (C) চণ্ডীমঙ্গল
Correct answer: (A) নয়টি
Correct answer: (C) উপন্যাস
Correct answer: (B) মধুসূদন দত্ত
Correct answer: (C) ট্র্যাজেডি বা বিয়োগান্তক
Correct answer: (E) উপরের কোনোটিই সঠিক নয়
Correct answer: (A) ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত
Correct answer: (B) মধুসূদন দত্ত
Correct answer: (C) 1800
Correct answer: (B) বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
Correct answer: (D) উপরের একাধিক বিকল্প সঠিক
Correct answer: (C) রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Correct answer: (A) জীবনানন্দ দাশ
Correct answer: (B) অকেজো
Correct answer: (C) সংসারের উন্নতিতে প্রতাপের কোনো যত্ন নেই, তাই
Correct answer: (C) কাজে অকাজে তাদের সহজে পাওয়া যায় বলে
Correct answer: (A) যে সম্পত্তির কোনো ব্যক্তিগত মালিক নেই
Correct answer: (C) গোসাঁইয়ের ছোট ছেলেটি খুশি হয়
Correct answer: (B) মামার বাড়ি
Correct answer: (B) নিজেদের জমিজমা উদ্ধার করতে না পেরে
Correct answer: (C) জুয়াড়িয়া স্কুল
Correct answer: (A) শান্ত, ধীর-স্থির
Correct answer: (D) উপরের একাধিক বিকল্প সঠিক
Correct answer: (C) মিটমিটে লণ্ঠন
Correct answer: (A) জাগিয়ে রাখা
Correct answer: (C) মাস্টারমশায়ের বেতাঘাত
Correct answer: (B) মেয়ে ভূতের
Correct answer: (B) গড়গড়ি