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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 Pishkova
The Miss World 2024 title was won at Mumbai by Kristina Pishkova 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
The credit for the Green Revolution in India is given to Dr M. S. Swaminathan, who led the way in bringing in high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice.
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: (A) Natya Shastra
Correct answer: (C) Plato
Correct answer: (C) Vishnudharmottara Purana
Correct answer: (C) Yamini Roy
Correct answer: (B) Garhwal
Correct answer: (A) Brij Mohan
Correct answer: (C) David Ogilvy
Correct answer: (A) Movable type
Correct answer: (C) Professional Art
Correct answer: (C) An assortment of type of one size and face
Correct answer: (A) White
Correct answer: (A) Akbar’s period
Correct answer: (C) Leonardo
Correct answer: (A) Tantric forms
Correct answer: (C) Lithography
Correct answer: (C) Rasikpriya, Bihari Satsai
Correct answer: (A) E.V. Havel
Correct answer: (B) Himmat Shah
Correct answer: (B) Picasso and Braque
Correct answer: (C) Rammanohar Sinha
Correct answer: (C) Raphael
Correct answer: (B) Constable
Correct answer: (A) Rajasthan
Correct answer: (C) Art of local people
Correct answer: (B) Company style
Correct answer: (B) Japan
Correct answer: (C) Mahabalipuram
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Dvarapala
Correct answer: (C) Installation