Indian Panorama (UPSC) Part-III

1. Match List-I (Place of Archaeological Monument) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: [2006]

List-I (Place of Archaeological Monument)	List-II (State)
A. Sisupalgarh	1. Assam
B. Piprahwa	2. Manipur
C. Goalpara	3. Orissa
D. Bishnupur	4. Uttar Pradesh

Option	A	B	C	D
(a)	2	4	1	3
(b)	2	1	4	3
(c)	3	4	1	2
(d)	3	1	4	2

Correct Answer: (c)

Solution:(A) Sisupalgarh - Orissa

(B) Piprahwa - Uttar Pradesh

(D) Bishnupur - Manipur

2. In which State is the Rajiv Gandhi-National Institute of Youth Development located? [2006]

(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Karnataka
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Uttaranchal

Correct Answer: (a) Tamil Nadu

Solution:Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development is located in Tamil Nadu.

3. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [2007]

(a) TS Krishnamurthy : Former Chief Election Commissioner of India
(b) K C Pant : Chairman, Tenth Finance Commission of India
(c) AM Khusro : Former Chairman, Union Public Service Commission
(d) R C Lahoti : Former Chief Justice of India

Correct Answer: (c) AM Khusro : Former Chairman, Union Public Service Commission

Solution:А.М. Khusro was Chairman of eleventh Finance Commission of India

4. Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the formation of the following as full States of the Indian Union? [2007]

(a) Sikkim-Arunachal Pradesh-Nagaland-Haryana
(b) Nagaland-Haryana-Sikkim-Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Sikkim-Haryana-Nagaland-Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Nagaland-Arunachal Pradesh-Sikkim-Haryana

Correct Answer: (b) Nagaland-Haryana-Sikkim-Arunachal Pradesh

Solution:Nagaland-1962, Haryana-1966, Sikkim-1975, Arunachal Pradesh-1986

5. In which one of the following cities is the Global Automotive Research Centre being set up? [2007]

(a) Chennai
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Pune
(d) Gurgaon

Correct Answer: (a) Chennai

Solution:The Global Automotive Research Center (GARC), Chennai, is situated in the SIPCOT Industrial Growth Center at Orgadam near Chennai in the close proximity of manufacturing facility of Indian and Global automotive giants.

6. Who among the following served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund? [2007]

(a) Ashok Lahiri
(b) Sumantra Ghoshal
(c) Saumitra Chaudhuri
(d) Raghuram Rajan

Correct Answer: (d) Raghuram Rajan

Solution:Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015, during his tenure at the RBI, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.

7. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: [2007]

Person	Known As
A. Bhajan Sopori	1. Bharatanatyam dancer
B. Birju Maharaj	2. Exponent of Santoor
C. Priyadarsini	3. Mridangam maestro
D. TV Gopalakrishnan	4. Kathak dancer

Option	A	B	C	D
(a)	2	1	4	3
(b)	3	1	4	2
(c)	2	4	1	3
(d)	3	4	1	2

Correct Answer: (c)

Solution:(A) Bhajan Sopori - Exponent of Santoor

(B) Birju Maharaj - Kathak dancer

(D) TV Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam Maestro

8. Who among the following wrote the book-Ayodhya : 6 December 1992? [2007]

(a) Chandra Shekhar
(b) PV Narasimha Rao
(c) Jaswant Singh
(d) Arun Shourie

Correct Answer: (b) PV Narasimha Rao

Solution:PV Narasimha Rao was 9th Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He wrote the book Ayodhya 6 December 1992.

9. The Pulitzer Prize is associated with which one of the following? [2007]

(a) Environmental protection
(b) Olympics Games
(c) Journalism
(d) Civil Aviation

Correct Answer: (c) Journalism

Solution:The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

10. Raghu Rai is well-known for which one of the following areas? [2007]

(a) Research in Mathematics
(b) Photography
(c) Water harvesting
(d) Pollution control

Correct Answer: (b) Photography

Solution:Raghu Rai is an Indian photographer and photojournalist.