Description : Which one of the following shipyards makes warships for the Indian Navy? (a) Cochin Shipyard, Cochin (b) Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam (c) Mazagaon Dock, Mumbai (d) Garden Reach Workshop, Kolkata
Last Answer : Ans: (c)
Description : Which of the following sets of three ports is on the east coast of India? (a) Cochin, Goa, Mumbai (b) Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (c) Paradeep, Kakinada, Nagapattinam (d) Machilipatnam, Kandla, Aleppey
Description : Which of the following is a natural harbour? (a) Visakhapatnam (b) Mumbai (c) Chennai (d) Kolkata
Last Answer : Ans: (b)
Description : Anjuna, Baga, Colva, Majorda, and Miramar are beaches in (a) Chennai (b) Goa (c) Mumbai (d) Visakhapatnam
Description : Which among the following pairs of places have most marked difference in total rainfall per annum even though located approximately along the same latitude? (a) Bengaluru and Chennai (b) Mumbai and Visakhapatnam (c) Ajmer and Shillong (d) Nagpur and Kolkata
Description : Which one of the following Indian towns has the longest sea beach? (a) Kolkata (b) Mumbai (c) Chennai (d) Cochin
Description : Coir, Copra, Coconut, Cashew are mainly exported from (a) Mumbai (b) Cochin (c) Tuticorin (d) Chennai
Description : The finest natural harbour in India is (a) Chennai (b) Mumbai (c) Kolkata (d) Cochin
Description : Which of these harbours is not a natural harbour? (1) Chennai (2) Mumbai (3) Cochin (4) Paradip
Last Answer : (1) Chennai Explanation: A natural harbor is a landform where a part of a body of water is protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage. Many such harbors are rias. Bombay port and Kandla port have ... way back in 1639 on the sea shore. It is an artificial and all-weather port with wet docks.
Description : Passenger and merchant ships are constructed at (a) Mazagaon Docks (b) Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam (c) No place; the Indian docks only make navy ships (d) Goa shipyard
Description : Which one of the following shipyards builds warships for Indian Navy ? (1) Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai (2) Cochin Shipyard (3) Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam (4) Garden Reach Workshop, Kolkata
Last Answer : Garden Reach Workshop, Kolkata
Description : India’s first Naval Museum is being commissioned at this major sea port (1) Chennai (2) Mumbai (3) Visakhapatnam (4) Kochi
Last Answer : Visakhapatnam
Description : The four important ports of the West Coast of India, from South to North, in that order, are (a) Kandla, Mumbai, Goa, Cochin (b) Goa, Mumbai, Cochin, Kandla (c) Mumbai, Kandla, Goa, Cochin (d) Cochin, Goa, Mumbai, Kandla
Last Answer : Ans: (d)
Description : The land-locked natural harbour along the east coast of India is (a) Visakhapatnam (b) Chennai (c) Kolkata (d) Paradeep
Last Answer : Ans: (a)
Description : India has one land-locked and protected port which is at (a) Paradeep (b) Chennai (c) Kolkata (d) Visakhapatnam
Description : Which National Highway connects Chennai and Visakhapatnam ? [Asstt Comm 2008] (a) NH 4 (b) NH 5 (c) NH 6 (d) NH 8
Description : Which of the following towns is not on the "Golden Quadrilateral" being created for the roads infrastructure of the country? (1) Chennai (2) Hyderabad (3) Visakhapatnam (4) Bhubaneswar
Last Answer : (2) Hyderabad Explanation: The Golden Quadrilateral is a highway network connecting India's four largest metropolises: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, thus forming a quadrilateral of sorts. Four ... project in India, it is the first phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP).
Description : The longest distance covered by one Broad Gauge train in India is between (a) Kanniyakumari and Jammu Tawi (b) Guwahati and Tiruvananthpuram (c) New Delhi and Chennai (d) Gorakhpur and Cochin
Description : Iron ore from Kudremukh mines is exported from – (1) Mannugao (2) Cochin (3) Mangalore (4) Chennai
Last Answer : (3) Mangalore Explanation: Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) has iron ore mines in Kudremukh (Chikkarnagaluru district) on the Western Ghats and a pelletisation plant in Mangalore. The actual mining ... up to the plant in Panambur, adjacent to the premises of New Mangalore Port in Mangalore.
Description : In which one of the following cities can one never have the sunshine directly overhead at noon? (a) Bengaluru (b) Mumbai (c) Visakhapatnam (d) Delhi shop.ssbcrack.com
Description : Which one among the following has the largest shipyard In India? (a) Kolkata (b) Kochi (c) Mumbai (d) Visakhapatnam
Description : Which city is served by Diamond Harbour? (a) Mumbai (b) Visakhapatnam (c) Kolkata (d) Rangoon
Description : Match the following: [NDA 2011] Name of the Shipyard Location A. Hindustan Shipyard Limited 1. Kolkata B. Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited 2. Vasco-da- Gama C. Goa Shipyard Limited 3. Mumbai D. Mazgaon Dock Limited 4. Visakhapatnam A B C D (a) 4 2 1 3 (b) 3 1 2 4 (c) 4 1 2 3 (d) 3 2 1 4
Description : Which of the following ports has the largest hinterland? (1) Kandla (2) Kochi (3) Mumbai (4) Visakhapatnam
Last Answer : (3) Mumbai Explanation: Mumbai is the largest and most important port along the western coast of India. It was developed during the colonial rule when the headquarters of the East ... Andhra Pradesh, eastern Gujarat and Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh and southwestern Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
Description : The Buckingham Canal, which has been declared a National Waterway of India recently, is a canal running from (a) Punjab to Haryana (b) Mumbai to Goa (c) Vijayawada to Villupuram (d) Cochin to Kozhikode (e) Kanyakumari to Rameshwaram
Description : The National Institute of Oceanography is located at (a) Kandla (b) Mumbai (c) Cochin (d) Goa
Description : The deepest land locked and protected port in India is (a) Marmugoa (b) Visakhaptanam (c) Mumbai (d) Cochin
Description : ____ is known as the Queen of the Arabian Sea. (a) Cochin (b) Mumbai (c) Mangalore (d) Surat
Description : Which of the following port caters to the export of Kudremukh iron ore? (a) Cochin (b) New Mangalore (c) Mumbai (d) Vishakhapatnam
Description : In which of the following towns does the LMT (Local Meridian Time) show the greatest deviation from the 1ST (Indian Standard Time) ? [NDA 1991] (a) Delhi (b) Cochin (c) Mumbai (d) Kohima
Description : The Konkan Coast stretches between: (a) Goa and Cochin (b) Goa and Mumbai (c) Goa and Daman (d) Goa and Diu
Description : The largest dry dock in India is situated at - (1) Cochin (2) Marmagoa (3) Kolkata (4) Mumbai
Last Answer : (2) Marmagoa Explanation: Marmugao dock, located in Goa, was the largest dry dock of India till 2015.
Description : The Jawaharlal Nehru Port is located at – (1) Paradip (2) Cochin (3) Mumbai (4) Kolkata
Last Answer : (3) Mumbai Explanation: Jawaharlal Nehru Port is south of Mumbai in Maharashtra. Also known as Nava Sheva, it is the largest container port in India. The port was created to relieve pressure on Mumbai Port, then the pre-eminent port of India.
Description : Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is in (a) Mumbai (b) Kolkata (c) Bengaluru (d) Chennai
Description : The National Highway - 1 connects Delhi to (a) Chennai (b) Kolkata (c) Mumbai (d) Amritsar
Description : The Grand Trunk road between Mumbai and Chennai passes through _______ and ______. (a) Pune and Bengaluru (b) Sholapur and Hubli (c) Ahmednagar and Hyderabad (d) Barsi and Guntur
Description : The 'Ruhr or India' is (a) Mumbai-Pune region (b) Damodar Valley region (c) Chennai-Bengaluru region (d) Delhi-Kanpur region
Description : The port commanding the largest hinterland in India is (a) Mumbai (b) Kandla (c) Kolkata (d) Chennai
Description : The 'Grand Trunk Road' connects: [Asstt Comm PF 2002] (a) Kolkata and Mumbai (b) Delhi and Chennai (c) Kolkata and Amritsar (d) Tirupati and Ludhiana
Description : Match the following: [CDS 2001] National Highway Cities A. NH 1 1. Delhi-Kolkata B. NH 2 2. Mumbai-Agra C. NH 3 3. Chennai-Thane D. NH 4 4. Delhi-Amritsar A B C D (a) 3 1 2 4 (b) 4 2 1 3 (c) 3 2 1 4 (d) 4 1 2 3 shop.ssbcrack.com
Description : Which one of the following cities never experiences vertical rays of the sun during noon? [NDA 2002] (a) Chennai (b) Mangalore (c) Mumbai (d) New Delhi
Description : In which of the following cities of India the diurnal range of temperature is maximum? (a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai (c) Chennai (d) Kolkata
Description : Which of the following is an inland river port? (1) Kolkata (2) Mumbai (3) Chennai (4) Tutieorin
Last Answer : (1) Kolkata Explanation: The term inland port is used in two different but related ways to mean either a port on an inland waterway or an inland site carrying out some functions of a seaport. By this standard, Kolkata is an inland river port.
Description : Which among the following city of India used first electricty commercially? (1) Kolkata (2) Chennai (3) Mumbai (4) Darjeeling
Last Answer : (4) Darjeeling Explanation: November 10, 1897 was an epoch-making day in the power sector in India. A century back, On this day, the first hydel power station in India, and reportedly ... sub-continent, and ushering in a revolutionary change in the sodacultural and economic life of Indian society.
Description : Which of the following places will not get the rays of the sun vertically? (1) Srinagar (2) Mumbai (3) Chennai (4) Thiruvananthapuram
Last Answer : (1) Srinagar Explanation: In the tropical zone which lays between 23.4° north and south of the equator respectively (region between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) the sun is vertically overhead sometime each year. Srinagar lies beyond this region.
Description : Which two of the following are connected by the North South corridor? (1) Srinagar and Kanyakumari (2) Mumbai and Chennai (3) Amritsar and Kolkata (4) Hyderabad and Bhopal
Last Answer : (1) Srinagar and Kanyakumari Explanation: The North-South Corridor comprises NH 1A (Srinagar-Jalandhar), NH 1 (Jalandhar - Delhi), NH 2 (DelhiAgra), NH 3 (Agra-Gwalior), NH 75 ... 26 (Jhansi-Lakhnadon), NH 7 (LakhnadonNagpur-Hyderabad-BangaloreMadurai-Kanyakurnari), NH 47 (SalemCoimbatore-Kochi).
Description : Which city is referred to as the 'Silicon Valley of India'? (1) Mumbai (2) Chennai (3) Hyderabad (4) Bangalore
Last Answer : (4) Bangalore Explanation: The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of Bangalore. As Bangalore is on the Mysore Plateau, the area is also sometimes referred to as "Silicon ... States. One of the earliest mentions of this sobriquet occurred in late 1980s in the Indian Express.
Description : Which is the city linked by the highest number of Railway Zones? (1) Delhi (2) Mumbai (3) Calcutta (4) Chennai
Last Answer : (2) Mumbai Explanation: Mumbai is the destination where maximum number of trains in India head for. It is the headquarters of two railway zones: Western and Central Zones. Delhi: Northern Zone; Kolkata: Eastern; and Chennai: Southern Zone.
Description : Which of the million-plus-population cities according to 1991 census, has got the highest literacy rate? (1) Greater Mumbai (2) Delhi (3) Chennai (4) Kochi
Last Answer : (4) Kochi Explanation: According to 1991 Census, of the million-plus-population cities, i.e. more than 10 lakhs, the highest literacy rate was recorded of Kochi (94 per cent), Greater Mumbai (82 ... literacy rate was recorded of Kerala (94%) and lowest literacy rate was recorded of Bihar (61.8%).
Description : The cleanest Indian Railway station is : (1) Mumbai (2) Chennai (3) Bengaluru (4) Surat
Last Answer : (4) Surat Explanation: According to a survey released by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in March 2016, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara - all in Gujarat - were among the 10 cleanest railway stations in ... among the category AI railway stations, i.e. those that have Rs 60 crore annual earnings.