Q 01/05

Which Maharashtra lake fills a crater blasted into volcanic basalt by a meteorite around 570,000 years ago?

A) Pichola

B) Pushkar

C) Lonar

D) Nakki

Answer · why

C) Lonar

Lonar Lake sits in a crater punched by a two-million-tonne meteorite, one of very few impact craters on Earth formed in basalt. Its water is both sali...

Q 02/05

Which city became Assam's capital in 1973 after Shillong went to the newly created state of Meghalaya?

A) Dispur

B) Guwahati

C) Tezpur

D) Jorhat

Answer · why

A) Dispur

Dispur was a small village when it was made the capital, and has since been swallowed into Greater Guwahati, which is why most people name the bigger ...

Q 03/05

Which planned city, laid out by Le Corbusier, is a union territory that serves as the capital of two states?

A) Amritsar

B) Ludhiana

C) Panchkula

D) Chandigarh

Answer · why

D) Chandigarh

Chandigarh is the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, an arrangement dating from Haryana's creation in 1966. Le Corbusier's master plan built on ear...

Q 04/05

Which 20 km-wide strip between Nepal and Bangladesh is the only land link to India's eight northeastern states?

A) Tin Bigha Corridor

B) Siliguri Corridor

C) Wakhan Corridor

D) Jalpaiguri Corridor

Answer · why

B) Siliguri Corridor

The Siliguri Corridor is nicknamed the Chicken's Neck, and Bhutan and China's Chumbi Valley also press close to it. Every road and railway to the nort...

Q 05/05

Which line of latitude crosses India through eight states, from Gujarat in the west to the Myanmar border in the east?

A) Tropic of Cancer

B) Equator

C) Tropic of Capricorn

D) Arctic Circle

Answer · why

A) Tropic of Cancer

The Tropic of Cancer splits India almost in half, yet the whole country is conventionally treated as tropical. Its 23.5° N path runs just north of Ahm...