Previous year MCQs

Indian Geography UPPSC 2006 GS-I
Question

Which of the following rivers have almost the same point of beginning?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option C: Brahmaputra and Indus

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Brahmaputra and Indus”.
Both the Indus and the Brahmaputra originate near the Mansarovar Lake and Mount Kailash in Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Similar Questions:

Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List-I - List-II

A. Planting Hearth - 1. Hungary
B. Cryophyte Steppe - 2. Adolf Engler
C. World Floral Regions - 3. C.O.Sauer
D. Puszta Grassland - 4. Arctic Tundra

Codes:
ABCD
  1. A) 4,3,2,1
  2. B) 3,4,2,1
  3. C) 3,4,1,2
  4. D) 1,2,3,4
The leading petroleum producing state of India is:
  1. A) Assam
  2. B) Gujarat
  3. C) Maharashtra
  4. D) Tamil Nadu
Which of the following sentences is correct?
  1. A) Haldia is in Orissa
  2. B) Paradeep is in West Bengal
  3. C) Kandla is in Gujarat
  4. D) Marmagoa is in Karnataka
The main crops grown under plantation agriculture in India are:
  1. A) Tea, Rubber, Coconut, Coffee
  2. B) Tea, Rubber, Sunflower, Soyabean
  3. C) Tea, Banana, Grapes, Coconut
  4. D) Tea, Rubber, Coconut, Soyabean
Which of the following wet lands are designated as Ramsar sites

1) Chilka Lake
2) Loktak
3) Keoladeo
4) Wuller Lake

Select the correct answer from the code given below:
  1. A) 1 and 2 only
  2. B) 2 and 3 only
  3. C) 1, 2 and 3
  4. D) All
Ajanta and Ellora caves are in?
  1. A) Andhra Pradesh
  2. B) Madhya Pradesh
  3. C) Maharashtra
  4. D) Rajasthan
Cotton for textile was first cultivated in
  1. A) Egypt
  2. B) Mesopotamia
  3. C) Central America
  4. D) India
Which one of the following propounded that destiny determines everything, man is powerless?
  1. A) Jainas
  2. B) Buddhists
  3. C) Ajivikas
  4. D) Mimansakas
A memorandum of understanding for India's first river linking project has been signed between two states linking two rivers. The states and the rivers concerned are:
States - Rivers
  1. A) Punjab and Rajasthan - Beas and Banas
  2. B) Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh - Ken and Betwa
  3. C) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu - Krishna and Kaveri
  4. D) Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Rivers - Gomti and Sharda
Which one of the following cities does not have the Special Economic Zone:
  1. A) Chennai
  2. B) Kandla
  3. C) Kochi
  4. D) Surat
Which two of the following are correctly matched ?
Tribe – State

1. Keria – Odisha
2. Kuki – Uttar Pradesh
3. Yanadi – Rajasthan
4. Paliyan – Tamil Nadu

Select the correct answer from the code given below :
Code:
  1. A) 3 and 4
  2. B) 1 and 4
  3. C) 2 and 3
  4. D) 1 and 2
Which of the following is NOT correctly matched?
  1. A) International Centre for Research on Agro-Forestry - Nairobi
  2. B) Indian Institute of forest Management - Bhopal
  3. C) Central Agro-forestry Research Institute - Banda
  4. D) Tata Energy Research Institute - New Delhi