1. What is the name given to the International Airport at Kolkata?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Meenambakkam
(c) Rajiv Gandhi
(d) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer
Answer: d
2. Which one of the following means of transport is used for carrying solids in a slurry form? [Foreign 2012]
(a) Trucks
(b) Railways
(c) Pipelines
(d) Ships
Answer
Answer: c
3. Which one of the following is an inland riverine port? [Delhi 2012]
(a) Kandla
(b) Kolkata
(c) Mumbai
(d) Tuticorin
Answer
Answer: b
4. Which one of the following is not the means of mass communication?
(a) Cards and envelopes
(b) Radio
(c) Newspaper
(d) Films
Answer
Answer: a
5. The longest pipeline connects
(a) Hazira to Kanpur
(.b) Salaya to Jalandhar
(c) Flazira to Jagdishpur
(d) Koyali to Haldia
Answer
Answer: c
6. Difference between the total value of exports and imports is called.
(a) Balance of Payment
(b) Balance of Trade
(c) Surplus Budget
(d) Deficit Balance
Answer
Answer: b
7. Which one of the following countries has the largest telecom network in Asia?
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Pakistan
(d) India
Answer
Answer: d
8. STD refers to
(a) Suburban Telephone Dialing
(b) Subscriber Trunk Dialing
(c) Social Telephone Distributor
(d) Speed Telephone Dialing
Answer
Answer: b
9. The first train was steamed off from
(a) Mumbai to Kalyan
(b) Mumbai to Delhi
(c) Mumbai to Thane
(d) Mumbai to Satara
Answer
Answer: c
10. Which one of the following is a subsidiary port of Kolkata?
(a) Tuticorin
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Haldia
(d) Vishakhapatnam
Answer
Answer: c
11. The first-class mail includes which one of the following?
(a) Book packets
(b) Registered newspapers
(c) Envelopes and cards
(d) Periodicals and journals
Answer
Answer: c
12. The people who make the products come to the consumers by transportation are called ______________ .
(a) Businessman
(b) Retailers
(c) Traders
(d) Industrialists
Answer
Answer: c
13. Which one of the following commodities does not belong to items of export?
(a) Gems and jewellery
(b) Agriculture and allied products
(c) Fertilizers
(d) Engineering Goods
Answer
Answer: c
14. Which two of the following extreme locations are connected by the east-west corridor?
(a) Mumbai and Nagpur
(b) Silchar and Porbandar
(c) Mumbai and Kolkata
(d) Nagpur and Siliguri
Answer
Answer: b
15. Which mode of transportation reduces trans-shipment losses and delays?
(a) Railways
(b) Roadways
(c) Pipelines
(d) Waterways
Answer
Answer: c
16. Which one of the following States is not connected with the H.V.J. pipeline? (Textbook)
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat
(d) Uttar Pradesh
Answer
Answer: b
17. Which one of the following ports is the deepest land-locked and well protected port along the east coast?
(a) Chennai
(b) Paradip
(c) Tuticorin
(d) Vishakhapatnam
Answer
Answer: d
18. Which one of the following is the most important modes of transportation in India? (Textbook)
(a) Pipelines
(b) Railways
(c) Roadways
(d) Airways
Answer
Answer: c
19. Which one of the following terms is used to describe trade between two or more countries? (Textbook)
(a) Internal trade
(b) International trade
(c) External trade
(d) Local trade
Answer
Answer: b
20. The Golden Quadrilateral Super Highways connect
(a) Delhi-Silchar-Madurai and Gandhinagar
(b) Srinagar-Kanyakumari-Bhopal & Allahabad
(c) Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai and Kolkata
(d) Kashmir-Kanyakumari
Answer
Answer: c
21. The highway projects in India are being implemented by which organisation?
(a) GAIL
(b) NTPC
(c) NHAI
(d) NDDB
Answer
Answer: c
22. What is the historical Sher Shah Suri Marg now called?
(a) NH 4
(b) NH 1
(c) NH 3
(d) NH 7
Answer
Answer: b
23. Which of the following national highways covers most of Rajasthan?
(a) NH 2
(b) NH 34
(c) NH 23
(d) NH 15
Answer
Answer: d
24. Roads linking a state capital with different district headquarters are known as
(a) National highways
(b) District roads
(c) State highways
(d) Other roads
Answer
Answer: c
25. Which organisation constructs and maintains roads in the border areas?
(a) NHAI
(b) BRO
(c) Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana
(d) BSF
Answer
Answer: b
26. How many railway zones are there in our country?
(a) 20
(b) 16
(c) 19
(d) 6
Answer
Answer: b
27. Which one of the following is not an advantage of pipeline transportation?
(a) Pipelines are used for transporting crude oil and gas from fields to refineries.
(b) Solids can be transported in slurry form through pipelines.
(c) Pipelines rule out trans-shipment losses or delays.
(d) Initial cost of laying a pipeline is high.
Answer
Answer: d
28. Which of the following regions is suitable to construct railway lines?
(a) Himalaya mountains
(b) Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills
(c) The Northern Plains
(d) Rajasthan desert
Answer
Answer: c
29. The Konkan railway has connected places situated
(a) along the east coast of India
(b) in the Himalayas
(c) along the west coast of India
(d) in the north-eastern region of the country
Answer
Answer: c
30. Narrow Gauge railway line is found in
(a) the Northern Plains
(b) the hilly areas of Darjeeling, Shillong and Ooty
(c) deserts of Rajasthan
(d) the Central Highlands
Answer
Answer: b
31. The width of the broad gauge railway track is
(a) 1.76 metres
(b) 1.67 metres
(c) 1.87 metres
(d) 1.97 metres
Answer
Answer: b
32. Which one of the following is the oldest port of the eastern coast of India?
(a) Kolkata (Haldia)
(b) Vishakhapatnam
(c) Tuticorin
(d) Chennai (Madras)
Answer
Answer: d
33. Which of the following is the northernmost international airport in India?
(a) Raja Sansi
(b) Meenam Bakkam
(c) Srinagar
(d) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer
Answer: a
34. Which one of the following is the southernmost international airport in India?
(a) Nedimbacherry
(b) Chhatrapati Shivaji
(c) Raja Sansi
(d) Meenam Bakkam
Answer
Answer: a
35. Which of the following is not a means of communication?
(a) radio
(b) press
(c) roads
(d) films
Answer
Answer: c
36. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) First port | (i) Kandla |
| (b) Biggest port | (ii)Mumbai |
| (c) A port located at the entrance of a lagoon | (iii) Tuticorin |
| (d) An inland riverine port | (iv) Kolkata |
| (e) Oldest artificial port | (v) Chennai |
Answer
Answer: c
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