61. Where is the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam built ?
Correct Answer:-B ( On river Chambal )
Description:- The Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of 53.8 metres height built on the Chambal River at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan in India. It was officially declared open on 9 February 1970 by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.
62. The river which joins Ganga from southern side is :
Correct Answer:-C ( Son )
Description:- Son is the principal southern tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River, rising in Madhya Pradesh state. The river cuts through the Kaimur Range and joins the Ganges above Patna, after a 487-mile (784-km) course. The Son valley is geologically almost a continuation of that of the Narmada River to the southwest.
63. Which of the following rivers flows from East to West and makes an estuary?
Correct Answer:-C ( Narmada )
Description:- The Narmada is the largest of all west flowing peninsular rivers. It forms estuary in the Gulf of Khambat. There are several islands in the estuary of the Narmada of which Aliabet is the largest.
64. The first Hydroelectric Power Plant in India was set up at
Correct Answer:-B ( Shivasamudram )
Description:- Shivasamudram holds the distinction of being the site of India’s first hydro-electric power station built in 1902. It was set up mainly to supply power to the Kolar goldmines 147 km away, making the 78 kv transmission line the longest in the world at the time. In fact, when the Mettur dam in Tamil Nadu was being constructed in the 1930’s, the power was supplied from Shivasamudram.
65. The first multi-purpose project of independent India is
Correct Answer:-B ( Damodar )
Description:- Damodar Valley Corporation came into existence on 7 July, 1948 as the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India. It emerged as a culmination of attempts made over a whole century to control the wild and erratic Damodar River. The river spans over an area of 25,000 km2 covering the states of Bihar (now Jharkhand) & West Bengal.
66. Which river is under dispute involving Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat?
Correct Answer:-B ( Narmada )
Description:- Narmada River flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, then along the border between Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and the border between Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat and in Gujarat. These states have been at loggerhead over the sharing of waters of the river.
67. The ‘Pong Dam’ is constructed on the river
Correct Answer:-C ( Beas )
Description:- The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River just upstream of Talwara in the state of Himachal Pradesh. he purpose of the dam is water storage for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation. At the time of its completion, the Pong Dam was the tallest of its type in India.
68. Which is the world’s longest entirely lined irrigation canal?
Correct Answer:-D ( Sardar Sarovar Project )
Description:- The Sardar Sarovar Irrigation Canal is the largest lined canal in the world. It covers four major states – Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. With 40000 cusecs capacity at the head regulator, and 532 km. length, the Narmada Main Canal would be the largest irrigation canal in the world.
69. The Chukha Power Project was built by India in
Correct Answer:-B ( Bhutan )
Description:- Chhukha Hydropower Project was Bhutan’s first mega power project. Commissioned in 1986, this 336 MW project was funded by the Government of India which provided a 60 percent grants and 40 percent loan at 5 percent per annum repayable in 15 years in equated annual installments.
70. This delta is the largest in the world
Correct Answer:-A ( Ganga-Brahmaputra delta )
Description:- The Ganges Delta (also known as the Ganges– Brahmaputra Delta, or the Sunderbans Delta) is a river delta in the South Asia region of Bengal, consisting of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. It is the world’s largest delta, and empties into the Bay of Bengal. It is also one of the most fertile regions in the world, thus earning the nickname The Green Delta. The delta stretches from the Hooghly River on the west to the Meghna River on the east.
71. From origin to the delta, the Brahmaputra traverses
Correct Answer:-C ( China, India and Bangladesh )
Description:- The Brahmaputra River is a trans-boundary river. With its origin in the Angsi Glacier, located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges and into Arunachal Pradesh. It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna. In the vast Ganges Delta it merges with the Padma, the main distributary of the Ganges, then the Meghna, before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
72. What name does Brahmaputra take as is discharges into the Bay of Bengal ?
Correct Answer:-D ( Meghna )
Description:- The Padma is the name used in Bangladesh for a major trans-boundary river, known in India as the main distributary of the Ganges, the river system that originated in the western Himalayas. The Padma enters Bangladesh from India near Chapai Nababganj. It meets the Jamuna near Aricha and retains its name, but finally meets with the Meghna near Chandpur and adopts the name ‘Meghna’ before flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
73. The highest dam in India, Bhakra is built on
Correct Answer:-C ( Sutlej river )
Description:- Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River, and is near the border between Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It is India’s second tallest dam at 225.55 m high next to the 261m Tehri Dam. In terms of storage of water, it withholds the second largest reservoir in India, the first being Indira Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh.
74. The ‘sorrow of Bihar’ is
Correct Answer:-B ( Kosi )
Description:- Kosi is known as the “sorrow of Bihar”, as it has caused widespread human suffering in the past due to flooding and very frequent changes in course, when it flows from Nepal to Bihar. Over the last 250 years, the Kosi River has shifted its course over 120 km from east to west. Its unstable nature has been attributed to the heavy silt it carries during the monsoon season and flooding in India has extreme effects.
75. The town which is situated at the confluence of Bhagirathi and Alaknanda is
Correct Answer:-B ( Deo Prayag )
Description:- The Alaknanda rises at the confluence and feet of the Satopanth and Bhagirath Kharak glaciers in Uttarakhand near the border with Tibet. The headwaters of the Bhagirathi are formed at Gaumukh, at the foot of the Gangotri glacier and Khatling glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya. These two sacred rivers join to form the Ganges (Ganga) in Devprayag.
76. An important river of the Indian desert is
Correct Answer:-A ( Luni )
Description:- The Luni is a river of western Rajasthan state, India. It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer and ends in the marshy lands of Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, after travelling a distance of 530 km. It is first known as Sagarmati, then after passing Govindgarh, it meets its tributary Sarsuti, which originates from Pushkar Lake, and from then on it gets its name Luni.
77. The Nagarjunasagar dam is constructed on the river ?
Correct Answer:-A ( Krishna )
Description:- Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is the world’s largest masonry dam at the time of its construction, which is built across Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar in Guntur district & Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh. It was the earliest in the series of large infrastructure projects initiated for the Green Revolution in India; it also is one of the earliest multi-purpose irrigation and hydro-electric projects in India.
78. Which one of the following rivers forms an estuary ?
Correct Answer:-A ( Narmada )
Description:- Narmada forms an estuary in the Gulf of Khambat. There are several islands in the estuary of the Narmada of which Aliabet is the largest.
79. Sivasamudra is an island formed by the river
Correct Answer:-D ( Cauvery )
Description:- Shivanasamudra is a small town in the Mandya District of the state of Karnataka, India. It is situated on the banks of the river Kaveri, which forms here the boundary to the Chamarajanagar District, and is the location of one of the first Hydro-electric Power stations in Asia, which was set up in the year 1902.
80. Nasik is situated on the bank of the river :
Correct Answer:-D ( Godavari )
Description:- Nasik, also known as the Wine Capital of India, or as India’s Napa Valley, is located in Maharashtra in the Western Ghats, on the western edge of the Deccan peninsula on the banks of the Godavari.
81. Srinagar is located on the bank of the river
Correct Answer:-A ( Indus )
Description:- Srinagar is situated in the Kashmir Valley and lies on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus. The city is famous for its gardens, lakes and houseboats.
82. The river which is used for inland waterways in India is ___.
Correct Answer:-A ( Ganga )
Description:- India has about 14,500 km of navigable waterways, which consists of the Ganges–Bhagirathi–Hooghly rivers, the Brahmaputra, the Barak river, the rivers in Goa, the backwaters in Kerala, inland waters in Mumbai and the deltaic regions of the Godavari – Krishna rivers. National Waterway-1: Allahabad–Haldia stretch of the Ganges–Bhagirathi–Hooghly river of total length 1620 km was declared as National Waterway- 1 (NW-1) in the year 1986.
83. The river on which the reservoir for Indira Gandhi Canal has been built is
Correct Answer:-A ( Sutlej )
Description:- The Indira Gandhi Canal starts from the Harike Barrage at Sultanpur, a few kilometers below the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in Punjab state. The reservoir for the canal is built on the Sutlej River.
84. Consider the following pairs: Tributary Main River a. Chambal : Narmada b. Sone : Yamuna c. Manas : Brahmaputra Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
Correct Answer:-C ( b and c only )
Description:- The Manas River is a trans-boundary river in the Himalayan foothills between southern Bhutan and India. It is met by three other major streams before it again debouches into India in western Assam. The total length of the river is 376 kilometres, flows through Bhutan for 272 kilometres and then through Assam for 104 kilometres before it joins the mighty Brahmaputra River at Jogighopa.
85. The longest dam in India is
Correct Answer:-C ( Hirakud Dam )
Description:- Hirakud Dam is not only India’s, but one of the world’s largest & longest dams. This dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India. Built in 1956, the dam is the world’s largest earthen dam.
86. Cauvery water sharing is a dispute between
Correct Answer:-C ( Tamil Nadu and Karnataka )
Description:- The sharing of waters of the river Kaveri has been the source of a serious conflict between the Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The genesis of this conflict rests in two controversial agreements— one signed in 1892 and another in 1924—between the erstwhile Madras Presidency and Princely State of Mysore. The 802 km Kaveri River has 32,000 sq km basin area in Karnataka and 44,000 sq km basin area in Tamil Nadu.
87. Which place is located on the water divide between the Indus and the Ganges river systems ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Ambala )
Description:- Ambala is located on the water divide between the Indus and the Ganges river systems.
88. Which of the following rivers is not the tributary of Ganga ?
Correct Answer:-A ( Indrawati )
Description:- Indravati is a tributary of the Godavari River, located in central India.
89. Which one of the following rivers in India has been declared as the National River ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Ganga )
Description:- The Ganges is the longest river of India and is the second greatest river in the world by water discharge. In November 2008, it was declared a “National River”.
90. The world’s highest rail bridge being constructed in the State of J & K will be on which of the following rivers ?
Correct Answer:-B ( Chenab )
Description:- The Chenab Bridge is an arch bridge under construction iSn India. It spans the Chenab River between Bakkal and Kauri, in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
