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1. The first nuclear test in India was carried out in which city in Rajasthan?
a. Pokhran
b. Jaipur
c. Udaipur
d. Ranakhpur
2. What was set up in 1850 for the first time in India between Calcutta and Diamond Harbor by the British East India Company?
a. Telephone Line
b. Telegraph Line
c. Railway Line
d. Toll Booth
3. Who became the world's first Asian and Non-European to receive a Nobel Prize?
a. Sir Ronald Ross
b. CV Raman
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. William Roentgen
4. Which was the first-ever garden tomb built in the Indian subcontinent?
a. Raj Ghat
b. Vijay Ghat
c. Humayun's tomb
d. Taj Mahal
5. Which of these was the first-ever national park established in India?
a. Jim Corbett National Park
b. Ranthambore National Park
c. Kaziranga National Park
d. Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary
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Answers
1. The first nuclear test in India was carried out in which city in Rajasthan?
a. Pokhran
b. Jaipur
c. Udaipur
d. Ranakhpur
Did You Know?
Codenamed 'Project Smiling Buddha', India created its first nuclear bomb in 1974, which was similar in power to the one detonated in Hiroshima.
Read more about it in this link.
2. What was set up in 1850 for the first time in India between Calcutta and Diamond Harbor by the British East India Company?
a. Telephone Line
b. Telegraph Line
c. Railway Line
d. Toll Booth
Did You Know?
The telegraph line was opened to the public in 1854 and thrived even after the invention of the telephone. The telegraph lines were shut down in India in 2013.
Read more about it in this link.
3. Who became the world's first Asian and Non-European to receive a Nobel Prize?
a. Sir Ronald Ross
b. CV Raman
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. William Roentgen
Did You Know?
Born in Kolkata, the ancestral home of Rabindranath Tagore, the Jorasankio Thakur Bari, is still preserved.
Read more about it in this link.
4. Which was the first-ever garden tomb built in the Indian subcontinent?
a. Raj Ghat
b. Vijay Ghat
c. Humayun's tomb
d. Taj Mahal
Did You Know? The tomb was built for the Mughal Emperor Humayun by his wife Haji Begum.
Read more about it in this link.
5. Which of these was the first-ever national park established in India?
a. Jim Corbett National Park
b. Ranthambore National Park
c. Kaziranga National Park
d. Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary
Did You Know? It was originally established in 1936 as Hailey's national park.
Read more about it in this link.
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