Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 27

The Bogibeel Bridge crosses the Brahmaputra in the Dibrugarh district of Assam, was opened in December 2018 and carries a double line of railway below a three lane road above, which makes it the longest rail cum road bridge in India at close to five kilometres.

The Chenab Rail Bridge was built on the Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla rail link in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, and its steel arch carries the track about three hundred and fifty nine metres above the bed of the Chenab, which makes it the highest railway arch bridge in…

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station in the Palghar district of Maharashtra was commissioned in 1969 and was the first nuclear power station in India and in Asia to generate electricity commercially; its first two units were boiling water reactors built with American assistance.

Gobind Sagar is the reservoir formed by the Bhakra Dam on the Sutlej in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, and it is named after Guru Gobind Singh; the dam is part of the Bhakra Nangal project that serves Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.

The Hirakud Dam lies across the Mahanadi above Sambalpur in Odisha, and counting the main dam together with its earthen dykes it is among the longest dams in the world; it was built chiefly to control the floods that used to devastate coastal Odisha, and it also serves irrigation and…

The Tehri Dam stands on the Bhagirathi in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, close to the confluence of the Bhagirathi and the Bhilangana, and it is an earth and rock fill dam, the tallest in India at about two hundred and sixty metres.

Hydel or hydroelectric power depends on head, the vertical distance through which water falls on to the turbine, and on a narrow valley in hard rock where a tall dam can hold a deep reservoir.

The International Court of Justice sits in the Peace Palace at The Hague in the Netherlands, and it is the only principal organ of the United Nations not based in New York.

BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, has seven members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

The Sino-Indian War was fought between 20 October and 21 November 1962, when China attacked across the Himalayan frontier. The fighting ran in two separate theatres, Aksai Chin in Ladakh in the west and the North East Frontier Agency, today Arunachal Pradesh, in the east.

Dzongkha is the national and official language of Bhutan, and it is written in the Tibetan script. The name itself means the language of the dzong, the fortress-monasteries from which Bhutan was governed.

India's first cotton mill was set up in 1818 at Fort Gloster near Calcutta, at Bauria in present-day Howrah district, so Kolkata holds the first place in the story of the Indian cotton industry.

The German psychologist William Stern gave the term Intelligence Quotient in 1912, proposing that a child's mental age be divided by the actual age to express intelligence as a single number.

The Kothari Commission, which worked from 1964 to 1966, recommended the three language formula for schools, and the policy of 1968 later adopted it.

The Chenab Bridge, built on the Udhampur to Srinagar to Baramulla rail link, rises about 359 metres above the bed of the Chenab and is the highest railway arch bridge in the world, its single steel arch spanning the gorge.

The Railway Board was constituted in 1905 to supervise the many private railway companies then operating in India, and it continues as the apex body of the Ministry of Railways.

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in West Bengal is the locomotive plant of Indian Railways and builds electric locomotives; it began with steam locomotives and turned to electric traction.

Broad gauge in India measures 1,676 millimetres between the inner faces of the rails, and it carries almost all long distance traffic; the conversion of older lines to this gauge is called Project Unigauge.

The correct answer is C, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, inscribed in 1999 as the first of the three lines that together form the World Heritage property called the Mountain Railways of India.

The Vivek Express runs between Dibrugarh in upper Assam and Kanniyakumari at the southern tip of the mainland, covering roughly 4,200 kilometres, the longest route of any train in the country.