Haryana Mixed Quiz: Set 4

A low, almost imperceptible divide runs through Haryana, roughly from the Shivalik near Ambala and Kurukshetra down to the Aravalli ridge near Delhi.

The Yamuna flows along the eastern boundary of Haryana with Uttar Pradesh and is the only river of the state that carries water throughout the year, because it is fed by Himalayan snow.

The Markanda rises in the Shivalik hills of Himachal Pradesh, where it is known as the Aruna, enters Haryana near Ambala and flows through Ambala and Kurukshetra districts before joining the Ghaggar.

Adi Badri lies at the foot of the Shivaliks in Yamunanagar district, and tradition holds it to be the place where the Saraswati came down to the plain.

These are low pressure systems that form over the Mediterranean and West Asia and travel east with the westerly jet stream, reaching north-west India in winter.

Bhur is the light, loose, sandy soil found in Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, where Haryana shades into the sandy tract of Rajasthan.

Abubshahar Wildlife Sanctuary lies in Sirsa district in the dry south-western corner of Haryana, in the belt through which the seasonal Ghaggar passes.

The Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore in Panchkula district was India's first centre for breeding vultures in captivity, run by the Haryana forest department with the Bombay Natural History Society.

Haryana was carved out of the Hindi speaking districts of the former state of Punjab on that day, and the date is observed every year as Haryana Day.

The Ghaggar enters Haryana from the Shivalik, flows south-west past Kaithal and Fatehabad and is checked at the Ottu weir in Sirsa district, from which canals take its water; beyond that point its dry bed continues into Rajasthan, where it is lost in the sand.

In the Gerber test a measured quantity of milk is mixed with sulphuric acid and amyl alcohol in a butyrometer and spun in a centrifuge; the acid digests everything but the fat, which rises into the graduated neck of the tube and is read off directly as a percentage.

Sultanpur National Park lies in Gurugram district, near Sultanpur village on the Gurugram-Jhajjar road, and it is a shallow seasonal wetland that fills in the monsoon and draws large numbers of migratory waterbirds on the Central Asian Flyway.

The dwarf wheat varieties Lerma Rojo and Sonora 64 were bred in Mexico at the research programme where Norman Borlaug worked, and seed of these varieties was imported into India in the mid nineteen sixties.

The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, a research institute under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, is at Karnal. It works on reclaiming salt-affected and alkaline land, on gypsum treatment and subsurface drainage, and on salt-tolerant crop varieties, all problems that Haryana's canal-irrigated districts face directly.

The corrected lactometer reading, written CLR, is the figure read on the neck of a lactometer floating in milk, and the specific gravity is obtained from it by the simple relation one plus the reading divided by one thousand.

It lies in Kaithal district and is the largest wildlife sanctuary in Haryana by area, a plantation and scrub tract along the old course associated with the Saraswati, created to restore tree cover and wildlife on land that had little of either.

He was the geneticist who brought the Mexican dwarf wheat to India, worked with Indian breeders to adapt it, and persuaded the government and the farmers to take it up, so he is called the father of the Green Revolution in India.

The Merino, of Spanish origin and now reared in large numbers in Australia, is the standard fine wool sheep of the world, its fleece being soft, dense and of very small fibre diameter.

The first high yielding varieties available to Indian farmers were dwarf wheats, and they were planted in the irrigated north western plains where water and fertiliser could be supplied on time.

The correct answer, as marked in the paper, is D, Kankrej. The Kankrej of the Kutch and Banaskantha country is rated the best of the Indian dual purpose cattle breeds: it is the largest and heaviest of them, its bullocks have the fastest and most enduring gait of any Indian…