Madhya Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 8

Jabalpur is the defence production centre of Madhya Pradesh. The Gun Carriage Factory, the Vehicle Factory, the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria and the Grey Iron Foundry all stand in or near the city, and they made it the ordnance town of central India.

Pithampur stands in Dhar district, about thirty kilometres south-west of Indore city, and its vehicle and auto component plants earned it the name Detroit of India.

The Bhagoria is held in the Bhil and Bhilala areas of Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar and Barwani in the weeks leading up to Holi.

The Bhil is the most numerous tribe of Madhya Pradesh and is concentrated in the western hills of Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani, Khargone and Khandwa, with the Bhilala, Barela and Patelia counted among its groups.

The National Automotive Test Tracks were built at Pithampur in Dhar district as part of the country's automotive testing network, and the oval high-speed track there is the longest of its kind in Asia.

Malanjkhand in Balaghat district is the largest copper ore deposit worked in India, mined and concentrated on the spot by Hindustan Copper, and the ore body lies in the ancient rocks of the Maikal range.

The 2011 Census put the sex ratio of Madhya Pradesh at 931, below the all India figure of 943 for the same year, and the state's child sex ratio was lower still.

Opium may be grown in India only under a licence from the Central Bureau of Narcotics, and the permitted tract of Madhya Pradesh lies in these western Malwa districts, continuing across the border into Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh in Rajasthan.

The National Fertilizers Limited plant at Vijaipur in Guna district makes urea from natural gas brought by the Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline, which is why the plant stands where the pipeline passes rather than near a mineral deposit.

The Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve covers the Satpura National Park with the Bori and Pachmarhi wildlife sanctuaries in the Satpura range, and it is part of the UNESCO world network of biosphere reserves; Pachmarhi, the only hill station of the state, and Dhoopgarh, its highest point, lie inside this landscape.

Indore, the commercial capital of the state, had the largest population of any district in 2011 and continues to be the largest urban centre, while Harda had the smallest district population.

The deep black soil of Malwa holds moisture through the gaps in the monsoon, which is exactly what soybean needs, and the crop spread so widely across Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Dhar that Madhya Pradesh came to be called the soya state; the same soil also carries cotton, wheat and…

The Government Opium and Alkaloid Works at Neemuch processes opium gum into alkaloids such as morphine and codeine for medical use, and it is one of only two such government works in India, the other being at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.

The Amarkantak plateau is a water divide: two large rivers rise on it and run in opposite directions.

Jangarh Singh Shyam was a Pardhan Gond artist from Patangarh in Dindori district who moved his community's wall painting onto paper and canvas, filling animal, tree and spirit forms with fine dots and lines.

The Tapti, or Tapi, begins at Multai in Betul district on the southern side of the Satpura and flows west through Maharashtra and Gujarat to the Gulf of Khambhat.

In 2011 Scheduled Tribes were roughly a fifth of the state's people, and because Madhya Pradesh is large, that share gave it the biggest tribal population of any state in India in absolute numbers.

The Ken-Betwa link takes surplus water from the Ken, which is the river with the larger supply, and carries it by canal to the Betwa basin.

The Sahariya live in Sheopur, Shivpuri, Morena and Gwalior in the north of the state, a dry, ravine-cut forest country, and they also extend into the Baran district of Rajasthan.

The plant stands at Govindpura in Bhopal and was set up in the 1950s as Heavy Electricals India Limited with British collaboration, before it became part of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.