Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 27

The Mangala field, found in 2004 in the Barmer basin, with Bhagyam and Aishwariya nearby, made Rajasthan an oil producing state, and the crude is carried by a heated pipeline to the Gujarat coast; a refinery is being built at Pachpadra in the same district.

Pearl millet needs little water and stands high temperature, which suits the sandy soils of western Rajasthan, and the state leads the country in its production; it is grown as a kharif crop in Barmer, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Nagaur and Jodhpur and eaten as the staple bread of the region.

Chand Baori at Abhaneri in Dausa district is among the deepest and most photographed step wells in India, a square tank with flights of steps on three sides and a pavilion on the fourth.

Keoladeo, a man-made wetland created by the rulers of Bharatpur and long known for the migratory birds that wintered there, was inscribed in 1985 and is the oldest World Heritage property of the state; it had already been recognised as a Ramsar wetland in 1981.

Rawatbhata stands on the Chambal, near the Rana Pratap Sagar dam, within Chittorgarh district, though the station is often described as being near Kota because that is the larger city close by, and that is exactly the trap in this question.

Parliament may by law create a Legislative Council for a state that does not have one, or abolish one that does, if the Legislative Assembly of that state first passes a resolution by a majority of its total membership and by two thirds of the members present and voting.

Udaipur is called the City of Lakes and the Venice of the East because of Lake Pichola, Fateh Sagar and the palaces built in and around the water, among them the Lake Palace or Jag Niwas on Pichola.

The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 inserted Part IX with Articles 243 to 243O and the Eleventh Schedule, making regular elections, reservation and a fixed five year term binding on the states, and it came into force on 24 April 1993, now National Panchayati Raj Day.

Jhamarkotra is the largest rock phosphate deposit worked in India and supplies the raw material for phosphatic fertiliser, which is why the country's dependence on imported phosphate is reduced by it; the mine is run by Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Limited.

Dingal is the literary style built on Marwari, and the Charans used it for heroic verse on battle, honour and self sacrifice, sung in a loud rolling metre; the Veli Krisan Rukmani Ri of Prithviraj Rathore is a celebrated example.

Guru Shikhar stands on the Abu hills in Sirohi district and is the highest point of the whole Aravalli range; Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, lies below it along with the Dilwara temples and the Nakki lake.

The Elephant Festival is held at Jaipur around Holi, with decorated elephants in procession, and it is one of the tourism festivals promoted by the state.

The campaign took up village level works such as check dams, anicuts, farm ponds, contour trenches and the repair of old tanks, with the aim of making each village self-reliant in water, and it was carried out in phases in selected panchayats of every district.

The correct answer is A, Katariyasar in Bikaner district, the seat of the sect founded by Jasnathji, whose followers, the Siddhs, perform the agni nritya or fire dance on a bed of live coals to the beat of the drum, a performance that has become one of the signatures of…

The Pushkar fair is held at Pushkar in Ajmer district around Kartik Purnima, the full moon of Kartik, and combines a bathing pilgrimage to the lake and the temple of Brahma with one of the largest cattle and camel markets of the country.

Sanganer lies just south of Jaipur city and is known for its fine floral block printing on a white or cream ground, worked with delicate outlines and soft colours, and the neighbouring village of Bagru in the same district prints bolder motifs in black and red.

Bhilwara grew into the largest centre of synthetic yarn, suiting and shirting in Rajasthan and is commonly called the textile city or the Manchester of Rajasthan; the same district also holds the Rampura Agucha zinc mine.

Jaigarh fort stands on the ridge above Amer near Jaipur and held the foundry of the Jaipur state, where the Jaivana cannon was cast in the eighteenth century.

The Palace on Wheels was introduced in 1982, using coaches in the style of the old princely saloons, and runs a weekly circuit through the cities and wildlife parks of Rajasthan; it is operated for the state by the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation, which itself was set up in 1979.

Sambhar, the large saline lake west of Jaipur and the biggest inland salt lake of the country, was added to the list of Ramsar wetlands in 1990; the other Ramsar wetland of the state is Keoladeo Ghana at Bharatpur, recognised in 1981.