Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 5

The Aravalli runs from the south-west to the north-east, which is the same direction in which the Arabian Sea branch travels, so the winds slide along the range instead of being forced up over it; without that lifting there is little cooling and little rain, and the moisture is carried…

Mustard is the great rabi oilseed of Rajasthan, sown in October and November across Bharatpur, Alwar, Sawai Madhopur, Tonk and the canal districts of the north-west, and the state harvests more of it than any other.

The Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve lies in the Kota region of south-eastern Rajasthan, taking in the old Darrah sanctuary along with the Jawahar Sagar and Chambal tracts, and it was notified as a tiger reserve in 2013, making it the third of the state after Ranthambore and Sariska.

Although the Indira Gandhi Canal and the Chambal canals are the famous works of the state, they water only a part of it.

The Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, an institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, works at Avikanagar in Tonk district on sheep and rabbit breeding, wool quality and grazing management.

The Tropic of Cancer crosses the southern part of Banswara, the southernmost district of Rajasthan, so the whole of the state except that small corner lies north of the tropic, in the subtropical belt.

It was opened in 1927, draws Sutlej water from the Hussainiwala headworks near Ferozepur and carries it into Sri Ganganagar, which became the first and for long the only canal irrigated district of Rajasthan.

The khejri, Prosopis cineraria, is the state tree of Rajasthan. It survives on very little water, its leaves called loong serve as fodder, its pods are eaten as the vegetable sangri, and because it gives shade, fuel and food in the driest tracts it is called the kalpavriksha of the…

The Jakhrana goat takes its name from the village of Jakhrana in Alwar district of eastern Rajasthan.

The Bhorat plateau is the high, flat tract of the southern Aravalli lying between Gogunda in Udaipur district and Kumbhalgarh in Rajsamand, with an average height above twelve hundred metres.

The Chambal rises at Janapav hill in the Vindhyan highlands of Madhya Pradesh and then flows along and through Rajasthan, so the two states built the valley scheme together and share its cost and its benefits equally.

The correct answer is A, Maharana Jai Singh of Mewar, who dammed the Gomti river in the late seventeenth century to make the lake in Udaipur district; it is the largest artificial freshwater lake of Rajasthan and is surrounded by the Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary, with marble pavilions and the Hawa…

Rajasthan declared the camel its state animal in 2014, a decision meant to arrest the fall in camel numbers as tractors replaced camel carts and grazing land shrank.

Rajasthan touches five states, and of them Madhya Pradesh, lying to the south-east, shares the longest common boundary. The two states meet along the Chambal and the Hadoti country, which is why the Chambal ravines and the Deccan lava plateau continue from one state into the other.

The four structures of the project stand in a fixed order from upstream to downstream, and the order itself is the question: Gandhi Sagar in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh, then Jawahar Sagar near Borawas in Kota, and last the Kota barrage…

The district lies in the extreme north-west, where the Gang Canal, opened in the colonial period, and later the Indira Gandhi Canal brought Sutlej and Beas water into country that had been desert.

Isabgol, the psyllium whose husk is used as a laxative and in medicines, is sown in the cool months after the monsoon and harvested in spring, which makes it a rabi crop.

The Bisalpur dam stands on the Banas in Tonk district and was built mainly to supply drinking water, which it pipes to Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk, besides irrigating land in Tonk itself.

The Indira Gandhi Canal, first called the Rajasthan Canal, starts at Harike in Punjab, where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and carries that water south-west through a feeder and then a main canal into Hanumangarh, Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer.

A khadin is an earthen bund built along the lower edge of a rocky slope in the desert.