Top 250+ Solved Situating Independent India MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in.............
a. 1945
b. 1955
c. 1965
d. 1985
Q. The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.
a. kuntipuzha
b. nila
c. pamba
d. periyar
Q. In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation.
a. kunthipuzha
b. narmada
c. valapattanam
d. bharathapuzha
Q. In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study ofthe Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve.
a. orissa
b. tamilnadu
c. karnataka
d. kerala
Q. The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silentvalley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.
a. sugathakumari
b. p.valsala
c. o.n.v. kurup
d. ravindranath tagore
Q. .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural HistorySociety, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.
a. dr. salim ali
b. prof. m. g. k. menon
c. dr. m.s. swaminathan
d. dalai lama
Q. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned .......................
a. agricultural scientist
b. historian
c. capitalist
d. chemist
Q. On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated.
a. indira gandhi
b. rajiv gandhi
c. morarji desai
d. charan singh
Q. On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
a. 1956
b. 1966
c. 1976
d. 1986
Q. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............
a. zhou enlai
b. yasser arafat
c. mahmoud abbas
d. dalai lama
Q. India initiated a Policy in which it placed outposts along theborder, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier ............ in 1959.
a. zhou enlai
b. dalai lama
c. yasser arafat
d. mahmoud abbas
Q. Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territoryalong the 3,225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in ............. and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
a. ladakh
b. kargil
c. burma
d. tibet