General Studies Series Test - 2

This question has significant issues. The first cellular phone service in India was launched in Kolkata (Calcutta) in 1995, but option C is correct. However, options A (Damascus - Syria), B (Konark - Odisha temple), D (China - country), and E (Poland - country) are implausible modern cellular service launch locations for India.

This famous quote is attributed to Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, emphasizing that revolution is a violent struggle rather than a polite social event.

The Sun Temple is a 13th-century temple located in Konark, Odisha, India, famous for its architecture resembling a giant chariot.

Millions of people in China, particularly in the Shaanxi province, have historically lived in cave dwellings known as yaodong due to the loess plateau geography.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the famous Russian composer, wrote the music for the ballet 'The Sleeping Beauty' in 1889.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927 for his rich and vitalizing ideas.

David Edward Hughes is credited with the invention of the carbon microphone, which significantly improved the clarity of telephone transmissions.

Chiaroscuro is an Italian artistic term describing the strong contrast between light and dark to model three-dimensional forms in painting.

Damascus, the capital of Syria, is widely considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Ustad Ahmad Lahori (often referred to as Ustad Isa) is traditionally credited as the chief architect of the Taj Mahal.

The Nayankara system was a key administrative feature of the Vijayanagar Empire, where military commanders (Nayakas) were granted land in exchange for maintaining troops and providing military service to the king.

 A person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral.

Acumen refers to the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain; it is synonymous with mental keenness.

To exacerbate means to make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.

Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.

Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast before it gained independence from British colonial rule in 1957.

The lotus is the national flower of both India and Egypt.

Finland; although it actually has 187888 lakes. So is known as the “Land of Thousand Lakes”.

The Pliocene epoch is the geological period during which early hominids, such as Australopithecus, appeared in Africa.

Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, founded the city of Amritsar in 1574.

Dadabhai Naoroji is famously known as the Grand Old Man of India for his contributions to the Indian independence movement and his economic analysis of British rule.

Ahmad Shah Abdali, the Afghan ruler, invaded and looted Delhi in 1757 and again in 1759, contributing to the decline of the Mughal Empire.

Bahá'u'lláh was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith in the 19th century in Persia.

The birth name of the famous Indian monk Swami Vivekananda was Narendranath Datta.