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8. Hyderabad is known as Pearl


Essay Competition Quiz Contest City of India, Goa is known as
the Pearl of the East and Jaipur
Topic : The far reaching bad conse- is known as the Pink City.
Concentric Quiz
quences of increasing present 10. In 1534, the Portuguese named
(India Special)
population in India. presently known Mumbai as Bom
Winners Bahai (Good bay) the derivation
Winners of the name Bombay.
Ist Prize Winner 11. During British rule Kanya
Ist Prize Winner Anand Patle Kumari was known as Cape
Shashi Kumar 13/2C, Junior MIG, Comorin, and was a part of
S/o Sri Chandeshwar Saket Nagar, Kerala State. But with the
Prasad Bhopal reorganisation of states, all Tamil
LIG H-10/347 Hanuman speaking areas were seceded and
M.P.-462 024
Nagar, Kankarbagh the district was formed in 1956. It
Patna-20 IInd Prize Winner was named on the name of god-
Priyvrat dess Kanya Devi.
IInd Prize Winner H.No. 510/18 13. Banaras was officially renamed in
Civil Lines, 1956 as Varanasi, a name from
Miss Varsha Deshraj Gurgaon, antiquity. It was first known as
Ramnagar, Haryana-122 001 Kashi, the city of light, when it
Nagpur was the capital of the kingdom of
IIIrd Prize Winner the same name about 500 B.C.
Atanu Mondal 14. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime
C/o Dhanapati Mondal Minister of India from 1947-1964
IIIrd Prize Winner
Vill.-Daharpota was from Allahabad, Uttar
Arvind Yadav Post-Baneswarpur Pradesh.
S/o Sri Satya Prakash Lal Bahadur Shastri, the third
Yadav North 24, Parganas
Prime Minister of India from
V.P.O. Jhook, West Bengal-743 270
1964-1966 was from Mughal
Distt. Mahendragarh Sarai, Uttar Pradesh.
Haryana-123 029 Answers
Indira Gandhi, the fourth Prime
1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (A) 5. (B) Minister of India from 1966-1977
6. (D) 7. (B) 8. (C) 9. (A) 10. (B) and 1980 to 1984 was from
Debate Competition 11. (A) 12. (A) 13. (C) 14. (B) 15. (C) Allahabad, U. P.
16. (B) 17. (D) 18. (B) 19. (D) 20. (D) Charan Singh, the Sixth Prime
Minister of India from 1979-1980
Topic : American foreign policies Hints was from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
are good only for America.
2. The climatic conditions of Goa 16. King Vira Ballala Raya, the ruler
such as, excessive rainfall from
Winners June to September and no extreme
of the Hoysala dynasty, in honour
of the hospitality extended to him
For the Topic temperatures (average tempera- by an old woman, set up a town-
tures between 25 to 30C) are not ship at the site, calling it Bendra-
Sanjeev Sirohi suited to the cultivation of corn. Kaal-Ooru or the town of boiled
C/o Col. B.P.S. Sirohi 3. In Madhya Pradesh, Sanchi is re- beans. Over the centuries the
A-82, Defence Enclave, nowned for its stupas. The great name mutated into Bengaluru
Sanchi stupa 1 was built by was later anglicised to Bangalore.
Sardhana Road, Kankarkhera
Mauryan emperor Ashoka in 3rd
Meerut (U.P.)250 001 century BC. 20. During the colonial period when
4. Andhra Pradesh was the first State Lord Hardinge was the viceroy of
in India to be formed on a purely India, Lady Hardinge was fasci-
Against the Topic nated by the gardens in Kashmir
linguistic basis in 1953 with the
Niaz Ahmed (Research merger of Telugu speaking areas valley and wished architect Ed-
Scholar) of the Nizams Dominion and ward Lutyens, who designed the
S/o Mohd. Moosa Barkatun Madras State. Rashtrapati Bhawan, to lay the
Bee C/o Dr. M.S. Khan, 6. Alleppey, one of the best known garden in that style. He derived
Deptt. of Political Science ports along the Coast of Malabar the inspiration from the Mughal
Govt. S.N.S. College Shahdol and built on the banks of a net- Gardens of Kashmir, the garden
work of canals is known as Venice of the Taj Mahal, and the Persian
(M.P.)-484 001
of the East. and Indian miniature paintings.

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