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Who among the following introduced the subsidiary alliance system in India?

A) Lord Cunningham	B) Lord Cliv
C) Lord Wellesley	D) Lord Canning

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Lord Wellesley

Explanation:

The doctrine of the subsidiary alliance was introduced by Lord Wellesley, British Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805.

The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to enter into such an alliance in 1798. Tipu Sultan of Mysore refused to do so, but after the British victory in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, Mysore was forced to become a subsidiary state in 1799.

The Nawab of Awadh was the next to accept the Subsidiary Alliance, in 1801.

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Among the pairs of rivers given below, which flow in the southern part of India?

A) Krishna and Ganges	B) Kaveri and Godavari
C) Narmada and Tapi	D) Brahmaputra and Yamuna

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Kaveri and Godavari

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The world's largest delta system is the _________

A) The Nile, Egypt	B) Ganges-Brahmaputra, India/ Bangladesh
C) The Mississippi, USA	D) The Amazon , Brazil

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Ganges-Brahmaputra, India/ Bangladesh

Explanation:

The Ganges, Brahmaputra delta covers an area of about 75000 sq km.

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Which company made the first tea bags?

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Tetley

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Ajanta paintings depict scenes from the

A) Jatakas	B) Ramayana
C) Upanishads	D) Mahabharat

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Jatakas

Explanation:

Ajanta paintings depict scenes from the Jataka Tales. The Jataka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India. The stories in that are associated with previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.

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What is a chunk when using raw devices?

A) a dynamic unit of disk space	B) a location in shared memory
C) a contiguous unit of disk space	D) a data table

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) a contiguous unit of disk space

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The capital of Colombia is ?

A) Caracas	B) Santiago
C) Lima	D) Bogota

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Bogota

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Who is author of the book 'Preparing for the Twenty First Century '

A) V.S.Naipaul	B) John Ruskin
C) Paul Kennedy	D) Henry Kissinger

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