2116: Which of the following was the first to escape out of solar system?
(a) Pioneer 10
(b) Voyager I
(c) Voyager II
(d) Soyuz
2117: Which one of the following legislations does not deal with the protection of environment ?
(a) The Water (Cess) Act, 1977
(b) The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980
(c) The Public Liability Insurance Act,1991
(d) The Port Laws Amendment Act, 1997
2118: Consider the following statements:
1. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar founded the Bethune School at Calcutta with the main aim of encouraging the education of women.
2. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was the first graduate of the Calcutta University.
3. Keshave Chandra Sen's compaign against Sati led to the enactment of the law to ban Sati by the then Governor General.
Which of the following statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2, and 3
2119: Elephant Pass, which is frequently in the news, is mentioned in the context of the affairs of which one of the following?
(a) Nepal
(b) India
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Bangladesh
2120: From the third century AD when the Hun invasion ended the Roman Empire, the Indian merchants relied more and more on the
(a) African trade
(b) West-European trade
(c) South-East Asian trade
(d) Middle-Eastern trade