4521: Which of the following is not correct ?
(a) Doldrums : Equatorial low pressure zone
(b) Hurricane : A wind having a mean velocity of less than 100 km per hour
(c) New Moore Island : India
(d) Alluvium : Rann of Kutch
4522: Which one of the following is used as an anti-freeze for the automobile engines?
(a) Propyl alcohol
(b) Ethanol
(c) Methanol
(d) Ethylene glycol
4523: Who among the following Governor Generals created the Covenanted Civil Service of India which later came to be known as the Indian Civil Service ?
(a) William Bentinck
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Wellesley
(d) Cornwallis
4524: Assertion (A):
Bangalore receives much higher average annual rainfall than that of Mangalore.
Reason (R):
Bangalore has the benefit of receiving rainfall both from south-west and north-east monsoons.
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
4525: The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885 by
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Henry Cotton
(c) Badruddin Tyabji
(d) A. O. Hume