1516: 200 cm of rainfall, 20°C of temperature and well drained land is ideal for the cultivation of:
(a) Rice
(b) Tea
(c) Coffee
(d) Rubber
1517: Which one of the following works has recently been made into a full length feature film ?
(a) R. K. Narayans Malgudi Days
(b) Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
(c) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy
(d) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August.
1518: At one of the places in India, if you stand on the seashore and watch the sea, you will find that the sea water recedes from the shore line a few kilometres and comes back to the shore, twice a day, and you can actually walk on the sea floor when the water recedes. This unique phenomenon is seen at
(a) Bhavnagar
(b) Bheemunipatnam
(c) Chandipur
(d) Nagapattinam
1519: The characteristic odour of garlic is due to
(a) a chloro compound
(b) a sulphur compound
(c) a fluorine compound
(d) acetic acid
1520: In India, the steel production industry requires the import of
(a) saltpetre
(b) rock phosphate
(c) coking coal
(d) All of the above