4241: Consider the following statements:

1. The Cholas defeated Pandya and Chera rulers and established their domination over peninsular India in early medieval times.

2. The Cholas sent an expedition against Sailendra empire of South-East Asia and conquered some of the areas.

Which of these statements is/are correct?

(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
4242: Man passed from the food gathering stage to the food producing stage in the:

(a) Neolithic Age

(b) Mesolithic Age

(c) Chalcolithic Age

(d) Palaeolithic Age
4243: A quantity is found to vary in the order 9, 16, 25, 36, 49. What will be the next number in the order?

(a) 57

(b) 64

(c) 68

(d) 61
4244: Consider the following pairs:

Famous place : Region

1. Bodhgaya : Baghelkhand
2. Khajuraho : Bundelkhand
3. Shirdi : Vidarbha
4. Nasik (Nashik) : Malwa
5. Tirupati : Rayalaseema

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

(a) 1, 2 and 4
(b) 2, 3, 4 and 5
(c) 2 and 5 only
(d) 1, 3, 4 and 5
4245: Assertion (A)

The Congress Ministries in all the provinces resigned in the year 1939.

Reason (R)

The Congress did not accept the decision of the Viceroy to declare war against Germany in the context of the Second World War.

(a) Both A and R are 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