1471: With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro irrigation equipment.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
1472: Olympics 2000 is to be held in
(a) Johannesberg
(b) Capetown
(c) Rome
(d) Sydney
1473: Match List I (Ores) with List II (States where they are mined) and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists :
List I List II
I. Manganese (A) Madhya Pradesh
II. Nickel (B) Orissa
III. Lead-zinc (C) Rajasthan
IV. Asbestos (D) Andhra Pradesh
Codes:
(a) I - A, II - C, III - B, IV - D
(b) I - D, II - C, III - B, IV - A
(c) I - A, II - B, III - C, IV - D
(d) I - D, II - B, III - C, IV - A
1474: "From Aceh in the far north-west to Torres Strait in the east is 5000 miles, almost as far as from London to Baghdad. The Archipelago has 14,000 islands, some mere equatorial rocks, others some of the largest in the world". This description best fits
(a) West Indies
(b) Japan
(c) Philippines
(d) Indonesia
1475: In which one of the following locations is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project to be built ?
(a) Northern Spain
(b) Eastern Germany
(c) Southern France
(d) Southern Italy