2401: The national highway from Delhi to Calcutta via Mathura and Varanasi is numbered
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 8
2402: Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ?
(a) Holt Machenzie : Mahalvari settlement in Northern India
(b) Lord Cornwallis : Subsidiary system
(c) Lord Ripon : Local Self-Government
(d) Thomas Munro : Ryotwari settlement
2403: The length, breadth and height of a room are 1, b and h respectively. The perimeter of the ceiling expressed as a percentage of the total area of the four walls is
(a) 100 h
(b) 100/h
(c) h
(d) h/100
2404: Holding of election for the Panchayats is decided by
(a) The District Magistrate
(b) Constitutional mandate
(c) The State government
(d) The Election Commission
2405: Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) East Timor was a British colony for four centuries
(b) The European colonial rulers handed over East Timor to Indonesia in 1975
(c) The United Nations took over East Timor in 1999 to prepare it for independence
(d) East Timor finally declared its independence in December 2001