2311: Which one of the following is correctly matched ?
(a) Thyagaraja -- Tamil
(b) Purandara Das -- Kannada
(c) Jnaneshwar -- Bengali
(d) Sankaradeva -- Gujarati
2312: India has the largest population of the Asian X. Today, there are just about 20,000 to 25,000 X in their natural habitat spreading across the evergreen forests, dry thorn forests, swamps and grasslands. Their prime habitats are, however, the moist deciduous forests. The X population in India ranges from North-West India where they are found in the forest divisions of Dehradun, Bijnor and Nainital districts of UP to the Western Ghats in the states of Karnataka and Kerala and in Tamil Nadu.
In Central India, their population is distributed in southern Bihar and Orissa. In the East, they are seen in North-Bengal, Assam and a few other states.
The animal X referred to in this quotation is
(a) Lion
(b) Elephant
(c) Tiger
(d) One-horned rhinoceros
2313: Where are the Balearic Islands located?
(a) Baltic Sea
(b) Black Sea
(c) Mediterranean Sea
(d) North Sea
2314: Consider the following statements:
1. Montenegro and Serbia agreed to a new structure for the Yugoslav Federation.
2. Croatia remained under the Hungarian Administration until the end of First World War.
3. Claims to Macedonia Territory have long been a source of contention between Belgium and Greece.
4. In 1991, Slovenia declared independence from Czechoslovakia.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 2, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 3 and 4
2315: The group of small pieces of rock - revolving round the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are called
(a) meteors
(b) comets
(c) meteorites
(d) asteroids