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  • Question 1
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    Fort William is located in Kolkata on the banks of river _______.
    Solution
    Hooghly river :-
    Hugli River. Hugli River, Hugli also spelled Hooghly, river in West Bengal state, northeastern India. An arm of the Ganges (Ganga) River, it provides access to Kolkata (Calcutta) from the Bay of Bengal. It is formed by the junction of the Bhagirathi and Jalangi rivers at Nabadwip.
  • Question 2
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    _____flows from India to Bangladesh and is one of the main rivers of Bangladesh.
    Solution
    The Jamuna River is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh. It is the lower stream of the Brahmaputra River, which originates in Tibet as Yarlung Tsangpo, before flowing into India and then southwest into Bangladesh.
  • Question 3
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    The Tapi river rises from the _______.
    Solution
    The Tapi river rises from the Mahadev hills.

    Tapti River, Tapti also spelled Tapi, river in central India, rising in the Gawilgarh Hills of the central Deccan plateau in south-central Madhya Pradesh state. It flows westward between two spurs of the Satpura Range, across the Jalgaon plateau region in Maharashtra state, and through the plain of Surat in Gujarat state to the Gulf of Khambhat (an inlet of the Arabian Sea). It has a total length of about 435 miles (700 km) and drains an area of 25,200 square miles (65,300 square km). For the last 32 miles (51 km) it is tidal but is navigable by small vessels. The port of Swally Hole, at the river’s mouth, well known in Anglo-Portuguese colonial history, is now deserted, having become silted up. The Tapti flows roughly parallel to the longer Narmada River to the north, from which it is separated by the main part of the Satpura Range. The two river valleys and the intervening range form the natural barrier between northern and peninsular India. The Tapti River’s three major tributaries—the Purna, Girna, and Panjhra—flow from the south in Maharashtra state.
  • Question 4
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    Which of the following is not a peninsular river ____________.
    Solution
    Yamuna is not a peninsular river.
    The peninsular Rivers in India include the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Narmada, and Tapti or Tapi. Together they drain a significant portion of rural India. These rivers carry both religious and cultural significance in the lives of Indian people. Krishna among the following is a peninsular river of India.
  • Question 5
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    ________ river is also known as Dakshina Ganga.
    Solution
    Godavari river is known as the Ganga of South India or ' Dakshin Ganga' Because it is the largest river of South India similarly Ganga in northern India.

    It is 1465 km long that make it the second largest river of India after Ganga (2525km).
    It's origin is in triyambakeswar Maharashtra and merge in bay of Bengal after flowing through many states of South India.
  • Question 6
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    Which city is not on the river bank of Yamuna _________.
    Solution
    Kannauj, is a city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city's name is a modern form of the classical name Kanyakubja.
  • Question 7
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    "Nagarjuna Sagar Multipurpose Project" is on which river ?
    Solution
    Krishna river :-
    "Nagarjuna Sagar Multipurpose Project" is on Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh.

    Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is one of the world's largest and tallest Masonry dams built across the Krishna river at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda District, Telangana State, India and Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh State, India. Constructed between 1955 and 1967, the dam created a water reservoir with gross storage capacity of 11.472 billion cubic metres (405.1×109 cu ft). The dam is 590 feet (180 m) tall from its deepest foundation and 0.99 miles (1.6 km) long with 26 flood gates which are 42 feet (13 m) wide and 45 feet (14 m) tall.

    Nagarjuna Sagar was the earliest in a series of large infrastructure projects termed as "modern temples" initiated for achieving the Green Revolution in India. It is also one of the earliest multi-purpose irrigation and hydro-electric projects in India. The dam provides irrigation water to the Nalgonda, Suryapet, Krishna, Khammam, West Godavari, Guntur and Prakasam districts along with hydro electricity generation. Nagarjuna Sagar dam is designed and constructed to use all the water impounded in its reservoir of 312 TMC gross storage capacity which is the second biggest water reservoir in India.
  • Question 8
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    River Krishna originates in ______________ in Maharashtra.
    Solution
    Rising from a spring near Mahabaleshwar, the Krishna flows for about 1400 km and reaches the Bay of Bengal. The Tungabhadra, the Koyana, the Ghatprabha, the Musi and the Bhima are some of its tributaries. 
  • Question 9
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    In which city the Yamuna river merging with the River Ganga?
    Solution
    city of Allahabad.
    The Yamuna, which originates less than a hundred miles east of the Bhagirathi, flows parallel to the Ganga and a little to the south for most of its course before merging with the Ganga at the holy city of Allahabad, also known as Triveni Sangam 
  • Question 10
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    The river Cauvery originates at __________ in Kodagu.
    Solution
    The Kaveri rises in the Talacauvery at the  Brahmagri range of the Western Ghats Kodagu district at Karnataka. and it reaches the Bay of Bengal in south of Cuddalore, in Tamil Nadu. Total length of the river is about 760 km. Its main tributaries are Amravati, Bhavani, Hemavati and Kabini. 
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