This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Economy > Basics > Lifelines Of Indian Economy – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Lifelines Of Indian Economy Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Longest Highway of India is A) National Highway-8. B) National Highway-1. C) National Highway-7. D) National Highway-15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) National Highway-7. 2. The total network of India's roadways is about A) 55 lakh km. B) 65 lakh km. C) 56 lakh km. D) 57 lakh km. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 56 lakh km. 3. District Roads connects district headquarters with state capital. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Which one of the following is considered as the first-class mail by the Indian postal network? A) Cards and envelopes. B) Registered periodicals. C) Book packets. D) Registered newspapers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cards and envelopes. 5. Kandla port is also known as ..... A) DEENDAYAL PORT. B) KANDLA KARACHI PORT. C) DEVENDRAN PORT. D) GUJARAT PORT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DEENDAYAL PORT. 6. The distribution pattern of the railway network in the country has been largely influenced by ..... factors. A) Physiographic. B) Economic. C) Administrative. D) Physiographic, Economic and Administrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Physiographic, Economic and Administrative. 7. Which organisation constructs and maintains roads in the border areas? A) BRO. B) BSF. C) NHAI. D) Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BRO. 8. Solids can also be transported through pipelines A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. Which Port is one of the oldest artificial ports of the country? A) KOLKATTA PORT. B) MUMBAI PORT. C) KOCHI PORT. D) CHENNAI PORT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) CHENNAI PORT. 10. Which one of the following Organizations constructs Border roads in India? A) BRO. B) PWD. C) NHAI. D) CPWD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BRO. 11. What is the main advantage of rail transport? A) Fuel efficiency. B) Environment friendly. C) Low cost. D) Door-to-door service. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fuel efficiency. 12. Which one of the following National Highways is the longest in India? A) NH8. B) NH24. C) NH44. D) NH1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NH44. 13. Which one of the following modes of transportation reduces tran-shipment losses and delays in the supply of petroleum and gases? A) Pipeline. B) Waterways. C) Railways. D) Roadways. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pipeline. 14. The air transport was nationalised in ..... A) 1953. B) 1853. C) 1952. D) 1852. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1953. 15. Under which scheme special provisions are made so that every village in the country is linked to a major town in the country by an all season motorable road A) PMGSY. B) PMKSY. C) PMFBY. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PMGSY. 16. World's longest Highway tunnel is ..... and is built by ..... A) Atal Tunnel, NHAI. B) Jawahar Tunnel, PMGSY. C) Atal Tunnel, BRO. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atal Tunnel, BRO. 17. This organisation was established in 1960 for the development of the roads of strategic importance in the northern and northeastern border areas. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 18. A situation in which more persons are employed on a job than are optimally required is: A) Cyclical unemployment. B) Disguised unemployment. C) Structural unemployment. D) Seasonal unemployment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disguised unemployment. 19. Which of the following airlines is the nationalised airline of India? A) Indigo. B) Kingfisher Airline. C) Jet Airways. D) Air India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Air India. 20. Which port did we lose to Pakistan after partition of India? A) Hyderabad. B) Lahore. C) Karachi. D) Rawalpindi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karachi. 21. Busiest railway junction in Northern India. A) Lucknow. B) Patna. C) Delhi. D) Mugalsarai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mugalsarai. 22. The highway projects in India are being implemented by which organisation? A) GAIL. B) NHAI. C) NDDB. D) NTPC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NHAI. 23. Which waterway is declared as National Waterway No. 1? A) Ganga river between Allahabad and Haldia. B) Brahmaputra river between Sadiya and Dhubri. C) West-Coast Canal in Kerala. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ganga river between Allahabad and Haldia. 24. India has ..... major and ..... notified non major ports. A) 10 and 100. B) 12 and 200. C) 14 and 200. D) 16 and 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12 and 200. 25. When we produce a good by exploiting natural resources, it is an activity of the: A) Primary sector. B) Organised sector. C) Secondary sector. D) Tertiary sector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary sector. 26. Name the Port that is located in Karnataka? A) MARMAGAO PORT. B) MANDAVI PORT. C) NEW MANGALORE PORT. D) KOCHI PORT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NEW MANGALORE PORT. 27. Raja Sansi International airport is located in ..... A) Mumbai. B) Ambala. C) Chennai. D) Amritsar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amritsar. 28. The Indian Railway network runs on ..... A) Broad Guage. B) Metro Gauge. C) Narrow Guage. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 29. The full form of NHAI is A) New Highway Authority of India. B) National Highway Authority of India. C) National Highway Academy of India. D) Northern Highway Authority of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) National Highway Authority of India. 30. The Indian Railway is now reorganised into ..... zones A) 15. B) 14. C) 13. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 16. 31. Which one of the following states is not connected with the H.V.J. pipeline? A) Gujarat. B) Uttar Pradesh. C) Maharashtra. D) Madhya Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uttar Pradesh. 32. National Highway No 1between Delhi and Amritsar is also known as- A) Rohtang Marg. B) Nagarhauli marg. C) Sher Shah Suri Marg. D) Aurangzeb Marg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sher Shah Suri Marg. 33. Which one of the following ports was developed in order to relieve the pressure of Kolkata port? A) Paradip port. B) Tuticorin port. C) Chennai port. D) Haldia port. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haldia port. 34. Which is the biggest port with a spacious natural and well-sheltered harbour? A) Kochi Port. B) Deendayal Port. C) Mumbai Port. D) Chennai Port. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mumbai Port. 35. Metalled roads go out of use in the rainy season. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. The golden quadrilateral super highways project linking A) Chennai-Mumbai-Delhi-Uttar Pradesh. B) Kannyakumari-Srinagar-Calcutta-Chennai. C) Delhi-Kolkata-Chennai-Mumbai. D) Delhi-Chennai-Madurai-Punjab. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delhi-Kolkata-Chennai-Mumbai. 37. Largest postal net work system in the world is ..... A) The United states. B) The Indian. C) The England. D) The African. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Indian. 38. Which port was developed to ease the volume of trade on the Mumbai port? A) HALDIA. B) KANDLA. C) KOCHI. D) CHENNAI. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) KANDLA. 39. Which mode of transportation reduces trans-shipment losses and delays? A) Railways. B) Pipeline. C) Waterways. D) Roadways. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pipeline. 40. Trade carried in cities, towns and villages is called A) External trade. B) Local trade. C) Internal trade. D) International trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Local trade. 41. Which mode of transport is most suitable for carrying heavy and bulky goods? A) Roadways. B) Waterways. C) Railways. D) Pipelines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waterways. 42. What is the historical Sher Shah Suri Marg now called? A) NH 7. B) NH 3. C) NH 4. D) NH 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NH 1. 43. The Ganga river between ..... and Haldia is national waterway 1 A) Allahabad. B) Sadiya. C) Dhubri. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allahabad. 44. The Golden Quadrilateral Super Highways connect A) Delhi-Silchar-Madurai and Gandhinagar. B) Srinagar-Kanyakumari-Bhopal & Allahabad. C) Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai and Kolkata. D) Kashmir-Kanyakumari. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai and Kolkata. 45. Which of the following is the oldest artificial port and the second most important port of the country? A) Mumbai port. B) Kandla port. C) Chennai port. D) Ennore port. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chennai port. 46. ..... is one of the oldest artificial ports of the country A) KOCHI. B) CHENNAI. C) KANDLA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CHENNAI. 47. Which port is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port? A) Vishakhapatnam. B) Kandla. C) Pradeep. D) Haldia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vishakhapatnam. 48. Which one of the following groups of cities is connected by the National Highway No. 1? A) Delhi-Punjab. B) Ranchi-Kolkata. C) Varanasi-Kanyakumari. D) Kolkata-Amritsar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Delhi-Punjab. 49. Which is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port? This port was, originally, conceived as an outlet for iron ore exports. A) MARMAGAO PORT. B) VISHAKAPATNAM PORT. C) NEW MANGALORE PORT. D) TUTICORIN PORT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) VISHAKAPATNAM PORT. 50. Which mode of transport is the largest in India? A) Roadways. B) Railways. C) Pipelines. D) Waterways. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Railways. 51. Which one of the following is not an advantage of pipeline transportation? A) Pipelines are used for transporting crude oil and gas from fields to refineries. B) Solids can be transported in slurry form through pipelines. C) Pipelines rule out trans-shipment losses or delays. D) Initial cost of laying a pipeline is high. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Initial cost of laying a pipeline is high. 52. Which one of the following states has the highest road density? A) Kerala. B) Gujarat. C) Karnataka. D) Goa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kerala. 53. Which one of the following is the oldest artificial port of the country? A) Tuticorin. B) Mumbai. C) Chennai. D) Vishakhapatnam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chennai. 54. Railways in India bind the economic life of the country as well as accelerate the development of the industry and agriculture A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. ..... is the most comfortable and prestigious mode of transport. A) Pipeline. B) Railways. C) Airways. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Airways. 56. The roads that connects all the metro cities in India is known as- A) Super Highways. B) National Highways. C) State Highways. D) Golden Quadrilateral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Golden Quadrilateral. 57. The helicopter services to Oil and Natural Commission in its offshore operations are provided by: A) Air India. B) Ndian Airlines. C) Pawanhans helicopters. D) Alliance Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pawanhans helicopters. 58. National Water.No.1 in India A) The Brahmaputra river between sadiya and dhubri. B) The West coast canal in Kerala. C) The Krishna river system. D) The Ganga river between Allahabad and haldia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Ganga river between Allahabad and haldia. 59. Over ..... millian foreign tourists visit India every year. A) 3.7. B) 2.6. C) 2.4. D) 2.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2.6. 60. Which one of the following is the oldest port of the eastern coast of India? A) Tuticorin. B) Chennai (Madras). C) Vishakhapatnam. D) Kolkata (Haldia). 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