This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Economy > Industries > Manufacturing Industries – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Manufacturing Industries Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Industry Produce goods for consumption such as sugar, paper, cloth etc. A) Basic Industries. B) Capital Goods Industries. C) Consumer Goods Industries. D) Intermediate Goods Industries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consumer Goods Industries. 2. Map-In which state Pune is located? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Maharashtra. C) Karnataka. D) Kerala. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maharashtra. 3. In which of the following countries the world's major Iron & Steel Industries are located? A) Germany. B) China. C) Russia. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. Map-In which state Mumbai is located? A) Gujarat. B) Maharashtra. C) Andhra Pradesh. D) Goa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maharashtra. 5. Concentration of cotton textile industries in Mumbai pune region is due to ..... A) Cotton production in nearby areas. B) Mumbai port. C) Humid climate. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. Which one of the following is not true regarding the National Jute Policy of 2005? A) Improving quality of jute. B) Creating awareness about the use of biodegradable materials. C) Increasing productivity. D) Ensuring good prices to the jute farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Creating awareness about the use of biodegradable materials. 7. Iron and Steel Industry comes under A) Mineral based industry. B) Heavy Industry. C) Basic Industry. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 8. In 1857 where the first cotton mill of India founded A) Mysore. B) Madras. C) Bombay. D) Surat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bombay. 9. Chemical industries usually are located near A) Iron and steel industries. B) Thermal power plant. C) Oil refineries. D) Auto mobile industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oil refineries. 10. There are less than 70 miles in Ahmedabad A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Market is one of the ..... factors for setting up of industries. A) Locational. B) Sizeable. C) Natural systematic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locational. 12. The Bhopal Gas Disaster occurred in ..... A) 1990. B) 1984. C) 1980. D) 2003. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1984. 13. Map-In which state Noida is located? A) Delhi. B) Punjab. C) Uttar Pradesh. D) Andhra Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uttar Pradesh. 14. Which one of the following agencies, markets steel for the public sector plants? A) MNCC. B) GAIL. C) SAIL. D) TATA STEEL. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SAIL. 15. Which country is the major importer of Indian yarn? A) Spain. B) Bhutan. C) Japan. D) Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japan. 16. Which industry comprises both large and small scale manufacturing units. A) Cement Industry. B) Fertiliser Industry. C) Chemical Industry. D) Iron and Steel Industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemical Industry. 17. Which two states are more famous for their cotton textile industry? A) Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab. B) Maharashtra and Gujarat. C) Kerala and Tamil Nadu. D) Assam and West Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maharashtra and Gujarat. 18. Which of the following industries is not a heavy industry. A) Cotton textile. B) Cement. C) Iron and Steel. D) Ship building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton textile. 19. Which of the following industries has been a major foreign exchange earner in the last few years? A) Engineering Industry. B) Information Technology Industry. C) Electronics Industry. D) Tourism Industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Information Technology Industry. 20. Which one of the following groups of factors is a prime group for the location of aluminum smelting plant? A) Capital and market. B) Raw material and Electricity. C) Labour and Raw material. D) Capital and Transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raw material and Electricity. 21. Cotton textile industry provide employment to the nearly ..... percent of the labour force in india. A) 30. B) 35. C) 40. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 40. 22. NMCC is abbreviated for:- A) No Matters Can Change. B) The Notion Mock Captive Counsil. C) Nation Manufacture Competitive Cancel. D) The National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council. 23. Map-In which state Bengaluru is located? A) Tamil Nadu. B) Telangana. C) Karnataka. D) Kerala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karnataka. 24. Mumbai is known as cottonopolis of India. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. The Software Technology Parks are set up by the government to provide A) Skilled software professionals. B) Capital to start a software company. C) Single window service and high-speed data communication facility to software experts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Single window service and high-speed data communication facility to software experts. 26. India has only 3 main shipbuilding centers A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. Weaving is highly decentralized in India. Identify the correct statement related to the given statement from the following option. A) It supports other industries like chemicals and dyes, packaging materials and engineering works. B) It provides scope for incorporating traditional skills and designs of weaving. C) Weaving units can not much of the highlights quality yarn. D) Most of the production units are fragmented and small. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It provides scope for incorporating traditional skills and designs of weaving. 28. Which one of the following is not way to prevent industrial pollution A) Use clean Energy. B) Stop Polluting Water. C) Plant trees. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 29. Which is not a factor of industrial location? A) Market. B) Capital. C) Power. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population density. 30. Classification of industry based on source of raw material: A) Agro Based. B) Mineral based. C) Both Agro and mineral based. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both Agro and mineral based. 31. Which one of the following industries manufactures telephones, computers, etc.? A) Steel. B) Aluminium. C) Information Technology. D) Electronic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Electronic. 32. The requirement of large number of people or workers. A) Self sufficient. B) Labour-intensive. C) Transport. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Labour-intensive. 33. Cycle manufacturing is a ..... scale industry. A) Large. B) Medium. C) Small. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medium. 34. Rourkela steel plant is in ..... sector A) Joint. B) Cooperative. C) Public. D) Private. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public. 35. To which sector does the textile industry belong to? A) Agro-based. B) Mineral based. C) Chemical based. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agro-based. 36. Which one of the following public sector plants is located in Odisha? A) Rourkela Steel Plant. B) Bokaro Steel Plant. C) Durgapur Steel Plant. D) Bhilai Steel Plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rourkela Steel Plant. 37. Iron and Steel is a A) Basic industry. B) A chemical industry. C) Tertiary industry. D) An agro based industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Basic industry. 38. The first cement plant was set up in India in 1904 in A) Jamshedpur. B) Hyderabad. C) Nagpur. D) Chennai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chennai. 39. The industry which is managed and owned by the government is known as ..... A) Public sector. B) Joint sector. C) Private sector. D) Cooperative sector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Public sector. 40. Which one of is not an example of Public Sector A) Indian Oil Corporation. B) Bhilai Iron & Steel Plant. C) Airtel. D) Hindustan Aeronautical limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Airtel. 41. In which year National Jute Policy was formulated? A) 2005. B) 2004. C) 2006. D) 2003. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2005. 42. The processing of raw material into more valuable products falls under the category of A) Primary Industry. B) Secondary Industry. C) Tertiary Industry. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary Industry. 43. The factors that contributed towards the localization of cotton textile industry in the cotton growing belt of Maharashtra and Gujarat were A) High demand of the cotton clothes. B) Availability of high quantity cotton in these areas. C) Availability of raw cotton, market, transport including accessible port facilities, labour, moist climate. D) Power looms came to be used. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Availability of raw cotton, market, transport including accessible port facilities, labour, moist climate. 44. How does the development and competitiveness of manufacturing industries help the primary sector? Selcet the odd one. A) Made the production process efficient. B) Decrease in cost of production. C) Increase in production. D) Faster delivery to the markets possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Faster delivery to the markets possible. 45. Which is the largest producer of sugar? A) Punjab. B) Uttar Pradesh. C) Tamil Nadu. D) Maharastra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maharastra. 46. Which of the following is an electronics industry? A) HMT, Bengaluru. B) TISCO, Jamshedpur. C) BALCO, Korba. D) BHEL, Hyderabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) BHEL, Hyderabad. 47. Where was the first cotton textile mill was set up in India. A) Mumbai. B) Ahmadabad. C) Bengaluru. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mumbai. 48. Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as A) Agglomeration economies. B) Industrial hub. C) Manufacturing units. D) Central Business District. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agglomeration economies. 49. Why did Mahatma Gandhi lay emphasis on spinning yarn and weaving khadi? A) It is in line with the ideals of self help. B) To stop the exploitation of industrial workers. C) To provide large scale employment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To provide large scale employment. 50. Vegetable oil falls in the following category: A) Agro-Based industry. B) Mineral Based industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agro-Based industry. 51. Map-In which state Bokaro is situated? A) West Bengal. B) Karnataka. C) Tamil Nadu. D) Jharkhand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jharkhand. 52. The objective of setting up NMCC is A) Reducing industrial pollution. B) To improve productivity. C) To maintain diplomatic relations in order to increase exports. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To improve productivity. 53. Map-In which state Chennai is located? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Telangana. C) Tamil Nadu. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tamil Nadu. 54. Most important benefit of Vishakhapatnam steel plant is its location at ..... A) Near iron ore producing area. B) Port city. C) Coal producing area. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Port city. 55. Which of the following does not affect the location of industries? A) Land. B) Entrepreneur. C) Infrastructure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Entrepreneur. 56. Which of the following factors are not necessary to set up an iron and steel plant? A) Proximity to iron-ore mines. B) Availability of coking coal. C) Good resources of limestone and manganese. D) Nearness to a water body to discharge wastes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nearness to a water body to discharge wastes. 57. A small scale industry is defined with reference to the maximum investment allowed on the assets of a unit. This limit has changed over a period of time. At present the maximum investment allowed is rupees ..... A) One crore. B) Two crore. C) Four crore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One crore. 58. Which one of the following factors plays the most important role in the location of an industry in a particular region? [Delhi 2012] A) Least production cost. B) Raw material. C) Transport. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raw material. 59. ..... 11has higher per hectare yield of sugarcane A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Maharashtra. C) Punjab. D) Tamil Nadu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tamil Nadu. 60. The IT industry involves the processing, storing and transferring of information in a digital format using computer. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian Economy QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesManufacturing Industries Quiz 1Manufacturing Industries Quiz 3Manufacturing Industries Quiz 4Natural Resources And Indian Economy Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books