Consider the following pairs:
Famous place: Region
1. Bodhgaya Baghelkhand
2. Khajuraho Bundelkhand
3. Shirdi Vidarbha
4. Nasik (Nashik) Malwa
5. Tirupati Rayalaseema
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
This questions was previously asked in
UPSC CSP Previous Year Paper (2016)
1, 2 and 4
Correct Answer2, 3, 4 and 5
Incorrect Answer2 and 5 only
Incorrect Answer1, 3, 4 and 5
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
Bodhgaya is any important Budhhist site located is in Bihar and Bagelkhand or Baghelkhand is a mountain range in central India that covers the northeastern regions of Madhya Pradesh and a small area of western Uttar Pradesh.
The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a group of Hindu temples are located in the Bundelkhand region of the Madhya Madhya Pradesh southeast of Jhansi. They are one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India.
Shirdi famous town for Sai Baba temple is a town and falls under Ahmednagar District in Maharashtra. It is not in Vidarbha region.
Malwa Plateau generally refers to the volcanic upland north of the Vindhya Range covering region in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Nasik is far away from the region.
Tirupati famous for Sri Venkateswara Temple lies in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh.
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