Civil Services Prep

Prelims 2016 · Geography · Question 19

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?

  1. 1, 2 and 4
  2. 2, 3, 4 and 5
  3. 2 and 5 only
  4. 1, 3, 4 and 5

Answer

2 and 5 only

The question text provided is incomplete—the actual pairs under 'Famous Place | Region' are missing, so a factual item-wise verification is not possible from the given prompt alone. Since you state the official UPSC answer key is (c), the revised derived answer is marked as (c). Disclaimer: this is based on the official key, not on independent verification of the missing pairs.

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