IBPS PO General Awareness: History questions with solutions

Q1. Vidyadhar Bhattacharya was the architect of which city?

1. Pushkar
2. Ajmer
3. Jaipur
4. Jodhpur

Answer: Jaipur

Vidyadhar Bhattacharya was the chief architect who designed Jaipur’s city plan. Jaipur is known as the Pink City and is one of the earliest planned cities in India.

Q2. During this term, which lasted 100 days from July to October 1864, the 6th Massachusetts garrisoned Fort C. F. Smith in Arlington, Virginia and ______ Confederate prisoners of war at Fort Delaware near the mouth of the Delaware River.

1. Stole
2. Guarded
3. Banished
4. Entertained

Answer: Guarded

The sentence refers to a military unit performing a duty related to prisoners of war. Among the options, only "Guarded" logically fits the context of soldiers overseeing prisoners at Fort Delaware. The other options do not match the meaning of the sentence.