More Questions on Geography
- Q. In how many parts the shadow of Earth is divided during solar or lunar eclipse?
A)Four
B)Five
C)Two
D)Three
Answer: Three
- Q. The watershed between India and Myanmar is formed by
A)the Khasi hills
B)the Naga hills
C)the Garo hills
D)the Jaintia hills
Answer: the Naga hills
- Q. Which one of the following does not border Panama?
A)Columbia
B)Costa Rica
C)Pacific Ocean
D)Venezuela
Answer: Venezuela
- Q. The Lena river passes through which country?
A)Russia
B)China
C)USA
D)Brazil
Answer: Russia
- Q. A hinterland is
A)An elevated area
B)An area behind a seaport that supplies the bulk of the exports
C)The interior of a valley
D)An area occupied by backward community
Answer: An area behind a seaport that supplies the bulk of the exports
- Q. Which river is called ‘The Sorrow of Bengal’?
A)Hooghly
B)Sone
C)Damodar
D)Kosi
Answer: Damodar
- Q. Which of the following would have to be crossed to reach Sri Lanka from Nagercoil ?
A)Palk Strait
B)Sunda Strait
C)Gulf of Mannar
D)Cook Strait
Answer: Gulf of Mannar
- Q. Which one of the following pairs of sea ports and states is not correctly matched?
A)Quilon : Kerala
B)Kandla : Gujarat
C)Paradip : Orissa
D)Kakinada : Maharashtra
Answer: Kakinada : Maharashtra
- Q. The biggest producer of Rice is
A)China
B)India
C)Pakistan
D)Burma
Answer: China
- Q. Milky Way Galaxy was first seen by
A)Marconi
B)Galileo
C)Martin Schmidt
D)Newton
Answer: Galileo
- Q. The Ganga-Brahmaputra Plain widens
A)At the middle
B)From east to west
C)From west to east
D)No where
Answer: From west to east
- Q. India’s latitudinal and longitudinal extent measured in degrees are almost the same, but its north-south extent measured in km is greater than its east-west extent. This is due to the fact that
A)All longitudes with their opposites form great circles
B)Longitudes are not parallel lines
C)The distance between latitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the Equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join
D)The earth is not a perfect sphere
Answer: The distance between latitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the Equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join
- Q. Sriharikota, an important unit for the Indian Space Research Organisation is located in which state?
A)Andhra Pradesh
B)Kerala
C)Karnataka
D)Tamil Nadu
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
- Q. Through which of the following sets of states does Krishna river flow?
A)Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh
B)Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
C)Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh
D)Maharashtra, Karnataka
Answer: Maharashtra, Karnataka
- Q. Which country started the cultivation of potatoes in Europe?
A)Dutch
B)German
C)Spanish
D)Portuguese
Answer: Spanish
- Q. The world’s largest port is ________.
A)New York/New Jersey
B)Mumbai
C)Sydney
D)Singapore
Answer: New York/New Jersey
- Q. Which one of the following lists four type of coal, arranged in the increasing order of their carbon content?
A)Lignite, Peat, Bituminous, Anthracite
B)Peat, Lignite, Bituminous, Anthracite
C)Peat, Bituminous, Lignite, Anthracite
D)Peat, Anthracite, Lignite, Bituminous
Answer: Peat, Lignite, Bituminous, Anthracite
- Q. What is Gomia in Jharkhand famous for?
A)Fertilizer plant
B)Coal fields
C)Manganese mines
D)Explosives factory
Answer: Explosives factory
- Q. Lunar eclipse is caused when the ________
A)Sun comes between the earth and moon
B)Moon comes between the sun and the earth
C)Earth comes between the sun and the moon
D)None of these
Answer: Earth comes between the sun and the moon
- Q. Triton is the Moon of which planet?
A)Saturn
B)Neptune
C)Uranus
D)Venus
Answer: Neptune
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