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World Facts and Geography

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World facts and geography encompass global statistics, technological history, and international political systems. This includes facts about research, natural resources, and democratic structures worldwide. Such questions are common in the general awareness papers of SSC, UPSC, and banking exams.

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World Facts and Geography Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Abyssinia

  2. Gold Coast

  3. French Coast

  4. Dahomey

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Before gaining independence in 1957, the nation of Ghana was a British colony known as the Gold Coast.

Multiple choice
  1. Abyssinia

  2. Gold Coast

  3. French Coast

  4. Dahomey

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Ghana was a British colony known as the Gold Coast before it gained independence in 1957. It was the first sub-Saharan African nation to achieve independence from colonial rule.

Multiple choice
  1. Fizi

  2. Ghana

  3. Cuba

  4. Phillipines

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as the leader of Cuba.

Multiple choice
  1. land of the pearl

  2. land of the lillies

  3. land of the free

  4. land of the water

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The name Thailand is derived from the word 'Thai', which means free in the Thai language. Thus, the country is often translated as the land of the free.

Multiple choice
  1. land of the free

  2. land of the flower

  3. land of the lakes

  4. land of the morning calm

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Korea is historically and poetically known as the land of the morning calm, a translation of the Korean name Joseon.

Multiple choice
  1. Germany

  2. France

  3. Greece

  4. Thailand

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Cro-Magnon refers to the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) that lived in the European Upper Paleolithic. The site where the first fossils were discovered is in Les Eyzies, France.

Multiple choice
  1. Germany

  2. France

  3. Greece

  4. Thailand

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Neander Valley (Neandertal) is a valley of the river Düssel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is famous for the discovery of the first Neanderthal fossils in 1856.