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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 evs snakes a snake charmer's story snakes and snake charmers uses of animals

Snakes live everywhere in the earth except

  1. India

  2. Ireland

  3. New zealand

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

No variety of snakes are found on the Ireland. It is because during the last ice age, the whole of Ireland and mainland  was permanently covered with snow and ice. It is highly unlikely that any wildlife, which might have been in Ireland before this ice age, survived this period. When the climate warmed up again, snakes would have been able to recolonise Britain from the south, in any case there were land bridges to the continent from time to time. They would not, however, unless deliberately transported, be able to reestablish themselves in Ireland.

So, the correct option is 'Ireland'.

Multiple choice history polity and society in post-mauryan period trade between tamizhagam and rome kushans, sakas and hunas post mauryan india

What was silk road?

  1. The route connecting China with Japan was known as the silk road.

  2. The route connecting China with Europe was known as the silk road.

  3. The route connecting India with Europe was known as the silk road.

  4. The route connecting China with India was known as the silk road.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Silk route or silk road refers to a network of ancient trade routes connecting Asia, Europe and Africa. The silk route was majorly used to transport Chinese silk to Europe through Central Asia. Marco Polo witnessed the grandeur of Chinese civilisation travelled through the Silk route.

Multiple choice geography climate and natural vegetation equatorial climatic region climatic regions the biosphere natural regions natural regions of the world

The equatorial region is confined to ________.

  1. Amazon Basin

  2. Congo Basin

  3. Some parts of Asia

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Equatorial type of climate, also known as tropi­cal rainforest wet climate , is located up to 5° to 10° latitudes on either side of the equator but at some places it extends up to 15°-25° latitudes mainly along the eastern margins of the continents.

The equatorial climate is found in the following localities:

(i) The Amazon Basin in South America,

(ii) The Congo Basin in Africa,

(iii) Guinea coast in Africa,

(iv) Much of the Indo-Malaysian Region mainly in Java, Sumatra, Bor­neo, Malaysia, Singapore and New Guinea,

(v) Philip­pine Islands,

(vi) Eastern central America (parts of Panama, Costarica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala etc.), some islands in the Caribbean Sea, western Columbia and eastern Madagascar.

 

Multiple choice geography climate and natural vegetation equatorial climatic region climatic regions the biosphere

Kalahari desert is in _______.

  1. North Africa

  2. South Africa

  3. South America

  4. Australia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

  • The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometers, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
  • The Sahara is a desert located on the African continent. It is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall after Antarctica and the Arctic region.
  • The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.
  • Deserts of Australia:
Great Victoria Desert 
Great Sandy Desert
Tanami Desert 
Simpson Desert 
Gibson Desert 
Little Sandy Desert

Multiple choice political science some neighbouring countries of india and its relationship with them trading and economic organisations india and her neighbours india and other countries

The name of the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned was _____________.

  1. Rustty Island

  2. Rubin Island

  3. Dassen Island

  4. Robben Island
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island, a small island off the coast of Cape Town.

Multiple choice geography tertiary and quaternary economic activities tourism europe - location, political divisions and physical features location, political and physical divisions of europe

Massai Mara national park is located in ________.

  1. India

  2. Pakistan

  3. Sudan

  4. Kenya
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Massai Mara(Masai Mara) is known as one of Africa's Greatest Wildlife Reserves, situated in southwest Kenya and is part of the northern section of the Serengeti National park. It is famous for the abundance of the big cats, Lion, Leopard ,Cheetah and the Great Wildebeest Migration and the Massai people are well known for their distinctive custom and dresses.

Multiple choice geography migration study of population migration and its impact migration : factors, types and consequences world population

The original home of the gypsies was ______.

  1. Egypt

  2. Russia

  3. India

  4. Persia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The 'Gypsies' are a group of people found in Central Asia. But, the original home of Gypsies was in India (Western Rajasthan and Punjab).Gypsies’ are an ethnic group, which for unknown reasons took to a wandering life style during the late middle ages.

Multiple choice political science gender inequality across the wall gender disparity global problems and india's role human rights : origin, characteristics and types international problems problems affecting the world

One of the following groups of countries have relatively a larger share of women representation in the legislature.

  1. Asian nations

  2. American nations

  3. Nordic nations

  4. Arab nations
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • Nordic nations group of countries such as Norway, Finland, Sweden have a relatively larger share of women representation in the legislature.
  • Women MPs constitute an average of 41.5% of the legislature in Nordic countries.
Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe unification movements national movements in europe historiography

For the national unity of which country did Garibaldi fight?  

  1. Austria

  2. Italy

  3. Germany

  4. Russia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Garibaldi was a central figure in the movement for unification of Italy. He enthusiastically supported the Mazzini's Young Italy Movement and became a life-long supporter of Italian unification under a democratic Republican government.

Multiple choice history the world after 1945 current events of history end of colonialism and the cold war aftermath of world war -ii

Which place was known as the South African penal colony for political prisoners?

  1. Robben Island

  2. Table Bay

  3. Seal Island

  4. Capetown
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
  • Robben Island was known as the South African penal colony for political prisoners.
  • Nelson Mandela served an imprisonment term on Robben Island for his support to the violent overthrow of the government.
Multiple choice evs - i rules are for everyone control of water pollution protecting our environment introduction to natural resources

Which of the following countries does not depend on desalination process for getting fresh water?

  1. Dubai

  2. Iran

  3. France

  4. Qatar
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
France does not depend on desalination process for getting fresh water.
Desalination is a process that removes minerals from saline water. More generally, desalination refers to the removal of salts and minerals from a target substance, as in soil desalination, which is an issue for agriculture.
Due to its energy consumption, desalinating sea water is generally more costly than fresh water from rivers or groundwater, water recycling and water conservation.
Desalination is particularly relevant in dry countries such as Australia, which traditionally have relied on collecting rainfall behind dams for water.
Water pollution can be controlled in the multiple ways. It is best controlled by the dilution of water. The pollutants must be treated chemically and must be converted into the non toxic substances. The low level of radioactive wastes in the water is removed by the oxidation of ponds. There are certain chemicals which act on the organic insecticide and are used in the pesticide. There are different techniques which are very helpful in the process of thermal pollution and involve the cooling, evaporation, water cooling; cooling can be wet or dry.