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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 geography irrigation and power generation of electricity exploration and conservation of minerals secondary sector : industry

Which of the following region is the second largest region in terms of generation of power?

  1. Europe

  2. Russia

  3. Africa

  4. South America

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

Historically, in terms of total power generation, Russia (and the former Soviet Union) has been one of the largest producers globally, ranking behind the USA.

Multiple choice geography agriculture in india - iii : cash crops agricultural seasons and crops cash crops plantation of crops

. --------- is the leading producer as well as exporter of tea in the world.

  1. Nepal

  2. China

  3. Russia

  4. India

  5. None of these

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

Hence it is little wonder that China is the biggest producer of tea in the world. ... Thus China is the third in the list of largest tea exporters in the world. With total export volume of 332 million kg in the year 2016, its share in the world tea export market was 21%. Most of the tea produced in China is green tea.

Multiple choice geography agriculture in india - iii : cash crops agricultural seasons and crops cash crops plantation of crops

The largest producer of tea in the world is

  1. USA

  2. Brazil

  3. China

  4. England

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Based on UN Food And Agriculture Organization statistics for global production from 1993-2013, here are the 10 top tea-producing nations in the world.
5 – Vietnam (260,000 tonnes)
4 – Sri Lanka (349,699 tonnes) 
3 – Kenya (439,857 tonnes) 
2 – India (1,325,050 tonnes) 
1 – China (2,473,443 tonnes)
Multiple choice geography agriculture in india - iii : cash crops agricultural seasons and crops cash crops plantation of crops

Which are the major producers of tea?

  1. China

  2. India

  3. Sri Lanka

  4. All of these

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

All these countries mentioned are leading tea producers. The largest producer is China followed by India. Tea production was introduced in India by British. Even today India is the largest tea producer and exporter. Srilanka holds fourth position.

Multiple choice geography agriculture in india - iii : cash crops agricultural seasons and crops cash crops plantation of crops

Which country is the largest exporter of tea?

  1. India

  2. China

  3. Kenya

  4. Sri Lanka

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

China is the only country in the world with a long glorious history of tea. That is why, no other civilization in the world can boast of a tea tradition that is older than 5000 years. Hence it is little wonder that China is the biggest producer of tea in the world. It produced around 2,400 million kg in 2016, which is increasing significantly each year. No surprise that, in Chinese culture, tea is one of the seven basic necessities of life. Others are firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Tea is inseparably woven into the history and culture of China.

Multiple choice zoology evolution of life darwin's theory of evolution process of evolution lamarckism

Lamarck belongs to

  1. England

  2. France

  3. Sweden

  4. Austria

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

Lamarck was French naturalist who proposed the theory of individual acquire characters to explain the process of natural selection. According to the inheritance of acquired characters, individual acquire characters under influence of needs as posed as changing environmental conditions; these characters are inherited. He explained evolution the long-necked giraffes from short-necked giraffes on the basis of his theory. Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice
  1. Indonesia and the Philippines

  2. China and Ukraine

  3. Japan and North Korea

  4. Russia and Japan

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

The Kuril Islands dispute is a long-standing territorial disagreement between Russia and Japan. The islands are located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean.

Multiple choice commercial applications global environmental change causes of resource depletion causes of greenhouse effect ozone layer depletion

_____________ is the first country to have phased out the CFCs and HCFCs which are responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer

  1. Denmark

  2. Germany

  3. France

  4. Spain

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

Germany is widely recognized for its early and proactive implementation of policies to phase out ozone-depleting substances like CFCs and HCFCs. They were among the first to comply with international protocols.

Multiple choice history the development of regional culture development of regional culture during medieval period india in 18th century rise of independent states kings and kingdoms of the early medieval period

Ghazni was a small principality in ___________.

  1. Mongolia

  2. Turkey

  3. Persia

  4. Afghanistan

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Answer - Afghanistan
Ghazni was a small principality in Afghanistan. In the first decade of 11 century, Ghazni was the most important center of Persian literature. Mahmud Gazni who plundered India 17 times belonged to Ghazni.