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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. Mozambique

  2. Uganda

  3. Ethiopia

  4. Tanzania

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

The Nile River flows through countries in East and North Africa, including Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania (via Lake Victoria). It does not flow through Mozambique, which is in Southern Africa.

Multiple choice
  1. Paraguay

  2. Kenya

  3. Spain

  4. Mongolia

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

Paraguay is a humid country with forests and grasslands; it does not contain a true desert. Kenya, Spain, and Mongolia all contain arid or semi-arid desert regions.

Multiple choice
  1. Saudi Arabia

  2. Australia

  3. Egypt

  4. China

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

Australia has the largest population of wild camels in the world, which were introduced in the 19th century. While camels are iconic in Middle Eastern and North African cultures, Australia's feral population is significantly larger.

Multiple choice botany cell and cellular organization cell theory microscope cell and its discovery

Anton van Leeuwenhoek was from

  1. France

  2. Holland

  3. Sweden

  4. Britian

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

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch businessman and scientist. He belonged to Holland. He discovered protozoa, a single-celled organisms. He named it as animalcules. He also had contributed in the improvement of the microscope and laid foundation for microbiology. 

Thus, the correct answer is 'Holland.'

Multiple choice geography understanding maps maps - our companions maps and its study contour maps and landforms

Which one of the following countries is largest in area?

  1. Australia

  2. Brazil

  3. Canada

  4. China

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

Canada, second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America.

Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.

Multiple choice geography understanding maps maps - our companions maps and its study contour maps and landforms

Which of the following set of countries are completely surrounded by land ?

  1. Syria, Czechoslovakia, Paraguay

  2. Mongolia, Zambia, Boliva

  3. Libya, Zambia, Czechoslovakia

  4. Paraguay, Mongolia, Syria

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

 

Mongolia is surrounded by China and Russia

Bolivia is surrounded by peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peruguay

Zambia is surrounded by Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Angola

Multiple choice britain and the world the beginnings of empire history

In which country did the Wright Brothers the first controlled, sustained and powered flight?

  1. Britain

  2. America

  3. France

  4. Canada

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

The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, achieved the first powered, controlled, and sustained flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, in 1903.

Multiple choice britain and the world the beginnings of empire history

Many slaves worked on sugar and cotton plantations in the __________. 

  1. Middle East

  2. Two Americas

  3. Falkland Islands

  4. West Indies

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

The West Indies were the primary location for British-controlled sugar and cotton plantations that relied heavily on enslaved labor.

Multiple choice britain and the world the beginnings of empire history

To which regions were the slaves from Africa transported?

  1. Britain and France

  2. Spain and Portugal

  3. The two Americas

  4. The Middle East and South Asia

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

The vast majority of enslaved Africans transported by the British were sent to the plantations in the Americas, including the Caribbean and North/South America.