World Geography

EnglishUPPCS (Pre) 2016

Q01.Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists. List-I (Industrial Region) (a) Kinki (b) Canton (c) Lorraine (d) Belo Horizonte List-II (Country) 1. China 2. Japan 3. Brazil 4. France Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

A2 B2 C3 D4

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EnglishRAS/RTS (Pre) 2016

Q02.Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists. List-I (Industrial Regions) (a) Lancashire Region (b) Ruhr Region (c) Keihin Region (d) Southern Appalachian List-II (Country) 1. United States of America 2. Germany 3. United Kingdom 4. Japan Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

A3 B3 C1 D3

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EnglishIAS (Pre) 2013

Q03.With reference to the usefulness of the by-products of Sugar industry, which of the following statement is/are correct? 1. Bagasse can be used as biomass fuel for the generation of energy. 2. Molasses can be used as one of the feedstocks for the production of synthetic chemical fertilizers. 3. Molasses can be used for the production of ethanol. Select correct answer using the codes given below.

AOnly 1 BOnly 2 and 3 COnly 1 and 3 D1, 2 and 3

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EnglishMaharashtra PSC (Pre) 2019 UPPCS (Pre) 1998

Q04.Which of the following is busiest sea route of the world?

AIndian Ocean BNorth Atlantic Ocean CSouth Atlantic Ocean DPacific Ocean

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EnglishAssam PSC (Pre) 2016 UPPCS (Pre) 2014

Q05.Which one of the following is the busiest ocean trade route?

ACape of Good Hope BPanama Canal CSuez Canal DNorth Atlantic

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EnglishKarnataka PSC (Pre) 2016 IAS (Pre) 1994

Q06.The shortest air-route from Perth to London is

APerth, Bombay, Rome, London BPerth, Ankara, Paris, London CPerth, Aden, Paris, London DPerth, Mombasa, Rome, London

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EnglishMPPCS (Spl)(Pre) 2004

Q07.Which country’s airlines is ‘Lufthansa’?

AGermany BFrance CYugoslavia DSpain

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EnglishUPPCS (Pre) 2014 UPPCS (Spl)(Mains) 2008

Q08.The correct sequence in descending order of the given countries in terms of railway length in the world is

AIndia, U.S.A., Germany, Canada BCanada, Germany, U.S.A., India CU.S.A., Russia, China, India DGermany, U.S.A., Canada, India

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EnglishWest Bengal PSC (Pre) 2019 Jharkhand PCS (Pre) 2013

Q09.The Canadian Pacific Railway runs between

AEdmonton and Halifax BMontreal and Vancouver COttawa and Prince Rupert DHalifax and Vancouver

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EnglishAssam PSC (Pre) 2019 RAS/RTS (Pre) 1997

Q10.Euro tunnel for fast running trains joins

AHolland - England BEngland - France CBelgium - Holland DFrance - Luxembourg

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EnglishUP Lower Sub. (Pre) 2013

Q11.The longest rock tunnel of the world is located in

AFinland BNew York CJapan DSweden

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EnglishUPPCS (Mains) 2012

Q12.Rail-road tunnel Seikan is in

AChina BSouth Korea CJapan DMalaysia

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EnglishUttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2016

Q13.Which country has the world’s longest network of bullet train?

ARussia BJapan CU.S.A. DChina

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EnglishUPPCS (Pre) 2003 UP UDA/LDA (Pre) 2002

Q14.Assertion (A): North Atlantic sea route is the busiest sea route in the world. Reason (R): It connects two major industrial zones of the world. In the context of above statements, which of the following is correct? Code

ABoth (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of BBoth (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A) C(A) is true, but (R) is false D(A) is false, but (R) is true

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EnglishIAS (Pre) 1997

Q15.During a flight from Delhi to Tokyo the following are the landing airports. 1. Hong Kong 2. Hanoi 3. Taipei 4. Bangkok The correct sequence of the landing at these airports during an onward journey is

A1, 2, 3, 4 B4, 2, 1, 3 C3, 4, 1, 2 D4, 1, 2, 3

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EnglishIAS (Pre) 1995 47th BPSC (Pre) 2005

Q16.Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists. List-I (a) European trans-Continental railway (b) Trans-Andean railway (c) Trans-Siberian railway (d) Orient Express List-II 1. Paris to Istanbul 2. Leningrad to Vladivostok 3. Leningrad to Volgograd 4. Buenos Aires to Valparaiso 5. Paris to Warsaw Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

A5 B1 C5 D1

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EnglishIAS (Pre) 2000

Q17.The given map shows location of airports labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. What is the correct sequence of the airports in which the hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 landed after its initial take off from Kathmandu in December 1999?

A3, 1, 2, 4 B2, 4, 1, 3 C5, 4, 2, 3 D5, 1, 3, 2

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EnglishUttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2005, 2006

Q18.Which one of the following has the largest harbour in the world?

ALondon BColombo CShanghai DNew York

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EnglishUP UDA/LDA (Mains) 2010

Q19.World’s busiest sea port by cargo tonnage is

ABusan BRotterdam CSingapore DShanghai

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EnglishArunachal Pradesh PSC (Pre) 2016 UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 2015

Q20.Which of the following is the busiest port of Japan?

AYakohama BHiroshima CHitachi DKagoshima

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