GK Practice Test: Question Set - 01
1. The “Sea of Tranquillity” is located in
- (A) South East Africa
- (B) The West Coast of Russia
- (C) The Moon
- (D) The West Coast of India
2. In terms of longitude, the International Date Line generally follows
- (A) 90° East
- (B) 90° West
- (C) 180° (East or West)
- (D) None of these
3. International Date Line passes through
- (A) 0° Greenwich
- (B) 180° Greenwich
- (C) 90°Greenwich
- (D) 270°Greenwich
4. Suez navigation canal links up Mediterranean Sea with the
- (A) Atlantic Ocean
- (B) Pacific Ocean
- (C) North Sea
- (D) Red Sea
5. Through which of the following Country does the river Tigris flow?
- (A) Egypt
- (B) Iran
- (C) Italy
- (D) Iraq
6. Which of the following two seas are linked by the Suez Canal?
- (A) The Mediterranean and the Red Sea
- (B) The Red Sea and the Black Sea
- (C) The Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea
- (D) None of these
7. Which is the biggest fresh water lake in the world?
- (A) Chilka Lake
- (B) Caspian Lake
- (C) Dal Lake
- (D) Superior Lake
8. Which place in the world has the least rainfall?
- (A) Africa
- (B) Thar
- (C) Mt. Everest
- (D) Pamir
9. Which is the world’s smallest country?
- (A) Sri Lanka
- (B) Trinidad
- (C) Vatican City
- (D) Indonesia
10. Where is the coldest place in the world situated?
- (A) England
- (B) Greenland
- (C) Russia
- (D) Antarctica
11. Which of the following is concerned with the study of characteristics, origin and development of land forms?
- (A) Ecology
- (B) Geography
- (C) Geology
- (D) Geomorphology
12. The uppermost epoch of the Neogene period is
- (A) The Pliocene epoch
- (B) The Pleistocen epoch
- (C) The Miocene epoch
- (D) The Oligocene epoch
13. Which of the following is concerned with the description and mapping of the main features of the universe?
- (A) Cosmography
- (B) Cosmology
- (C) Geomorphology
- (D) None of these
14. The coldest layer of Earth's atmosphere and its temperature is
- (A) Meosphere (mesopause), -85°C
- (B) Troposphere (tropopause), -80°C
- (C) Ionosphere (thermosphere, thermopause, exosphere) -85°C
- (D) Stratosphere (stratopause), -60°C
15. The plants of which of the following crops are highly sensitive to frost?
- (A) Barely
- (B) Cotton
- (C) Maize
- (D) None of the above