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1
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Unlike the fluid core of the earth, the core of the moon is

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volatile gas

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“Mithun”, a cattle breed is found in

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Arunachal Pradesh (North eastern hilly regions)

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Anthracite is a kind of

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coal

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The sun reaches its max angular distance from the equator at the

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solstice

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Sundari is a species of trees found in

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mangrove forests of the Sundarbans

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What is cryolite?

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Aluminium ore used in electrolytic processing of bauxite

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Where in Rajasthan is the Bhairodev Dakav “Sonchuri” located?

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Alwar

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Red soils are red in colour due to the presence of

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Iron

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9
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Where is the festival of Bonalu celebrated?

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Telangana

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10
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Malacca Strait is the main shipping lane between:

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Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

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11
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Which city is known as Granite City?

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Aberdeen

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12
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Which is the second largest country by area in Europe?

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France

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13
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Mangla Dam is the largest dam of country?

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Pakistan

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14
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The summer solstice is also known as _________

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midsummer

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15
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Hygrometer is used to measure _________

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humidity

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16
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Hydrometer is used to measure _________

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relative density of liquids

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17
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Campbell-Strokes recorder is used for measuring:

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sunshine

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18
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The average albedo of the earth is ___

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35%

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19
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A chart which illustrates the rate of rain fall is:

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hyetogram

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20
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Atmospheric layer that selectively absorbs UV radiation

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stratosphere

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21
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World Ozone Day

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16 September

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22
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Winter concentration of rain fall is a feature of

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Mediterranean climate

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23
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Weather cock is used for ascertaining

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Wind direction

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24
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What is the name of tropical cyclone in Australia?

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Willie-willies

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25
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Thunder clouds are technically called

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Cumulonimbus

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26
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The busiest ocean route in the world is

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North Atlantic Ocean route

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27
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Humboldt is a current in the _________ Ocean

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Pacific

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28
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Which planet has the most natural satellites?

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Jupiter (79)

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29
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Ratio of force of Sun and Moon which produces tide

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4:9

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30
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Cryometer is an instrument to measure:

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very low temperature

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31
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Lumbabashi mine is known for

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Copper

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32
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Victoria Fall is situated at which river?

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Zambezi

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33
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Atacama desert is situated in which continent?

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South America

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34
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Hirakud multi-purpose project is located on the river:

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Mahanadi

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35
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The hottest planet in the solar system:

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Venus (heavy atmosphere of CO2)

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36
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Suez Canal connects:

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Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea

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37
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The contentious Baglihar dam is built on the river:

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Chenab

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38
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_________ is the highest and most prominent peak in Russia and Europe

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Mount Elbrus

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39
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The active volcano Mount Mayan is situated in which country?

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Philippines

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40
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The world’s driest desert is _________ and is located in which country?

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Atacama in Chile

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41
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The highest peak in North America is _________, now renamed as _________

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McKinley; Denali

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42
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Niagara Falls occurs on the Niagara River, a channel that connects which 2 lakes?

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Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

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43
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Which pair of countries has control over the Strait of Hormuz?

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Oman and Iran

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Dasht-i-Kavir, the largest salty desert of the

world is situated in

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Iran

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45
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Mount _________ is mainland Australia’s tallest mountain

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Mount Kosciuszko

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46
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The Nile River flows from south to north through eastern Africa and empties into:

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the Mediterranean Sea

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47
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_____ is the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area, and the third largest freshwater lake by volume

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Lake Superior

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48
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Little Andaman in the south is separated from the Nicobar Islands by the _________ Channel

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Ten Degree Channel

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49
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The part of West Coastal Plain from Gujarat to Goa is known as:

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Konkan

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50
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Pamban Island also known as _________, is an island located between peninsular India and Sri Lanka

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Rameswaram Island

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51
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The National Chambal Sanctuary is known for which animals?

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gharials, red-crowned roof turtle, Ganges river dolphin

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52
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Tamil Nadu receives rainfall in the winter season due to the _________

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northeast trade winds

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53
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Black soil is also called Regur soil. It is black in colour and ideal for growing ______.

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cotton

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54
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National Waterway-1 (______-______) with length 1620 km is the longest National waterway in India

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Prayagraj-Haldia

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55
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India is the world’s largest cotton producer and ______-largest exporter.

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second

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56
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Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant is located in which Indian state?

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Gujarat

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57
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_________ is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Tamil Nadu.

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Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant

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58
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Which country has earned the title of Land of Thunderbolt due to violent and large thunderstorms?

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Bhutan

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59
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_________ is the administrative and business capital of Mauritius

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Port Louis

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60
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Presently hing is not cultivated in India and India imports it from:

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Afghanistan Iran and Uzbekistan

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61
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Buldhana pattern and Tamaswada pattern are patterns of water conservation in which state?

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Maharashtra

62
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_________’s major tributaries are Dihang, Lohit, Subansiri, Teesta, Meghna (Barack in Assam), Manas.

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Brahmaputra

63
Q

The Comoros is a volcanic archipelago off Africa’s east coast, in the _________ ocean

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Indian Ocean waters of the Mozambique Channel.

64
Q

Halley’s comet was discovered by Edmond Halley and takes ______ years to encircle the Sun

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76.1

65
Q

The maximum percentage of gas present in the atmosphere is:

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Nitrogen (78.09%)

66
Q

Which sea has the maximum area among all the seas of the world?

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South China Sea

67
Q

The ______ Canal links the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean

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Panama Canal

68
Q

The longest river in the world is Nile, and it is ______ long

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6690 km

69
Q

Cuba, which comprises of several islands in the northern Caribbean, is part of the continent of:

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North America.

70
Q

______ is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

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Magma

71
Q

The ______ Lake in Buidhana district of Maharashtra, India, is a meteorite-impact crater

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Lonar lake

72
Q

In geology, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a _________

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glacier

73
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In 200 B.C. _________ estimated Earth’s circumference at about 46,250 km (28,735 miles)

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Eratosthenes (coined the term ‘geography’)

74
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The Himalayas is the youngest and the highest range of ______ mountains in the world.

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fold mountains

75
Q

_________ is the study of atmosphere, atmospheric phenomena, and atmospheric effects on our weather

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Meteorology

76
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______ happens when Moon covers the Sun’s center, leaving Sun’s visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire”

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annular solar eclipse

77
Q

Kodaikanal lake is a _________ (natural/ man made) lake

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man made

78
Q

Ashtamudi lake lies on the _________ (western/ eastern) coast of India

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western (in Kerala)

79
Q

Roopkund (locally known as Mystery Lake or Skeletons Lake) is a high altitude glacial lake in _________ state

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Uttarakhand

80
Q

Chilika Lake is called a _________ because it is a shallow body of brackish water separated from a larger body of water.

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lagoon

81
Q

Nigeen Lake (alternatively spelled as Nageen Lake) is a mildly eutrophic lake located in _________

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Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir

82
Q

_________ is the largest fresh water lake in the North–East India

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Loktak Lake

83
Q

Vembanad (Vembanad Kayal or Vembanad Kol) is the longest lake in India, as well as the largest lake in the state of ______.

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Kerala

84
Q

Kolleru Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in India located in state of _________

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Andhra Pradesh

85
Q

Hamirsar lake is one of the most beautiful man-made lakes situated in _________

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Gujarat

86
Q

Anchar Lake is a lake in highly deteriorated condition located in _________

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Jammu and Kashmir

87
Q

The Night Safari is the world’s first nocturnal zoo and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in _________

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Singapore

88
Q

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe discovers Natural Radio Emission in which planet’s atmosphere?

A

Venus (it also has ionosphere like Earth)

89
Q

The Mount Everest also known as _________ in Nepal and Chomolongma in China

A

Sagarmatha

90
Q

Flash Floods usually have less than ___ hours between the occurrence of the rainfall and peak flood.

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six

91
Q

Continental Glacier moves _________, and Mountain Glacier moves from a higher to a lower altitude.

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outward in all directions

92
Q

___ with known traits such as whipping up foam to protect its eggs has resurfaced in India after 108 years

A

Doria’s foam-nesting treefrog

93
Q

More than 300 years after it disappeared from _________, the common crane has returned there

A

Ireland

94
Q

(MCCIA) has launched India’s first agro-export facilitation centre in which city?

A

Pune

95
Q

The International Olympic Committee headquarters are in ________

A

Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland

96
Q

The North Pole has shifted in a new eastward direction since the 1990s, because of changes in the _________

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hydrosphere (meaning the way in which water is stored on Earth)

97
Q

Magnetic North Pole (AKA - North Dip Pole) was discovered first in ______ on Ellesmere Island in Northern Canada

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1831

98
Q

The rapid fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of ______ covering the planet

A

cloud

99
Q

The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was initially completed at the order of _________

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Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik

100
Q

Satpura Tiger Reserve was established in 2000 and is is located in ______. It is one of the 6 sites added to tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage List

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Madhya Pradesh

101
Q

Nearly _________ bee-keepers have registered under an initiative of the National Beekeeping and Honey Mission to provide hive-to-tongue traceability of honey

A

10,000

102
Q

Open Skies Treaty was signed in 1992 and came into effect in 2002. It allows its ___ signatories to monitor arm development by conducting surveillance flights

A

34

103
Q

_________ (DAP) is the world’s most widely used phosphorus fertilizer. Govt hikes subsidy on DAP fertiliser by 140%

A

Diammonium phosphate

104
Q

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with its headquarters in _________

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Redmond, Washington

105
Q

India shares its longest international border with _________ and smallest with _________

A

Bangladesh; Afghanistan

106
Q

___ is the intl border bw Afghanistan and Pak. India has a small claim to the borderline through PoK

A

The Durand Line

107
Q

_________ is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar

A

Naypyidaw, officially spelled Nay Pyi Taw

108
Q

_________ is the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He has been the islands’ leader since 2014

A

Gaston Alfonso Browne

109
Q

The island of New Guinea is separated from the ‘horn’ of Queensland by the ______ Strait

A

Torres Strait

110
Q

BIMSTEC headquarters:

A

Dhaka, Bangladesh

111
Q

SCO headquarters:

A

Beijing

112
Q

Asian Development Bank HQ:

A

Philippines

113
Q

World Economic Forum HQ:

A

Geneva

114
Q

HQ of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN):

A

Gland, Switzerland

115
Q

What is the capital of Hungary? Also name the country’s PM

A

Budapest, PM Viktor Orbán

116
Q

Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, _________ don’t have any moons at all

A

Mercury and Venus

117
Q

BIMSTEC came into being in 1997 through the _________ Declaration.

A

Bangkok Declaration

118
Q

Raimona in Kokrajhar district has become ______’s sixth national park.

A

Assam

119
Q

_________ is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, and the world’s longest freshwater lake.

A

Lake Tanganyika, an African Great Lake

120
Q

The _________, which lies within Turkey, is festered with a new challenge - sea snot

A

The sea of Maramara

121
Q

The 1st edition of La Pérouse exercise, initiated by France in 2019, included ships from which countries?

A

Australia, Japan and the US.

122
Q

National Geographic announced that it is officially recognizing the Earth’s fifth ocean:

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the Southern Ocean. (surrounding the Antarctic)

123
Q

Bara-lacha la also known as Bara-lacha Pass, connects Lahaul district in Himachal Pradesh to ___

A

Leh

124
Q

_________ plateau is the highest plateau in the world and it is called as the roof of the world.

A

Tibetan plateau

125
Q

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the _________ River

A

Yangtze River

126
Q

Pak’s __ crossed temperatures of 52 degrees Celsius, which could potentially be fatal for human beings

A

Jacobabad

127
Q

Kaladan river flows through the Indian state of ________

A

Mizoram

128
Q

In India Kaladan River is known by the name of _________

A

Chhimtuipui River

129
Q

The Kaladan project has a road component of ______km and a river component of _______km

A

109km / 158km

130
Q

Where would you find the Paletwa port – an important port in the Kaladan project ?

A

Chin state of Myanmar

131
Q

Exclusive economic zones (EEZ) extend ___ nautical miles (370 km) from a country’s coast.

A

200

132
Q

The air in Earth’s atmosphere is made up of approximately 78 percent nitrogen and __________

A

21 percent oxygen

133
Q

170 illegal structures demolished around Srinagar’s _________

A

Dal Lake

134
Q

Little Bloodtail is a _________ who is considered to be a harbinger of monsoon

A

dragonfly

135
Q

Ken & Betwa rivers are tributaries of the river _________.

A

Yamuna

136
Q

Name the two dams that will be constructed as part of the Ken Betwa Link project

A

Daudhan Dam & Lower Orr dam

137
Q

This particular Tiger reserve was in the news as Ken

river crosses the reserve

A

Panna Tiger Reserve

138
Q

The Ken Betwa River link lies in the ______ region and will positively impact the __ districts of the region.

A

Bundelkhand /13

139
Q

Name the two states that are party to the Ken Betwa Link project and the estimated cost of the project.

A

Uttar Pradesh & Madhya Pradesh/ 35000 Crore

140
Q

Can you identify the name and length of the container ship that blocked the Suez canal for six days?

A

MV Ever Given / 400m

141
Q

Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chairman _________ revealed there had been a death during the operation to free the ship

A

Osama Rabie

142
Q

Gujarat is developing the National Maritime Heritage Complex, close to the Archaeological Survey of India in ______.

A

Lothal

143
Q

Azerbaijan has built several gas and oil pipelines across the Caucasus (the region between _________) to Turkey and Europe.

A

the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea

144
Q

The _________ is the longest river in Tibet and its valley is the world’s deepest with a 7,000-metre drop from the highest mountain peak to the lowest basin.

A

Brahmaputra river (Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet).

145
Q

China’s New Strategic Highway will shorten the road length connecting the city proper of Nyingchi and ______ and will reduce the travel time by eight hours.

A

Medog County

146
Q

China is planning to build the mega _________ at the canyon in the same Medog county, triggering unease among downstream countries like India.

A

Yarlung Zangbo hydro-power project

147
Q

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) constructed the _________ bridge over Subansiri river in Arunachal Pradesh. It links roads leading upto the LAC

A

Daporijo bridge

148
Q

A tunnel is being constructed under the _________ pass in Arunachal Pradesh which connects Tawang to the rest of Arunachal and Guwahati.

A

Se La pass

149
Q

In 2019, the Indian Air Force inaugurated resurfaced runway at India’s easternmost Village - _________ (Changlang district) in Arunachal Pradesh.

A

Vijaynagar

150
Q

In 2019, the Indian Army conducted exercise ‘_________’ in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam with its newly created Integrated Battle Groups (IBG).

A

HimVijay

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