GK Flashcards
(270 cards)
1
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Largest river
A
Amazon
2
Q
Longest river
A
Nile
3
Q
River that crosses north and south equator
A
Congo
4
Q
Largest river of asia
A
Yangtze
5
Q
Rome is on the banks of
Paris is on the banks of
London is on the banks of
Agra is on the banks of
A
Tiber
Seine
Thames
Jumna (Yumna)
6
Q
Largest sea
A
South China Sea
7
Q
Smallest sea
A
Baltic Sea
8
Q
Shallowest Sea
A
Gulf of St. Lawrence
9
Q
Deepest point on earth
A
Mariana Trench in Caribbean Sea of Pacific Ocean
10
Q
Suez canal connects
A
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
11
Q
Panama canal connects
A
Pacific ocean with Atlantic ocean
12
Q
Oldest Barrage of Pakistan
A
Sukkur Barrage
13
Q
Longest Canal of Pakistan
A
Lloyd Canal
14
Q
Longest shipping canal in world
A
Beloye-More canal
15
Q
Highest dam in the world
A
Rogun dam
Nurek, in some sources
16
Q
Longest mountain range
A
Andes, South America
17
Q
Youngest Mountain range
A
Himalayas
Also 2nd longest range
18
Q
Asia and Europe are separated by
A
Ural Mountains
19
Q
Highest Plateau in the world
i.e. roof of the world
A
Pamir Plateau (Tibet)
20
Q
Highest mountain
A
Mount Everest of Himalaya
8848m (29028ft)
21
Q
Second highest mountain
A
K2 (Godwin-Austin)
8611m
22
Q
The killer mountain
A
Nanga Parbat
23
Q
How many of the eight thousand peakers are in Pakistan
There are 14 in total
A
5
24
Q
Highest peak of Kirthar Ranges
A
Zardak
25
Mount Olympus is in
Greece
26
Largest Lake
Caspian Sea Lake
27
Largest freshwater lake
Superior lake, North America
28
Deepest Lake
Baikal Lake
29
Highest Lake
Lake Titicaca, South America
30
Highest waterfall
Angels
| 3281ft
31
Saltiest Lake
Assal lake
32
Which country has no lakes
Australia
33
Largest gulf
Gulf of Mexico
34
Largest Bay
Hudson Bay
35
World’s driest place
Attacome (Chile)
36
Largest desert
Sahara, North Africa
37
Second largest desert
Arabian desert
38
Thar desert is of which type
Subtropical
39
Friendly desert
Thar
40
Types of deserts
4
41
Death Valley is in
California
42
Highest mountain pass
Bodpola
| Tibet (China)
43
Longest glacier
Lambert, Antartica
44
Continent without glaciers
Africa
45
Length of Khyber Pass
56 km
46
Connects the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; separates Arabia and Africa
Bab ul Mandab Strait
47
Strait of Bosporous connects
Black Sea and Sea of Marmara
48
Strait of Malacca (longest strait) separates
Malaysia and Indonesia
49
Strait of Gibraltar separates
Spain from Africa
50
Strait of Dardanelles connects
Sea of Marmara and Aegean Sea
51
English Channel separates
England from France
| They are connected by Dover strait
52
Strait between Atlantic and Pacific
Magellan
53
Largest Peninsula
Arabia
54
Largest Island
Greenland (Kalaalit Nunaat)
55
Largest Island in Indian Ocean
Madagascar
56
Cuba is an island of
Caribbean Sea
57
Largest Archipelago
Indonesia
58
How many countries in the world have no seaports (landlocked)
44
| 11 in Asia
59
Planets after Sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
60
Mercury
Smallest and fastest planet
61
Brightest, hottest, closest to earth planet
Venus (earth’s near twin planet)
62
Largest planet, largest number of satellites and smallest day
Jupiter
63
Least dense planet
Saturn
64
Sun consists mostly of
Hydrogen
65
Biggest star in our galaxy
Proxima Centauri
66
A comet has a
Tail always pointing away from the sun
67
Solar eclipse is when
Moon passes between the sun and the earth
68
Lunar eclipse is when
Earth passes exactly between the moon and the sun
69
Cosmic year is
Period of one revolution of sun around the centre of galaxy
70
Shape of our milkyway galaxy
Spiral
71
Which planets have no moon
Mercury and Venus
72
Brightest visible star
Sirus
73
Which planet contains great red spot
Jupiter
74
Earth’s natural satellite
Moon
75
Earth revolves around the sun at the speed of
29 km/sec
76
Who first measured the distance round the earth
Eratosthenes
| Circumference of Earth: 40K km
77
Earth revolves and rotates from
West to East
78
Horn of Africa
Somalia
79
Land of rising Sun
Japan
80
Land of white elephant
Thailand
81
Forbidden city
Lhasa, Tibet
82
Gibraltar is known as
Key to Mediterranean
83
City of seven hills
Rome
84
Sick man of Europe
Turkey
85
Land of midnight sun
Norway
86
Land of thousand elephants
Laos
87
Land of thunderbolt
Bhutan
88
City of golden gate
San Francisco
89
Land of mighty rivers
Nigeria
90
Land of lilies
Canada
91
City of seas
Sydney
92
Land of thousand lakes
Finland
93
Gift of Nile
Egypt
94
City of Mosques
Dhaka
95
Sorrow of China
River Hwang Ho (Yellow River)
96
City of Flowers
Peshawar
97
Manchester of Pakistan
Faisalabad
98
City of peace and Arabian nights
Baghdad
99
The modern Babylon
London
100
City of colleges
Lahor
101
Land of free people
Thailand
102
City if conferences
Geneva
103
Little Pakistan
Bradford
104
Lion City
Singapore
105
New name: Rhodesia
Old name: Zimbabwe
106
New name: Northern Rhodesia
Old Name: Zambia
107
New name: Indonesia
Old name: Batavia
108
New name: Colombo
Old name: Lykomoma
109
New name: Oslo
Old name: Christina
110
Congo
Zaire
111
Kalaolit Nunaat
Greenland
112
Taiwan
Formoso
113
Ghana
Gold Coast
114
Japan
Nippon
115
Beijing
Peking
116
Ho Chi Minh
Saigon
117
Harare
Salisbury
118
Thailand
Siam
119
Switzerland
Helvetia
120
World’s oldest religion
Hinduism
121
Moses was born in
Egypt
122
Jesus Christ was born in
Jerusalem
123
Boundaries
....
124
Germany and Poland
Oder-neisse & Hindenberg
125
Germany and France
Maginot & Siegfrid
126
Poland and Russia
Curzon
127
Finland and Russia
Mannerheim
128
US and Canada
49th Parallel
129
South and North Korea
38th Parallel
130
South and North Vietnam
17th Parallel
131
Peru and Brazil
Jack Merison
132
Turkey and Cyprus
Green Line
133
India and China
McMahon
134
Israel and Neighbors
Armistice line
135
Azad and Occupied Kashmir
Control Line
136
Plimsoll line
A limit a ship can be loaded
137
Parliament
Country
138
Riksdag
Sweden
139
Shora
Afghanistan
140
Jatiya Sangshad
Bangladesh
141
National People’s Congress
China
142
Majlis
Iran
143
Diet
Japan
144
National Panchayat
Nepal
145
Dewan Rakyat
Malaysia
146
Althing (World’s oldest parliament)
Iceland
147
Grand National Assembly
Turkey
148
Knesset
Israel
149
Storting
Norway
150
Majlis i Shura
Pakistan
151
Advisory Council
Qatar
152
Sejm
Poland
153
Doma
Russia
154
Mother of all parliaments
The British Parliament
155
Bundesrat
Germany
156
SANA is the news agency of
Syria
157
WAFA is the news agency of
Palestine
158
MENA is the news agency of
Egypt
159
Anatolia is the news agency of
Turkey
160
Petra is the news agency of
Jordan
161
Intelligence Agencies
Countries
162
AMAN, MOSSAD, LEKEM
Israel
163
MI5 and MI6
Britain
164
RAW (1968)
India
165
KGB, FSB, FAPSI
Russia
166
NDA, KHAD
Afghanistan
167
MIT
Turkey
168
SSS
Iraq
169
MAD and BNP
Germany
170
BIN
Indonesia
171
MOIS and Saavak
Iran
172
FIA(1974), ISI(1948), NAB(1999), IB(1947)
Pakistan
173
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is the old name of
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
174
Nobel Prize was instituted in
1901. It is distributed in Sweden
175
Nobel Peace Prize is distributed in
Norway
176
Nobel Prize was not awarded in
1940-42
177
Who was the first Asian to win Nobel Prize
R. N. Tagore in 1913
178
Nobel Prize in economics was started in
1969
179
Which country has the largest area
Russia
180
Which country has the smallest area
Vatican City
181
World’s longest road
Pan-Am Highway
182
Longest railway line
Trans-Siberian Railway
183
Largest irrigation canal
Indira Gandhi canal
184
Highest capital in the world
La Paz, Bolivia
185
What is Big Ben
A huge clock on the tower of the British Parliament
186
Largest airport
King Abdul Aziz Airport
187
World’s biggest oil refinery
Abadan, Iran
188
Which country has the longest coastline
Canada
189
Largest city in the world
Kiruna (Sweden)
190
Coldest place in the world
Vostok (Antartica)
191
Smallest matter discovered by the scientists
Quark
192
Largest delta of the world
Sundarbands, Bangladesh
193
Fastest animal
Cheetah
194
Largest Muslim populous country
| Lowest Muslim populous country
Indonesia
| Maldives
195
Area wise largest Muslim country
Kazakhstan
196
Who was the first man to to make space flight
Yuri Gagarin in 1961
197
World’s largest dam
Three Gorges Dam
198
First woman to travel into space
Valentina Tereshkova
199
Most densely populated country
Monaco
200
First person to reach South Pole
Ronald Amundson in 1911
201
First person to reach North Pole
Robert Peary in 1911
202
First person to climb Everest
Edmund Hillary in 1953
203
Neil Armstrong set foot on moon in
1969
204
First woman to climb Everest
Junko Taibei
205
First man to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
206
Forgot PM of England
Sir Robert Walpole
207
First lady Prime Minister in the world
Srimavo Bhandarnaike
208
First Lady President in the world
Maria Estate Pew, Argentina
209
Oldest town
Jericho (formerly called Ariha)
210
Which country has the shortest coastline
Monaco
211
Largest hockey stadium in the world
National Hockey Stadium Lahore
| Also called Gaddafi Stadium
212
World’s largest and highest glacier
Siachen
213
First tourist in space
Dennis Tito
214
First Muslim women president of UNGA
Haya Rashid Al Khalifa, Bahrain
215
Longest frontier
US-Canada
216
Oldest flag in the world
Denmark
217
Oldest anthem in the world
Japan. In some sources it says the Netherlands.
218
Which country has the largest army
China
219
Who invented mobile phones
Martin Cooper
220
International women’s day is on
March 8
221
Aviary
Is a place where birds are kept
222
First muslim to win Nobel Prize
Anwar Saadat
223
PM of UK at the time of our independence
Attlee
224
Agencies....
Their HQs....
225
ILO
Geneva
226
WHO
Geneva
227
WMO
Geneva
228
WTO
Geneva
229
UNHCR
Geneva
230
WEF
Geneva
231
Red Cross
Geneva
233
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Zurich, Switzerland
234
WWF
Gland, Switzerland
239
UNICEF
New York
241
ICJ
Hague, the Netherlands.
| Hague is not the capital of the Netherlands.
242
UNDP
New York
243
IMF
Washington
244
OPEC
Vienna
245
World Bank
Washington
246
UNWTO of Tourism
Madrid
247
IMO
London
248
Amnesty International
London
250
Interpol
Lyon, France
251
OIC
Jeddah
252
GCC
Riyadh
253
Arab League (AL)
Cairo
254
NATO
Brussels
256
ICC
Dubai
258
SAARC
Khatmandu
259
ECO
Secretariat: Iran
| Economic Bureau: Turkey
260
SCO
Beijing
261
ASEAN
Jakarta
263
Asian Development Bank
Manila, Philippines
266
First SG of UN
Trygve Lie from Norway
267
Current SG of UN
Antonio Guterres from Portugal
| He is the 9th SG of UN
269
IAEA
Vienna
274
FAO
Rome
275
UNESCO
Paris
276
Upcoming Olympic Games
Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
| Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
277
2018 Nobel Peace Prize
```
Nadia Murad (Iraq)
Denis Mukwege (Congo)
```
278
2018 Nobel Physics
```
Arthur Ashkin (United States)
Gérard Mourou (France )
Donna Strickland (Canada)
```
279
2018 Nobel Chemistry
Frances H. Arnold (United States)
George P. Smith (United States)
Greg Winter (England)
280
2018 Nobel Physiology
```
James P. Allison (United States)
Tasuku Honjo (Japan)
```
281
2018 Nobel Literature
None; postponed
282
2018 Nobel Economics
```
William Nordhaus (United States)
Paul Romer (United States)
```
283
Who won FIFA 2018 cup
France
284
ICC world cup 2015 was won by
Australia
285
In terms of Area and Population, which is the largest continent
Asia
286
World's oldest democracy
Greece
287
Tallest tree in the world
Redwood
