Geography Quiz Prelims 2014 NIT Jalandhar

Welcome To The GeographyQuiz by

QM – Sujit J Patil

PRELIMSAnswers

1*.What does this green line represent ?

And the Answer is…

Prime Meridian

2._____ is a constellation easily visible from

southern hemisphere which makes it a frequent motif in flags of countries like Australia, New Zealand etc.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the ______ is frequently used for navigation in much the same way that the Pole Star is used in the Northern Hemisphere.

Fill the blank.Image on next slide :

And the Answer is…

Southern Cross or Crux

3*.The Takbīr is the Arabic term for the phrase

Allāhu Akbar. It is usually translated as “God is [the] greatest”. It is a common Islamic Arabic expression, used in prayers.

Presently only 3 countries use The Takbir in their national flags : If two of them are Afghanistan and Iraq, which is the third one ?

Image on next slide :

Afghanistan Iraq

And the Answer is…

Iran

4.Story of which city

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, an independent sultanate ruled by the Muslim Muzaffarid dynasty was established in the area. Sultan Ahmed Shah, while camping on the banks of the Sabarmati river, saw a hare chasing a dog. The sultan was intrigued by this and asked his spiritual adviser for explanation. The sage pointed out unique characteristics in the land which nurtured such rare qualities which turned a timid hare to chase a ferocious dog. Impressed by this, the sultan, who had been looking for a place to build his new capital, decided to found the capital here and called it ________.

And the Answer is…

Ahmedabad

5.

goo.gl is the official url shortener from Google. Which place has the domain - .gl ?

And the Answer is…

Greenland

6.World’s tallest flagpole at Dushanbe.

Whose flag is this ?

And the Answer is…

Tajikistan

7.______ is a passenger train operating between

Adelaide, Alice Springs, and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway in Australia.

The train's name is an abbreviated version of its previous nickname The Afghan Express, unofficially bestowed service name in 1923, by one of its crews.

The train's name honours Afghan camel drivers who arrived in Australia in the late 19th century to help find a way to reach the country's unexplored interior.

And the Answer is…

The GHAN

8.Fill the blanks

(both):

________ _________ has been defined as a pictorial key to the nomenclature of clouds.

And the Answer is…

Cloud Atlas

9.It is a small village, south of Birmingham,

England. It was developed as a model village by George Cadbury to give the company’s workers improved working conditions.

While other suburban Birmingham railway stations feature the normal yellow and green corporate livery, its railway station is instead painted in Cadbury's purple.

Which village ?

And the Answer is…

Bournville

10.

Assume that you are in a city which boasts of having the Dutch Parliament, the Supreme Court of The Netherlands, and the Council of State of the Netherlands.

Then which city is this ?

And the Answer is…

The Hague

11.What famous landmark is shown in this

corporate logo ?

And the Answer is…

Rock of Gibraltar

12.Britain planted a colony in the area in 1787

as a place to relocate black poor from London, but it was overcome by native hostility.

In 1792 the city of _______ was founded as a colony for freed slaves by Nova Scotian abolitionist John Clarkson, who had fought on the British side during the American Revolutionary War.

This is also the capital of Sierra Leone.

And the Answer is…

Freetown

13*.Where one can find this ?

And the Answer is…

Cape Agulhas – The Southernmost point of Africa

14*.In 1982 the African Union admitted the Sahrawi

Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as a full member without the organization of a referendum of self-determination in the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

This lead to the withdrawal of another country from the African Union in protest of the above decision.

This country presently remains the only African state not to be a member of the African Union. Which country ?

And the Answer is…

Morocco

15.Peak Cavern is also called X because of the

flatulent-sounding noises from inside the cave when flood water is draining away.

The name of the cave was changed in 1880 from “X" to "Peak Cavern" in order not to cause offence to Queen Victoria during a visit for a concert.

What is X ?Image on the next slide :

And the Answer is…

Devil’s Arse

16.Whose flag ?

And the Answer is…

Crimea

17*.What is the surname of the author of the

lyrics of the Pakistani national anthem – Qaumi Taranah?

And the Answer is…

Jullandhuri

18.What are A & B ?

And the Answer is…

A – NagasakiB – Hiroshima

19.He was a French admiral and explorer.He was the first French to circumnavigate

the world.His name is given to the largest eastern

island of Papua New Guinea.A genus of South American climbing shrubs

with colorful bracts is named after him. He was responsible for the first recorded

settlement on the Falkland Islands.

Image on the next slide :

And the Answer is…

Bougainvillea

20.Identify the phenomenon.

And the Answer is…

Polar Vortex

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