Geography Quiz Mains 2014 NIT Jalandhar

Welcome To The GeographyQuiz by

QM – Sujit J Patil

Mains

Round : Infinite Bounce

Rules

10 questions+10 for right answerNO negatives

1.

Bir Tawil is an area along the border between Egypt and Sudan, the only current terra nullius outside of Antarctica, present on Earth

What does terra nullius mean ?

And The Answer is….

Land Claimed by NO ONE.

2.CONNECT :


FRENCH GUIANA

3.Motown is an American record company

founded by Berry Gordy. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music by achieving a crossover success.

Top artists on the Motown label during that period included Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Jackson 5, while Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes.

Where was it founded ?


DETROIT – the World's Traditional Automotive Center.

4.Why the change ?

1991–2004

2004–2008


Saddam Hussein's Rule Ended

5.In Dutch, its official name is Grote Beer, but

often called Steelpannetje , because of its resemblance to the utensil.

In both Ireland and the United Kingdom, it is known as the Plough.

In German it is called Großer Wagen (Great Cart).

In Indonesia, it is known as Bintang Biduk ; biduk refers to a small ship or canoe used to transport objects.

What is being talked about ?


Big Dipper

6.Identify the highlighted region which also

shares its name with the name of a colour and a wine.


Burgundy

7.Chandragupta is said to have died here in

298 BC after he became a monk and assumed an ascetic life style.

This city has two hills – Chandragiri and Vindhyagiri. Chandragiri hill has the Chandragupta basadi – one of the smaller basadis (shrines) in the area.

What is on the Vindhyagiri hill ?


Gomateswara at Sravanabelagola(World's largest monolithic stone statue)

8.


Sriharikota

9.William I, Prince of ________ also widely

known as William the Silent or more commonly known as William of _________ was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the Dutch Republic.

What was his greatest contribution (other than the independence) to The Netherlands – which also fills the above blanks.


ORANGE(Netherland’s Favorite Color)

10.Djenné is a town and an urban commune in the

Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali. It was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988.

The town is famous for its distinctive adobe architecture, most notably the Great Mosque which was built in 1907 on the site of an earlier mosque.

Why is the Great Mosque included in the Guinness Book of World Records ?

Image on the next slide :


World’s Largest MUD structure

Audience Question

Located at the Yas island, Abu Dhabi,UAE; it is the largest indoor amusement park in the world.

It is also home to the world’s fastest roller coaster – Formula Rossa with a top speed of 240 km/h.

What is its name ?

Image on next slide :

Ferrari World

Round : Theme

Guess the Theme as earlier as possibleIndividual answers have +10 for right

answer with NO negatives for wrong answers

Points for the Theme are mentioned in each slide at the top right corner

Individual Answer limit is ONETheme Answer limit is one per slide

1.

Capital : LusakaCurrency : Kwacha

+60/-30


Zambia

2.

Capital : BanjulCurrency : Dalasi

+50/-25


Gambia

3.

Capital : AmmanCurrency : Dinar

+40/-20


Jordan

4.

Capital : MontevideoCurrency : Peso

+30/-15


Uruguay

5.

Capital : AbujaCurrency : Naira

+20/-10


Nigeria

6.

Capital : New DelhiCurrency : Rupee

+10/0


Off course… India

All Countries named after Rivers :

Zambia : Zambezi RiverGambia : Gambia RiverJordan : Jordan RiverUruguay : Uruguay RiverNigeria : Niger RiverIndia : Indus River

Audience Question

A ticker tape parade is a parade to honour individuals by throwing large amount of shredded papers, confetti, ribbons into the parading group.

Many occasions like Lindbergh’s first Trans-Atlantic flight and the first Moon landing have been celebrated this way.

What was the occasion during the first ticker tape parade ?

Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty

Round : Anti-Clockwise

1.Luke Howard, FRS was a British

manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science.

His lasting contribution to science is the nomenclature system for __________.


Clouds

2.It is an unincorporated territory of US located

in the Caribbean. It has been discussed as a potential 51st state of the United States.

In 2004, it became the first team to defeat the US in an Olympic tournament since the integration of NBA players.

It is one of the vertex of the Bermuda Triangle.

Name this territory.



Puerto Rico

3.It is a triangular peninsula which works as a

land-bridge between the continents of Africa and Asia.

It was occupied by Israel during the Suez crisis in 1956. But in 1982, after the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979, Israel withdrew from it entirely.

It is also home to Mt. Sinai where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.

What it is called ?

Image in next slide :


Sinai Peninsula

4.In 1896 the reference book : The

International Cloud Atlas was published following the International Meteorology Conference held in Paris where the standard for the classification for clouds was finalised.

What common phrase traces its origin back to the number given to the Cumulonimbus cloud in this earlier classification of clouds ?


Cloud Nine

5.What is blanked out ?


IDITAROD

6.The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a

projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions.

Who developed this projection – who is known for works in the field of architecture ?



Buckminster Fuller

7.It is the only country in Africa founded by

United States colonization while occupied by native Africans.

Its capital city Monrovia is named after James Monroe, and remains the only capital outside US to be named after a US president.

Its current president is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2011.

Which country ?


Liberia

8.Its film industry Nollywood, churns out

about 50 full-length features a week, making it the world's second most prolific film industry after India's Bollywood.

Its team have also won the Men’s football gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics beating Argentina.

Which country is being talked about ?


Nigeria

9.Almost all of the countries of Africa were at

some point the colonies of a European power in the 19th century.

Only Liberia and Ethiopia were free in 1914 – remaining Africa was colonised.

Whose colony was the Congo region ?


Belgium

10.News of an important event which occurred

on 29th May arrived in UK 3 days later due to lack of appropriate technology at that time.

The news of this event arrived on the morning of 2nd June which was also the day of coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Hence the event was termed as the coronation gift to the Queen. What event ?


Edmund Hillary and Tenzin Norgay’s climb to the Summit of Mt. Everest.

Audience Question

BeninBoliviaChileRepublic of ChinaCôte d'IvoireGeorgiaHonduras

MontenegroMalaysiaPalauSouth AfricaSri Lanka SwazilandTanzania

Connect :

Round : Toponyms

+ 10 for right answerNO negatives

1.


China(originally chinaware, as in “wares from China”)

2.


Mexico(from Chihuahua - state of Mexico)

3.


Thailand (Siamese Twins)

4.


Iceland (from Geysir in Iceland)

5.


Turkey

6.


France(from French serge de Nîmes, or "serge of Nîmes", where the cloth originated)

7.


Czech Republic(originally from the German taler, an abbreviation of Joachimstaler ("gulden of Joachimstal"), a coin minted from silver mined near Joachimsthal, Czech Republic)

8.


Panama(from Panama in Central America, where it was first sold)

9.


UK(from Rugby School, in Rugby, Warwickshire, central England)

10.


Greece(from Marathon, a Greek town)

11.


USA(after Tuxedo Park, New York)

12.


UK(from after Badminton in Gloucestershire, England)

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Geography Quiz Mains 2014 NIT Jalandhar