Geography Quiz Prelims 2014 NIT Jalandhar

Welcome
To The
Geography
Quiz by
QM – Sujit J Patil

1*.
 What does this green line represent ?

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.
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3*.
 TheTakbīr 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 useTheTakbir in their
national flags : If two of them are Afghanistan and
Iraq, which is the third one ?
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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 ________.

5.
 goo.gl is the official url shortener from Google.Which
place has the domain - .gl ?

6.
 World’s tallest flagpole at Dushanbe.Whose flag is
this ?

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 nicknameThe 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.

8.
 Fill the blanks (both):
 ________ _________
has been defined as a
pictorial key to the
nomenclature of clouds.

9.
 It is a small village, south of Birmingham, England. It
was developed as a model village by GeorgeCadbury
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 ?

10.
 Assume that you are in a city which boasts of having
the Dutch Parliament, the Supreme Court ofThe
Netherlands, and the Council of State of the
Netherlands.
 Then which city is this ?

11.
 What famous landmark is shown in this corporate
logo ?

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
theAmerican RevolutionaryWar.
 This is also the capital of Sierra Leone.

13*.
 Where one can find this ?

 CapeAgulhas –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 ofWestern
Sahara.
 This lead to the withdrawal of another country from
theAfrican 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 ?

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
QueenVictoria during a visit for a concert.
 What is X ?
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17*.
 What is the surname of the author of the lyrics of the
Pakistani national anthem – QaumiTaranah?

 A – Nagasaki
 B – 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.
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20.
 Identify the phenomenon.

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