GK Quiz 12th September 2016 (English)
By: DK Choudhary
Q 1. The longest river of Europe is ?
(a) Rhine (b) Rhone
(c) Danube (d) Volga
Ans. (d)
Q 2. What percentage of world’s freshwater is stored as glacial ice ?
(a) 50% (b) 10%
(c) 70% (d) 30
Ans. (c)
Q 3. Which of the following rivers crosses the equator two times ?
(a) Cango River (b) Amazone River
(c) Niger River (d) Nile River
Ans. (a)
Q 4. Sunda Trench is in ?
(a) Indian Ocean (b) Pacific Ocean
(c) Atlantic Ocean (d) Arctic Ocean
Ans. (a)
Q 5. The challenger rise is located in ?
(a) The Pacific ocean (b) The Indian ocean
(c) The Arctic ocean (d) The Atlantic ocean
Ans. (d)
Q 6. Which of the following oceans does not have a north south submarine ridge ?
(a) Indian ocean (b) Atlantic ocean
(c) Arctic ocean (d) Pacific ocean
Ans. (d)
Q 7. An Atoll is ?
(a) a ring shaped islands with a lagoon at the centre
(b) a lake in glaciated mountains
(c) a lake in the craters
(d) a lagoon along the shores
Ans. (a)
Q 8. The ‘Water table’ refers to ?
(a) The lower limit of the zone of saturation
(b) The upper limit of the zone of saturation
(c) The contact zone of permeable and impermeable rocks
(d) Seepage of water into fissures lying below the earth’s surface
Ans. (b)
Q 9. Which is the smallest among the following water bodies ?
(a) Arctic Sea (b) Hudson Sea
(c) Japan Sea (d) Okhotsk Sea
Ans. (c)
Q 10. The largest reserves of fresh water on the Earth’s surface in ?
(a) North America (b) South America
(c) Russia (d) Africa
Ans. (a)
