GENERAL KNOWLEDGE MCQS Set 5
1. Which of the following types of coal contains over 90 per cent carbon and is smokeless?
A. Peat
B. Lignite
C. Bituminous coal
D. Anthracite
2. Which country leads in the production of copper in the world?
A. Russia
B. USA
C. Australia
D. Chile
3. Which of the following countries leads in the production of aluminum and its products in the world?
A. USA
B. Pakistan
C. France
D. Australia
4. Which of the following countries consumes more fish than any other country in the world?
A. Japan
B. Great Britain
C. France
D. China
5. Which region of the earth’s surface receives the highest amount of insolation?
A. Tropical desert
B. Equatorial desert
C. Water bodies
D. Land masses
6. What percentage of insolation is received by the earth’s surface?
A. 46%
B. 51%
C. 64%
D. 67%
7. Which layer of the atmosphere reflects radio waves back to the earth’s surface?
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Ozone layer
D. Ionosphere
8. Which of the following metals is not only magnetic but also radioactive?
A. Thorium
B. Platinum
C. Iron
D. Aluminium
9. Which is the smallest continent of the world area-wise?
A. Europe
B. Australia
C. Asia
D. Antarctica
10. Which of the following countries is in the continent of Europe?
A. Venezuela
B. Libya
C. Algeria
D. Albania
11. Which amongst the following countries has the highest density of population per sq km?
A. Sri lanka
B. Paksitan
C. Burma
D. Bangladesh
12. The basin of which of the following countries is regarded as having the highest hydel power potential?
A. Nile
B. Mississippi
C. Congo
D. Amazon
13. The area of our Globe that lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is called?
A. Torrid zone
B. South Temperate
C. North Temperate
D. Frigid zone
14. When the sun shines vertically on the whole Arctic circle, it is vertical on the?
A. Tropic of Capricorn
B. Equator
C. Tropic of Cancer
D. None of these
15. The North Pole of the earth is turned away from the sun on?
A. 21st June
B. 21st March
C. 22nd December
D. 22nd September
16. The speed per minute at which earth revolves around the sun is?
A. 600 km
B. 1,200 km
C. 1,300 km
D. More than 1,600 km
17. Which of the following is concerned with the description and mapping of the main features of the universe?
A. Geomorphology
B. Cosmology
C. Cosmography
D. None of these
18. The Panama Canal links?
A. Siberia with Greenland
B. North America with South America
C. Canada with Greenland
D. None of these
19. What percentage of the earth’s total surface is covered by forests?
A. 15%
B. 24%
C. 25%
D. 30%
20. The low heating capacity of which of the types of coal reduces its value as an industrial fuel?
A. Peat
B. Lignite
C. Bituminous coal
D. Anthracite