GK Flashcards
Largest river
Amazon
Longest river
Nile
River that crosses north and south equator
Congo
Largest river of asia
Yangtze
Rome is on the banks of
Paris is on the banks of
London is on the banks of
Agra is on the banks of
Tiber
Seine
Thames
Jumna (Yumna)
Largest sea
South China Sea
Smallest sea
Baltic Sea
Shallowest Sea
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Deepest point on earth
Mariana Trench in Caribbean Sea of Pacific Ocean
Suez canal connects
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Panama canal connects
Pacific ocean with Atlantic ocean
Oldest Barrage of Pakistan
Sukkur Barrage
Longest Canal of Pakistan
Lloyd Canal
Longest shipping canal in world
Beloye-More canal
Highest dam in the world
Rogun dam
Nurek, in some sources
Longest mountain range
Andes, South America
Youngest Mountain range
Himalayas
Also 2nd longest range
Asia and Europe are separated by
Ural Mountains
Highest Plateau in the world
i.e. roof of the world
Pamir Plateau (Tibet)
Highest mountain
Mount Everest of Himalaya
8848m (29028ft)
Second highest mountain
K2 (Godwin-Austin)
8611m
The killer mountain
Nanga Parbat
How many of the eight thousand peakers are in Pakistan
There are 14 in total
5
Highest peak of Kirthar Ranges
Zardak
Mount Olympus is in
Greece
Largest Lake
Caspian Sea Lake
Largest freshwater lake
Superior lake, North America
Deepest Lake
Baikal Lake
Highest Lake
Lake Titicaca, South America
Highest waterfall
Angels
3281ft
Saltiest Lake
Assal lake
Which country has no lakes
Australia
Largest gulf
Gulf of Mexico
Largest Bay
Hudson Bay
World’s driest place
Attacome (Chile)
Largest desert
Sahara, North Africa
Second largest desert
Arabian desert
Thar desert is of which type
Subtropical
Friendly desert
Thar
Types of deserts
4
Death Valley is in
California
Highest mountain pass
Bodpola
Tibet (China)
Longest glacier
Lambert, Antartica
Continent without glaciers
Africa
Length of Khyber Pass
56 km
Connects the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; separates Arabia and Africa
Bab ul Mandab Strait
Strait of Bosporous connects
Black Sea and Sea of Marmara
Strait of Malacca (longest strait) separates
Malaysia and Indonesia
Strait of Gibraltar separates
Spain from Africa
Strait of Dardanelles connects
Sea of Marmara and Aegean Sea
English Channel separates
England from France
They are connected by Dover strait
Strait between Atlantic and Pacific
Magellan
Largest Peninsula
Arabia
Largest Island
Greenland (Kalaalit Nunaat)
Largest Island in Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Cuba is an island of
Caribbean Sea
Largest Archipelago
Indonesia
How many countries in the world have no seaports (landlocked)
44
11 in Asia
Planets after Sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Mercury
Smallest and fastest planet
Brightest, hottest, closest to earth planet
Venus (earth’s near twin planet)
Largest planet, largest number of satellites and smallest day
Jupiter
Least dense planet
Saturn
Sun consists mostly of
Hydrogen
Biggest star in our galaxy
Proxima Centauri
A comet has a
Tail always pointing away from the sun
Solar eclipse is when
Moon passes between the sun and the earth
Lunar eclipse is when
Earth passes exactly between the moon and the sun
Cosmic year is
Period of one revolution of sun around the centre of galaxy
Shape of our milkyway galaxy
Spiral
Which planets have no moon
Mercury and Venus
Brightest visible star
Sirus
Which planet contains great red spot
Jupiter
Earth’s natural satellite
Moon
Earth revolves around the sun at the speed of
29 km/sec
Who first measured the distance round the earth
Eratosthenes
Circumference of Earth: 40K km
Earth revolves and rotates from
West to East
Horn of Africa
Somalia
Land of rising Sun
Japan
Land of white elephant
Thailand
Forbidden city
Lhasa, Tibet
Gibraltar is known as
Key to Mediterranean
City of seven hills
Rome
Sick man of Europe
Turkey
Land of midnight sun
Norway
Land of thousand elephants
Laos
Land of thunderbolt
Bhutan
City of golden gate
San Francisco
Land of mighty rivers
Nigeria
Land of lilies
Canada
City of seas
Sydney
Land of thousand lakes
Finland
Gift of Nile
Egypt
City of Mosques
Dhaka
Sorrow of China
River Hwang Ho (Yellow River)
City of Flowers
Peshawar
Manchester of Pakistan
Faisalabad
City of peace and Arabian nights
Baghdad
The modern Babylon
London
City of colleges
Lahor
Land of free people
Thailand
City if conferences
Geneva
Little Pakistan
Bradford
Lion City
Singapore
New name: Rhodesia
Old name: Zimbabwe
New name: Northern Rhodesia
Old Name: Zambia
New name: Indonesia
Old name: Batavia
New name: Colombo
Old name: Lykomoma
New name: Oslo
Old name: Christina
Congo
Zaire
Kalaolit Nunaat
Greenland
Taiwan
Formoso
Ghana
Gold Coast
Japan
Nippon
Beijing
Peking
Ho Chi Minh
Saigon
Harare
Salisbury
Thailand
Siam
Switzerland
Helvetia
World’s oldest religion
Hinduism
Moses was born in
Egypt
Jesus Christ was born in
Jerusalem
Boundaries
….
Germany and Poland
Oder-neisse & Hindenberg
Germany and France
Maginot & Siegfrid
Poland and Russia
Curzon
Finland and Russia
Mannerheim
US and Canada
49th Parallel
South and North Korea
38th Parallel
South and North Vietnam
17th Parallel
Peru and Brazil
Jack Merison
Turkey and Cyprus
Green Line
India and China
McMahon
Israel and Neighbors
Armistice line
Azad and Occupied Kashmir
Control Line
Plimsoll line
A limit a ship can be loaded
Parliament
Country
Riksdag
Sweden
Shora
Afghanistan
Jatiya Sangshad
Bangladesh
National People’s Congress
China
Majlis
Iran
Diet
Japan
National Panchayat
Nepal
Dewan Rakyat
Malaysia
Althing (World’s oldest parliament)
Iceland
Grand National Assembly
Turkey
Knesset
Israel
Storting
Norway
Majlis i Shura
Pakistan
Advisory Council
Qatar
Sejm
Poland
Doma
Russia
Mother of all parliaments
The British Parliament
Bundesrat
Germany
SANA is the news agency of
Syria
WAFA is the news agency of
Palestine
MENA is the news agency of
Egypt
Anatolia is the news agency of
Turkey
Petra is the news agency of
Jordan
Intelligence Agencies
Countries
AMAN, MOSSAD, LEKEM
Israel
MI5 and MI6
Britain
RAW (1968)
India
KGB, FSB, FAPSI
Russia
NDA, KHAD
Afghanistan
MIT
Turkey
SSS
Iraq
MAD and BNP
Germany
BIN
Indonesia
MOIS and Saavak
Iran
FIA(1974), ISI(1948), NAB(1999), IB(1947)
Pakistan
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is the old name of
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Nobel Prize was instituted in
- It is distributed in Sweden
Nobel Peace Prize is distributed in
Norway
Nobel Prize was not awarded in
1940-42
Who was the first Asian to win Nobel Prize
R. N. Tagore in 1913
Nobel Prize in economics was started in
1969
Which country has the largest area
Russia
Which country has the smallest area
Vatican City
World’s longest road
Pan-Am Highway
Longest railway line
Trans-Siberian Railway
Largest irrigation canal
Indira Gandhi canal
Highest capital in the world
La Paz, Bolivia
What is Big Ben
A huge clock on the tower of the British Parliament
Largest airport
King Abdul Aziz Airport
World’s biggest oil refinery
Abadan, Iran
Which country has the longest coastline
Canada
Largest city in the world
Kiruna (Sweden)
Coldest place in the world
Vostok (Antartica)
Smallest matter discovered by the scientists
Quark
Largest delta of the world
Sundarbands, Bangladesh
Fastest animal
Cheetah
Largest Muslim populous country
Lowest Muslim populous country
Indonesia
Maldives
Area wise largest Muslim country
Kazakhstan
Who was the first man to to make space flight
Yuri Gagarin in 1961
World’s largest dam
Three Gorges Dam
First woman to travel into space
Valentina Tereshkova
Most densely populated country
Monaco
First person to reach South Pole
Ronald Amundson in 1911
First person to reach North Pole
Robert Peary in 1911
First person to climb Everest
Edmund Hillary in 1953
Neil Armstrong set foot on moon in
1969
First woman to climb Everest
Junko Taibei
First man to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Forgot PM of England
Sir Robert Walpole
First lady Prime Minister in the world
Srimavo Bhandarnaike
First Lady President in the world
Maria Estate Pew, Argentina
Oldest town
Jericho (formerly called Ariha)
Which country has the shortest coastline
Monaco
Largest hockey stadium in the world
National Hockey Stadium Lahore
Also called Gaddafi Stadium
World’s largest and highest glacier
Siachen
First tourist in space
Dennis Tito
First Muslim women president of UNGA
Haya Rashid Al Khalifa, Bahrain
Longest frontier
US-Canada
Oldest flag in the world
Denmark
Oldest anthem in the world
Japan. In some sources it says the Netherlands.
Which country has the largest army
China
Who invented mobile phones
Martin Cooper
International women’s day is on
March 8
Aviary
Is a place where birds are kept
First muslim to win Nobel Prize
Anwar Saadat
PM of UK at the time of our independence
Attlee
Agencies….
Their HQs….
ILO
Geneva
WHO
Geneva
WMO
Geneva
WTO
Geneva
UNHCR
Geneva
WEF
Geneva
Red Cross
Geneva
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Zurich, Switzerland
WWF
Gland, Switzerland
UNICEF
New York
ICJ
Hague, the Netherlands.
Hague is not the capital of the Netherlands.
UNDP
New York
IMF
Washington
OPEC
Vienna
World Bank
Washington
UNWTO of Tourism
Madrid
IMO
London
Amnesty International
London
Interpol
Lyon, France
OIC
Jeddah
GCC
Riyadh
Arab League (AL)
Cairo
NATO
Brussels
ICC
Dubai
SAARC
Khatmandu
ECO
Secretariat: Iran
Economic Bureau: Turkey
SCO
Beijing
ASEAN
Jakarta
Asian Development Bank
Manila, Philippines
First SG of UN
Trygve Lie from Norway
Current SG of UN
Antonio Guterres from Portugal
He is the 9th SG of UN
IAEA
Vienna
FAO
Rome
UNESCO
Paris
Upcoming Olympic Games
Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
2018 Nobel Peace Prize
Nadia Murad (Iraq) Denis Mukwege (Congo)
2018 Nobel Physics
Arthur Ashkin (United States) Gérard Mourou (France ) Donna Strickland (Canada)
2018 Nobel Chemistry
Frances H. Arnold (United States)
George P. Smith (United States)
Greg Winter (England)
2018 Nobel Physiology
James P. Allison (United States) Tasuku Honjo (Japan)
2018 Nobel Literature
None; postponed
2018 Nobel Economics
William Nordhaus (United States) Paul Romer (United States)
Who won FIFA 2018 cup
France
ICC world cup 2015 was won by
Australia
In terms of Area and Population, which is the largest continent
Asia
World’s oldest democracy
Greece
Tallest tree in the world
Redwood
