ORISSA CHALLENGE QUIZ

WORLD SECTION

1) When was United Nations Organization (UNO) formed?

2) Which county has won maximum Olympic gold medals in Field Hockey?

(A) Australia (B) Germany (C) Pakistan (D) India (E) Netherlands

3) Where will you find llamas as domesticated animals?

(A) Himalaya (B) Alps (C) Andes (4) Kilimanjaro

4) Maori people are native inhabitants of which country?

(A) New Zealand (B) Papua New Guinea (C) Australia (D) Indonesia

5) The Tropic of Capricorn passes though which country?

(A) Taiwan (B) Egypt (C) Mexico (D) Argentina (E) Brazil

6) Who wrote the fantasy series, “The Lord of the Rings”?

(A) J. R. R.Tolkien (B) J. K. Rowling (c) George Lucas (D). Mark Twin

7) “Three Gorges Dam” is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam; it belongs to which of the follwoing countries?

(A) Canada (B) USA (C) Brazil (D) China

8) Name the capital city for Germany?

(A) Berlin (B) Berne (C) Bonn (D) Frankfort

9) Which writer created the famous spy, “Sherlock Homes”?

(A) Arthur Conan Doyle (B) George Bernard Shaw (C) Agatha Christie (D) Shakespeare

10) Where is Gulf of Mannar?

(A) Singapore (B) Japan (C) Srilanka (D) Turkey

11) Kalahari Desert is located in which country?

(A) Chad (B) Sudan (C) Central African republic (D) Namibia

12) Which of the states is NOT a part of the ‘Prairie’s”

(A) Idaho (B) Kansas (C) Montana (D) Iowa (E) Nebraska

13) The Mesopotamia civilization was mostly located in the following country?

(A) Iran (B) Egypt (C) Iraq (D) Greece

14) Alfred Nobel instituted Nobel Prize. What was his discovery?

(A) TNT (explosive) (B) Dynamite (explosive)(C) DDT (insecticide) (D) Gold (precious metal)

15) Which of these rivers in USA drains to the Pacific Ocean

(A) James River (B) St. Lawrence River (C) Snake River (D) Red River

16) ‘Machu Picchu’ , the center of Inca civilization is situated in:

(A) Ecuador (B) Bolivia (C) Mexico (D) Peru

17) Where will a tennis ball bounce higher

(A) The moon (B) Earth (C) Mars (D) Venus

18) Which US president served for a longest period?

(A) Franklin Roosevelt (B) William Jefferson (C) Bill Clinton (D) Ronald Reagan

19) Who discovered the ‘Universal Law of the Gravitation’?

(A) Einstein (B) Darwin (C) Newton (D) Ptolemy (E) Max Plank

20) Who was considered as the first European to land in the North America.?

(A) Spanish (B) British (C) Vikings (D) Portuguese

21) Who discovered the cause of malaria in India?

(A) Louis Pasteur (B) Ronald Ross (C) Edward Jenner (D) Alexander Fleming

22) Which is the biggest natural satellite (or moon) in the solar system?

(A) Triton (B) Ganemyde (C) Europa (D) Titan (E) Callisto

23) At which temperature do both the Centigrade and Fahrenheit show the same reading?

(A) -40⁰ (B) -33⁰ (C) -37⁰ (D) -24⁰

24) Which metal is also known as quick silver?

(A) Aluminum (B) Mercury (C) Chromium (D) Nickel

25) Name the highest waterfalls in the world?

(A) Salto Angles Fall (B) Tugela Falls (C) Yosemite Falls (D) Monge Fall

26) The country known as the Land of White Elephant is?

(A) Burma (B) Cambodia (C) Thailand (D) Vietnam

27) Which was the first university established in the world?.

(A) Oxford (B) Cambridge (C) Harvard (D) Nalanda

28) Name the river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea.

(A) Amazon (B) Nile (C) Mississippi (D) Hwang-He

29) Who is the sculptor for the “Statue of Liberty "?

(A) Sylvia Shaw Johnson (B) Frederick Bartholdi (C) Michael Angelo (D) Auguste Rodin

30) The first explorer to reach the South Pole was?
(A) Mathew Henson (B) Frederick Cook (C) Amundsen (D) Admiral Peary

ANSWER KEYS

1. C ; 2. D ; 3. C; 4. A; 5. D; 6. A; 7. D; 8. A; 9. A; 10. C; 11. D; 12.A; 13. C; 14. B 15. C 16. D; 17.A; 18. A; 19. C; 20. C; 21. B; 22. D; 23. A 24. B;

25. A; 26.C; 27.D; 28.A; 29. B; 30.C