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“Around the World in 40 Questions: A General Knowledge Adventure”. This post has 60 short questions and answers on each topic. Which will help you in various competitive exams. And increase your general knowledge.
1) Question: Which country is both a continent and a country?
Answer: Australia
2) Question: Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?
Answer: Japan
3) Question: What is the driest place on Earth?
Answer: Atacama Desert
4) Question: What is the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
5) Question: Which is the largest and deepest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
6) Question: What is the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
7) Question: What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?
Answer: Lake Baikal
8) Question: Which country has the most time zones?
Answer: France (due to overseas territories)
9) Question: Which city is known as the City of Canals?
Answer: Venice
10) Question: Which country in Africa has the largest population?
Answer: Nigeria
11) Question: What is the deepest point in the world’s oceans?
Answer: Mariana Trench
12) Question: What river flows through Paris?
Answer: Seine River
13) Question: What is the largest lake in Africa?
Answer: Lake Victoria
14) Question: Which river is known as the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile River
15) Question: Which continent is the largest in terms of land area?
Answer: Asia
16) Question: What is the name of the deepest trench in the world’s oceans?
Answer: Mariana Trench
17) Question: Which state in the United States has the most active volcanoes?
Answer: Alaska
18) Question: What is the name of the largest desert in the world?
Answer: Sahara Desert
19) Question: Which natural wonder is known as the largest coral reef system in the world?
Answer: Great Barrier Reef
20) Question: Which sea is the saltiest in the world?
Answer: The Dead Sea
21) Question: What is the name of the line that divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
Answer: The equator
22) Question: Which European capital city is built on 14 islands?
Answer: Stockholm, Sweden
23) Question: Which country has the largest island in the Caribbean?
Answer: Cuba
24) Question: What is the name of the only country that has coastlines on both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Question: Saudi Arabia
25) Question: What is the longest mountain range in the world?
Answer: Andes
26) Question: Which country has the most glaciers outside the Polar Regions?
Answer: Canada
27) Question: What is the name of the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
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28) Question: Which lake in Africa is the second largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area?
Answer: Lake Victoria
29) Question: What is the name of the hot, dry wind that originates from the Sahara and affects the Mediterranean region?
Answer: Sirocco
30) Question: What river forms the border between the United States and Mexico?
Answer: Rio Grande
31) Question: What is the highest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls
32) Question: In which country is the natural rock formation known as Uluru or Ayers Rock found?
Answer: Australia
33) Question: What is the main gas found in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen
34) Question: What is the name of the largest peninsula in the world?
Answer: Arabian Peninsula
35) Question: Which canyon is considered the deepest in the world?
Answer: Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
36) Question: What phenomenon causes the northern and southern lights?
Answer: The aurora borealis in the north and the aurora australis in the south are caused by the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth’s magnetic field.
37) Question: Which is the smallest independent country in the world in terms of area and population?
Answer: Vatican City.
38) Question: Which is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean​
39) Question: Who was the first Indian woman to win the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Mother Teresa
40) Question: What is the capital of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo