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Question 111. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched?
  1.    Sana’a – Yemun
  2.    Ulan Bator - Mongolia
  3.    Amman - Jordon
  4.    Bishkek - Tajikistan
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Bishkek - Tajikistan
Answer: (d)
Question 112. Which one of the following countries does not share border with Caspian Sea?
  1.    Turkmenistan
  2.    Kazakhstan
  3.    Armenia
  4.    Azerbaijan
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Armenia
Answer: (c)
Question 113. Other than India and China, which one of the following groups of countries border with Myanmar?
  1.    Thailand, Laos and Bangladesh
  2.    Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia
  3.    Bangladesh, Thailand and Vietnam
  4.    Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Thailand, Laos and Bangladesh
Answer: (a)
Question 114. Which one of the following countries is known as the “Land of Thunderbolt?
  1.    Bolivia
  2.    Bhutan
  3.    Belgium
  4.    Nepal
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Bhutan
Answer: (b)Bhutan is a country located up in the mountain ranges and thus, experiences thunderbolts on a regular basis. Thunder and lightning are frequent there in the mountains.
Question 115. Which country is known as the ‘Land of Thousand Lakes’?
  1.    Ireland
  2.    Canada
  3.    Norway
  4.    Finland
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Finland
Answer: (d)
Finland is called ‘’the land of a thousand lakes,’’ but at last count, there were 187,888 of them - more lakes in relation to a country’s size than any other. Indeed, with a population of about five million, Finland has one lake for every 26 people.
Most of the lakes are in a region that stretches from above Kuopio in the north to Lahti in the south, and from Tampere in the west to Punkaharju and the Russian border in the east. Its largest lake, Saimaa, is the fourth largest in Europe.
The area with the most lakes is called Finnish Lakeland.
Question 116. The equator passes through
  1.    Venezuela
  2.    Kenya
  3.    Cameroon
  4.    Costa Rica
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Kenya
Answer: (b)The Equator passes through Kenya.
Question 117. The Trans-Siberian Railway (8960 km) connects _______ in the West to ______ in the East.
  1.    St. Petersburg, Vladivostok
  2.    Moscow, Irkutsk
  3.    Moscow, Tashkent
  4.    St. Petersburg, Omsk
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Moscow, Irkutsk
Answer: (b)
Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.
It is the longest railway in the world. There are branch lines to China through Mongolia and Manchuria, with service continuing to North Korea. It was built between 1891 and 1916 to connect Moscow with the Far-East city of Vladivostok. En route, it passes through the cities of Perm, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chita and Khabarovsk.
The main route of the Trans-Siberian originates in Moscow at Yaroslavsky Vokzal, runs through Yaroslavl, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita and Khabarovsk to Vladivostok via southern Siberia and was built from 1891 to 1916 under the supervision of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar Nicholas II.
Question 118. Which of the following is not an Arab country?
  1.    Lebanon
  2.    Jordan
  3.    Israel
  4.    Syria
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Israel
Answer: (c)
The Arab world consists of the Arabic-speaking states and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere which comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast.
Israel is a non-Arab country that has been embroiled in conflicts with these nations since the 1950s.
Question 119. Congo is situated in
  1.    North America
  2.    Europe
  3.    Africa
  4.    Asia
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Africa
Answer: (c)
Question 120. Assertion(A) :
Mercator’s projection has been used for making navigational charts.
Reason (R) :
Loxodromes are shown as straight lines on this.
  1.    A is false but R is true
  2.    A is true but R is false
  3.    Both A and R are true and R Explains A
  4.    Both A and R are true but R does not explain A
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Both A and R are true and R Explains A
Answer: (c)
Mercator’s projection is used for marine navigation due to the fact that it shows loxodromes as straight lines.

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