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1. Which of the following is the official language in Argentina?




2. Which of the following countries is not a part of Melanesia region in the pacific ocean?




3. In which city International Statistical Education Center is situated?




4. What was the name of the Lunar Module in which, on July 20, in 1969, Neil Armstrong, Commander of Apollo 11 Mission and Edwin Aldrin Jr., Commander of this module, became the first cosmonauts to land on the moon?




5. Which among the following countries have Vikram Samvat as Official Calendar?




6. The world heritage site of “Terracotta Army” belongs to which of the following countries?




7. Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET) is located at?




8. Which among the following country owns the firsty permanent base in the area at Antarctica defined by the Antarctic Treaty System?




9. Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina ,Bulgaria ,Croatia ,Greece ,Macedonia etc. are known as Balkan Countries. The term Balkan derived from the following landforms?




10. Which of the following country has the official name of “Dhivehi Jumhuriya” in its local language?




11. Which country was earlier known as Formosa?




12. What is the approximate height of a Geostationary satellite ?




13. What is the name of the mountain range in central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together?




14. The southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States is world famous for which of the following?




15. Which of the following country is Europe’s largest Economy?




16. Which among the following is not a member of Gulf Cooperation Council ?




17. “Amausi Airport” is located in:




18. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. How many ASEAN Countries are members of APEC?




19. A piece of Ice was tied with a string to a water bucket’s bottom, and the water bucket was filled with water with ice fully submerged in it. What would be the impact on the level of water when the ice melts away completely?




20. Angela Dorothea Merkel is the head of which among the following countries?




21. Which among the following is/are results of Land degradation? 1. Decline in the productive capacity of the land 2. Soil acidification 3. Soil alkalinisation 4. Soil salination Select the correct option from the codes given below:




22. Maximum share in earth’s mass and volume is shared by ___?




23. Studying the ultraviolet images of galaxies is not possible from a telescope on earth. Why?




24. Which of following is the primary photosynthetic pigment?




25. Which of the following is the bank of tubes at the back of domestic refrigerator?




26. Who among the following invented the vacuum pump?




27. Who among the following developed the theory of relativity?




28. Which of the following situations arises when a man circles round the earth in a satellite?




29. Which of the following is the world’s largest archipelago country?




30. Which is the largest island of Antarctica?




31. Which is the fastest moving glacier in Kyrgyzstan?




32. Which of the following canyon is found in Kazakhstan?




33. Which is the deepest river in the world?




34. If the orbit of a planet is an ellipse, then what is the point at which the Sun is located called?




35. Which among the following atoll is located near the coast of Maharashtra?




36. Which is the biggest island in the Indian Ocean?




37. Which gulf is the world’s largest estuary?




38. Ninety Mile Beach is located in which country?




39. The Isthmus of Chignecto is located in which continent?




40. Which is the deepest canyon in the world?




41. Which ancient astronomer made the first attempt to create a heliocentric model of universe?




42. Heavier stars than the sun collapse inwards after becoming a red giant and then violently explode outwards. Which term is explained above?




43. Which among the following are inner planets?




44. Which among the following is not a characteristic of Primary waves?




45. What are the lines drawn on the maps joining places experiencing an earthquake at the same time called?




46. Which among the following is not a characteristic feature of Chemical Weathering?




47. What is decomposition of a chemical compound by reaction with water called?




48. What is a type of a landslide in which slipping of several units of rock debris occurs with a backward rotation with respect to the slope over which the movement takes place?




49. Which among the following is not a type of slow periglacial solifluction?




50. Which among the following is a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance?