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History and Geography

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. What is the current name of the country which was previously known as Upper Volta?

a)

Guinea Bissau

b)

Rwanda

c)

Burkina Faso

d)

Mozambique

2.

2. Who is the founder of Singapore?

a)

Abel Tasman

b)

James Cook

c)

Herman Willem Daendels

d)

Sir Stamford Raffles

3.

3. Which Famous battle was fought in 1066?

a)

Battle of Trafalgar

b)

Battle of Hastings

c)

Battle of Crécy

d)

Battle of Austerlitz

4.

4. In which island, Napoleon was born?

a)

Sicily

b)

Elba

c)

St Helena

d)

Corsica

5.

5. In which year, Czechoslovakia got split?

a)

1995

b)

1994

c)

1993

d)

1992

6.

6. What is the strait between the United Kingdom and France?

a)

English Channel

b)

Channel strait

c)

Strait Of Gibraltar

d)

Dover Strait

7.

7. To which country, The Galapagos Islands belongs to?

a)

Chile

b)

Ecuador

c)

Suriname

d)

Columbia

8.

8. What is the longest river in Russia?

a)

Ob river

b)

Volga river

c)

Lena River

d)

Irtysh River

9.

9. What is second the tallest dam in the world?

a)

Nurek Dam

b)

Jinping I Dam

c)

Hoover Dam

d)

Hirakud Dam

10.

10. What is the deepest river in the world?

a)

Congo River

b)

Amazon River

c)

Danube River

d)

Zambezi River

11.

11. What is the largest Chinese state by area?

a)

Tibet

b)

Xinjiang

c)

Inner Mongolia

d)

Qinghai

12.

12. Lake Baikal is the deepest freshwater lake in the world. In which Russian province, lake Baikal is situated?

a)

Siberia

b)

Bashkortostan

c)

Kabardino-Balkar

d)

Mordovia

13.

13. Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria by a British explorer. Who was the first European explorer to reach Lake Victoria. He named it as Lake Victoria when he discovered it.

a)

Richard Francis Burton

b)

Samuel Baker

c)

John Hanning Speke

d)

Henry Morton Stanley

14.

15. Who is the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?

a)

Ferdinand Magellan

b)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Bartolomeu Diaz

15.

14. Who is the first European to reach the Americas?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Ponce de Leon

16.

16. Which Iraqi king built the hanging gardens of Babylon?

a)

King Nebuchadnezzar I

b)

King Nebuchadnezzar II

c)

King Nabopolassar

d)

King Cyrus the Great

17.

17. Ganges River Delta is the largest river delta in the world. What is the second largest river delta in the world?

a)

Brahmaputra River Delta

b)

Okawango River Delta

c)

Mekong River Delta

d)

Nile River Delta

18.

18. In which year, the battle of Waterloo was fought? Napoleon Bonaparte got heavily defeated at Waterloo, due to his poor leadership ad the superior tactics of his main enemies, the Prussians and Anglo allies under the Duke of Wellington.

a)

1811

b)

1815

c)

1821

d)

1817

19.

19. In which year, did the French revolution begin?

a)

1789

b)

1793

c)

1794

d)

1798

20.

20. In which year, Tokyo was established as the capital of Japan, under the name Tokyo (before that the name was ‘Edo’)?

a)

1864

b)

1866

c)

1867

d)

1868

21.

22. How many Electoral districts are there in Sri Lanka

a)

25

b)

23

c)

24

d)

22

22.

22. Which city hosted the 1904 Summer Olympics?

a)

Paris, France

b)

London, England

c)

Los Angeles, USA

d)

St Louis, USA

23.

23. California is the state with the highest number of electoral colleges. How many electoral colleges are there in California?

a)

54

b)

53

c)

55

d)

52

24.

24. The Statue of Unity is a colossal statue of Indian statesman and independence activist Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. It is the tallest statue in the World. In which Indian state, the Statue of Unity is located?

a)

Gujarat

b)

Rajasthan

c)

Maharashtra

d)

Uttar Pradesh

25.

25. Tanzania is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. What is the capital of Tanzania?

a)

Zanzibar

b)

Dar es Salaam

c)

Dodoma

d)

Serengeti