Geography of India Quiz

Commemoration of 75 years of Independence

Questions prepared by

• Perumalla Devi Vijaya Kumar
• Ayush Prasad

Question 1

X is a river which flows through West Bengal and Jharkhand. It is called as the “Sorrow of Bengal”. The reason for it being called that would be quite obvious.

A corporation Y was established to control the flow of the river. Today, it also operates thermal power plants along with hydel power plants in the region.

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ID X and Y.

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Answer

X- Damodar River

Y - Damodar Valley Corporation

Question 2

X is a freshwater lake which is formed due to tectonic activity, fed by a river Y and its area varies from 30 to 189 sqkm according to season. It is India’s largest and Asia’s 2nd largest freshwater lake.

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What are X and Y?

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Answer

X - Wular lake

Y - Jhelum river

Question 3

• The next bloom of this shrub is due in the year 2030 after the previous one in 2018.
• This shrub is found in shola forests at altitudes of 1300 to 2400 metres.
• A visual feature of this bloom inspires the name of a hill range X in peninsular India.

ID X

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X - Nilgiri Hills

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The Kurinji shrubs found in these hills have Blue flowers and because of these flowers, the hills appear blue. Hence they are named Nilgiri which literally translates to Blue hill in tamil.

Question 4

Mirzapur, Korba, Rampur, Handi

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What happens at 12 noon at these places? Why?

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The sun is at its highest point.

Why? - The standard meridian passes through them

Question 5

What does the yellow colour on this milestone signify?

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The yellow and white colour pattern on the milestone indicates that it is a National Highway.

Question 6

X is an artificial port which handles about 55% of India’s containerized cargo and is the largest container port in India. It is also the largest artificial port in India followed by Chennai. What is the name of X?

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X - Jawaharlal Nehru Port ( Also known as Nhava Sheva port )

Question 7

How do you arrive at the following list?

Gujarat, Tripura, Rajasthan, West Bengal, MP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Mizoram

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Ans 7. The tropic of Cancer

Question 8

• Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was a piece of land used for farming. It was owned by a Bangladeshi farmer who lived in the village of Upanchowki Bhajni.

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• In 2015, India and ratified the _______ _______ agreement. Before this event, the land was the only example of what?

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Ans 8. World’s only 3rd order enclave

Question 9

Thar desert is not a place where you would expect to find Malaria epidemics. You would not expect mosquitoes to breed in the dry and arid conditions. Still, there were two of them in 1990 and 1994.

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Why?

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Ans 9. Canals in Thar desert

Question 10

• X is the largest shallow freshwater lake in Asia. It lies between the deltas of two major rivers flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
• Categorised as wildlife sanctuary under the Wildlife Protection Act, the lake is a habitat for around 20 million migratory and resident birds.
• However, the biodiversity has been in threat due to encroachments on the lake for aquaculture and agriculture.

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ID X.

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Ans 10. Kolleru Lake

Question 11

Cyclone Yaas made landfall in India in May of 2021. Before the storm reached there, inhabitants of North 24 Parganas and parts of Hooghly district of West Bengal could not believe their eyes as they witnessed a rare weather event.

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What did they see?

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Ans 11. Tornado

Question 12

Chandipur is a town close to Balasore in Odisha. People say, you can walk on water at this beach.

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What is the funda?

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Ans 12.

Shallow beach.

The shore retreats by a much as 5 km at low tide.

Thats All!

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