Q. What is Esperanto?
(A) Highest mountain of Latin America
(B) Seaport city of Spain
(C) The name of a game
(D) An artificial language to serve as world language
Ans: (D)
Q. For which one of the following countries Spanish is not an official language?
(A) Chile
(B) Colombia
(C) Republic of Congo
(D) Cuba
Ans: (C)
Q. In which one of the following countries is Tamil a major language?
(A) Myanmar
(B) Indonesia
(C) Mauritius
(D) Singapore
Ans: (D)
Q. The language spoken by the largest number of people in the world is
(A) Hindi
(B) English
(C) Mandarin
(D) Spanish
Ans: (C)
Q. Given below is a map of America. The shaded (marked 1 and 2), dotted (marked 3) and the plain areas (marked 4) indicate respectively, the regions where the languages spoken are 1 2 3 4
(A) Spanish, French, Portuguese and others
(B) French, Spanish, Portuguese and others
(C) French, Portuguese, Spanish and English
(D) Portuguese, French, Spanish and others
Ans: (C)
Agriculture
Q. Which of the following countries has the largest area under rice cultivation?
(A) China
(B) India
(C) Japan
(D) Philippines
Ans: (B)
Q. The leading producer of both wheat and rice in the world is
(A) China
(B) India
(C) U.S.A.
(D) France
Ans: (A)
Q. The largest wheat producing country in the world is
(A) United States of America
(B) India
(C) China
(D) Canada
Ans: (C)
Q. Which of the following countries has the highest productivity of rice?
(A) China
(B) India
(C) Japan
(D) Germany
Ans: (A)
Q. India’s rank in rice production in the world is
(A) First
(B) Second
(C) Third
(D) Fourth
Ans: (B)
Q. The ‘Rice Gene Bank’ of the world is situated in
(A) China
(B) Philippines
(C) Japan
(D) India
Ans: (B)
Q. Cultivation of hybrid rice is most popular in
(A) Japan
(B) China
(C) Korea
(D) India
Ans: (B)
Q. Which one of the following countries is the second largest producer of sugarcane in the world?
(A) Brazil
(B) Cuba
(C) India
(D) China
Ans: (C)
Q. World’s largest producer of sugarcane is
(A) Brazil
(B) China
(C) India
(D) Indonesia
Ans: (A)
Q. Which one of the following countries produces sugar from sugar-beets only?
(A) France
(B) Ukraine
(C) Germany
(D) Italy
Ans: (B)
Q. Two largest producers of beets in the world are
(A) Belgium and China
(B) France and Russia
(C) Germany and the U.S.A.
(D) Turkey and Ukraine
Ans: (B)
Q. Which of the following countries has the highest per hectare production of cotton in the world?
(A) Israel
(B) Mexico
(C) Pakistan
(D) Australia
Ans: (D)
Q. Which is the largest cotton seed producing country in the world?
(A) China
(B) Egypt
(C) USA
(D) Russia
Ans: (A)
Q. The largest producer of bananas in the world is
(A) Columbia
(B) Zimbabwe
(C) Malaysia
(D) India
Ans: (D)
Q. Which of the following countries is the largest producer exporter of castor-oilseeds?
(A) France
(B) India
(C) Japan
(D) China
Ans: (B)