PMS Competitive (General): Geography MCQs with Answers

Question 1

Compared with Karachi’s mudflat tides which Balochistan port setting better matches rocky hammerheads with deep dredged berths textbooks highlight?

Accepted Answer

Western Makran uplifted headlands enclosing Gwadar basins

Answer

Straight clay pans of Mongolia’s Gobi seaboard

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Straight chalk cliffs draining Mississippi muds

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Raised peat domes bordering inland Thar ridges

Question 2

Bhutan measures national progress using which unique concept instead of GDP?

Accepted Answer

Gross National Happiness

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Human Development Index

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Sustainable Growth Index

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National Wellbeing Score

Question 3

Which river has the greatest volume of water discharge in the world?

Accepted Answer

Amazon

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Nile

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Congo

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Yangtze

Question 4

The Panama Canal provides a shortened route between which two oceans?

Accepted Answer

Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

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Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean

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Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean

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Southern Ocean only

Question 5

The famous Bolan Pass connects Quetta with which city of Sindh/Punjab lowlands?

Accepted Answer

Sibi

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Hyderabad

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Multan

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Sukkur

Question 6

The English Channel separates England from which country?

Accepted Answer

France

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Belgium

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Netherlands

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Spain

Question 7

Lateritic soils are classically linked to intense weathering under which broad environmental setting?

Accepted Answer

Hot humid tropics with strong leaching

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Polar deserts with permafrost

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High-latitude peat bogs

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Fresh lava fields only one year old

Question 8

Hamburg is a major seaport near the mouth of which river?

Accepted Answer

Elbe

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Weser

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Oder

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Rhine

Question 9

The Nile River flows into which body of water?

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean Sea

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Red Sea

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Indian Ocean

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Persian Gulf

Question 10

What is the currency of the Maldives?

Accepted Answer

Rufiyaa

Answer

Taka

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Rupee

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Ngultrum

Question 11

Which city serves as the administrative capital of South Africa?

Accepted Answer

Pretoria

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Cape Town

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Johannesburg

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Durban

Question 12

What is the capital of Denmark?

Accepted Answer

Copenhagen

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Aarhus

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Odense

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Aalborg

Question 13

Tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean are specifically called by which name?

Accepted Answer

Typhoons

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Hurricanes

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Willy-willies

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Baguios

Question 14

Punjab’s canal-irrigated plains grow fine wheat and cotton partly because soils inherit rich mineral loads from erosion of the Himalayas. What is parent material in pedology?

Accepted Answer

The unconsolidated rock or sediment that soil develops from

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The official height of K2 minus local sea-level noise

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Only the fertilizer bag label printed last season

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River discharge measured only at Arabian Sea deltas

Question 15

The Earth rotates on its axis from _________.

Accepted Answer

West to East

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East to West

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North to South

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South to North