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GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 28 · 40 questions
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Remember (State, capital, river): Capitals: Maharashtra – Mumbai, Tamil Nadu – Chennai, West Bengal – Kolkata, Karnataka – Bengaluru, Rajasthan – Jaipur, Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow, Bihar – Patna, Assam – Dispur, Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram. Rivers: Varanasi and Patna – Ganga, Agra and Delhi – Yamuna, Guwahati – Brahmaputra, Ahmedabad – Sabarmati, Lucknow – Gomti, Surat – Tapi. The Ganga is India’s longest river; the Arabian Sea is to the west, the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Indian Ocean to the south; Kanyakumari is the southern tip.

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  1. 1.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Lucknow (b) Nashik (c) Jabalpur (d) Varanasi
  2. 2.Which of these cities lies on the Narmada? (a) Jabalpur (b) Haridwar (c) Surat (d) Ahmedabad
  3. 3.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Dibrugarh (b) Mathura (c) Nashik (d) Jabalpur
  4. 4.🏛️ Agartala is the capital of which state? (a) Meghalaya (b) Sikkim (c) Kerala (d) Tripura
  5. 5.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Jabalpur (b) Nashik (c) Ahmedabad (d) Kanpur
  6. 6.What is the capital of Jharkhand? (a) Jaipur (b) Imphal (c) Thiruvananthapuram (d) Ranchi
  7. 7.Which of these cities lies on the Ganga? (a) Dibrugarh (b) Nashik (c) Patna (d) Delhi
  8. 8.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Black Sea (c) Arabian Sea (d) Bay of Bengal
  9. 9.🏛️ Kolkata is the capital of which state? (a) Maharashtra (b) Goa (c) Assam (d) West Bengal
  10. 10.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Patna lies on the Tapi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Narmada (b) Mahanadi (c) Brahmaputra (d) Ganga
  13. 13.🏞️ Cuttack lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Yamuna (c) Jhelum (d) Mahanadi
  14. 14.What is the capital of Nagaland? (a) Shillong (b) Kohima (c) Chennai (d) Thiruvananthapuram
  15. 15.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Guwahati (b) Patna (c) Nashik (d) Jabalpur
  16. 16.What is the capital of Maharashtra? (a) Patna (b) Aizawl (c) Kohima (d) Mumbai
  17. 17.True or false: Patna is the capital of Goa. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Mathura (b) Srinagar (c) Varanasi (d) Surat
  19. 19.🏞️ Which is the longest river of India? (a) Sabarmati (b) Ganga (c) Gomti (d) Tapi
  20. 20.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Dispur (b) Agartala (c) Kolkata (d) Hyderabad
  21. 21.True or false: Jaipur is the capital of Jharkhand. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.What is the capital of Tripura? (a) Dispur (b) Agartala (c) Imphal (d) Ranchi
  23. 23.📍 Which place is at the southern tip of mainland India? (a) Leh (b) Kanyakumari (c) Shimla (d) Darjeeling
  24. 24.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Mathura (b) Lucknow (c) Srinagar (d) Varanasi
  25. 25.What is the capital of Tamil Nadu? (a) Dispur (b) Chennai (c) Mumbai (d) Kolkata
  26. 26.🏞️ Delhi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Godavari (c) Brahmaputra (d) Ganga
  27. 27.🏞️ Mathura lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Narmada (c) Tapi (d) Godavari
  28. 28.🏛️ Ranchi is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Tripura (c) Jharkhand (d) Arunachal Pradesh
  29. 29.What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? (a) Patna (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Bhopal (d) Agartala
  30. 30.🏔️ Which mountain range lies in the north of India? (a) the Alps (b) the Himalayas (c) the Rockies (d) the Andes
  31. 31.True or false: Bhopal is the capital of Manipur. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.What is the capital of Goa? (a) Bengaluru (b) Lucknow (c) Panaji (d) Aizawl
  33. 33.🏛️ Kohima is the capital of which state? (a) Bihar (b) Jharkhand (c) Kerala (d) Nagaland
  34. 34.🏞️ Ahmedabad lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Sabarmati (c) Mahanadi (d) Narmada
  35. 35.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Bihar (b) Assam (c) Kerala (d) Rajasthan
  36. 36.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Panaji (b) Patna (c) Bhopal (d) Chennai
  37. 37.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Pindari (b) Siachen (c) Gangotri (d) Zemu
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of Kerala. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🏛️ Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of which state? (a) West Bengal (b) Kerala (c) Meghalaya (d) Maharashtra
  40. 40.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Lucknow
  2. Jabalpur
  3. Nashik
  4. Tripura
  5. Ahmedabad
  6. Ranchi
  7. Patna
  8. Arabian Sea
  9. West Bengal
  10. True
  11. False
  12. Ganga
  13. Mahanadi
  14. Kohima
  15. Guwahati
  16. Mumbai
  17. False
  18. Surat
  19. Ganga
  20. Kolkata
  21. False
  22. Agartala
  23. Kanyakumari
  24. Srinagar
  25. Chennai
  26. Yamuna
  27. Yamuna
  28. Jharkhand
  29. Bhopal
  30. the Himalayas
  31. False
  32. Panaji
  33. Nagaland
  34. Sabarmati
  35. Rajasthan
  36. Patna
  37. Gangotri
  38. True
  39. Kerala
  40. True

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