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GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 327 · 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.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Mahanadi. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Maharashtra (b) Goa (c) Rajasthan (d) Uttar Pradesh
  3. 3.Which of these cities lies on the Tapi? (a) Mathura (b) Ahmedabad (c) Surat (d) Srinagar
  4. 4.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Varanasi (b) Delhi (c) Patna (d) Guwahati
  5. 5.What is the capital of Uttar Pradesh? (a) Dispur (b) Thiruvananthapuram (c) Lucknow (d) Bhopal
  6. 6.What is the capital of Odisha? (a) Jaipur (b) Agartala (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Chennai
  7. 7.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Itanagar (b) Lucknow (c) Patna (d) Jaipur
  8. 8.🏞️ Nashik lies on the banks of which river? (a) Gomti (b) Brahmaputra (c) Godavari (d) Narmada
  9. 9.🏞️ Guwahati lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Ganga (c) Sabarmati (d) Jhelum
  10. 10.What is the capital of Karnataka? (a) Lucknow (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Chennai (d) Bengaluru
  11. 11.🏞️ Haridwar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Gomti (c) Ganga (d) Brahmaputra
  12. 12.🏛️ Mumbai is the capital of which state? (a) Tripura (b) Bihar (c) Maharashtra (d) Nagaland
  13. 13.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Ganga. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Agra (b) Lucknow (c) Kanpur (d) Varanasi
  15. 15.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Rajasthan (b) Bihar (c) Assam (d) Kerala
  16. 16.True or false: Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Surat lies on the Mahanadi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏛️ Itanagar is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Mizoram (c) Odisha (d) Manipur
  19. 19.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Arabian Sea (c) Black Sea (d) Bay of Bengal
  20. 20.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Siachen (b) Gangotri (c) Pindari (d) Zemu
  21. 21.True or false: Itanagar is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.What is the capital of Maharashtra? (a) Kolkata (b) Bengaluru (c) Mumbai (d) Gandhinagar
  23. 23.🏞️ Srinagar lies on the banks of which river? (a) Jhelum (b) Tapi (c) Yamuna (d) Gomti
  24. 24.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Mahanadi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🌊 Which ocean lies to the south of India? (a) Arctic Ocean (b) Atlantic Ocean (c) Pacific Ocean (d) Indian Ocean
  26. 26.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Gandhinagar (b) Jaipur (c) Kolkata (d) Bhopal
  27. 27.🏛️ Gangtok is the capital of which state? (a) Sikkim (b) Mizoram (c) Goa (d) Karnataka
  28. 28.True or false: Kohima is the capital of Nagaland. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.What is the capital of Tamil Nadu? (a) Thiruvananthapuram (b) Jaipur (c) Chennai (d) Ranchi
  30. 30.🏞️ Dibrugarh lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Ganga (c) Mahanadi (d) Yamuna
  31. 31.True or false: Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Itanagar is the capital of Nagaland. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Haridwar (c) Cuttack (d) Dibrugarh
  34. 34.True or false: Patna lies on the Narmada. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Lucknow lies on the Gomti. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Shillong (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Dispur (d) Kohima
  37. 37.Which of these cities lies on the Narmada? (a) Agra (b) Kanpur (c) Jabalpur (d) Dibrugarh
  38. 38.What is the capital of Gujarat? (a) Gandhinagar (b) Patna (c) Imphal (d) Panaji
  39. 39.📍 Which place is at the southern tip of mainland India? (a) Kanyakumari (b) Darjeeling (c) Leh (d) Shimla
  40. 40.🏛️ Dispur is the capital of which state? (a) Assam (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Gujarat

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Goa
  3. Surat
  4. Guwahati
  5. Lucknow
  6. Bhubaneswar
  7. Patna
  8. Godavari
  9. Brahmaputra
  10. Bengaluru
  11. Ganga
  12. Maharashtra
  13. True
  14. Lucknow
  15. Rajasthan
  16. True
  17. False
  18. Arunachal Pradesh
  19. Arabian Sea
  20. Gangotri
  21. False
  22. Mumbai
  23. Jhelum
  24. False
  25. Indian Ocean
  26. Kolkata
  27. Sikkim
  28. True
  29. Chennai
  30. Brahmaputra
  31. True
  32. False
  33. Cuttack
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Dispur
  37. Jabalpur
  38. Gandhinagar
  39. Kanyakumari
  40. Assam

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