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GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 34 · 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.What is the capital of Nagaland? (a) Bhopal (b) Panaji (c) Bengaluru (d) Kohima
  2. 2.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Great Indian Desert (b) Sahara Desert (c) Gobi Desert (d) Cold Desert
  3. 3.🏞️ Kanpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Yamuna (c) Ganga (d) Tapi
  4. 4.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Guwahati (b) Varanasi (c) Cuttack (d) Haridwar
  5. 5.🌊 Which bay lies to the east of India? (a) Bay of Bengal (b) Red Sea (c) Dead Sea (d) Arabian Sea
  6. 6.🏞️ Guwahati lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Mahanadi (c) Jhelum (d) Brahmaputra
  7. 7.What is the capital of Telangana? (a) Thiruvananthapuram (b) Hyderabad (c) Imphal (d) Bhopal
  8. 8.What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? (a) Hyderabad (b) Bhopal (c) Imphal (d) Shillong
  9. 9.True or false: Kohima is the capital of Mizoram. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Guwahati lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🗺️ Which is the largest state of India by area? (a) Kerala (b) Goa (c) Sikkim (d) Rajasthan
  12. 12.Which of these cities lies on the Narmada? (a) Srinagar (b) Jabalpur (c) Surat (d) Delhi
  13. 13.True or false: Gangtok is the capital of Sikkim. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Agra lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.What is the capital of Manipur? (a) Gandhinagar (b) Kolkata (c) Jaipur (d) Imphal
  16. 16.🏞️ Varanasi lies on the banks of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Godavari (c) Narmada (d) Gomti
  17. 17.What is the capital of Maharashtra? (a) Lucknow (b) Mumbai (c) Aizawl (d) Panaji
  18. 18.What is the capital of Jharkhand? (a) Panaji (b) Bhubaneswar (c) Bhopal (d) Ranchi
  19. 19.What is the capital of Bihar? (a) Mumbai (b) Bhopal (c) Jaipur (d) Patna
  20. 20.What is the capital of Karnataka? (a) Gandhinagar (b) Bengaluru (c) Hyderabad (d) Bhopal
  21. 21.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Kerala (b) Rajasthan (c) Assam (d) Bihar
  22. 22.🏞️ Nashik lies on the banks of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Narmada (c) Godavari (d) Yamuna
  23. 23.True or false: Surat lies on the Yamuna. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Ahmedabad lies on the Sabarmati. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏞️ Jabalpur lies on the banks of which river? (a) Mahanadi (b) Narmada (c) Yamuna (d) Jhelum
  26. 26.🏛️ Imphal is the capital of which state? (a) Nagaland (b) Jharkhand (c) Sikkim (d) Manipur
  27. 27.True or false: Dibrugarh lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of West Bengal. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Bhubaneswar is the capital of Manipur. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Shillong is the capital of Tamil Nadu. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.What is the capital of Meghalaya? (a) Jaipur (b) Aizawl (c) Kolkata (d) Shillong
  32. 32.🏞️ Mathura lies on the banks of which river? (a) Tapi (b) Gomti (c) Narmada (d) Yamuna
  33. 33.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Kanpur (c) Lucknow (d) Nashik
  34. 34.🏛️ Ranchi is the capital of which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Odisha (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Jharkhand
  35. 35.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Srinagar (b) Dibrugarh (c) Nashik (d) Patna
  36. 36.🌊 Which sea lies to the west of India? (a) Red Sea (b) Black Sea (c) Bay of Bengal (d) Arabian Sea
  37. 37.True or false: Dispur is the capital of Assam. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these cities lies on the Jhelum? (a) Patna (b) Varanasi (c) Delhi (d) Srinagar
  39. 39.🏞️ Surat lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Yamuna (c) Tapi (d) Narmada
  40. 40.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Kohima
  2. Great Indian Desert
  3. Ganga
  4. Cuttack
  5. Bay of Bengal
  6. Brahmaputra
  7. Hyderabad
  8. Bhopal
  9. False
  10. True
  11. Rajasthan
  12. Jabalpur
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Imphal
  16. Ganga
  17. Mumbai
  18. Ranchi
  19. Patna
  20. Bengaluru
  21. Rajasthan
  22. Godavari
  23. False
  24. True
  25. Narmada
  26. Manipur
  27. True
  28. False
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Shillong
  32. Yamuna
  33. Lucknow
  34. Jharkhand
  35. Nashik
  36. Arabian Sea
  37. True
  38. Srinagar
  39. Tapi
  40. False

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