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GK lesson 19: India: states, capitals and rivers · Set 617 · 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 Ganga? (a) Lucknow (b) Varanasi (c) Ahmedabad (d) Mathura
  2. 2.🏞️ Guwahati lies on the banks of which river? (a) Brahmaputra (b) Ganga (c) Godavari (d) Sabarmati
  3. 3.🗺️ Which is the smallest state of India by area? (a) Maharashtra (b) Goa (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Rajasthan
  4. 4.Which of these cities lies on the Gomti? (a) Nashik (b) Mathura (c) Cuttack (d) Lucknow
  5. 5.Which of these cities lies on the Godavari? (a) Lucknow (b) Mathura (c) Nashik (d) Kanpur
  6. 6.🏛️ Mumbai is the capital of which state? (a) Goa (b) Tripura (c) Jharkhand (d) Maharashtra
  7. 7.What is the capital of Sikkim? (a) Dispur (b) Panaji (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Gangtok
  8. 8.🏞️ Dibrugarh lies on the banks of which river? (a) Jhelum (b) Tapi (c) Godavari (d) Brahmaputra
  9. 9.True or false: Cuttack lies on the Mahanadi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Ahmedabad lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these cities lies on the Brahmaputra? (a) Agra (b) Guwahati (c) Lucknow (d) Mathura
  12. 12.🏛️ Kolkata is the capital of which state? (a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) West Bengal (d) Arunachal Pradesh
  13. 13.🏛️ Bhubaneswar is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Odisha (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Kerala
  14. 14.What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? (a) Patna (b) Imphal (c) Panaji (d) Bhopal
  15. 15.True or false: Srinagar lies on the Jhelum. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Dibrugarh lies on the Brahmaputra. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Ahmedabad lies on the Sabarmati. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Kanpur lies on the Gomti. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Kohima is the capital of Nagaland. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.What is the capital of Assam? (a) Gangtok (b) Bhopal (c) Dispur (d) Aizawl
  21. 21.🧊 The Ganga starts from which glacier? (a) Pindari (b) Gangotri (c) Zemu (d) Siachen
  22. 22.What is the capital of Odisha? (a) Bhubaneswar (b) Imphal (c) Kohima (d) Mumbai
  23. 23.Which of these cities lies on the Yamuna? (a) Mathura (b) Guwahati (c) Surat (d) Kanpur
  24. 24.🐪 In which state is most of the Thar Desert? (a) Kerala (b) Assam (c) Bihar (d) Rajasthan
  25. 25.True or false: Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Guwahati lies on the Godavari. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Varanasi lies on the Yamuna. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these cities lies on the Sabarmati? (a) Jabalpur (b) Ahmedabad (c) Patna (d) Mathura
  29. 29.What is the capital of West Bengal? (a) Kolkata (b) Thiruvananthapuram (c) Shillong (d) Gangtok
  30. 30.🏜️ What is the Thar Desert also called? (a) Sahara Desert (b) Gobi Desert (c) Cold Desert (d) Great Indian Desert
  31. 31.True or false: Haridwar lies on the Ganga. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗺️ Which is the largest state of India by area? (a) Kerala (b) Rajasthan (c) Sikkim (d) Goa
  33. 33.True or false: Jaipur is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏞️ Lucknow lies on the banks of which river? (a) Yamuna (b) Ganga (c) Mahanadi (d) Gomti
  35. 35.🏛️ Lucknow is the capital of which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Odisha (c) Sikkim (d) Tripura
  36. 36.Which of these cities lies on the Mahanadi? (a) Varanasi (b) Delhi (c) Cuttack (d) Lucknow
  37. 37.🏞️ Surat lies on the banks of which river? (a) Jhelum (b) Narmada (c) Tapi (d) Mahanadi
  38. 38.True or false: Guwahati lies on the Sabarmati. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🏛️ Bengaluru is the capital of which state? (a) Rajasthan (b) Karnataka (c) Odisha (d) Tripura
  40. 40.True or false: Agra lies on the Narmada. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Varanasi
  2. Brahmaputra
  3. Goa
  4. Lucknow
  5. Nashik
  6. Maharashtra
  7. Gangtok
  8. Brahmaputra
  9. True
  10. False
  11. Guwahati
  12. West Bengal
  13. Odisha
  14. Bhopal
  15. True
  16. True
  17. True
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Dispur
  21. Gangotri
  22. Bhubaneswar
  23. Mathura
  24. Rajasthan
  25. True
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Ahmedabad
  29. Kolkata
  30. Great Indian Desert
  31. True
  32. Rajasthan
  33. False
  34. Gomti
  35. Uttar Pradesh
  36. Cuttack
  37. Tapi
  38. False
  39. Karnataka
  40. False

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