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UPSC 2025 · Q76 · Geography › World Geography · Save

Consider the following countries : I. United Kingdom II. Denmark III. New Zealand IV. Australia V. Brazil

How many of the above countries have more than four time zones?

(a) All the five
(b) Only four
(c) Only three
(d) Only two
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Answer: (b) Only four
UPSC 2025 · Q79 · Geography › World Geography · Save

Consider the following pairs : I. II. III. In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?

(a) Only one
(b) Only two
(c) All the three
(d) None
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Answer: (c) All the three
UPSC 2025 · Q80 · Geography › World Geography · Save

Consider the following pairs : I. II. III. In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?

(a) Only one
(b) Only two
(c) All the three
(d) None
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Answer: (d) None

Consider the following countries :

  1. Finland
  2. Germany
  3. Norway
  4. Russia

How many of the above countries have a border with the North Sea ?

(a) Only one
(b) Only two
(c) Only three
(d) All four
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Answer: (b) Only two
UPSC 2024 · Q10 · Geography › World Geography · Save

Consider the following information : Region | Name of the mountain range | Type of mountain

  1. | Central Asia | Vosges | Fold mountain
  2. | Europe | Alps | Block mountain
  3. | North America | Appalachians | Fold mountain
  4. | South America | Andes | Fold mountain In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched ?
(a) Only one
(b) Only two
(c) Only three
(d) All four
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Answer: (b) Only two

About three-fourths of world’s cobalt, a metal required for the manufacture of batteries for electric motor vehicles, is produced by

(a) Argentina
(b) Botswana
(c) the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(d) Kazakhstan
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Answer: (c) the Democratic Republic of the Congo
UPSC 2022 · Q26 · Geography › World Geography · Save

The term “Levant” often heard in the news roughly corresponds to which of the following regions ?

(a) Region along the eastern Mediterranean shores
(b) Region along North African shores stretching from Egypt to Morocco
(c) Region along Persian Gulf and Horn of Africa
(d) The entire coastal areas of Mediterranean Sea
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Answer: (a) Region along the eastern Mediterranean shores