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GENERAL QUESTIONS ON WORLD CITIES

Q1. Abadan in Iran is famour for?
One of the largest oil refineries in the world.
Q2. Which city was founded by Alexander the Great?
Alexandria, Egypt.
Q3. Where in Algeria, the greatest earthquake, destroying 80% of the town took place?
Al Asnam - 1954.
Q4. Which city is famous for diamond industry and trading?
Antwerp, Belgium
Q5. Aswan, in Egypt is famous for?
One of the world's biggest dam across river Nile.
Q6. Where is Babylon, famous for hanging gardens, is located?
Baghdad, Iraq.
Q7. Wherefrom Sq.Ldr. Rakesh Sharma was launched into space?
Baikonur, Russia.
Q8. Which is the largest city of Thailand?
Bangkok, Also the Capital.
Q9. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ is in .......
Israel.
Q10. Which city of USA is famous for meat packing industry?
Chicago.
Q11. Which city of France is connected with the perfume Eau-de-cologne?
Cologne.
Q12. Where is the headquarters of American Space Agency, NASA?
Cape Kennedy.
Q13. Where is the US Senate located?
Capitol, Washington.
Q14. Which city of US is famous for automobile industry and houses the Ford Motor company?
Detroit.
Q15. Where in Indian Ocean, USA has an important military base?
Diego Garcia.
Q16. Gandhiji started his political career from which place?
Durban, South Africa.
Q17. Which city of Switzerland is famous for housing a number of UN subsidiary Organizations and other world organizations?
Geneva.
Q18. Greenwich from where world time is standardized is in?
South London, England.
Q19. Where is the headquarters of International Court of Justice?
Hague, the Netherlands.
Q20. Which city of Cuba is famous for Cigars?
Havana.
Q21. Where are the Indus valley civilization sites Happa and Mohenjodaro located?
Pakistan: Harappa is in Punjab Province. Mohenjodaro is in Sindh Province.
Q22. What does Mohenjodaro mean?
Mound of the Dead.
Q23. Which two cities of Japan suffered the world's worst bombing by USA during WWII?
Hiroshima - 6.8.1945 and Nagasaki - 9.8.1945.
Q24. Which city of US is considered as the Capital of Film Industry?
Hollywood.
Q25. Where in Israel Jesus was crucified?
Jerusalem.
Q26. World's largest gold mines are located in.....?
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Q27. Where in Sri Lanka, the "Temple of Tooth" of Buddha is located?
Kandy.
Q28. World's famous diamond mines are in.......?
Kimberlely, South Africa.
Q29. Where are the famous Islamic Holy places Mecca and Medina located?
Saudi Arabia.
Q30. Which is the largest city of Russia?
Moscow.
Q31. Which is an important hill station of Pakistan?
Murree.
Q32. Statue of Liberty is located in which city of USA?
New York.
Q33. Which is the birthplace of Olympic Games?
Olympia, Greece.
Q34. Leaning Tower of Pisa is in which country?
Italy. (the town's name is Pisa)
Q35. Which city of Italy is the centre of Roman civilization?
Rome.
Q36. St. Helena an island in the South Atlantic Ocean is historically known for?
Napoleon's second exile where he died in 1815.
Q37. Which place in Canada, is the world's biggest source of Nickel?
Sudbury.
Q38. Tashkent, where Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri died is in ..........?
Uzbekistan.
Q39. Which is the second most populous city in the world?
Tokyo, Japan.
Q40. Which city is also the world's smallest country?
Vatican City.
Q41. Battle of Waterloo is known to us. Where is Waterloo now?
Belgium.
Q42. Which city of England hosts the world's most prestigious tennis championship?
Wimbledon, London.
Q43. Where is White House, the official residence of US President?
Washington.
Q44. Where in US, is the world's oldest and largest national park is located?
Yellow Stone, Wyoming.
Q45. Which place in Tanzania is famous for Cloves?
Zanzibar.
Q46. Which city is known as "City of Golden Gate"?
San Francisco, US.
Q47. Which city is known as "City of Dreaming Spire"?
Oxford, UK.
Q48. Which city is known as "City of Sky scrappers"?
New York - Manhattan Square.
Q49. Which city is known as 'City of Magnificient Distance"?
Washington DC.
Q50. Which city is known as "City of Seven Hills"?
Rome, Italy.
Q51. Which city is known as "City of Angels"?
Bangkok, Thailand.
Q52. Which city is known as the 'City of Arabian Nights"?
Baghdad, Iraq.
Q53. Which place is known as the "Dandi of the East"?
Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Q54. Which city is known as "Eternal City"?
Rome, Italy.
Q55. Which city is known as "Empire city"?
New York.
Q56. Which city is known as "City of Popes/Papal City"?
Rome, Italy.
Q57. Which city is known as the "Eye of the Greece"?
Athens.
Q58. Which place is called the "Key of the Mediterranean"?
Gibraltar.
Q59. Which place is called "Land of Milk and Honey" and "The Promised Land"?
Canaan - roughly corresponding to the present day Israel.
Q60. Which city is known as "Granite City"?
Aberdeen, Scotland.
Q61. Which place in America's New York is called as the "Great White Way"?
Broadway.
Q62. Which place is called the "Venice of the North"?
Stockholm.
Q63. Which places are the called the "Venice of the East"?
Bangkok - Thailand and Allappuzha - Kerala.
Q64. Which city is called the "White City"?
Belgrade.
Q65. Which city is known as the "Windy City"?
Chicago.
Q66. Which place is called lthe "Mother colony of West Indies"?
St. Kitts.
Q67. Which city is called the "Quaker City"?
Philadelphia, USA.
Q68. Which city is called the "Queen of Arabian Sea"?
Kochi - Kerala, India.
Q69. Which city is called the "Queen of Adriatic"?
Venice, Italy.
Q70. Which cities are known as "Twin City"?
Budapest(Buda+Pest in Hungary) divided by Danube river. Became Budapest from 1873. Hyderabad and Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India divided by Musi river
Q71. Which city is known as "Modern Bobylon"?
London.
Q72. Which city is known as "Golden City"?
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Q73. Which city is known as "Imperial City"?
Rome - Italy.
Q74. Which city is called the "City of Canals"?
Venice, Italy. (118 islands, 170 canals, 400 bridges).
Q75. Which city of Iran attracts the most number of pilgrims, over 20 million a year?
MASHHAD - holy site of the 8th Shiite Imam.
Q76. What is the significance of "Free Town" of Sierra Leone?
A town founded in the 1790s exclusively for the freed slaves from US. It is also the capital.
Q77. Which is the highest capital city in the world?
LA PAZ - Bolivia - 3631 above sea level. Before this it was Lhasa of Tibet before it came under China.
Q78. Which is the highest capital city of Europe?
Madrid, Spain - 655 meters above sea level.
Q79. Lopburi, a town near Bangkok in Indonesia is unique for what?
Thousands of monkeys live in this town where sizeable human population also live.
Q80. Which place in the world is a major religious centre for three major Religions?
Jerusalem - for Christians, Jews and Muslims. - (Mount Sinai).
Q81. Which is the least populated town in the world?
Yumen, Tibet. The population was only 3 as of 2006.
Q82. Which city connects Europe and Asia?
Istanbul, Turkey.
Q83. Which city of France is famous for COGNAC brand of brandy?
Cognac, France.
Q84. Which city in South America is laid out in the form of an aircraft?
Brasilia, Brazil - It is the capital from 1960.
Q85. Which city was called the "forbidden city"?
Peking (Beijing), China.
Q86. Which is the world's oldest known city?
Damascus - Syria.
Q87. Which place in France is famous for champagne wine production?
Champagne.
Q88. In which city was the first skyscraper built?
Chicago - USA - " Sears Tower " in 1885.
Q89. Which American city is known as the sister city of Chennai?
Denver - also nicknamed "Mile high city".
Q90. Which is the driest inhabited place in the world?
Aswan, Egypt. (Atacama desert is the driest place in the world than Aswan but the population is far and few)
Q91. Which is the coldest inhabited place in the world?
Norsilk, Russia. (average -10 degree C and lowest -58 degree C). It is also recognized as the northern most city on earth with over one lakh population.
Q92. With which foreign city India had its first International direct dialing?
London.
Q93. Which two US cities are designed in a rectangular shape?
Colorado and Wyoming.
Q94. What is the largest city that make up UAE?
Abu Dhabi.
Q95. Which city is known as the "City of Smoke"?
Reykjavic - capital of Iceland.
Q96. Which is the oldest continuously inhabited state in the world?
Damascus, Syria.
Q97. Which city in the world has the largest number of Indian origins?
Durban, South Africa.
Q98. What is the northern most point on land?
Kaffeklubben island, east of Greenland is the northern most point.
Q99. What is the southern most point on land?
Geographic South Pole.

COUNTRIES, STATES, CITIES, TOWNS: PRESENT & PAST NAMES

PRESENT NAMEPAST NAME
ANKARAANGORRA.
BOTSWANABECHUANALAND
BENINDAHOMEY
BEIJINGPEKING
BENGALURUBANGALORE
CAMBODIAKAMPUCHEA
CAPE KENNEDYCAPE CANAVERAL
CHENNAIMADRAS,CHENNAPATTINAM
DHAKADACCA
DEMOCRATIC REPULIC OF CONGOZAIRE
ETHIOPIAABYSSINIA
EQUATORIAL GUINEASPANISH GUINEA
GREENLANDKALALLIT NUNAAT
GUYANABRITISH GUYANA
GHANAGOLD COAST
HARARESALISBURY
HO CHI MINHSAIGON
HAWAI'IAN ISLANDSSANDWICH ISLAND
INDONESIABATAVIA,DUTCH EASTINDIES
ISTANBULCONSTANTINOPLE
IRAQMESOPOTAMIA
IRANPERSIA
JAPANNIPPON
KINSHASALEOPOLDVILLE
LESOTHOBASUTOLAND
LENINGRADPETROGRAD
MYANMARBURMA
MADAGASCARMALAGASY
MALAYSIAMALAYA
MALAWINYASALAND
MUMBAIBOMBAY
NETHERLANDSHOLLAND
NAMIBIASOUTH WEST AFRICA
OSLOCHRISTIANA
PATNAPATALIPUTRA
SRI LANKACEYLON
SURINAMEDUTCH GUYANA
TUVALUELLICE ISLANDS
TAIWANFORMOSA
THAILANDSIAM
TANZANIATANGANYIKA & ZANZIBAR
TIMOR LETSEEAST TIMOR
VANUATUNEW HEBRIDES
VOLGOGRADSTALINGRAD
VISAKHAPATNAMWALTAIR
VARNASIBENARES
ZIMBABWERHODESI

WORLD CITIES ON RIVER BANKS

CITIES COUNTRY RIVERBANK
AKYAB MYANMAR KALADAN
ANTWERP BELGIUM SCHELDT
AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS AMSTEL
BANGKOK THAILAND CHAO PARAYA
BAGHDAD IRAQ TIGRIS
BASRA IRAQ SHAAT AL ARAB
BELGRADE SERBIA DANUBE
BERLIN GERMANY SPREE
BONN GERMANY RHINE
BRISTOL ENGLAND AVON
BRUSSELS BELGIUM SEINE
BUDAPEST HUNGARY DANUBE
BUCHAREST ROMANIA DAMBOVITA
CAIRO EGYPT NILE
CANTON CHINA CHU KIANG
CHITTAGONG BANGLADESH KARNAFULI
CHUNGKING CHINA YANGTZE KIANG
COLOGNE GERMANY RHINE
DUBLIN IRELAND LIFFEY
DAMASCUS SYRIA BARADA
DRESDEN GERMANY ELBE
DUNDEE SCOTLAND TAY
GDANSK POLAND VISTULA
GLASGOW SCOTLAND CLYDE
HULL ENGLAND HUMBER
HAMBURG GERMANY ELBE
KABUL AFGHANISTAN KABUL
KHARTOUM SUDAN NILE
KARACHI PAKISTAN SIND
LAHORE PAKISTAN RAVI
LISBON PORTUGAL TAGUS
LIVERPOOL ENGLAND MERSEY
LONDON ENGLAND THAMES
MOSCOW RUSSIA MOSKVA
MONTREAL CANADA ST.LAWRENCE
MOULMEIN MYANMAR SALWEEN
MADRID SPAIN MANZENARES
NANKING CHINA YANGTZE KIANG
NEW CASTLE ENGLAND TYNE
NEW ORLEANS USA MISSISSIPPI
NEW YORK USA HUDSON
OTTAWA CANADA OTTAWA
PARIS FRANCE SEINE
PHILADEPHIA USA DELAWARE
PRAGUE CZECH VLTAVA (MOLDAU)
QUEBEC CANADA ST.LAWRENCE
ROME ITALY TIBERIS
ROTTERDAM NETHERLANDS NEW MASS
SHEFFIELD ENGLAND DON
SHANGHAI CHINA YANGTZE KIANG
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA DARLING
TOKYO JAPAN ARAKAWA
VIENNA AUSTRIA DANUBE
WARSAW POLAND VISTULA
WASHINGTON DC USA POTOMAC
WITTENBERG GERMANY ELBE
YANGON(RANGOON MYANMAR IRRAWADY