Question 1. The largest Island of the World is
(A) Borneo
(B) Greenland
(C) Madagascar
(D) New Guinea
Answer : B
Question 2. The largest island (after Greenland) of the world is
(A) Borneo
(B) Malagasy
(C) Sumatra
(D) New Guinea
Answer : D
Question 3. Which of the following islands are known as ‘Sheep Islands’?
(A) Canary Islands
(B) Madeira Islands
(C) Faroe Islands
(D) Wellington Islands
Answer : C
Question 4. Which one of the following is the largest in area?
(A) New Zealand North Island
(B) New Foundland
(C) New Zealand South Island
(D) Java
Answer : C
Question 5. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(A) Greenland is the second largest (area) island in the World
(B) Nuuk is a small town of Greenland
(C) The elevation of Nuuk above the sea level is 3 metre.
(D) Greenland belongs to U.S.A.
Answer : C
Question 6. Which one among the following Eastern islands is divided into three countries?
(A) Borneo
(B) Celebes
(C) New Guinea
(D) Timor
Answer : A
Question 7. Kalimantan is a part of which of the following islands?
(A) Honshu
(B) Borneo
(C) Cuba
(D) Madagascar (Malagasy)
Answer : B
Question 8. Madagascar is the largest island in
(A) Indian Ocean
(B) Pacific Ocean
(C) Bay of Bengal
(D) Red Sea
Answer : A
Question 9. Which one of the following islands is located in the South Indian Ocean?
(A) Chagos
(B) Maldives
(C) Mauritius
(D) Seychelles
Answer : C
Question 10. Which of the following islands of the Pacific Ocean belongs to Melanesia groups of islands.
(A) Soloman island
(B) Gilbert island
(C) Society island
(D) Marshall island
Answer : A
Question 11. Diego Garcia is situated in
(A) Indian Ocean
(B) Pacific Ocean
(C) Arctic Ocean
(D) Atlantic Ocean
Answer : A
Question 12. The distance from Aceh in the far North-West to Torres Strait in the East is 5000 miles, almost equal to the distance London and Baghadad. The archipelago has 14,000 islands, some mere equatorial rocks, others some of the largest in the world. This description best fits
(A) West Indies
(B) Japan
(C) Philippines
(D) Indonesia
Answer : D
Question 13. Which of the following statement is not correct?
(A) Falkland Archipelago is located in Indian ocean
(B) Namibia is located in Africa
(C) Nicaragua is in central America
(D) Yemen is in Asia
Answer : A
Question 14. Fiji Island is located in
(A) Atlantic Ocean
(B) Pacific Ocean
(C) Indian Ocean
(D) Arabian Sea
Answer : B
Question 15. Which of the following is the largest island of Japan?
(A) Hokkaido
(B) Shikoku
(C) Hodouri
(D) Honshu
Answer : D
Question 16. When was Macau island transferred to China?
(A) 1990
(B) 1992
(C) 1997
(D) 1999
Answer : D
Question 17. In the map given below, four islands of Indian Ocean region i.e.,
(a) Seychelles. (b) Chagos, (c) Mauritius and (d) Socotra are marked as 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Match them and select the correct answer from the code given below.
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 1 3 2 4
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer : D
Question 18. Consider the map given below. The numbers marked 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively indicate the islands of
(A) The Bahamas, Azores, Falkland Cape Verde
(B) The Bahamas, Azores, Cape Verde and Falkland
(C) Azores, Cape Verde, the Bahamas and Falkland
(D) Cape Verde, the Bahamas, Falkland and Azores
Answer :C
Question 19. Where are the Balearic islands located?
(A) Mediterranean Sea
(B) Black Sea
(C) Baltic Sea
(D) North Sea
Answer : A
Question 20. On which river is the world’s largest river island?
(A) Nile
(B) Amazon
(C) Brahmaputra
(D) Sindh
Answer : C
Question 21. Which of the following is an island continent?
(A) Africa
(B) New Zealand
(C) Greenland
(D) Australia
Answer : D
Question 22. Grenada is located in
(A) Pacific Ocean
(B) Indian Ocean
(C) Caribbean Sea
(D) Mediterranean Sea
Answer : C
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