General knowledge questions for competitive exams ___________________________________ ________ 1. Which countries are separated by 38th parallel ? Answer: North Korea and South Korea 2. What is the maximum length of a day in pole ? Answer: 6 month 3. What is the name of corridor, connects north-eastern states to the rest of India which is known as Chickens Neck ? Answer: Siliguri Corridor 4. Who is the creator of painting Boy with a pipe ? Answer: Pablo Picasso 5. Who presented the first budget in India (1860) ? Answer: James Wilson 6. Which is the first country to get a loan from world bank ? answer: France * 7. The top secret Operation Lal Dora which is recently in news is related to which incident ? Answer: Landing of Indian troops in Mauritius * 8. What is the name of border line that separates USA and Canada ? answer: 49th parallel * 9. Which is the largest soil group in India ? Answer: Alluvial soil * 10. Cartography is the study of ? answer: Map *11. Who developed the system of latitude and longitude ? Answer: Eratosthenes * 12. Which river crosses the equator twice in its flow ? answer: Congo River
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