Countries and Capitals

How well are you at Geography and General Knowledge? Test your knowledge of countries and their capital cities here.

1. Of which country is Caracas the capital city?

2. What is the Capital City of Turkey?

3. What is the Capital City of the UAE?

4. Sudan has been in the news for quite sometime, due to the Darfur region crisis. What’s the capital city of Sudan?

5. Pyongyang is the capital of which country?

6. What is Canada’s Capital City?

7. Addis Ababa is the capital city of this country formerly known as Abyssinia. What is this country currently known as?

8. What is Belgium’s Capital City?

9. What is the Capital City of Egypt?

10. The city Reykjavik features in the book “A Journey to the center of the earth “ by Jules Verne. Of which country is it the Capital city?





1. Venezuela

2. Ankara

3. Abu Dhabi

4. Khartoum

5. North Korea

6. Ottawa

7. Ethiopia

8. Brussels

9. Cairo

10. Iceland

National Institutes / Organisations

Given below are questions related to premier Institutes, run either autonomously or by the Government of India. Check, how many you can answer.


1. What is CLRI and where is it located?

2. Where is the National Dairy Research Institute located ?

3. What is the National Police academy at Hyderabad named as?

4. What is CCMB and where is it located?

5. Where is the Central Institute for Cotton Research(CICR) headquartered?

6. Which is the Apex Institution for Training the officers and staff of the Income-tax Department in India?

7. Which central ministry has set up the National Institute of Watersports (NIWS) at Goa?

8. What is JIPMER and where is it located?

9. Where do the IAS recruits undergo training, before being posted as officers?

10. Which Institute’s logo is this?






1. Central Leather Research Institute. It is located in Chennai.

2. Karnal, Haryana.

3. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police academy.

4. Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.

5. Nagpur, Maharastra

6. The National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT), Nagpur.

7. Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

8. Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

9. Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie.

10. The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.

Books and Authors - II

Do you know the authors of these well known books ?


1. Love story

2. Les Miserables

3. Gitanjali

4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5. Hindu view of Life

6. My Presidential Years

7. Robinson Cruosoe

8. Pride and Prejudice

9. Das Kapital

10. Mein Kampf

1. Erich Segal

2. Victor Hugo

3. Rabindranath Tagore

4. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

5. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

6. R.Venkataraman

7. Daniel Defoe

8. Jane Austen

9. Karl Marx

10. Adolf Hitler