All Free General Knowledge MCQs with Answers

• A. The Melville Peninsula
• B. The Ungava Peninsula
• C. The Boothia Peninsula
• D. The Labrador Peninsula

Explanation: The Labrador Peninsula lies between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea.

• A. Cape York Peninsula
• B. The Dampier Peninsula
• C. Arnhem Land
• D. The Eyre Peninsula

Explanation: Cape York Peninsula in Queensland separates the Gulf of Carpentaria from the Coral Sea.

• A. New South Wales
• B. Queensland
• C. Northern Territory
• D. Western Australia

Explanation: Cape York Peninsula forms the northern tip of Queensland.

• A. The Edward VII Peninsula
• B. The Antarctic Peninsula
• C. The Bear Peninsula
• D. The Martin Peninsula

Explanation: The Antarctic Peninsula reaches north toward South America's Cape Horn.

• A. Cape Hangklip
• B. Cape Point
• C. Cape Agulhas
• D. The Cape of Good Hope

Explanation: Cape Agulhas in South Africa is the true southern tip of Africa.

• A. South Africa
• B. Angola
• C. Namibia
• D. Mozambique

Explanation: Cape Agulhas lies in South Africa's Western Cape province.

• A. The Pacific and Indian oceans
• B. The Atlantic and Indian oceans
• C. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans
• D. The Southern and Indian oceans

Explanation: The 20°E meridian through Cape Agulhas divides the Atlantic from the Indian Ocean.

• A. No — Cape Town is farther south
• B. Yes, by international treaty
• C. No — Cape Agulhas lies farther south
• D. Yes

Explanation: The famous Cape of Good Hope is not the southernmost point; Cape Agulhas is.

• A. The Musandam Peninsula
• B. The Valdés Peninsula
• C. The Sinai Peninsula
• D. The Cape Peninsula

Explanation: The Cape of Good Hope sits at the tip of South Africa's Cape Peninsula.

• A. Cape Town
• B. Durban
• C. Johannesburg
• D. Pretoria

Explanation: Cape Town nestles on the Cape Peninsula beneath Table Mountain.

• A. Ferdinand Magellan
• B. Bartolomeu Dias
• C. Pedro Álvares Cabral
• D. Vasco da Gama

Explanation: Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.

• A. The Cape of Gold
• B. The Cape of Winds
• C. The Cape of Storms
• D. The Cape of Hope

Explanation: Dias originally called it the Cape of Storms after the rough seas; Portugal's king renamed it for optimism.

• A. Chile
• B. Argentina
• C. Peru
• D. Uruguay

Explanation: Cape Horn lies in southern Chile at the tip of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

• A. Navarino Island
• B. Hornos Island
• C. Wellington Island
• D. Chiloé Island

Explanation: Cape Horn is the southern headland of Hornos Island in Chile.

• A. It is on the Antarctic mainland
• B. Yes
• C. No — it lies on an island
• D. Yes, at the mainland's tip

Explanation: Cape Horn is on Hornos Island, south of the mainland's tip.

• A. The Strait of Magellan
• B. The Beagle Channel
• C. The Le Maire Strait
• D. The Drake Passage

Explanation: The Drake Passage runs between Cape Horn and Antarctica.

• A. Cape Froward
• B. Punta Arenas
• C. Puerto Williams
• D. Cape Horn

Explanation: Cape Froward in Chile is the southernmost point of the South American mainland.

• A. Cape Baba
• B. Cape Chelyuskin
• C. Cape Dezhnev
• D. Cape Piai

Explanation: Cape Dezhnev in Russia's Chukotka is mainland Asia's easternmost point.

• A. Cape Dezhnev
• B. Cape Severnaya
• C. Cape Fligely
• D. Cape Chelyuskin

Explanation: Cape Chelyuskin on Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula is mainland Asia's northernmost point.

• A. Cape Guardafui
• B. Cape Rachado
• C. Cape Delgado
• D. Cape Comorin

Explanation: Kanyakumari was long known in English as Cape Comorin.