All Free General Knowledge MCQs with Answers

• A. The Flinders Ranges
• B. The Hamersley Range
• C. The MacDonnell Ranges
• D. The Australian Alps, part of the Great Dividing Range

Explanation: Kosciuszko sits in the Australian Alps within the Great Dividing Range.

• A. Mount Ruapehu
• B. Aoraki / Mount Cook
• C. Mount Aspiring
• D. Mount Tasman

Explanation: Aoraki/Mount Cook (3,724 m) is New Zealand's highest peak.

• A. Mount Erebus
• B. Mount Kirkpatrick
• C. Mount Vinson
• D. Mount Sidley

Explanation: Mount Vinson (4,892 m) is Antarctica's highest mountain.

• A. The Prince Charles Mountains
• B. The Queen Maud Mountains
• C. The Transantarctic Mountains
• D. The Ellsworth Mountains

Explanation: Mount Vinson rises in the Ellsworth Mountains of western Antarctica.

• A. Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid)
• B. Aoraki / Mount Cook
• C. Mount Wilhelm
• D. Mount Kosciuszko

Explanation: Puncak Jaya (4,884 m) on New Guinea is Oceania's highest peak.

• A. Papua New Guinea
• B. Indonesia, on the island of New Guinea
• C. Australia
• D. Vanuatu

Explanation: Puncak Jaya stands in Indonesia's Papua province on New Guinea.

• A. The Himalaya–Karakoram system
• B. The Alpine–Himalayan belt
• C. The global mid-ocean ridge system
• D. The Andes

Explanation: The globe-encircling mid-ocean ridge system (about 65,000 km) is Earth's longest mountain chain.

• A. A lava dome
• B. A shield volcano
• C. A cinder cone
• D. A composite (stratovolcano)

Explanation: Stratovolcanoes like Vesuvius are steep cones built of alternating ash and lava layers.

• A. Mount Etna
• B. Mount Vesuvius
• C. Stromboli
• D. Mount Tambora

Explanation: Vesuvius's 79 AD eruption buried Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash.

• A. Mount Pinatubo
• B. Mount St. Helens
• C. Krakatoa
• D. Mount Tambora

Explanation: Krakatoa's 1883 eruption in Indonesia was heard thousands of kilometres away.

• A. Haleakalā
• B. Kilauea
• C. Mauna Kea
• D. Mauna Loa

Explanation: Mauna Loa is the world's largest shield volcano by volume.

• A. Mount Vesuvius
• B. Stromboli
• C. Vulcano
• D. Mount Etna

Explanation: Sicily's Mount Etna erupts frequently and is Europe's most active volcano.

• A. Mount Fuji
• B. Mount Unzen
• C. Mount Asama
• D. Mount Aso

Explanation: The perfect cone of Mount Fuji is Japan's national symbol.

• A. Ararat
• B. Koh-e-Taftan
• C. Koh-e-Sultan
• D. Damavand

Explanation: Koh-e-Taftan near the Iran border in Balochistan is Pakistan's notable volcano.

• A. the largest tsunami ever
• B. the formation of the Aegean Sea
• C. the "Year Without a Summer"
• D. the Little Ice Age's start

Explanation: Tambora's 1815 eruption threw up so much ash that 1816 became the Year Without a Summer.

• A. Japan
• B. Chile
• C. Indonesia
• D. The Philippines

Explanation: Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted massively in 1991, cooling the planet slightly.

• A. Turkey
• B. Italy
• C. Greece
• D. Spain

Explanation: Stromboli is an Aeolian island volcano north of Sicily, Italy.

• A. A country with only one port
• B. A country surrounded by deserts
• C. A country with no coastline on an ocean or a sea connected to the world's oceans
• D. An island country

Explanation: Landlocked countries have no direct access to the sea.

• A. An island with no ports
• B. A country split into two parts
• C. A country with two coastlines
• D. A landlocked country surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries

Explanation: Doubly landlocked states are landlocked and every neighbour is landlocked too.

• A. Two
• B. One
• C. Three
• D. Four

Explanation: Only Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are doubly landlocked.