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Asia Quiz Questions and Answers
100 General Asia Quiz Questions and Answers Part 1
1) Where is Asia’s longest and highest ropeway constructed?
Answer: Auli, Garhwal, Himalayas.
2) Which region of Sri Lanka has Tamil majority population?
Answer: Jaffna Peninsula.
3) What is called the boundary line between Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Answer: Durand Line.
4) The Bhakra-Nangal project is built on which river?
Answer: Sutlej.
5) What name is given to Kathmandu Airport of Nepal?
Answer: Tribhuvan International Airport.
6) The most important river of Myanmar?
Answer: Irrawaddy.
7) The southern most point in Sri Lanka?
Answer: Dondra Head.
8) Name the South Indian city which is air linked with Maldives:
Answer: Thiruvananthapuram.
9) The significance about Landi Kotal:
Answer: It is the Pakistan railway terminus before, the Khyber Pass.
10) Which South Asian country is famous for its ruby mines?
Answer: Myanmar.
11) What is Pidurutalagala’s special feature?
Answer: It is the highest peak in Sri Lanka.
12) Which countries does the Karakoram Highway join?
Answer: Pakistan and China via India.
13) On which river is the Tarbela Dam?
Answer: Indus.
14) The river Ganga is called as ‘Padma’ in:
Answer: Bangladesh.
15) Which major archaeological site associated with early civilisation is near Larkana?
Answer: Mohenjo-daro.
16) Which two border towns face each other on the main road from India to Kathmandu?
Answer: Birgunj and Raxaul.
17) The chief town of Sri Lanka’s northern province:
Answer: Jaffna.
18) The southernmost major tributary of the Indus river:
Answer: Sutlej.
19) The Northernmost of the five major tributaries of the Indus river:
Answer: Jhelum.
20) On what island is Male Airport?
Answer: Hulhule.
Asia Quiz Questions and Answers Part 2 (Quiz 21-40)
21) Which is Beijing’s Port?
Answer: Tianjin.
22) With which country does Laos have a common eastern border?
Answer: Vietnam.
23) Yemen’s most important port:
Answer: Aden.
24) On which island is George Town?
Answer: Penang.
25) This Gulf nation is a peninsula. Which is it?
Answer: Oman.
26) Which countries does the Strait of Hormuz separate?
Answer: Oman and Iran.
27) Which capital city would you find in the delta of the Red River?
Answer: Hanoi.
28) The largest republic of Russia entirely in Asia:
Answer: Kazakh Republic.
29) The city with the largest population in China?
Answer: Shanghai.
30) The capital of Cambodia:
Answer: Phnom Penh.
31) Which country would you find Negev Desert?
Answer: Israel.
32) The Mesopotamia is now called:
Answer: Iraq.
33) Which Mediterranean island is considered an independent Asian country?
Answer: Cyprus.
34) Where is the Dead Sea?
Answer: Jordan Israel.
35) Of which country is Beirut the capital?
Answer: Lebanon.
36) What do the Ural Mountains separate?
Answer: European and Asian Russia.
37) What is Saigon now known as?
Answer: Ho Chi Minh City.
38) The significant about Vladivostok?
Answer: Russia’s major eastern port.
39) A well-known tourist resort Phuket is in:
Answer: Thailand.
40) Indonesian Borneo is called:
Answer: Kalimantan.
Asia Quiz Questions and Answers Part 3 (Quiz 41-60)
41) Formosa is now known as:
Answer: Taiwan.
42) The familiar name of China’s longest river:
Answer: Yangtze.
43) On which island is Nagasaki?
Answer: Kyushu.
44) The inland Sea in the Asian landmass of Russia is:
Answer: Aral Sea.
45) The capital of the Philippines is on the island:
Answer: Luzon.
46) Kowloon, the land portion is in:
Answer: Hong Kong.
47) Port Kelang was once known ds:
Answer: Port Swettenham.
48) The northernmost of the major Indonesian Islands:
Answer: Sumatra.
49) The capital of North Korea?
Answer: Pyongyang.
50) The name of Portuguese colony in China:
Answer: Macao.
51) The country that is known as a land of unity in diversity?
Answer: India.
52) Of which island chain is Okinawa a part?
Answer: Ryukyu Islands.
53) Iraq has a common border on its South with two countries. Which are they?
Answer: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
54) China claims on an independent island country as one of its provinces. Which island?
Answer: Taiwan.
55) Near which northern town are the main oilfields of Iraq?
Answer: Mosul.
56) Which countries border the sea of Galilee?
Answer: Israel, Jordan and Syria.
57) This famous island in the Arabian Sea is a part of Yemen. Which island?
Answer: Socotra.
58) Write the exact location of Manchuria:
Answer: North-eastern corner of China.
59) Mongolia’s great desert is called:
Answer: Gobi Desert.
60) The oil pipeline runs to Mediterranean ports from this Iraq city. Which city?
Answer: Kirkuk.
Asia Quiz Questions and Answers Part 4 (Quiz 61-80)
61) The capital of Saudi Arabia:
Answer: Riyadh.
62) Three Japanese cities have almost begun to merge each other, as they are so large, Name them:
Answer: Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto.
63) The capital of Mongolia is:
Answer: Ulaanbaatar.
64) The Isthmus of Kra is a narrow neck of land in which one country ends and another extends. Name them?
Answer: Myanmar and Thailand.
65) This Malaysian town is the crossing point to Singapore. Which town?
Answer: Johor Bahru.
66) Which are the two straits that ships bound for the Black Sea from the Mediterranean have to pass through?
Answer: The Dardanelles and the Bosporus.
67) Phosphates is most important resource of this country: Which is it?
Answer: Jordan.
68) Which is the centre most of the three major rivers of Asian Russia?
Answer: Yenisei River.
69) Which Chinese province has some of the largest reserves of coal and iron ore in the world?
Answer: Shanxi.
70) In which republic Tashkent belongs?
Answer: Uzbekistan.
71) Name the countries once formed the territory called French Indochina?
Answer: Lao, Cambodia and Vietnam.
72) Which part of Egypt is in Asia?
Answer: Sinai Peninsula.
73) The Euphrates is one of Iraq’s major rivers. Which is the other?
Answer: Tigris.
74) What do Makassar Strait separate?
Answer: Kalimantan and Sulawesi.
75) Which sea separates European and Asian Turkey?
Answer: Sea of Marmara.
76) The U.A.E separates two parts of a country. Which country?
Answer: Oman.
77) Of which country is Sarawak a part?
Answer: Malaysia.
78) This country considers the Yalu as its most navigable river. Which country?
Answer: North Korea.
79) The old capital of the Philippines was:
Answer: Quezon City.
80) With the export of which cash crop was the Port of Mokha long associated?
Answer: Coffee.
Asia Quiz Questions and Answers Part 5 (Quiz 81-100)
81) This Gulf country is an island. Which country?
Answer: Bahrain.
82) The West Bank is claimed by Israel as its own. Which is this area west of?
Answer: River Jordan.
83) What is the mountain chain just South of the Caspian sea?
Answer: Elburz.
84) Which is the town which gives Israel access to the Red Sea?
Answer: Negev.
85) The Southernmost of the major islands in the Philippines?
Answer: Mindanao.
86) In which Soviet republic is the ancient town of Samarkand?
Answer: Uzbekistan.
87) Which is Tokyo’s port?
Answer: Yokohama.
88) The biggest oil refining centre in Iran:
Answer: Abadan.
89) Dairen and port Arthur are known as:
Answer: Luda.
90) The mountain in Sri Lanka which is sacred to people of all faiths:
Answer: Adam’s Peak.
91) The best known place in the Chagos Archipelago:
Answer: Diego Garcia.
92) Pakistan has borders with two countries of Asia. Which are they?
Answer: Afghanistan and India.
93) The largest natural harbour of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Trincomalee.
94) Which country has largest Gurkha population?
Answer: Nepal.
95) On which river is the Tarbela Dam?
Answer: Indus.
96) In which country was Gan, once an important air base?
Answer: The Maldives.
97) The two major coastal towns on either side of the Gulf of Martaban?
Answer: Yangon and Mawlamyine.
98) The hill station of Pakistan’s capital?
Answer: Murree.
99) The Southernmost group of islands in the-Maldives?
Answer: Addu/ Atoll/ Seenu.
100) Nepal Shares its northern border with this country. Which country?
Answer: China.
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