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.