General Knowledge

Option: A
Explanation :A broad channel where the waters of a river and a sea mingle(meet) is called Estuaries. Estuaries and surrounding wetlands usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries environments are among most productive on earth. Different habitat are found in and around estuaries, including shallow open waters, freshwater and saltwater marshes, swamps, sandy beaches, mud and sand flats, rocky shores, river deltas, tidal pools and seagrass beds.

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Option: D
Explanation :The river Volga pours its water into the Caspian Sea.
The Volga is the longest river in Europe. Volga Flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. It’s length is 3,531 km. It is also the Europe’s largest river in terms of discharge and drainage basin.

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Option: B
Explanation :Blue Nile originates from lake Tana of Ethiopia and white Nile originates from lake Victoria. Blue and White Nile meet at Khartoum and make longest river of the world.
Khartoum is the capital of Sudan. The place where two Niles meet is called al-Muqran in English “The Confluence”. From there Nile continues to flow north towards Egypt and Mediterranean Sea.

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Option: B
Explanation : Headquarter of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) located in Paris. Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with a population of 2,148,271 residents (official estimate, 1 January 2020) in an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles).

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Option: C
Explanation :“The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has, in the opinion of the [Nobel] Committee, carried out work of major importance to assist refugees, despite the many political difficulties with which it has had to contend.”

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Option: A
Explanation :The United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”.

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Option: B
Explanation :The Nobel Committee selected the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei as the recipients of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize due to “their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”.

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Option: A
Explanation :The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

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Option: B
Explanation :The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”. OPCW’s Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü said the award will only spur the organisation’s efforts, commitment and dedication.

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Option: A
Explanation :The United States is the top oil-producing country in the world, with an average of 17.87 million b/d, which accounts for 18% of the world’s production. This is up from the 15.6 million b/d in 2017.
Total world crude oil production increased sharply in 2018 by 1.213 million barrels/day (mb/d), or 1.6%, as compared to 2017, to reach 75.78 mb/d, marking a historical high and the highest annual growth since 2015. OPEC crude oil production declined y-o-y by 415,000 b/d, or 1.3%, while crude production by non-OPEC countries grew by 1.628 mb/d, or 3.8%. In 2018, the top three crude oil producing countries were the United States (10.96mb/d), Russia (10.53mb/d) and Saudi Arabia (10.32mb/d).

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