Q 01/05

The Ganges flows through which two countries?

A) India and Nepal

B) Bangladesh and Myanmar

C) India and Bangladesh

D) India and Pakistan

Answer · why

C) India and Bangladesh

Nepal's rivers feed it heavily from the north, but the main stem itself stays inside India before crossing into Bangladesh.

Q 02/05

The Ganges ultimately empties into which body of water?

A) Arabian Sea

B) Andaman Sea

C) Bay of Bengal

D) Gulf of Mannar

Answer · why

C) Bay of Bengal

A cyclone born in the Bay of Bengal killed at least 300,000 people in 1970, and anger at the slow relief helped push East Pakistan toward independence...

Q 03/05

What name does the main channel of the Ganges take once it enters Bangladesh?

A) Meghna

B) Jamuna

C) Hooghly

D) Padma

Answer · why

D) Padma

The Bangladeshi stretch runs about 356 km southeast to its meeting with the Meghna near the sea.

Q 04/05

The Ganges rises in the western Himalayas of which Indian state?

A) Sikkim

B) Himachal Pradesh

C) Uttarakhand

D) Jammu and Kashmir

Answer · why

C) Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh as a separate hill state in 2000, after a long campaign for statehood.

Q 05/05

What happened around 2010 to New Moore, a tiny island off the Ganges delta that two countries claimed?

A) It doubled in size

B) It joined the mainland

C) It vanished beneath the sea

D) It became a bird sanctuary

Answer · why

C) It vanished beneath the sea

It vanished beneath the sea, and Indian oceanographers blamed rising sea levels, among other causes.