UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Royal geographical society

Q1. The Royal Geographical Society was formed in 1830 principally out of which one of the following clubs?

  • A. Raleigh Travellers' Club
  • B. African Association
  • C. Alpine Club
  • D. Hakluyt Society

Q2. The original Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, first awarded in 1831, was instituted as an annual royal gift by which one of the following?

  • A. King William IV
  • B. Queen Victoria
  • C. King George IV
  • D. King William III

Q3. After the single Gold Medal was divided into two medals of equal standing in 1839, the Founder's Medal of the RGS is distinguished by bearing the effigy of whom?

  • A. King William IV
  • B. Queen Victoria
  • C. Sir Roderick Murchison
  • D. Sir Francis Younghusband

Q4. How many British Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s were organised by the Mount Everest Committee (jointly run by the RGS and the Alpine Club) before 1925?

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

Q5. David Livingstone's last African journey (1865–71) was undertaken chiefly at the behest of which one of the following?

  • A. The President of the Royal Geographical Society
  • B. The President of the Royal Society
  • C. The Governor-General of India
  • D. The President of the National Geographic Society

Q6. Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic expeditions were supported by the RGS, undertook them in his capacity as a serving officer of which one of the following?

  • A. The Royal Navy
  • B. The British Army
  • C. The Royal Air Force
  • D. The Merchant Navy

Q7. Sir George Everest, after whom the peak is named, executed the trigonometrical mapping of the subcontinent in which one of the following capacities?

  • A. Surveyor General of India
  • B. President of the Royal Geographical Society
  • C. Director of the Geological Survey of India
  • D. Surveyor General of the Royal Geographical Society