Top 175 GK questions and answers every one should know

General Knowledge

Questions & Answers

Every Student Should Know

GK is an important aspect of a student’s life and though, is not always prescribed in the syllabus but forms an important foundation for intellectual building. Some important GK questions and answers have been mentioned below.

GK Questions will help you in participating in all competitive exams conducted in school and Entrance Exams and in Quiz programs

1. Who is the Father of our Nation?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

2. Who was the first President of India?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

3. Who is known as Father of Indian Constitution?
Answer: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

4. Which is the most sensitive organ in our body?
Answer: Skin

5. Giddha is the folk dance of?
Answer: Punjab

6. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India.

7. Which is the heavier metal of these two? Gold or Silver?
Answer: Gold

8. Who invented the Computer?
Answer: Charles Babbage

9. 1024 Kilobytes is equal to?
Answer: 1 Megabyte (MB)

10. Brain of computer is?
Answer: CPU

11. India lies in which continent?
Answer: Asia

12. Which country are the Giza Pyramids in?
Answer: The Giza Pyramids are in Egypt.

13. What city is the statue of liberty in?
Answer: The statue of liberty is in New York City

14. How many Cricket world cups does India have?
Answer: India has two cricket world cups.

15. Martyrs’ Day is celebrated every year on?
Answer: 30th January

16. Name the first 3 planets in our solar system?
Answer: The first 3 planets in our solar system are mercury, venus, and earth.

17. Which is the longest river on the earth?
Answer: Nile

18. Gir National Park in Gujarat is famous for?
Answer: Lion

19. Which animal has hump on its back?
Answer: Camel

20. Name 3 root vegetables?
Answer: Beets, carrots, and radish are root vegetables.

21. Name the game which is played with bat, ball and wicket?
Answer: Cricket

22. Smallest state of India is?
Answer: Goa

23. Fastest animal on earth is?
Answer: Cheetah

24. Which is the animal referred as the ship of the desert?
Answer: Camel

25. Which plant grows in desert?
Answer: Cactus

26. Highest dam of India is?
Answer: Tehri Dam

27. The total distance around a figure is called its?
Answer: Perimeter

28. A figure with 8 sides is called?
Answer: Octagon

29. What colour symbolises peace?
Answer: The colour white symbolises peace.

30. National Tree of India is?
Answer: Banyan tree

31. Which flower is white in colour?
Answer: Jasmine

32. Agra is situated on the bank of river?
Answer: Yamuna

33. Baby of horse is called?
Answer: Colt

34. National animal of India
Answer: Tiger

35. Shape of Egg is?
Answer: Oval

36. Most widely spoken language in the world is?
Answer: Mandarin (Chinese)

37. Which insect has colourful wings?
Answer: Butterfly

38. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet.

39. Cry of lion is called?
Answer: Roar

40. Name any reptile?
Answer: A lizard is a reptile.

41. Cataract is the disease of?
Answer: Eyes

42. Which organ purify our blood?
Answer: Kidney

43. Who wrote the National Anthem – Jana Gana Mana?
Answer: Rabindra Nath Tagore

44. How many colours are there in India’s National Flag?
Answer: Three

45. Gateway of India is located at?
Answer: Mumbai

46. Who was Albert Einstein?
Answer: Albert Einstein was a famous scientist.

47. What crop is famously grown in the region of Darjeeling?
Answer: The region of Darjeeling is known to grow Tea leaves.

48. Capital of Uttarakhand is?
Answer: Dehradun

49. When do we celebrate our Independence Day?
Answer: 15th August

50. Sun is a?
Answer: Star

51. Which planet is nearest to Earth?
Answer: Venus

52. We get solar energy from?
Answer: Sun

53. What islands are a part of the country of India?
Answer: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands belong to India.

54. Where does a dog live?
Answer: Kennel

55. Which animal is called the ship of the desert?
Answer: Camel

56. Goitre is caused due to the deficiency of?
Answer: Iodine

57. Who was George Washington?
Answer: George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.

58. Longest river in the world is?
Answer: Nile

59. How many players are there in a cricket team?
Answer: 11

60. Largest island in the world is?
Answer: Green Land

61. Which president of the USA is responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln is responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation.

62. LBW is related to which sports?
Answer: Cricket

63. Young one of a cat is called?
Answer: Kitten

64. Which African nation is famous for chocolate?
Answer: The nation of Ghana is world famous for chocolate.

65. Saina Nehwal is associated with which sports?
Answer: Badminton

66. How many days are there in a Leap year?
Answer: 366

67. Olylmpics games are held after every?
Answer: 4 years

68. How many sides are there in a pentagon?
Answer: 5

69. What is King Arthur’s sword called?
Answer: King Arthur’s sword was called Excalibur.

70. A place where bees are kept is called?
Answer: Aviary

71. Which is the biggest sea animal?
Answer: Dolphin

72. Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft.

73. Who discovered Penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Flemming

74. Who was popularly known as Netaji?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose

75. Which country does the company Sony come from?
Answer: Sony comes from the nation of Japan.

76. Scientific study of birds is called?
Answer: Ornithology

77. Who is the author of the book – Broken Wing?
Answer: Sarojini Naidu

78. Largest desert in the world is?
Answer: Sahara desert

79. In which direction does the sun rise?
Answer: The sun rises from the east.

80. Kuchipudi is the dance form of which state?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh

81. Who was Margaret Thatcher?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher was a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

82. United Nation (UN) day is celebrated on?
Answer: 24th October

83. In which season we wear warm clothes?
Answer: Winter

84. Which bird can not fly?
Answer: Ostrich

85. We should cross the road when the traffic light is?
Answer: Green

86. Place where animals and birds are kept?
Answer: Zoo

87. In which festival we play with colours?
Answer: Holi

88. Which fruit gives us oil?
Answer: Coconut

89. Which jungle is the most dense in the world?
Answer: The Amazon is the densest jungle in the world.

90. The national song
Answer: Vande Mataram

91. The national bird is
Answer: Peacock

92. The national fruit is
Answer: Mango

93. National Education Day
Answer: 11 Nov.

94. Children’s Day
Answer: 14 Nov.

95. Teacher’s Day
Answer: 5 September

96. Which place is known as tea garden of India
Answer: Assam

97. Which is the smallest bird ?
Answer: Humming Bird

98. Which is the largest ocean in the world ?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

99. Which is India’s largest fresh water lake?
Answer: Wular Lake

100. Which is the tallest waterfall in the world ?
Answer: Angel Falls

101. What does UPS stand for?
Answer: Uninterrupted Power Supply

102. Name the four metropolitan cities of India
Answer: Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi

103. Name the birthplace of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer: Cuttack in Odisha

104. What is the boiling point of water?
Answer: 100 degree is the boiling point of water.

105. Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of which states?
Answer: Gujarat

106. Which state has taken up Sanskrit as an official language?
Answer: Uttarakhand

107. Name the first female Indian Astronaut
Answer: Kalpana Chawla

108. Who was the first Indian to go to space?
Answer: Rakesh Sharma

109. Who was India’s longest serving Prime Minister?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

110. Which is the smallest continent?
Answer: Australia

111. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

112. Which acid is found in lemon?
Answer: Citric Acid

113. What is India’s form of Governance?
Answer: Democracy

114. How many states does India have?
Answer: 29

115. Who was the first Indian Woman to climb Mount Everest?
Answer: Bachendri Pal

116. ‘Madhubani’, a style of folk paintings, is popular in which of the following states in India?
Answer: Bihar

117. Australia lies between which two oceans?
Answer: The Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

118. Name the 14th President of India
Answer: Ram Nath Kovind

119. Which Indian woman was the first to win the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Mother Teresa

120. Who was the inventor of the light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison

121. Who is the Finance Minister of India?
Answer: Arun Jaitley

122. What is the national game of USA?
Answer: Baseball

123. What is the full form of NEWS?
Answer: North East West South

124. What is the full form of AM and PM?
Answer: Ante Meridiem and After Midday

125. Who is the Vice President of India?
Answer: Venkaiah Naidu

126. Name the lightest gas
Answer: Hydrogen

127. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Answer: Vishnu Sharma

128. Who was the first Indian to have won the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

129. Name the region that has the oldest rocks
Answer: Aravalli

130. Name the highest mountain peak of India
Answer: Mount Kanchenjunga

131. Entomology is the science that studies
Answer: Insect

132. How many layers are there in Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: 5

133. Name the biggest planet in our solar system
Answer: Jupiter

134. Which is the largest plateau in the world?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau

135. What is the order of the planets in the Solar System?
Answer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

136. Who invented the Television?
Answer: John Logie Baird

137. Where is the Ajanta caves situated?
Answer: Maharashtra

138. What is the name of India and Pakistan’s border?
Answer: Radcliffe Line

139. What is the ratio of width to the length of National Flag of India?
Answer: 2:3

140. Which gas commonly known as laughing gas
Answer: Nitrous oxide

141. Gandhi Ji started the Dandi March in which year?
Answer: 1930

142. What is the study of Universe known as?
Answer: Cosmology

143. Why are the leaves of a plant so important?
Answer: They produce food for the plant through photosynthesis

144. The famous Ganga Sagar Mela an annual fair is held in which state of India?
Answer: West Bengal

145. Who is considered the founder of the Sikh religion?
Answer: Guru Nanak

146. Who was known as the Indian Napoleon?
Answer: Samudragupta

147. Who gave the slogan Do or Die?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

148. What is the distance between Earth and Sun?
Answer: 149.6 Million km

149. Which is the largest country in the world based on the area?
Answer: Russia

150. What is the most spoken language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin or Chinese

151. Which is the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile

152. Which is the largest bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur, also known as the thighbone

153. Which is the first biosphere reserve in India?
Answer: Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

154. Which is the largest freshwater lake in India?
Answer: Wular Lake

155. What is the full form of HTTP?
Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

156. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars

157. Place these shapes in order of how many sides they have—square, triangle, octagon, and hexagon?
Answer: Triangle, square, hexagon, octagon

158. Who discovered the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein

159. When is Hindi Diwas celebrated?
Answer: September 14th of every year

160. What is the script for Hindi language?
Answer: Devanagari

161. Who was the most sought-after social reformer after the end of Sati?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

162. What is the name of our galaxy?
Answer: Milk Mekhela also known as the Milky Way

163. What is the percentage of water on the floor of our planet?
Answer: 71 percent

164. When is Earth Day celebrated?
Answer: April 22nd of each year

165. Which is the longest and shortest river in India?
Answer: Brahmaputra and Tapi, respectively.

166. Name the metals known to the people of Indus Valley Civilisation?
Answer: Copper, bronze, silver and gold

167. Who was the first female Governor of an Indian State?
Answer: Sarojini Naidu

168. Jhum cultivation is a method of cultivation which is used to be practised in which state?
Answer: Nagaland

169. Which planet is the coldest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Neptune

170. Who was the first Muslim lady to rule the Delhi Throne?
Answer: Razia Sultana

171. Where will you find the largest museum of India?
Answer: Chennai

172. Name the folk dance of Andhra Pradesh?
Ans. Kuchipudi, Vilasini Natyam, Andhra Natyam, etc.

173. When is International Mother Language Day celebrated?
Ans. 21 February

174. Who penned the book 'Wings of Fire'?
Ans. APJ Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari.

175. Name the smallest bone in the human body?
Ans. Stapes

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