General Knowledge, G.

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 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 it?
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. Olympics 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: Blue Whale

72. Who is the founder of Microsoft?

Answer: Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft.
73. Who discovered Penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming

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 cannot fly?

Answer: Ostrich

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

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 of India?

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: Darjeeling

97. Which is the smallest bird ?

Answer:Bee 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: Nirmala Sitharaman

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 Post Meridiem

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: 150.58Million 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

Question: What does UPS stand for?

Answer: Uninterrupted Power Supply

Question: Name the four metropolitan cities

of India

Answer: Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi

Question: Name the birthplace of Netaji

Subhash Chandra Bose

Answer: Cuttack in Odisha 

Question: What is the boiling point of water?

Answer: 100 degree is the boiling point of
water.

Question: Narendra Modi was the Chief

Minister of which states?
Answer: Gujarat
Question: Which state has taken up Sanskrit
as an official language?
Answer: Uttarakhand

Question: Name the first female Indian

Astronaut

Answer: Kalpana Chawla

Question: Who was the first Indian to go to

space?

Answer: Rakesh Sharma

Question: Who was India’s longest serving

Prime Minister?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

Question: Which is the smallest continent?

Answer: Australia

Question: Who invented the telephone?

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Question: Which acid is found in lemon?

Answer: Citric Acid
Question: What is India’s form of
Governance?
Answer: Democracy

Question: How many states does India have?

Answer: 28

Question: Who was the first Indian Woman

to climb Mount Everest?
Answer: Bachendri Pal

Question: ‘Madhubani’, a style of folk

paintings, is popular in which of the
following states in India?

Answer: Bihar

Question: Australia lies between which two

oceans?
Answer: The Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

Question: Name the 14th President of India

Answer: Ram Nath Kovind

Question: Which Indian woman was the first

to win the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Mother Teresa 

Question: Who was the inventor of the light

bulb?

Answer: Thomas Edison

Question: Who is the Finance Minister of

India?

Answer: Nirmala Sitharaman

Question: What is the national game of USA?

Answer: Baseball

Question: What is the full form of NEWS?

Answer: North East West South

Question: What is the full form of AM and

PM?

Answer: Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem

Question: Who is the Vice President of India?

Answer: Venkaiah Naidu

Question: Name the lightest gas

Answer: Hydrogen

Question: Who wrote Panchatantra?

Answer: Vishnu Sharma

Question: Who was the first Indian to have

won the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

Question: Name the region that has the

oldest rocks

Answer: Aravalli

Question: Name the highest mountain peak

of India

Answer: Mount Kanchenjunga

Question: Entomology is the science that

studies

Answer: Insect

Question: How many layers are there in

Earth’s atmosphere?

Answer: 5
Question: Name the biggest planet in our
solar system

Answer: Jupiter

Question: Which is the largest plateau in the

world?

Answer: Tibetan Plateau 

Question: What is the order of the planets in

the Solar System?

Answer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Question: Who invented the Television?

Answer: John Logie Baird

Question: Where is the Ajanta caves

situated?

Answer: Maharashtra

Question: What is the name of India and

Pakistan’s border?
Answer: Radcliffe Line

Question: What is the ratio of width to the

length of National Flag of India?

Answer: 2:3

Question: Which gas commonly known as

laughing gas

Answer: Nitrous oxide

Question: Gandhi Ji started the Dandi March

in which year?

Answer: 1930

Question: What is the study of Universe

known as?

Answer: Cosmology

Question: Why are the leaves of a plant so

important?
Answer:  They produce food for the plant
through photosynthesis

Question: The famous Ganga Sagar Mela an

annual fair is held in which state of India?

Answer: West Bengal

Question: Who is considered the founder of

the Sikh religion?

Answer: Guru Nanak

Question: Who was known as the Indian

Napoleon?

Answer: Samudragupta

Question: Who gave the slogan Do or Die?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Question: What is the distance between

Earth and Sun?

Answer: 148.23 Million km

Question: Which is the largest country in the
world based on the area?

Answer: Russia

Question: What is the most spoken language

in the world?

Answer: Mandarin or Chinese

Question: Which is the longest river in the

world?

Answer: Nile

Question: Which is the largest bone in the

human body?

Answer: Femur, also known as the thighbone

Question: Which is the first biosphere

reserve in India?

Answer: Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

Question: Which is the largest freshwater
lake in India?

Answer: Wular Lake

Question: What is the full form of HTTP?

Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Question: Which planet is known as the Red

Planet?

Answer: Mars

Question: Place these shapes in order of how

many sides they have—square, triangle,
octagon, and hexagon?

Answer: Triangle, square, hexagon, octagon

Question: Who discovered the theory of

relativity?

Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: When is Hindi Diwas celebrated?

Answer: September 14th of every year

Question: What is the script for Hindi
language?

Answer: Devanagari

Question: Who was the most sought-after

social reformer after the end of Sati?

Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Question: What is the name of our galaxy?

Answer: Milk Mekhela also known as the

Milky Way

Question: What is the percentage of water on

the floor of our planet?

Answer: 71 percent

Question: When is Earth Day celebrated?

Answer: April 22nd of each year

Question: Which is the longest and shortest

river in India?

Answer: Brahmaputra and Tapi, respectively.

Question: Name the metals known to the
people of Indus Valley Civilisation?

Answer: Copper, bronze, silver and gold

Question: Who was the first female Governor

of an Indian State?

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

Question: Jhum cultivation is a method of

cultivation which is used to be practised in
which state?

Answer: Nagaland

Question: Which planet is the coldest planet

in our solar system?

Answer: Neptune

Question: Who was the first Muslim lady to

rule the Delhi Throne?

Answer: Razia Sultana

GK General Knowledge - Current Affairs Question
Answer Quiz
Q. The Fifteenth Finance Commission which submitted its report to the Union
Government in November 2020 is headed by
1) T.R. Prasad
2) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
3) Kamal Pande
4) N.K. Singh
View Answer
ANS: 4
Q. Who won the Booker Prize 2020 for his debut novel ‘Shuggie Bain’?
1) James Kelman
2) Margaret Atwood
3) Seaman McGuire
4) Douglas Stuart
View Answer
ANS: 4
Q. Which among the following States has won the top 2019 National Water Award
announced in November 2020?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Punjab
View Answer
ANS: 2
Q. Which Indian organisation won the prestigious 2020 United Nations Global
Climate Action Award?
1) Chipko Movement
2) Global Himalayan Expedition
3) Centre for Science and Environment
4) Narmada Bachao Andolan
View Answer
ANS: 2
Q. In the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020, India’s rank is -
1) 80
2) 102
3) 91
4) 94
View Answer
ANS: 4
Q. In November 2020, ISRO placed in orbit India’s Eye in Sky EOS-01 along with how
many other Satellites?
1) 9
2) 12
3) 10
4) 4
View Answer
ANS: 1
Q. International Gandhi Award 2020 for the efforts against leprosy in the individual
category has been awarded to -
1) Yohei Sasakawa
2) N. S. Dharmashakatu
3) Satya Nadella
4) Damodar Ganesh Bapat
View Answer
ANS: 2
Q. Which of the following was conferred Oscar Award 2020 for Best Film?
1) Avenger
2) Gully Boy
3) Parasite
4) Joker
View Answer
ANS: 3
Note: Bong Joon Ho is the 2020 Oscar Winner for Directing for Parasite.
Q. In which of the following cities of India was the first synthetic rubber plant of the
country set up?
1) Panipat
2) Sonipat
3) Chandigarh
4) Lucknow
View Answer
ANS: 1
Note: India's first Synthetic Rubber Plant was unveiled at Panipat in Haryana.
Q. India's first semi high speed train Vande Bharat runs between -
1) Varanasi and New Delhi
2) New Delhi and Jammu
3) New Delhi and Mumbai
4) New Delhi and Lucknow
View Answer
ANS: 1
Note: Vande Bharat Express also known as Train 18, is an Indian higher-speed rail intercity
electric multiple unit.