1. How many days do we have in a week?
Answer: Seven
2. How many days are there in a normal year?
Answer: 365 (not a leap year)
3. How many colors are there in a rainbow?
Answer: 7
4. Which animal is known as the ‘Ship of the Desert?’
Answer: Camel
5. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 26
6. How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 21
7. How many sides are there in a triangle?
Answer: Three
8. Which month of the year has the least number of days?
Answer: February
9. Which are the vowels in the English alphabet series?
Answer: A, E, I, O, U
10. Which animal is called King of Jungle?
Answer: Lion
11. How many primary colors are there?
Answer: Three (red, yellow, blue)
12. How many days are there in the month of February in a leap year?
Answer: 29 days
13. What do you call a house made of ice?
Answer: Igloo
14. Which is the largest animal in the world?
Answer: Blue whale
15. Which is the tallest animal on the earth?
Answer: Giraffe
16. Which festival is known as the festival of colors?
Answer: Holi
17. Which festival is called the festival of light?
Answer: Diwali
18. What is the top color in a rainbow?
Answer: Red
19. What type of bird lays the largest eggs?
Answer: Ostrich
20. Which festival is known as the ‘Festival of flowers’?
Answers: Onam
21. In which direction does the sunrise?
Answer: East
22. Which is the world’s largest flower?
Answer: Rafflesia
23. How many zeros are there in one hundred thousand?
Answer: Five
24. How many hours are there in two days?
Answer: 48 hours (24+24)
25. How many months of the year have 31 days?
Answer: 7 (January, March, May, July, August, October and December)
26. How many weeks are there in one year?
Answer: 52
27. Which are the colors in a rainbow?
Answer: Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
28. How many bones does an adult human have?
Answer: 206
29. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
30. How many millimeters are there in 1cm?
Answer: 10
31. Which is the nearest star to planet earth?
Answer: Sun
32. Which is the longest river on the earth?
Answer: Nile
33. Which is the principal source of energy for earth?
Answer: Sun
34. How many lungs does the human body have?
Answer: Two
35. What is the standard taste of the water?
Answer: Water is tasteless
36. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
37. Which is the fastest animal on the land?
Answer: Cheetah
38. Which continent is known as ‘Dark’ continent?
Answer: Africa
39. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars
40. Which is the most sensitive organ in our body?
Answer: Skin
41. Which is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
42. Which day is observed as World Environment Day?
Answer: June 5
43. How many years are there in a century?
Answer: One Hundred
44. Which is the largest country in the world?
Answer: Russia (By area)
45. Who invented the Computer?
Answer: Charles Babbage
46. How many players are there in a cricket team?
Answer: 11
47. Which day is observed as World Literacy Day?
Answer: September 8
48. Who is the inventor of Radio?
Answer: Marconi
49. Which place is known as the roof of the world?
Answer: Tibet
50. How many teeth does a healthy adult have including the wisdom teeth?
Answer: 32
51. Which gas is most abundant in the earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen
52. How many people are there in the world?
Answer: Over 7 billion
53. Which is the continent with the most number of countries?
Answer: Africa
54. Which is the most common non-contagious disease in the world?
Answer: Tooth Decay
55. How many strings does a violin have?
Answer: Four
56. How many planets are there in our solar system?
Answer: 8
57. Which is the hottest continent on Earth?
Answer: Africa
58. Which is the smallest continent in the world?
Answer: Australia
59. How many years are there in a millennium?
Answer: 1000
60. Which country is home to the kangaroo?
Answer: Australia
61. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
62. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
63. What does the Internet prefix WWW stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web
64. How much of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean?
Answer: 71%
65. Who discovered Penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
66. How many stars are there in the American flag?
Answer: 50
67. What do you call a type of shape that has five sides?
Answer: Pentagon
68. Which way is anti-clockwise, left or right?
Answer: Left
69. How many equal sides does an isosceles triangle have?
Answer: 2
70. Which is the coldest location in the earth?
Answer: East Antarctica
71. Who discovered electricity?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
72. Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin (Chinese)
73. Which two parts of the body continue to grow for your entire life?
Answer: Nose and Ears
74. The largest ‘Democracy’ in the world?
Answer: India
75. Who is the inventor of Television?
Answer: John Logie Baird
76. Which is the largest plateau in the world?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau
77. Which is the instrument used to measure Blood pressure?
Answer: Sphygmomanometer
78. What color symbolizes peace?
Answer: White
79. Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates
80. During which year did World War I begin?
Answer: 1914
81. How many Cricket world cups does India have?
Answer: 2
82. Global warming is caused by the excess of which type of gas?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
83. How many cards are there in a complete pack of cards?
Answer: 52
84. What is the name of the biggest rain forest in the world?
Answer: The Amazon
85. Which African nation is famous for chocolate?
Answer: Ghana
86. What makes up (approx.) 80% of our brain’s volume?
Answer: Water
87. Which instrument is used for measuring wind speed?
Answer: Anemometer
88. ‘Stars and Stripes’ is the nickname of the flag of which country?
Answer: United States of America
89. Which language is used by the computer to process data?
Answer: Binary language
90. What covers approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface: Land or water?
Answer: Water
91. Which is the hardest substance available on earth?
Answer: Diamond
92. Which is the biggest desert in the world?
Answer: Sahara desert
93. Which country gifted The Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France
94. What is the name of the Greek God of music?
Answer: Apollo
95. What does the “SIM” in the SIM card stand for?
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module
96. Which is the first element on the periodic table of elements?
Answer: Hydrogen
97. Which is the longest written Constitution in the world?
Answer: India
98. What is the largest joint in the human body?
Answer: Knee
99. Which is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: Stapes (Ear bone)
100. Which instrument is used to measure Atmospheric Pressure?
Answer: Barometer
101. Which is the largest continent in the world?
Answer: Asia
102. Who is the inventor of the electric Bulb?
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison
103. On whose memory Nobel Prize is awarded?
Answer: Alfred Nobel
104. Who is the first woman to go to space?
Answer: Valentina Tereshkova
105. What is HCl?
Answer: Hydrochloric acid
106. What is currency of China?
Answer: Renminbi
Answer the following gk quiz questions with a True or False.
107. Chameleons have extremely long tongues, sometimes as long as their bodies.
Answer: True
108. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. True or False?
Answer: True
109. A sneeze is faster than the blink of an eye.
Answer: True
110. Pigs can look up into the sky.
Answers: False (They cannot)
111. There are 9 planets in our Solar System.
Answers: False (Our Solar system has only 8 planets; Pluto is a dwarf planet)
112. Mark Zuckerburg is the father of modern computers.
Answer: False (Charles Babbage is the father of modern computers)
113. The egg of a Hummingbird is the smallest egg in the world.
Answers: True
114. Frogs have to drink lots of water.
Answers: False
115. Some animals can get sunburn.
Answers: True (Animals like dogs, cats and cows can get sunburns at the tip of their noses and ears).
116. William Shakespeare is a scientist.
Answers: False (He is a dramatist)
117. Whales have belly buttons.
Answers: True
118. Sharks are color blind.
Answer: False
119. Mumbai is the capital of India.
Answers: False (Delhi is the capital of India)
120. Camels store water in their humps.
Answer: True
121. Humans have four hearts.
Answer: False (Humans have one heart with four chambers)
122. All tigers have yellow eyes.
Answers: True
123. A pediatrician is a child specialist.
Answers: True
124. Arachnophobia is the fear of dogs.
Answers: False (It is the fear of spiders)
125. Dodo is an endangered bird.
Answers: False (Dodo is an extinct bird)
126. Bhagat Singh is a Freedom fighter of India.
Answer: True
127. Washington DC is the capital of China.
Answers: False (Beijing is the capital of China)
128. June 5 is celebrated as Environment Day.
Answer: True
129. Laika, the dog is the first animal to go to space.
Answer: True
130. Roman Calendar is named as Julian Calendar.
Answer: True
131. There are 12 players in a cricket team.
Answers: False (There are 11 players in a cricket team)
132. Ball, Bat, Stump, Hockey stick
Ans: Hockey stick
133. Hen, Dove, Pigeon, Cat
Ans: Cat
134. Hammer, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Cobbler
Ans: Hammer
135. Jeep, Car, Bike, Boat
Ans: Boat
136. Doctor, Surgeon, Nurse, Teacher
Ans: Teacher
137. Mother, Father, Brother, Friend
Ans: Friend
138. Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto
Ans: Pluto
139. Cabbage, Potato, Capsicum, Tomato
Ans: Potato
140. Pen, Pencil, Eraser, Ink Pen
Ans: Eraser
141. Aeroplane, Helicopter, Ship, Jet
Ans: Ship
142. Carrot, Mango, Banana, Apple
Ans: Carrot
143. Cow, Lion, Dog, Cat
Ans: Lion
144. 2,6,7,10
Ans: 7
145. P.J. Abdul Kalaam, C.V. Raman, Issac Newton, William Shakespeare
Ans: William Shakespeare
146. Dispur, Pune, Patna, Shimla
Ans: Pune
147. 1 , 2, 4, 5
Ans: 4
148. Asia, Europe, China, Australia
Ans: China
149. Radio, Television, Loudspeaker, Stereo
Ans: Television
150. Respiration, Digestion, Excretion, Photosynthesis
Ans: Photosynthesis
151. Hydrogen, Hypochlorite, Helium, Lithium
Ans: Hypochlorite
152. Noun, Pronoun, Articles, Adverb
Ans: Articles
153. Throat, Tongue, Nose, Ears
Ans: Throat
154. Coffee Powder, Chili Powder, Tea Powder, Green Tea Powder
Ans: Chilli Powder
155. Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Vitamin K
Ans: Vitamin B
156. Dinosaur, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Giraffe
Ans: Dinosaur
157. What is the place where books are kept called?
a) Zoo
b) Library
c) Garden
d) Museum
Ans: B. Library
158. How many digits are there in Mathematics?
a) Hundred
b) Thousand
c) Billion
d) Infinite
Ans: D. Infinite
159. Who is the first Prime Minister of India?
a) P.J. Abdul Kalaam
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Indira Gandhi
d) Narendra Modi
Ans: B. Jawaharlal Nehru
160. How many bananas will there be in a dozen banana?
a) 8
b) 9
c) 10
d) 12
Ans: D.12
161. Who is Mickey Mouse?
a) Actor
b) Scientist
c) Cartoon Character
d) Doctor
Ans: C. Cartoon Character
162. Who is the author of “God of Small Things”?
a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
b) Aravind Adiga
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Victor Hugo
Ans: C. Arundhati Roy
163. What is the value of Pie?
a) 14
b) 916
c) 13
d) 34
Ans: A. 3.14 (22/7)
164. What is the position of Earth in our Solar system?
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth
Ans: C. Third
165. Which is the biggest continent?
a)Asia
b) Africa
c) Australia
d) Europe
Ans: A. Asia
166. How many wonders do we have in the world?
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Eight
d) Nine
Ans: B. Seven
167. Who found the concept of “Gravitation” for the first time?
a) Albert Einstein
b) Charles Darwin
c) Issac Newton
d) V. Raman
Ans: C. Issac Newton
168. Who is the author of “Julius Caesar”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Milton
d) Sylvia Plath
Ans: A. William Shakespeare
169. When is UN day celebrated?
a) October 21
b) June 24
c) October 24
d) June 21
Ans: C. October 24
170. What are constellations?
a) Group of planets
b) Group of galaxies
c) Group of stars
d) Group of meteors
Ans: C. Group of stars
171. Which planet is known as “The Blue Planet”?
a) Mercury
b) Venus
c) Uranus
d) Earth
Ans: D. Earth
172. What is the person who compiles a dictionary called?
a) Lexicographer
b) Editor
c) Compiler
d) Director
Ans: A. Lexicographer
173. What is the driver of a Train called?
a) Pilot
b) Train Driver
c) Locopilot
d) Captain
Ans: C. Locopilot
174. What is the full form of RBI?
a) Reputed Bank of India
b) Reserve Bank of India
c) Recovery Bank of India
d) Reduced Bank of India
Ans: B. Reserve Bank of India
175. What is the “Fear of Darkness” called?
a) Nyctophobia
b) Ablutophobia
c) Ophidiophobia
d) Arachnophobia
Ans: A. Nyctophobia
176. What is the capital city of Peru?
a) Lima
b) Rome
c) Los Angeles
d) Prague
Ans: A. Lima
177. How many states are there in India?
a) 27
b) 28
c) 29
d) 30
Ans: B. 29
178. Who discovered Aeroplane?
a) Wright Brothers
b) Steve Waugh
c) Albert Einstein
d) Stephen Hawking
Ans: A. Wright Brothers
179. Which bird is the universal symbol of Peace?
a) Pigeon
b) Dove
c) Peacock
d) Pelican
Ans: B. Dove
180. What causes Anemia?
a) By the deficiency of Iron
b) By the deficiency of Iodine
c) By the deficiency of Vitamin D
d) By the deficiency Calcium
Ans: A. By the deficiency of Iron
181. Who is a “Chef”?
a) A person who drives a car
b) A person who cooks food
c) A person who acts
d) A person who treats patients
Ans: B. A person who cooks food
182. What is the color of the sky?
Ans: Blue
183. What is the job of a Doctor?
Ans: A Doctor treats sick people.
184. What comes after 10 and before 13?
Ans: 12
185. Where does fish live?
Ans: In Water
186. What is sun?
Ans: Sun is a big ball of fire.
187. Who is Virat Kohli?
Ans: Indian Cricketer
188. How many noses do you have?
Ans: One
189. What is the color of Mango?
Ans: Yellow
190. In which planet do we live?
Ans: Earth
191. What is the young one of a cat called?
Ans: Kitten
192. How many years are there in a century?
Ans: Hundred
193. Which is the national game of India?
Ans: Hockey
194. What is the full form of TV?
Ans: Television
195. Solve 27*0.
Ans: Zero (Any number multiplied by zero gives zero as the answer)
196. Which all animals give us milk?
Ans: Cow, goat and buffalo
197. What is the home of a lion called?
Ans: Den
198. How many days are there in a week?
Ans: Seven
199. Where do we deposit money?
Ans: Bank
200. What is the place where animals are kept called?
Ans: Zoo
201. What is COVID-19?
Ans: It is deadly disease spread across the world during 2019 and 2020.
202. What is Beri-Beri?
Ans: It is a disease caused due to the deficiency of Vitamin B
203. Where do we get coconut from?
Ans: We get coconut from coconut Tree
204. Which state in India is known as “God’s Own Country”?
Ans: Kerala
205. How do plants make food?
Ans: Plants make food through the process called Photosynthesis.
206. Which place is known as the “Land of White Elephants”?
Ans: Thailand
207. How many players are there in each side of a Hockey team?
Ans- 11
208. How many players are there in each side of a Basket Ball team?
Ans- 5
209. Commonwealth Games are held in every _ years
Ans- 4 years
210. What is the full form of cricket tournament- IPL?
211. Ans- Indian Premier League
212. How many Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments are held every year?
Ans- 4
213. In which sports, the term HAT-TRICK is used?
Ans- Cricket
214. Number of players in one team of Kho Kho are
Ans- Nine
215. Eden Gardens cricket stadium is in –
Ans: Calcutta
216. Which country will host Cricket World Cup 2019 –
Ans: England
217. Football was introduced as a competitive game in Olympics in year –
Ans: 1908
218. Hockey is the National sports of –
Ans: India and Pakistan
219. Which is the National sport of Canada?
Ans- Lacrosse/Ice hockey
220. _ has Cricket as its National S
Ans- Jamaica
221. _ is the national sport of Turkey
Ans- Wrestling
222. In which country Commonwealth games were held in 2010?
Ans- India
223. Which country has hosted Commonwealth Games for the maximum number of times?
Ans- Canada
224. Caddie is related to __________
Ans- Golf
225. In which year Olympic Games were cancelled because of World War I?
Ans- 1916
226. Who was the winner of Football World Cup in 2010?
Ans- Spain
227. Where did the game of Badminton originate from?
Ans- Pune
228. When is national sports day of India celebrated?
Ans- August 22
229. When was women’s and men’s doubles introduced in Wimbledon?
Ans- 1884
230. Who among the following is known as “Flying Sikh of India”
Ans- Milkha Singh
231. Total Olympic medals won by India in 2012
Ans- Six
232. The only driver in Indian Grand Prix 2011 is
Ans- Alice Powell
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