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100 General Knowledge Questions and Answers
Q1: What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris
Q2: Who wrote ‘Hamlet’?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Q3: What is the smallest prime number?
Answer: 2
Q4: What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Q5: Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars
Q6: What is the boiling point of water?
Answer: 100°C or 212°F
Q7: Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the USA?
Answer: France
Q8: Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Q9: What is the largest mammal?
Answer: Blue Whale
Q10: What does DNA stand for?
Answer: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Q11: Which element has the chemical symbol ‘O’?
Answer: Oxygen
Q12: Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
Q13: What is the hardest natural substance?
Answer: Diamond
Q14: In what year did World War II end?
Answer: 1945
Q15: Which is the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile River
Q16: What is the capital of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo
Q17: Who developed the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Q18: What language is primarily spoken in Brazil?
Answer: Portuguese
Q19: How many continents are there on Earth?
Answer: Seven
Q20: What is H2O commonly known as?
Answer: Water
Q21: What is the primary ingredient of glass?
Answer: Sand (Silica)
Q22: Who is known as the Father of Computers?
Answer: Charles Babbage
Q23: Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
Q24: What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
Q25: Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
Q26: What currency is used in the United Kingdom?
Answer: British Pound Sterling
Q27: Which organ is responsible for pumping blood in the human body?
Answer: The Heart
Q28: What is the chemical symbol for water?
Answer: H2O
Q29: Which scientist proposed the laws of motion?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Q30: What is the main language spoken in Canada?
Answer: English and French
Q31: Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Q32: What is the capital of Egypt?
Answer: Cairo
Q33: Which gas is most abundant in Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen
Q34: What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
Q35: Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury
Q36: Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Answer: Michelangelo
Q37: What is the rarest blood type?
Answer: AB negative
Q38: Which ocean is the largest?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Q39: What is the chemical formula of table salt?
Answer: NaCl (Sodium chloride)
Q40: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie
Q41: What is the capital of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
Q42: Which planet has the most moons?
Answer: Saturn
Q43: Who is known as the ‘Father of Theory of Evolution’?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Q44: What is the largest desert in the world?
Answer: Sahara Desert
Q45: What does CPU stand for in computers?
Answer: Central Processing Unit
Q46: What is the longest bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur (thigh bone)
Q47: Which country has the largest population?
Answer: China
Q48: Name the world’s largest island.
Answer: Greenland
Q49: What metal is commonly used to make electrical wires?
Answer: Copper
Q50: What is the largest planet in our Solar System?
Answer: Jupiter
Q51: How many bones are there in the adult human body?
Answer: 206
Q52: What year did man first land on the moon?
Answer: 1969
Q53: What is the common name for Sodium Bicarbonate?
Answer: Baking Soda
Q54: Who is the author of ‘Harry Potter’ series?
Answer: J.K. Rowling
Q55: Which gas is essential for human respiration?
Answer: Oxygen
Q56: What is the currency of Japan?
Answer: Japanese Yen
Q57: What substance do bees collect to make honey?
Answer: Nectar
Q58: What is the speed of light?
Answer: Approximately 299,792 kilometers per second
Q59: Which vitamin is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight?
Answer: Vitamin D
Q60: Who invented the light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Q61: What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah
Q62: Which country is home to the Great Barrier Reef?
Answer: Australia
Q63: What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: Skin
Q64: What is the currency of India?
Answer: Indian Rupee
Q65: What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer: Fe
Q66: How many planets are in the Solar System?
Answer: Eight
Q67: What is the most spoken language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese
Q68: Who invented the printing press?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg
Q69: What is tectonic plate movement responsible for?
Answer: Earthquakes and volcanic activity
Q70: Which planet is known for its rings?
Answer: Saturn
Q71: What is the most populous country in Africa?
Answer: Nigeria
Q72: In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989
Q73: What is the primary gas found in the air we breathe?
Answer: Nitrogen
Q74: Who wrote “The Odyssey”?
Answer: Homer
Q75: What is the tallest building in the world?
Answer: Burj Khalifa
Q76: Which city is known as the Big Apple?
Answer: New York City
Q77: Which vitamin is known as ascorbic acid?
Answer: Vitamin C
Q78: What country has the most volcanoes?
Answer: Indonesia
Q79: In computer science, what does HTML stand for?
Answer: HyperText Markup Language
Q80: What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0°C or 32°F
Q81: Who discovered gravity?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Q82: What is the largest continent by land area?
Answer: Asia
Q83: How many colors are in a rainbow?
Answer: Seven
Q84: What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
Q85: Which famous physicist developed the laws of motion?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Q86: Which city hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: London
Q87: What is the longest river in India?
Answer: The Ganges (Ganga)
Q88: What is the main ingredient in chocolate?
Answer: Cocoa beans
Q89: What is the largest land animal?
Answer: African Elephant
Q90: Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
Q91: What is the hardest rock?
Answer: Diamond
Q92: What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
Q93: What is the largest ocean?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Q94: Which country is the largest producer of coffee?
Answer: Brazil
Q95: What is the chemical formula for methane?
Answer: CH4
Q96: Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
Q97: Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?
Answer: Japan
Q98: Which element has the atomic number 1?
Answer: Hydrogen
Q99: How many legs does a spider have?
Answer: Eight
Q100: What is the tallest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls