Important GK Questions and Answers
1. Which breed of goat is called the “Milk Queen of the World”?
Answer: Saanen
2. In which year was Mahatma Gandhi born?
Answer: 1869
3. When was life insurance nationalized?
Answer: 1956
4. Who was the first Indian Governor General of independent India?
Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
5. Telugu is the official language of which state?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
6. What does the inertia of an object depend on?
Answer: Mass
7. Who wrote the famous play “Shakuntala”?
Answer: Great poet Kalidasa
8. “The potential difference between the ends of a conductor is proportional to the current flowing through it.”
Answer: Ohm’s Law
9. Which city is the capital of Afghanistan?
Answer: Kabul
10. When did the first train run in India?
Answer: April 16
11. Under which plan was the partition between India and Pakistan carried out?
Answer: Mountbatten Plan
12. What would happen if a fan were running in a room?
Answer: Then the temperature of the air in the room would increase.
13. How many teeth grow twice in a human lifetime?
Answer: 20
14. What is the fluctuation in the frequency of a sound source called?
Answer: Doppler Effect
15. When was Goa liberated from the Portuguese?
Answer: 1964
16. When is Teacher’s Day celebrated?
Answer: September 5
17. The first bank branch to receive ISO 9002 certification?
Answer: Canara Bank
18. Which country is the largest continent in the world?
Answer: Asia
19. Which river is called the Sorrow of Bihar?
Answer: Kosi
20. In which year did humans first set foot on the Moon?
Answer: 1969
21. Which country is the world’s largest continent?
Answer: Asia
22. In which direction of Assam is China located?
Answer: North
23. When was the atomic bomb dropped on Japan?
Answer: In 1945
24. What are plants that grow in salt water called?
Answer: Lophytes
25. Who presides over the meetings of the Rajya Sabha?
Answer: Vice President
26. Who discovered the sea route to India?
Answer: Vasco da Gama
27. What are genes made of?
Answer: DNA
28. Which line is parallel to the equator?
Answer: Latitude
29. What is the reproductive organ of a plant?
Answer: Flower
30. What is the world’s largest wall?
Answer: Great Wall of China
31. Khajuraho is located in –
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
32. Steel is increased to make it hard?
Answer: Chromium content
33. Which city is situated on the banks of the Ganges?
Answer: Kanpur
34. Who is called the father of the White Revolution in India?
Answer: Verghese Kurien
35. Renowned film actor Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor are related.
Answer: Father and son
36. When water falls from a height in a waterfall?
Answer: Does its temperature increase?
37. Why did Einstein receive the Nobel Prize?
Answer: For explaining the photoelectric effect.
38. In 2011, the Postal Department issued a commemorative stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of which bank?
Answer: Central Bank of India
39. A girl is swinging on a swing. If another girl sits next to her, will the swing’s time period remain unchanged?
Answer: Remain unchanged.
40. The Mughal emperor who spent 15 years in exile?
Answer: Humayun
41. Which state in India produces the most rice?
Answer: West Bengal
42. What is the national animal of India?
Answer: Tiger
43. How many Hindu Puranas are there?
Answer: 18
44. Which state in India is known for tea production?
Answer: Assam
45. The largest railway station on the Northeast Frontier Railway is:
Answer: Maligaon
46. Besides India’s national anthem, Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthem of which other country?
Answer: Bangladesh
47. Who was the chairman of the Constituent Assembly formed to draft the Constitution of India?
Answer: Shri Dr. Rajendra Prasad
48. Which place in India experiences the coldest weather?
Answer: Leh
49. The planet closest to the Sun is –
Answer: Mercury
50. What kind of trees have leaves in Rajasthan?
Answer: Small
51. Which city is the capital of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo
52. Who first addressed Subhash Chandra Bose as “Netaji”?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
53. The opening of the Suez Canal shortened the distance between which two continents?
Answer: Europe to Asia and East Africa
54. In what form is nitrogen used by plants?
Answer: Nitrate
55. Who discovered the electron?
Answer: J.J. Thomson
56. Which country is the largest producer of natural rubber in the world?
Answer: Thailand
57. Where is the Forest Research Institute located?
Answer: Dehradun
58. What will happen if a magnet is heated?
Answer: Magnetism will be destroyed.
59. What is one horsepower equal to?
Answer: 746 watts.
60. How many cells are there in an amoeba?
Answer: 1 (one)
GK Questions and Answers
61. In which Indian city is Jantar Mantar located?
Answer: Delhi.
62. The main function of RNA is?
Answer: Protein synthesis.
63. Which Mughal king was illiterate?
Answer: Akbar.
64. What happens to a person when he sleeps?
Answer: His blood pressure decreases.
65. Who founded the Prarthana Samaj?
Answer: Atmaram Pandurang.
66. What is apiculture related to?
Answer: Beekeeping.
67. Which city is the most expensive in India?
Answer: Mumbai.
68. Who is the founder of the Green Revolution in India?
Answer: MS Swaminathan
69. What is the longest road in India?
Answer: GT Road
70. What is the full form of ATM?
Answer: Automatic Teller Machine
GK Questions and Answers
71. Which is called the ‘metal of the future’?
Answer: Titanium
72. Stainless steel is an alloy of?
Answer: Iron and chromium
73. Anju Bobby George is associated with?
Answer: Athletics
74. Red rot disease is a disease of which crop?
Answer: Sugarcane
75. Who was the first female cabinet minister of India?
Answer: Princess Amrit Kaur
76. Chetak horse is associated with what?
Answer: Maharana Pratap
77. What are the largest flowers?
Answer: Rafflesia
78. Who called Mahatma Gandhi the “half-naked fakir”?
Answer: Churchill
79. Anju Bobby George is associated with—
Answer: Athletics
80. In which state is the Koyna Dam located?
Answer: Maharashtra
GK Questions and Answers
81. Which element is found in its free state?
Answer: Sulfur
82. Aligarh is famous for which product?
Answer: Locks
83. Does the pure form of carbon decrease in nature?
Answer: Diamond
84. Which fruit is affected by twinkle disease?
Answer: Lemon
85. What is Uday Shankar associated with?
Answer: Dance
86. Is there a pyramid of energy?
Answer: Always upright
87. Which goat breed in India yields the most milk?
Answer: Jamunapari
88. Who was the first Indian Governor General of independent India?
Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
89. Which gas is used in refrigerators?
Answer: Freon
90. When did the Battle of Plassey take place?
Answer: 1757 AD
91. In which state is the town of Kargil located?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
92. Who first gave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”?
Answer: Sardar Bhagat Singh
93. The world’s highest mountain peak is:
Answer: Everest
94. Which part of a plant absorbs energy?
Answer: Leaf
95. Where is the pituitary gland located?
Answer: In the brain
96. What was the clan of Lord Buddha?
Answer: Shakya clan
97. On what principle does ink absorber work?
Answer: Surface tension
98. The first bank to open a branch abroad?
Answer: Bank of India, London, (1946)
99. In which light is photosynthesis most intense?
Answer: Red light
100. When did the Battle of Plassey take place?
Answer: 1757 AD
Important GK Questions And Answers
1. “विश्व की दूध की रानी” किस नस्ल की बकरी को कहा जाता है?
उत्तर. सानेन
2. किस वर्ष में महात्मा गांधी का जन्म हुआ था?
उत्तर.1869
3. जीवन बीमा को राष्ट्रीय कब किया गया ?
उत्तर.सन् 1956
4. स्वतन्त्र भारत के प्रथम भारतीय गवर्नर जनरल कौन थे?
उत्तर.सी. राजगोपालाचारी
5. तेलगु किस राज्य की राजभाषा है?
उत्तर.आंध्रप्रदेश
6. एक वस्तु का जड़त्व किस पर निर्भर करता है?
उत्तर. द्रव्यमान पर
7. प्रसिद्ध नाटक ‘शकुंतला’ किसने लिखी थी?
उत्तर.महाकवि कालिदास
8. “किसी चालक के सिरो के बीच विभवातर उसमे बहने वाली धारा के समानुपाती होता है?
उत्तर. ” ओम का नियम
9. कौन सा शहर अफगानिस्तान की राजधानी है?
उत्तर.काबुल
10. भारत में सबसे पहली रेलगाड़ी कब चली थी?
उत्तर.16 अप्रैल,