170 GK Questions

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 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

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1. Who is the Father of our Nation?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

2. Who was the first President of India?

3. Who is known as Father of Indian Constitution?

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

5. Giddha is the folk dance of?

6. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

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

8. Who invented Computer?

9. 1024 Kilobytes is equal to?

10. Brain of computer is?

11. India lies in which continent?

12. Which country are the Giza Pyramids in?

14. How many Cricket world cups does India have?

15. Martyrs’ Day is celebrated every year on?

16. Name the first 3 planets in our solar system?

17. Which is the longest river on the earth?

18. Gir National Park in Gujarat is famous for?

19. Which animal has hump on its back?

20. Name 3 root vegetables?

22. Smallest state of India is?

23. Fastest animal on earth is?

24. Which is the animal referred as the ship of the

26. Highest dam of India is?

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

28. A figure with 8 sides is called?

29. What colour symbolises peace?

30. National Tree of India is?

31. Which flower is white in colour?

32. Agra is situated on the bank of river?

33. Baby of horse is called?

34. National animal of India

35. Shape of Egg is?

36. Most widely spoken language in the world is?

37. Which insect has colourful wings?

39. Cry of lion is called?

40. Name any reptile?

41. Cataract is the disease of?

42. Which organ purify our blood?

43. Who wrote the National Anthem – Jana Gana Mana?

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

45. Gateway of India is located at?

46. Who was Albert Einstein?

47. What crop is famously grown in the region of

48. Capital of Uttarakhand is?

49. When do we celebrate our Independence Day?

51. Which planet is nearest to Earth?

52. We get solar energy from?

53. What islands are a part of the country of India?

54. Where does a dog live?

55. Which animal is called the ship of the desert?

56. Goitre is caused due to the deficiency of?

57. Who was George Washington?

58. Longest river in the world is?

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

60. Largest island in the world is?

61. Which president of the USA is responsible for the

63. Young one of a cat is called?