General Knowledge is an important aspect of a student’s life and though, is not always prescribed in the syllabus but forms an important foundation for the intellectual building. Some important General Knowledge Questions and Answer for Students have been mentioned here. General Knowledge questions will help students in participating in all competitive examinations conducted in school and entrance examinations.
Q. 1 Who discovered the Typewriter?
Ans: W.A Burt
Q. 2 Name of the Person who was also known as Deshbandhu?
Ans: Chittaranjan Das
Q. 3 Brain of computer is ?
Ans: CPU
Q. 4 Panchayati Raj Comes under?
Ans: State List
Q. 5. Who is the first person to reach North Pole?
Ans: Robert Peary
Q. 6 Which is the religion of the world?
Ans: Hinduism
Q. 7. Which is the first country to issue paper currency?
Ans: China
Q. 8 Which is the first country to win football World cup?
Ans: Uruguay
Q. 9. Who was the first Governor General of Pakistan?
Ans: Mohd. Ali Jinnah
Q. 10. Who was the first person to fly aero plane?
Ans Wright Brothers
Q. 11. Who was the first person to land on the moon?
Ans: Neil Armstrong
Q. 12. Who was the first Muslim Prime Minister of a country?
Ans: Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
Q. 13. Who was the first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly?
Ans: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit
Q. 14. Who was the first man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice?
Ans: Nawang Gombu
Q. 15. Ryder Cup is associated with which sport
Ans: Golf
Q. 16. Sheesh Mahal Tournament is related to which sport?
Ans: Cricket
Q. 17. Who achieved the discovery of ‘Vitamin C’?
Ans: Albert Szent
Q. 18. What is the purest form of Iron?
Ans: Wrought Iron
Q. 19. Which female astronaut spent the maximum time in space?
Ans: Sunita Williams
Q. 20. Sodium metal is kept under
Ans: kerosene
Q. 21 From which mineral is radium obtained?
Ans: Pitchblende
Q. 22. Potassium nitrate is used in
Ans Fertiliser
Q. 23. Author of Around the World in Eighty Days is?
Ans: Jules Verne
Q. 24. Who is honoured as Father of Modern Chemistry?
Ans: Antoine Lavoisier
Q. 25. Who invented periodic table?
Ans: Dmitri Mendeleev
Q. 26. Which gases cause acid rain?
Ans: Sulphur dioxide, Nitrogen oxides
Q. 27. What is the title of the first chapter of the Muslim holy book, the Qur’an?Al-Adiyat
Ans: Al-Fatiha
Q. 28. What is the earlier name of “Leh Singhe-Khababs Festival”?
Ans: Sindhu Darshan
Q. 29. “Matrimandir” is located in?
Ans: Pondicherry
Q. 30. “Temple of the Emerald Buddha” is located in which country?
Ans: Thailand
Q. 31. Gir National Park in Gujarat is famous for?
Ans: Lion
Q. 32. Panchatantra has been written by
Ans: Vishnu Sharma
Q. 33. . Who said, Child is the father of Man?
Ans: William Wordsworth
Q. 34. Agra is situated on the bank of river?
Ans: Yamuna
Q. 35 Cry of lion is called?
Ans: Roar
Q. 36. Gateway of India is located at?
Ans: Mumbai
Q. 37. We get solar energy from?
Ans: Sun
Q. 38. How many sides are there in a pentagon?
Ans: 5
Q. 39. Who is the author of the book – Broken Wing?
Ans: Sarojini Naidu
Q. 40 The national song
Ans: Vande Mataram
Q. 41 Which is the tallest waterfall in the world ?
Ans: Angel Falls
Q. 42. . Which acid is found in lemon?
Ans: Citric Acid
Q. 43. What is the full form of NEWS?
Ans: North, East, Western, South