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Q1.

Which is the coldest


location in the earth?
Answer: East Antarctica
Q2. Which is the highest
peak in India?
Answer: Mount Everest.
Q3. The second highest
peak in India?
Answer: Mount K2.

Q4. Which is the continent


with the most number of
countries?
Answer: Africa

Q5. Which is the country


with the most people?
Answer: China
Q6. Which is the fastest
animal on land?
Answer: Cheetah
Q7. Which is the first
biosphere reserve in India?
Answer: NilgiriBiopshere
Reserve.
Q8. Which is the first
element on the periodic
table of elements?
Answer: Hydrogen.

Q9. Which is the largest


state of India?
Answer: Rajasthan.
Q10. Which is the hardest
substance available on
earth?
Answer: Diamond.
Q11. The national river of
India?
Answer: Ganga.
Q12. Which is the hottest
continent on Earth?
Answer: Africa

Q13. Which is the national


fruit of India?
Answer: Mango.
Q14. Which is the national
flower of India?
Answer: Lotus.
Q15. Which is the
instrument used to measure
blood pressure?
Answer: Sphygmomanom
eter
Q16. Which is the largest
‘Democracy’ country in the
world?
Answer: India

Q17. Which animal is


known as the ‘Ship of the
Desert”?
Answer: Camel

Q18. Which is the largest


animal in the world?
Answer: Blue whale
Q19. Which is the largest
bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur, Also
Known As The Thighbone
Q20. Which animal is
known as the king of the
jungle?
Answer: Lion
Q21. Name the National
bird of India?
Answer: The Peacock

Q22. Which is the largest


continent in the world?
Answer: Asia
Q23. Which is the largest
country in the world (By
area)?
Answer: Russia
Q24. Who is known as the
Father of the Indian
Constitution?
Answer: Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar.
Q25. Which is the national
tree of India?
Answer: Banyan tree.

Q26. Which is the largest


freshwater lake in India?
Answer: wular Lake
(Largest lake in india is
vembanad lake.)

Q27. Which is the largest


ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Q28. Who is known as the
Father of the Nation?
Answer: Mahatma
Gandhi.
Q29. Which countries are
separated by the Radcliffe
Line?
Answer: India and
Pakistan
Q30. Which is the largest
plateau in the world?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau

Q31. Which is the longest


river in India?
Answer: Ganga.
Q32. Where does the
Narmada river originate
from?
Answer: Amarkantak
Q33. What is the imaginary
line that divides India into
almost two parts known as?
Answer: Tropic of cancer.
Q34. Which is the longest
river in the world?
Answer: Nile

Q35. Which is the most


common non-contagious
disease in the world?
Answer: Tooth Decay

Q36. Which is the most


sensitive organ in our body?
Answer: Skin
Q37. Which is the most
widely spoken native and
non-native language in the
world?
Answer: English
Q38. Which is the most
widely spoken native
language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin
Chinese
Q39. Which is the nearest
star to the earth?
Answer: Sun

Q40. Which is the principal


source of energy for earth?
Answer: The Sun
Q41. Which is the capital of
India?
Answer: New Delhi.
Q42. Which is the smallest
bone in the human body?
Answer: Stapes (Ear
Bone)
Q43. What is the National
song of India?
Answer: VandeMataram.

Q44. Name the National


game of India?
Answer:
Q45. Name the National
Reptile of India?
Answer: King Cobra
Q46. Which is the smallest
continent in the world?
Answer: Australia

Q47. Which is the tallest


animal on the earth?
Answer: Giraffes
Q48. Which is the tallest
mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
Q49. Which is the world’s
largest flower?
Answer: Rafflesiaarnoldii

Q50. Which language is


used by the computer to
process data?
Answer: binary language

Q51. Which month of the


year has the least number
of days?
Answer: February
Q52. Which place is known
as the roof of the world?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau
Q53. Which planet is known
as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars

Q54. Which planet is the


coldest planet in our solar
system?
Answer: Uranus

Q55. Which river is called


the sorrow of Bihar ?
Answer: The Kosi River
Q56. Which state has taken
up Sanskrit as an official
language?
Answer: Uttarakhand
Q57. Which state is the
biggest in the US?
Answer: Alaska

Q58. Which was the first


country to use paper
money?
Answer: China

Q59. Which is the popular


name for the Indian islands
on the Arabian Sea?
Answer: Lakshadweep
Islands.

Q60. Who discovered


electricity?
Answer: Benjamin
Franklin
Q61. Which is the oldest
mountain range in India?
Answer: Aravali
Mountains.
Q62. What does
‘Archipelago’ mean?
Answer: group of islands.

Q63. Which pass links


Srinagar to Leh?
Answer: Zoji La Pass.
Q64. Where is Lake Loktak
situated?
Answer: Manipur.
Q65. Who discovered
Penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander
Fleming
Q66. Who discovered the
theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Q67. Who gave the slogan


Do or Die?
Answer: Mahatma
Gandhi

Q68. Who invented the


Computer?
Answer: Charles
Babbage
Q69. Who invented the
telephone?
Answer: Alexander
Graham Bell
Q70. Who is considered the
founder of the Sikh religion?
Answer: Guru Nanak

Q71. Who is the first


woman to go to space?
Answer: Valentina
Tereshkova

Q72. Who is the founder of


Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates
Q73. Who is the inventor of
Radio?
Answer: Guglielmo
Marconi
Q74. Who is the inventor of
the electric bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison

Q75. Who is the world’s


fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah
Q76. Who is the world’s
largest land animal?
Answer: Elephants
Q77. Who painted the Mona
Lisa painting?
Answer: Leonardo da
Vinci

Q78. Who was India’s


longest serving Prime
Minister?
Answer: Jawaharlal
Nehru

Q79. Who was known as


the Indian Napoleon?
Answer: Samudra Gupta
Q80. Who was the first
American president?
Answer: George
Washington
Q81. Who was the first
female Governor of an
Indian State?
Answer: Sarojini Naidu
Q82. Who was the first
Indian to go to space?
Answer: Rakesh Sharma

Q83. Who was the first


Indian to have won the
Nobel Prize?
Answer: Rabindranath
Tagore

Q84. Which place receives


the highest rainfall in the
world?
Answer: Mawsynram.
Q85. Which place never
gets the vertical rays of the
Sun?
Answer: Srinagar

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