Gk questions for competitive exams
1. Name the first female Indian Astronaut?
Answer: Kalpana Chawla
2. Who was the first Indian to go to space?
Answer :Rakesh Sharma
3. Who was India's longest serving Prime Minister?
Answer : Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Which acid is found in lemon?
Answer: Citric Acid
5. What is India's form of Governance?
Answer: Democracy
6. How many states does India have?
Answer: 28 state
7. Who was the first Indian Woman to climb Mount Everest?
Answer: Bachendri Pal
8. Australia lies between which two oceans?
Answer: The Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
9. Which Indian woman was the first to win the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Mother Teresa
10. What is the national game of USA?
Answer: Baseball
11. What is the full form of NEWS?
Answer: North East West South
12. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Answer: Vishnu Sharma
13. Who was the first Indian to have won the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
14. Name the region of India that has the oldest rocks?
Answer : Aravalli
15. Name the highest mountain peak of India?
Answer: Mount Kanchenjunga
16. Entomology is the science that studies?
Answer: Insect
17. How many layers are there in Earth's atmosphere?
Answer : 5 layers
18. The biggest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
19. Which is the largest plateau in the world?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau
20. What is the order of the planets in the Solar System?
Answer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
21. Where is the Ajanta caves situated?
Answer: Maharashtra
22. What is the name of India and Pakistan's border?
Answer: Radcliffe Line
23. Which gas commonly known as laughing gas?
Answer: Nitrous oxide
24. Gandhi Ji started the Dandi March in which year?
Answer: 1930
25. What is the study of Universe known as?
Answer : Cosmology
26. What are the leaves of a plant so important?
Answer: They produce food for the plant through photosynthesis
27. The famous Ganga Sagar Mela an annual fair is held is which state of India?
Answer: West Bengal
28. Who is considered the founder of the Sikh religion?
Answer: Guru Nanak
29. Who was known as the Indian Napoleon?
Answer: Samudragupta
30. Who gave the slogan Do or Die?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
31. What is the distance between Earth and Sun?
Answer: 149.6 Million km
32. Who discovered the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
33. When is Hindi Diwas celebrated?
Answer: 14th September of every year
34. What is the script for Hindi language?
Answer: Devanagari
35. What is the name of our galaxy?
Answer: Milky Way
36. What is the percentage of water on the surface of our planet?
Answer: 71 percent
37. When is Earth Day celebrated?
Answer: 22 April of each year
38. Name the metals known to the people of Indus Valley Civilisation?
Answer: Copper, bronze, silver and gold
39. Who was the first female Governor of an Indian State?
Answer: Sarojini Naidu
40. Jhum cultivation is a method of cultivation which is used to be practised in which state of India?
Answer: Nagaland
41. Who was the first Muslim lady to rule the Delhi Throne?
Answer: Razia Sultana
42. How many official languages in india?
Answer : 22 language
43. The total number of mother tongues spoken in India?
Answer: 1652
44. What is the oldest language in India?
Answer : Sanskrit
45. Who was the first president of India?
Answer : Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
46. Who was the first prime minister of India?
Answer: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
47. Who was the first deputy prime minister of India?
Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai patel
48. Which is the holy river in the India?
Answer: Ganga river
49. Which is the largest desert in the Asia?
Answer: Gobi Desert
