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Here are 200 general knowledge questions with their answers, categorized
for easier reference:
Geography
1. Question: What is the smallest country in the world by area?
Answer: Vatican City.
2. Question: Which country has the most people?
Answer: China.
3. Question: What river runs through Egypt?
Answer: The Nile.
4. Question: What is the capital of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo.
5. Question: Which continent is the Sahara Desert located in?
Answer: Africa.
6. Question: What is the longest river in the world?
Answer: The Nile River.

7. Question: What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa.
8. Question: Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?
Answer: Indian Ocean.
9. Question: Which European city has the most bridges?
Answer: Hamburg, Germany.
10. Question: Which U.S. state is the largest by area?
Answer: Alaska.
History
11. Question: Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington.
12. Question: In which year did the Titanic sink?
Answer: 1912.
13. Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie.
14. Question: Which ancient civilization built the pyramids?
Answer: The Egyptians.
15. Question: When did World War I begin?
Answer: 1914.
16. Question: Who was the first Emperor of China?
Answer: Qin Shi Huang.
17. Question: In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989.
18. Question: Who was the British Prime Minister during World War
II?
Answer: Winston Churchill.

19. Question: What empire was ruled by Genghis Khan?
Answer: The Mongol Empire.
20. Question: What was the name of the ship Christopher Columbus
sailed to America?
Answer: Santa Maria.
Science
21. Question: What is the chemical symbol for water?
Answer: H₂O.
22. Question: What is the speed of light?
Answer: 299,792 kilometers per second (186,282 miles per second).
23. Question: Who developed the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein.
24. Question: What is the hardest substance found in nature?
Answer: Diamond.
25. Question: Which planet is closest to the sun?
Answer: Mercury.
26. Question: What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au.
27. Question: What is the powerhouse of the cell?
Answer: Mitochondria.
28. Question: What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
Answer: Carbon dioxide.
29. Question: What is the human body’s largest organ?
Answer: Skin.
30. Question: How many bones are there in the adult human body?
Answer: 206.
Literature & Arts

31. Question: Who wrote 1984 and Animal Farm?
Answer: George Orwell.
32. Question: What is the longest novel ever written?
Answer: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.
33. Question: Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
34. Question: What is the name of Shakespeare’s play about the

Prince of Denmark?
Answer: Hamlet.
35. Question: Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: Jane Austen.
36. Question: What is the first book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis.
37. Question: Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?

Answer: J.K. Rowling.
38. Question: Which artist painted the Starry Night?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh.
39. Question: Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
40. Question: Who is the Greek god of war?
Answer: Ares.
Sports
41. Question: In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Answer: Basketball.
42. Question: How many players are there in a soccer team?
Answer: 11.
43. Question: Who has won the most Olympic gold medals?
Answer: Michael Phelps.
44. Question: In which sport is the Davis Cup awarded?
Answer: Tennis.
45. Question: What is the national sport of Japan?
Answer: Sumo wrestling.
46. Question: In which country did the sport of cricket originate?
Answer: England.
47. Question: How long is an Olympic swimming pool?
Answer: 50 meters.
48. Question: Which country won the FIFA World Cup in 2018?
Answer: France.
49. Question: In which sport is the term “home run” used?
Answer: Baseball.
50. Question: Which game is played with a shuttlecock?
Answer: Badminton.
Technology
51. Question: Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates.
52. Question: What does CPU stand for in computing?
Answer: Central Processing Unit.
53. Question: What was the first mobile phone ever made?
Answer: Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
54. Question: What is the name of the first computer virus?
Answer: Creeper.
55. Question: What does “www” stand for in a website browser?
Answer: World Wide Web.

56. Question: Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee.
57. Question: Which company made the iPhone?
Answer: Apple.
58. Question: What does RAM stand for?
Answer: Random Access Memory.
59. Question: What is the name of the AI assistant by Amazon?
Answer: Alexa.
60. Question: Which social media platform is known for short, 280-
character posts?
Answer: Twitter (now X).
Entertainment
61. Question: Who played Jack in Titanic?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio.

62. Question: What is the highest-grossing film of all time?
Answer: Avatar (as of 2024).
63. Question: Who is the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars
series?
Answer: James Earl Jones.
64. Question: In which year did the first Harry Potter film release?
Answer: 2001.
65. Question: Which superhero is known as the “Caped Crusader”?
Answer: Batman.
66. Question: Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2022?
Answer: Will Smith.
67. Question: What is the name of the protagonist in the Pirates of

the Caribbean series?
Answer: Jack Sparrow.

68. Question: Who created The Simpsons?
Answer: Matt Groening.
69. Question: What is the longest-running TV show in history?
Answer: The Simpsons (Animated).
70. Question: Who sang the song “Thriller”?
Answer: Michael Jackson.
Politics & Economics
71. Question: Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher.
72. Question: What is the official currency of Japan?
Answer: Yen.
73. Question: Who is known as the Father of Economics?
Answer: Adam Smith.

74. Question: Which U.S. President is on the $100 bill?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin.
75. Question: In which year did India gain independence from

Britain?
Answer: 1947.
76. Question: Which country is the largest oil producer in the world?
Answer: United States.
77. Question: What does GDP stand for?
Answer: Gross Domestic Product.
78. Question: Who was the 16th President of the United States?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln.
79. Question: In which year was the United Nations founded?
Answer: 1945

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Here are 200 general knowledge questions with their answers, categorized

for easier reference:

1. Question: What is the smallest country in the world by area?

Answer: Vatican City.

2. Question: Which country has the most people?

3. Question: What river runs through Egypt?

Answer: The Nile.

4. Question: What is the capital of Japan?

5. Question: Which continent is the Sahara Desert located in?

6. Question: What is the longest river in the world?

Answer: The Nile River.

8. Question: Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?

Answer: Indian Ocean.

9. Question: Which European city has the most bridges?

Answer: Hamburg, Germany.

10. Question: Which U.S. state is the largest by area?

Answer: George Washington.

12. Question: In which year did the Titanic sink?

Answer: Marie Curie.

14. Question: Which ancient civilization built the pyramids?

Answer: The Egyptians.

15. Question: When did World War I begin?

16. Question: Who was the first Emperor of China?

Answer: Qin Shi Huang.

17. Question: In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Answer: Winston Churchill.

Answer: The Mongol Empire.

Answer: Santa Maria.

21. Question: What is the chemical symbol for water?

22. Question: What is the speed of light?

Answer: 299,792 kilometers per second (186,282 miles per second).

23. Question: Who developed the theory of relativity?

Answer: Albert Einstein.

24. Question: What is the hardest substance found in nature?

26. Question: What is the chemical symbol for gold?

27. Question: What is the powerhouse of the cell?

28. Question: What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?

Answer: Carbon dioxide.

29. Question: What is the human body’s largest organ?

Literature & Arts

Answer: George Orwell.

32. Question: What is the longest novel ever written?

Answer: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

33. Question: Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.

34. Question: What is the name of Shakespeare’s play about the

35. Question: Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

Answer: Jane Austen.

36. Question: What is the first book of the Bible?

37. Question: Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?

38. Question: Which artist painted the Starry Night?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh.

39. Question: Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

40. Question: Who is the Greek god of war?

41. Question: In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?

42. Question: How many players are there in a soccer team?

44. Question: In which sport is the Davis Cup awarded?

45. Question: What is the national sport of Japan?

Answer: Sumo wrestling.