100 GK Questions

1. Which Indian state has the longest coastline?

Answer: Andaman and Nicobar Islands

2. What is the parliament of China called?

Answer: National People’s Congress

3. How many bones and teeth do adult sharks have?

Answer: No bones, only cartilage, and over 3000 teeth at once

4. The Aurora Borealis is also known as what?

Answer: The Northern Lights

5. When you’re asleep, which is the one active body part?

Answer: Ear

6. What vitamin does the sun’s ultraviolet rays help the skin produce?

Answer: Vitamin D

7. Name two of the greatest achievements of the Indus Valley civilization?

Answer: Harappa and the city of Mohenjo-Daro

8. Who is the founder of ‘ISRO?’

Answer: Indian Space Research Organisation was founded by Vikram Sarabhai

9. How many total time zones are there in the world?

Answer: 24 time zones

10. What is a tall chef’s hat called?

Answer: Toque

11. What is the full form of ‘GPS?’

Answer: Global Positioning System

12. What comes after a trillion?

Answer: Quadrillion

13. On average, how many times does the adult heart beat in a minute?

Answer: 60 to 100 beats per minute

14. What classic video game requires you to eat all the dots throughout a maze?

Answer: Pac-Man

15. How many languages are written right to left?

Answer: 12 languages
16. Which planet is the smallest: Neptune, Mars, Mercury?

Answer: Mercury

17. Why do sea otters hold hands?

Answer: So they don’t float away

18. Who is known as the ‘Missile Man of India?’

Answer: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Did you know?

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India, had a CD player and laptop but never owned a
television in his entire life.

19. Cuba was discovered by which famous explorer?

Answer: Christopher Columbus

20. What is sushi traditionally wrapped in?

Answer: Edible seaweed

21. Which is the saltiest ocean in the world?

Answer: The Red Sea

22. How many galaxies are there in the universe?

Answer: Over 100 billion galaxies

23. Which is the main substance used to make a crayon?

Answer: Wax

24. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters from which famous children’s book?

Answer: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

25. What’s the hardest substance in our body?

Answer: Tooth enamel

26. What is the name of the acid found in lemons?

Answer: Citric acid

27. What were pyramids of Giza?

Answer: Royal tombs

28. There’s an amphibian that never sleeps. What is it?

Answer: Bullfrogs

29. 27 is a perfect cube. True or false?

Answer: True
30. In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was a declaration of what?

Answer: A declaration of love

31. Morning dew is an example of which process of the water cycle?

Answer: Condensation

32. Where is the headquarters of UNESCO?

Answer: Paris, France

33. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?

Answer: Washing soda

34. Which mammal doesn’t have vocal cords?

Answer: Giraffes

35. What planet has the shortest day?

Answer: Jupiter

36. What does Big Bang Theory explain?

Answer: How the universe began

37. What language is the most popularly spoken worldwide?

Answer: Mandarini

38. What does space sound like?

Answer: It has no sound

39. Which is the tallest mountain in the entire world?

Answer: Mount Everest

40. Which planet is called Earth’s Twin?

Answer: Venus

41. Where was pizza invented?

Answer: Naples, Italy

42. How much weight can an ant lift?

Answer: Up to 5,000 times its weight

43. What is the loudest animal on Earth?

Answer: The sperm whale

44. During the day, is the moon’s temperature higher or lower?

Answer: Higher

45. In which ocean did the famous Titanic sink in 1912?

46. What are the three primary colors?

Answer: Red, blue, and yellow

47. Perimeter equals the sum of all the sides of a shape or thing. True or false?

Answer: True

48. What blood type qualifies as a universal donor?

Answer: O+

49. How many Earths could fit inside the sun?

Answer: 1.3 million Earths

Did you know?

The light from the sun takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach Earth (1).

50. What is a Japanese national dress called?

Answer: Kimono

51. How many items are in a baker’s dozen?

Answer: 13

52. What did the Wright Brothers successfully invent?

Answer: Airplane

53. Who is the founder of Facebook?

Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

54. What is the only flying mammal?

Answer: Bats

55. What is the smallest bone in the human body?

Answer: Stapes, found in the inner ear

56. How many edges does a cube have?

Answer: 12

57. Which country is the second-largest in the world, China or Canada?

Answer: Canada

58. What animal has fingerprints that are nearly identical to humans?

Answer: Koala bear

59. Leader and political icon Nelson Mandela was from which African country?
Answer: Mvezo, South Africa

60. How many billion years will the sun run out of energy?

Answer: Roughly 5 billion years

61. What flavor is the dessert tiramisu?

Answer: Coffee

62. How many athletic events does a decathlon contain?

Answer: Ten

63. What object is said to bring bad luck if it is broken?

Answer: Mirror

64. Why do snakes stick out their tongue?

Answer: To pick up scents

65. What is the smallest country on Earth?

Answer: Vatican City

66. What color is a polar bear’s skin?

Answer: Black

67. What does the word “ambidextrous” mean?

Answer: To use both the hands equally well

68. What is the most coffee-producing country in the world?

Answer: Brazil

Did you know?

There are over 220,000 farms that produce coffee in Brazil.

69. The word ‘deuce’ is related to which sport?

Answer: Tennis

70. What’s a seasonal blue moon?

Answer: It’s the third full moon of the four full moons in an astronomical season

71. How many carats is the purest gold?

Answer: 24 carats

72. Who invented Coca-Cola?

Answer: John Stith Pemberton

73. What substance are nails made out of?

74. True or false, hummingbirds can fly backward?

Answer: True

75. How many eyes does a bee have?

Answer: Five

76. Where does Santa Claus live?

Answer: The North Pole

77. What is the hardest natural substance?

Answer: Diamond

78. What land animal can open its mouth the widest?

Answer: Hippopotamus amphibius

79. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

80. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?

Answer: Marie Curie

81. What is the fastest snake in the world?

Answer: Black Mamba

82. Which bone are babies born without?

Answer: Knee cap

83. What team has the longest winning streak in NBA history?

Answer: Los Angeles Lakers

84. What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?

Answer: Aluminium

85. How long can a snail sleep?

Answer: 13 to 15 hours

86. What is the warmest sea on Earth?

Answer: The Red Sea

87. Where is the fastest muscle in the body?

Answer: The eye

88. What is your body’s largest organ?

Answer: Skin
89. Who was the first Western explorer to reach China?

Answer: Marco Polo

90. What is the only edible food that never expires?

Answer: Honey

91. Which scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?

Answer: Albert Einstein

92. What is a female elephant called?

Answer: Cow

93. Name the world’s biggest island.

Answer: Greenland

94. What is a community of ants called?

Answer: Colony

95. What’s the first letter on a typewriter?

Answer: Q

96. What is the most important symbol in Chinese culture?

Answer: Dragon

97. Which two countries share the longest international border?

Answer: Canada with the United States and Russia and Kazakhstan

98. Name a mammal that can’t jump.

Answer: Elephant

99. What’s the tallest building in the world?

Answer: Burj Khalifa

100. There’s a country name that ends with the letter Q, what is it?

Answer: Iraq

101. What were warriors in Japan known as?

Answer: Samurai