General knowledge questions and answer 2023 : updated

Randomly selected General knowledge questions and answers for Intelligence Bureau and all competitive exams 2023

Highest mountains in seven continents

a. Highest mountain in Asia?
Answer: Mount Everest

b. Highest mountain in Africa?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro

c. Highest mountain in north America?
Answer: Denali

d. Highest mountain in south America?
Answer: Aconcagua

e. Highest mountain in Antarctica?
Answer: Vinson Massif

f. Highest mountain in Europe?
Answer: Mount Elbrus

g. Highest mountain in Australia?
Answer: Mount Kosciuszko



1. Who wrote the song "Sare jahan se acha"?
Answer: Muhammad Iqbal


2. Who give music to the song "Sare jahan se acha"?
Answer: Pandit Ravi Shankar


3. Which is the world's oldest news agency?
Answer: AFP (Agence France Presse)


4. What is the chemical name of Tear Gas?
Answer: Chloroacetophenone


5. Which is the only hobby recognized by the United Nations?
Answer: Ham Radio


6. What is the national flower of Pakistan?
Answer: Jasmine


7. What is the scientific name of Cockroach?
Answer: Periplaneta americana


8. What is the unit of luminous intensity?
Answer: Candela


9. What is the unit of pressure?
Answer: Pascal

10. What is the unit of magnetic field?
Answer: Tesla

10 a. What is the unit of power?
Answer: watt

11. Which famous writer is known as Father of Snow Golf?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling


12. How many Schedules are there in the Indian Constitution ?
Answer: 12


13. Which planet is known as Red planet?
Answer: Mars


14. Which European countries are separated by Market Reef?
Answer: Finland and Sweden

15. Who is the author of Panchtantra?
Answer: Vishnu Sharma


16. Which is the coldest planet in solar system?
Answer: Neptune


17. The Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha was built with the collaboration of  _____ ?
Answer: Germany


18. The Durgapur Steel Plant in West Bengal was built with the collaboration of  _____ ?
Answer: Britain


19. The Bhilai Steel Plant in Chattisgarh was built with the collaboration of  _____ ?
Answer: Russia


20. Who is the first and only Muslim lady ever to rule the throne of Delhi ?
Answer: Razia Sultana

21. Who composed the national anthem of Bangladesh (Amar sona bangla) ?

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

22. Who wrote the book Planned Economy for India?

Answer: M. Visvesvaraya (He is known as father of Indian planning, his birthday September 15 is observed as Engineer's Day in India )

23. Which is the oldest sport in the world?

Answer: Archery  ( It is the national sport of Bhutan)

24. What is the normal duration of a Hockey game?

Answer: 70 Minutes

25. Which Minor Rock Edict of Asoka describes the conquest of Kalinga by Asoka?
Answer: No. XIII (13)

26. Who is the author of Joy of Numbers?
Answer: Shakuntala Devi


27. Who is the creator of the painting The Potato Eaters?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh


28. Folketing is the parliament of which country?
answer: Denmark


29. What s the chemical name of Limestone?
Answer: Calcium Carbonate


 30. Zero degree centigrade equal to _________ degree Fahrenheit?
Answer:  32

31. Zero Kelvin in Kelvin scale is equal to ____________degree Celsius in Celsius scale ?
Answer: -273.5 Degree Celsius

*32. Contact process is used for the production of?
answer: sulphuric acid

*33. What is known as white vitriol?
answer: Zinc sulfate

*34.Total number of latitudes?
Answer:181

*35.Total number of longitude?
answer: 360

36*. Who is known as the father of  Indian Constitution?

Answer: Dr. B R Ambedhkar 

* last  updated July 2023

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Current Affairs 2023 Questions for competitive Exams: Updated

2023 Current affairs Questions for PSC, UPSC, Bank, and Postal exams 

2023 Appointments related Questions for Competitive Exams

1 Who is the chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)?
Answer: Ravi Sinha(from June 2023)

2 Who is the chief of CBI?
Answer: praveen sood

3 who is the present Central Vigilance Commissioner(CVC)?
Answer:   Praveen Kumar Srivastava (from May 2023)

4 Who is the president of the World Meteorological Organization?
Answer: Abdulla Al Mandous(from UAE)

5 Who is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (first female Secretary-General )?

Answer:  Celeste Saulo(from Argentina) 

GK Questions from Grand Slam 2023

Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open are known as Grand Slam Tournaments. Questions from Gand Slam are common in competitive exams. US Open will be held in August.

1 Who won the Australian Open 2023 men's singles?

Answer: Novak Djokovic(Nationality : Serbia)

2 Who won the Australian Open 2023 women's singles?

Answer: Aryna Sabalenka(Nationality : Belarus)

3 Who won the French Open 2023 men's singles?

Answer: Novak Djokovic

4 Who won the French Open 2023 women's singles?

Answer: iga swiatek(Nationality : Polish)

5 Who won the Wimbledon 2023 men's singles?

Answer: Carlos Alcaraz(Nationality : Spain)

6 Who won the Wimbledon  2023 women's singles?

Answer: marketa vondrousova(Nationality : Czech Republic)

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More Current Events Related Questions

1 Recently India handed over INS Kirpan(warship) to which country?

Answer: Vietnam

2 Gyanvapi mosque which was recently in the news situated at which place?

Answer: Varanasi

3 which country will host G20 summit in 2023?

Answer: India (New Delhi)

4 pragati maidan is located in which state?

Answer: New Delhi

 5 International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre(IECC) Known as BharatMandapam is situated at?

Answer: Pragati Maidan, New Delhi 

6 International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre(IECC) Known as BharatMandapam was Recently inaugurated by?

Answer: Prime Minister - Narendra Modi

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National Wildlife Sanctuaries and National parks in India for GK exams

GK Questions from Principal Game sanctuaries, Bird Sanctuary, and states are frequently asked questions for UPSC, psc, bank clerk, RRB, and ibps exams.



1. Gir National Park is situated in Gujarat

 *1a. Wild Ass Sanctuary is situated in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat

2. Sariska is situated in Alwar, Rajasthan

3. Ghana Bird Sanctuary is situated in Rajasthan

4. Darraha Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Rajasthan

5. Mt. Abu Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Rajasthan

6. Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Rajasthan

7. Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Hazaribag, Jharkhand

8. Mudhumalai Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu

9. Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Idukki, Kottayam, Kerala

* 9a. Silent Valley National park is situated in Nilgiri Hills, Kerala

 *9b. Eravikulam National Park is situated in Idukki, Kerala

10. National Chambal (Gharial) Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh

11. Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Uttar Pradesh

12. Bankatna Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Uttar Pradesh

 13. Nanda Devi Musk Deer Park is situated in Uttarakhand (included in UNESCO World Heritage List)

14. Corbett National Park is situated in Nainital, Uttarakhand

15. Bondla Game Sanctuary is situated in Goa

16. Mollem Game Sanctuary is situated in Goa

17. Cottigao Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Goa

18. Sunderbans National Park is situated in West Bengal (included in UNESCO World Heritage List)

19. Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Assam (included in UNESCO World Heritage List)

20. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Assam (included in UNESCO World Heritage List)

21. Dachigam Wildlife Sanctuary is in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir

22. Salim Ali National Park is situated in Jammu & Kashmir

 23. Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv Gandhi National Park) is situated in Karnataka

24. Bandipur National Park is situated in Karnataka

25 Kali Tiger Reserve is situated in Karnataka

26. Kanha National Park is situated in Madhya Pradesh

27. Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Chattisgarh

28. Gandhisagar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Madhya Pradesh

29. Bandhavgarh National Park is situated in Madhya Pradesh

*Which is India's first national park?

Answer:  Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand

* newly updated

Did you know the Name of the train running between India and Bangladesh?

Updated Computer GK Questions from competitive exams

computer related  questions updated  for PSC Exams

 New updates are marked  *

 

1. Who invented Laptop?
Answer: Adam Osborne

2. Who is the first programmer
Answer: Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King-Noel)

3. The Information technology act came into existence from which year?
Answer: 2000

4. The inventor of www (World wide web)?
answer: Tim Berner's lee

5. Computer Mouse was invented by?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart

6. Computer Mouse is which type of device(Input/output)?
Answer:  Input device

some other Input devices are - a keyboard, scanner, joystick 

examples of Output devices: Printers, monitors, speakers, projector

7. What is the full form for USB?
Answer: Universal serial bus

8. What is the purpose of BUS in computers?
Answer: BUS connects components of the computer 

9. what is the full form for  RAM
Answer: Random access memory

10. what is the full form for  ROM
Answer: Read-only memory

11*. Who is the father of computer science?
Answer: Alan Turing

12*. Who is the father of computers?
Answer: Charles Babbage

13*. Who is the founder of Hotmail?
 Answer: Sabeer Bhatia

14*. A device used for the modulation and demodulation of signals?
Answer: modem  

 15.   Information technology act 2000 came in to force from which date?
Answer: 17 October 2000

 Simple Computer-linked Questions

*16. First electronic computer?
answer: ENIAC

*17. ENIAC stands for?
Answer: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator


*18. Vacuum Tubes are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: First Generation of computers


*19. Transistors are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: Second Generation of computers


*20. IC chips are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: Third Generation of computers

*21. Microprocessors are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: Fourth Generation of computers

 

 

 

List of Multinational companies and it's founders

Founders of Major Companies in Information technology are most frequent in competitive exams.

1. who is the founder of Microsoft?

Answer:-Bill Gates and Paul Allen

2. who is the founder of Google?

Answer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin

3. who is the founder of Facebook?

Answer: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

4. who is the founder of Amazon?

Answer: Jeff Bezos

5. who is the founder of Flipkart?

Answer : Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal

6. who is the founder of Apple?

Answer: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne

7. what is the full form for  LAN
Answer: Local Area Network

8. what is the full form for  WAN
Answer: Wide Area Network

 9. what is the full form for  MAN
Answer: Metropolitan Area Network

What is the full form of AR in computer terminology?

Answer: Augmented reality

What is the full form of AI ?

Answer: Artificial intelligence


 
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Important Computer Gk Questions 

previously asked Gk questions about Computer

Computer Questions for competitive exams

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Important General knowledge Bits for competitive exams: Updated

Some Selected Important GK bits for all Competitive Exams



1. Who is known as Modern Bhoja?
Answer: Krishnadeva Raya


2. Who started Shudhi Movement?
Answer: Dayananda Saraswathy


3. Which Pakistan President signed the Tashkent Agreement?
Answer: Ayub Khan


4. Which Substance is known as Philosopher's wool?
Answer: Zinc Oxide


5. Which Vitamin helps in the absorption of Calcium?
Answer: Vitamin D


6. Who discovered Rh Factor?
Answer: Karl Landsteiner (the same person discovered Blood Group)



7. Who wrote the book Harmonies of World?
Answer: Kepler


8. Where is the Headquarters of Amnesty International?
Answer: London

9. Which is the shortest River in the world?
Answer: Roe


10. The image formed on the Retina of the human eye is ________ ?
Answer: Real and inverted


11. Who discovered Microphone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


12. Myopia (Short sightedness) can be corrected by using a  _______ lens ?
Answer: Concave


13. Hypermetropia (Long sightedness) can be corrected using a _________ ?
Answer: Convex lens


14. Erg is the unit of _____?
Answer: Work


15. Dyne is the unit of ______ ?
Answer: Force


16. Poise is the unit of _______ ?
Answer: Viscosity of fluid



Colour of different lamps


Sodium Vapour lamp  =>>  Yellow

Hydrogen Vapour lamp  =>>  Blue

Nitrogen Vapour lamp  =>>  Red

Mercury Vapour lamp  =>>  White

Neon Vapour Lamp  =>>  Orange

Chlorine Vapour Lamp  =>>  Green


* 17. Which cricketer has the nickname Haryana Hurricane?
Answer: Kapil Dev


* 18. Who is the law Adviser of the central Government?
Answer: Attorney General



* 19. Which is the acid present in tomato?
Answer: Oxalic acid


* 20. Which disease is also known as Hansen's disease?
Answer: Leprosy


* 21. Who gave the Pacific Ocean its name?
Answer: Magellan


* 22. Which state has a large number of cinema theaters in India?
Answer: Andhara Pradesh

*23. The term "virus" stands for?
Answer: Vital Information Resource under siege

*24. What is the expansion for "CRZ"?
answer: Coastal Regulation Zone

25. Who designed the National flag of India?
answer: Pingali Venkayya

26. Total number of time zones?
answer: 24

27. rabies affects which part of the body?
answer: brain

28. How much is a baker's dozen?
answer: 13

29. The supreme court started functioning from?
answer: 1950 January 28

30. The election commission of India was formed on?
answer: 25th January 1950

31. World press freedom day is on?
answer: 3rd May

32. Which day is observed as world youth skills day?
answer: July 15

Some GK Questions related to respiratory organs

33. Which is the Respiratory organ of a spider?
Answer: Book Lungs

33. Which is the Respiratory organ of Plants?
Answer: Stomata

33. Which is the respiratory organ of Fish?
Answer: Gills

33. Which is the respiratory organ of Earthworms?
Answer: Skin

33. Which is the respiratory organ of insects?
Answer: Trachea

34. Study of Lungs is called?

Answer: Pulmonology

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Did you know which planet has the shortest day and night ?

Updated General knowledge questions : Postal system

Possible questions (frequently asked) for Postal assistant aptitude test about Postal System. These essential questions will help you attain a high score on the exam.



1. Which Governor general found Telegraph and Postal systems?
Answer: Lord Dalhousie


2. When did the first General Post Office open in India?
Answer: 1774 (Kolkata)


3. Which is the first postage stamp of India?
Answer: Scinde Dawk (1852)


4. What is the Full form of PIN?
Answer: Postal Index Number


5. When did the Pin system Start in India?
Answer: 1972 (In the same year Royal Bengal Tiger replaces the lion as National Animal)


6. Which is the first Indian post office outside Indian territory?
Answer: post office at Dakshin Gangotri in Antarctica (1983)


7. When did the service of speed post start in India?
Answer: 1986


8. In which year was the Money Order system introduced in India?
Answer: 1880


9. In which year Postal Life Insurance started in India?
Answer: 1884


10. Where is postal staff college situated ?
Answer: Ghaziabad (UP)


11. World Postal Day is observed in _________ ?
Answer: October 9

12. Indian Postal Day is observed in _________ ?
Answer: October 10

13. Where is the highest post office in the world situated?
Answer: Hikkim (Himachal Pradesh)


14. When did Universal Postal Union found?
Answer: 1874

*15. Where is the Headquarters of Universal Postal Union (UPU) 
Answer:  Berne (Switzerland)
 
16. First Postal ATM was opened in which city?
Answer: Chennai

*17. Where is the Headquarters of Indian postal system?
Answer: New Delhi

*18. What is the purpose of Project arrow?
Answer:  Upgrade post offices in India(started in april 2008)

*19. Hobby of collecting stamps is called?
Answer: Philately  

20 first Indian women to appear on a postage stamp?

Answer: Meera Bai

21 who appeared first in Indian postal stamp ?

Answer: Queen Victoria

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General knowledge Questions and Answers Updated : Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Famous Personality: Freedom Fighter > Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose


If you review any previous competitive exam questions you can find, about five to ten Important Questions about Famous personalities. So we are entering some important questions about Subhash Chandra Bose.

1. Who is the Indian freedom fighter known as Netaji?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose

2. When did Subhash Chandra Bose Born?
Answer: 1897

3. When did Subhash Chandra Bose first elected as president of Congress?
Answer: 1938 (Haripura congress section)

4. When did Subhas Chandra Bose secondly elected as president of Congress?
Answer: 1939 (later he left congress in the same year)

5. Who is the founder of Forward Block party?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose

6. When did forward Block Party Founded?
Answer: 1939 (in the same year he left congress)

7. Who gave the slogan Jai hind to the nation?
Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

8. Who gave the slogan Dilli Chalo to the nation?
Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

9. Whose lines are these "Give me blood, I will give you freedom"?
Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

10. Who is known as the patriots of patriots?
Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose

11. Who called Subhash Chandra Bose "patriots of patriots" ?
Answer: Gandhiji

12. Who is known as Desh Nayak?
Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose

13. Who called Subhash Chandra Bose "Desh Nayak" ?
Answer: Rabindra Nath Tagore

14. Who is the political guru of Subhash Chandra Bose?
Answer: Chita Ranjan Das

15. When did Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was posthumously decorated with the Bharat Ratna?
Answer: 1992

16. Which commission Inquired about the mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose?
Answer: Mukherjee Commission

17. Who is the writer of the book "The Indian Struggle"?
Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

18. Who is the founder of the Political Party "All India Forward Bloc "?
 Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 

19. The book "An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography"  is written by?

 Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose