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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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1. Who is known as Modern Bhoja?

Krishnadeva Raya

2. Who started Shudhi Movement?

Dayananda Saraswathy

3. Which Pakistan President signed the Tashkent Agreement?

Ayub Khan

4. Which Substance is known as Philosopher's wool?

Zinc Oxide

5. Which Vitamin helps in the absorption of Calcium?

Vitamin D

6. Who discovered Rh Factor?

Karl Landsteiner (the same person discovered Blood Group)

7. Who wrote the book Harmonies of World?

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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