General knowledge questions and answer 2025 : updated

Randomly selected General knowledge questions and answers for Intelligence Bureau and all competitive exams 2025

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 

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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

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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

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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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