Top 100 Most Important General Knowledge Questions

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Here we are providing the most frequently asked General Knowledge (Gk) questions for your practice for all competitive exams. General knowledge questions and answers include Indian history questions, Indian polity questions, Indian geography and more. In this article, we are trying to give some Top GK Questions of India to improve your general knowledge and you can make use this.

Top 100 Most Important General Knowledge Questions for All Competitive Exams

1. Teacher’s Day is celebrated?

Ans. 5 September

2. On which river is the Bankhara Nangal Dam?

Ans. Sutlej

3. India’s national flower?

Ans. Lotus

4. Dhanraj Pillai is related to which game?

Ans. Hockey

5. United Nations Organization U.N.O. How many permanent members are in the Security Council?

Ans. 5

6. Who was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra?

Ans. Y. B. Chauhan

7. Who started the ‘Bhoodan Movement’?

Ans. Vinob Bhave

8. Who is known as ‘Flying Sikh’?

Ans. Milkha Singh

9. What is Uday Shankar related to?

Ans. Dance

10. Who was the Chairman of the draft Constitution Committee?

Ans. Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar

11. Who discovered the ‘gravitational’?

Ans. Newton

12. Who is the first Indian to receive Nobel Prize?

Ans. Ravinder Nath Tagore

13. What is the Dronacharya Award related to?

Ans. Best Teacher / Trainer

14. Khajuraho is located-

Ans. Madhya Pradesh

15. National Defense Academy is located.

Ans. Dehradun

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16. The Indian standard is time-based.

Ans. 82 ° 30 ‘east longitude

17. Which state is situated in the eastern part of India?

Ans. Arunachal Pradesh

18. Which country is across the Nathula Pass?

Ans. China

19. Near the Earth is the lowest layer of the atmosphere-

Ans. Troposphere

20. In the Indian Army, the name ‘Vijayanta’ is-

Ans. A tank

21. Which state of India is known for tea production?

Ans.  Assam

22. Which state of India is the highest rice production –

Ans. West Bengal

23. Telugu is the official language of which state?

Ans.  Andhra Pradesh

24. How many players are in each team in hockey games

Ans. 11

25. The currency of Bangladesh is –

Ans. Taka

26. Which civilization was developed on the banks of the Nile?

Ans. Mixed civilization

27. Who wrote the famous drama ‘Shakuntala’?

Ans. Mahakavi Kalidas

28. Khyber Pass is located-

Ans.  Between Afghanistan and Pakistan

29. Which city is situated on the banks of the Ganges?

Ans. Kanpur

30. India is a secular country. It means-

Ans. India has no religion at any state level.

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31. Which city is famous for the production of grapes?

Ans. Nashik

32. Koyna Dam is located-

Ans. Maharashtra

33. Kharif crop is cut-

Ans. In early November

34. Who founded the ‘Satyashodhak Samaj’?

Ans. Mahatma Phule

35. The national anthem of India was the author of ‘Jana Gana Mana’

Ans. Rabindranath Tagore

36. Who is known as ‘Grand Old Man of India’?

Ans. – Dada Bhai Naroji

37. When did the civil disobedience movement begin?

Ans. March 12, 1930 – April 6, 1930

38. Which Prime Minister extended the idea of socialism to the stream?

Ans. Jawahar Lal Nehru

39. What is the length of the coastline of India’s Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?

Ans.  7516.6 KM

40. India’s National Animal

Ans. Tiger

41. The IAF has the shortest post of commissioned officer

Ans.  Pilot officer

42. The world’s largest continent –

Ans. Asia

43. Seasons are due to

Ans. Revolutions of the Earth around the Sun

44. By what name is the most distant atmospheric layer known from the Earth’s surface?

Ans. Year Circle

45. The DCM trophy is related to –

Ans. from football

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46. Alla Rakha was famous for which musical instrument?

Ans. Shuffle

47. The Mughal emperor who had spent 15 years in exile.

Ans. Humayun

48. Who presides over Rajya Sabha meetings?

Ans. Vice President

49. In the cave, the statue of the Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh) is located

Ans. Elephanta

50. Capital of Lakshadweep

Ans. karawati

51. The type of soil available in the highest quantity of Maharashtra is –

Ans. black soil

52. Which railroad falls under the track of Jammu and Kashmir?

Ans.  Northern Railway

53. Kannada language is spoken in which state of India?

Ans. Karnataka

54. Which state is the state capital of Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands?

Ans. Port Blair

55. Who is the author of the famous epic ‘Mahabharata’?

Ans. Vedavas

56. The poets of ‘Gitanjali’ are –

Ans. Rabindranath Tagore

57. Which two places does the Himsagar Express run?

Ans. From Jammu to Kanyakumari

58. ‘General’ is an official post of which army?

Ans. Army

59. In which Indian state is the holy pilgrimage ‘Amarnath’ located?

Ans. Jammu and Kashmir

60. Famous tourist destination ‘Gulmarg’ is situated in which Indian state?

Ans. – Kashmir

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61. The width of the narrow gauge of the rail path is-

Ans.  2 ‘6 ”

62. Where does the ‘land of the rising sun’ go?

Ans. Japan

63. Which city is the capital of Madhya Pradesh?

Ans. Bhopal

64. Which state is spoken in Malayalam?

Ans.  Kerala

65. Who made the rock garden of Chandigarh?

Ans. Nek Chand

66. Jammu is situated on the banks of which river –

Ans. Tavi

67. Which city is the capital of Afghanistan?

Ans. Kabul

68. Which city is the capital of Japan?

Ans. Tokyo

69. In which year Mahatma Gandhi was born?

Ans. 1869

70. The width of the meter gauge of the rail path is

Ans. 1 meter

71. Which country is the world’s largest continent?

Ans. Asia

72. Which country is the world’s largest country?

Ans.  Russia

73. Who is called ‘Manchester of India’?

Ans. Ahmedabad

74. The world’s longest animal –

Ans. Giraffe

75. The highest mountain peak in the world is-

Ans.  Everest

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76. Who was the first President of the Indian Republic?

Ans. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

77. who was the first person to climb up Mount Everest?

Ans. Tenzing Norgay

78. In which state Kargil town is situated?

Ans. Jammu and Kashmir

79. The first battle of Panipat was fought …….

Ans. Between Babar and Imbrahim Lodi

80. Ajmer is related to Sufi saint?

Ans. Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti

81. Which Mughal king established the religious sect ‘Din-i-Elahi’?

Ans. Akbar

82. What is the monsoon winds?

Ans. Rainy Winds

83. The biggest circle on earth is-

Ans. Equator

84. Which Indian leader is known as ‘Iron Man of India’?

Ans. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

85. Mao-Tse Tung is related-

Ans. China

86. The Zaliya Bagh Bagh is situated in which city?

Ans. Amritsar

87. India’s national bird is-

Ans. Peacock

88. Who gave the slogan of “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”?

Ans. Lal Bahadur Shastri

89. The famous evolution “Who gave the government to the public, to the public, to the public”?

Ans. Abraham Lincoln

90. Which religion is associated with Bodh Gaya?

Ans. Buddhism

91. Who was the founder of Sikh religion?

Ans. Guru Nanak Dev

92. When was the first train in India?

Ans. April 16, 1853

93. The longest road in India is-

Ans. G. T. Road

94. India is the most educated state-

Ans. – Kerala

95. ‘Chacha ji’ was known as-

Ans. Jawahar Lal Nehru

96. Which Indian city is known as ‘Gulabi Nagri’?

Ans. – Jaipur

97. Who first gave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”?

Ans. Sardar Bhagat Singh

98. India’s highest award is-

Ans. Bharat Ratna

99. Apart from the National Anthem of India, which another national anthem was written by Rabindranath Tagore?

Ans.  Bangladesh

100. Indian film actor, ‘Shatrughan Sinha’ belongs to which state?

Ans. Bihar

 

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