Top 50 Most Important GK Questions and Answers in English

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1. What is the capital of Zimbabwe?

Ans: Harare

2. In which country Al-Tahrir square is located?

Ans: Egypt (Cairo)

3. Which country has the largest Hydro Power generating plant?

Ans: China

4. Which Country Christopher Columbus belonged to?

Ans: Italy

5. Pythagoras belongs to which country?

Ans: Greece

6. Isaac Newton belongs to which country?

Ans: England

7. When did railway service start in India?

Ans: 1857

8. Was Mount Everest named after Which Colonel?

Ans: George Everest (surveyor general of India)

9. What is the meaning of de-facto?

Ans: In reality or fact; actually

10. What is the name of the planet with the shortest day?

Ans: Jupiter

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11. Which book was written by Tolstoy?

Ans: War and peace

12. In which month the Russian revolution was started?

Ans: February 1917

13. Who is the Present Chief Justice of the International Court?

Ans: Justice Dalveer Bhandari

14. What is the circumference of the earth?

Ans: Earth’s Circumference at the Equator: 24901.55 miles (40075.16 km)

15. What is the name of the deepest point of the Pacific Ocean?

Ans: Mariana Trench

16. To which country the father of Obama belongs to?

Ans: Kenya

17. Who gave the theory of special relativity?

Ans: It was developed by Albert Einstein in 1905.

18. Which theory was given by Isaac Newton?

Ans: Law of Planetary Motion

19. What is the name of the strait between Malaysia and Indonesia?

Ans: Strait of Mallaca

20. Which strait separates Spain and Morocco?

Ans: Strait of Gibraltar

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21. What is the meaning of Pediatrics?

Ans: Care of Children

22. In which continent longest river is located?

Ans: The Nile in Africa

23. In which country mountain Kilimanjaro in located?

Ans: Tanzania

24. When was the first international flight from Pakistan?

Ans: 1955

25. Which is the device when pressed keys encode word on screen?

Ans: keyboard

26. What is the GDP growth rate of Pakistan?

Ans: 2% (2.3%)

27. How much part of agriculture in GDP of Pakistan?

Ans: 21%

28. What is the name of parliament of Israel?

Ans: Knesset

29. When Pakistan won the first Olympic medal?

Ans: 1960 in Hockey

30. When did Abdus Salam receive a noble prize?

Ans: October 15th, 1979

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31. Who invented dynamite?

Ans: Alfred Nobel in1867

32. What was the Old name of Myanmar?

Ans: Barma

33. Which atmosphere layer is nearest to the earth?

Ans: Troposphere

34. Which is the brightest planet?

Ans: Venus

35. What is the shape of the Milky Way?

Ans: Spiral

36. Where is the headquarter of WTO located?

Ans: Geneva, Switzerland

37. Who wrote the book about Indian Muslims?

Ans: William Hunter

38. Which river has a blind dolphin?

Ans: The Ganges River

39. Who is special envoy of USA to Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Ans: Mark Grossman

40. What was the code name of Indian’s 1st atomic operation?

Ans: Smiling Buddha

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41. What is the cheapest source of energy?

Ans: Hydel

42. Which Player twice won a grand slam?

Ans: Rod Laver

43. What is the highest rank in the air force?

Ans: Air Chief Marshal

44. What is the percentage of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere?

Ans: 20% (20.946%)

45. What is the Name of the process of sun heating the earth?

Ans: insulation (not verified)

46. What is the time taken by sunlight to reach earth?

Ans: 8 minutes

47. Mixtures of metals are called what?

Ans: Alloys

48. Which organism produces Insulin in the body?

Ans: Pancreas

49. What does the 5^th pillar of Islam mean?

Ans: Hajj: Pilgrimage to Mecca

50. When did Christians conquest, Granada?

Ans: 1492