Are you someone who loves to soak up information, or do you consider yourself a master of general knowledge? Either way, we have a challenge for you. We’ve put together a list of 100 general knowledge questions and answers that will test your abilities and possibly teach you something new along the way.
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1. What is the capital city of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo
2. What is the name of the world’s largest desert?
Answer: The Sahara Desert
3. Which country is the second-largest in the world by land area?
Answer: Canada
4. Who is the current President of the United States?
Answer: Joe Biden
5. What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
6. Who painted the famous artwork called “Starry Night”?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh
7. What is the name of the mountain range that includes Mount Everest?
Answer: The Himalayas
8. What is the currency used in Japan?
Answer: The yen
9. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
10. What type of animal is the largest creature on earth?
Answer: The blue whale
11. Which two gases make up the majority of the earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen and oxygen
12. Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Answer: Harper Lee
13. What is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
14. How many states are in the United States?
Answer: 50
15. What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro
16. Who wrote the play “Hamlet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
17. What is the name of the world’s largest island?
Answer: Greenland
18. Which famous scientist came up with the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
19. What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
20. Who painted the “Mona Lisa”?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
21. What is the name of the largest city in South America?
Answer: Sao Paulo
22. Who wrote the novel “Brave New World”?
Answer: Aldous Huxley
23. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
24. What is the largest bird in the world?
Answer: The ostrich
25. What is the currency used in Australia?
Answer: The Australian dollar
26. Who is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Answer: Boris Johnson
27. What is the name of the world’s largest river?
Answer: The Amazon River
28. What is the name of the world’s largest flower?
Answer: Rafflesia Arnoldii
29. What is the name of the world’s deepest ocean?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
30. What is the name of the world’s largest reef system?
Answer: The Great Barrier Reef
31. Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
Answer: Jane Austen
32. What is the largest country in South America?
Answer: Brazil
33. What is the capital city of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
34. What is the chemical symbol for silver?
Answer: Ag
35. Who painted the artwork called “The Starry Night”?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh
36. Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
37. What is the name of the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
Answer: The tropics
38. What is the name of the tallest animal in the world?
Answer: The giraffe
39. What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
40. What is the name of the world’s largest cave?
Answer: Hang Son Doong
41. What is the name of the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
42. Who painted the artwork called “The Last Supper”?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
43. What is the name of the world’s largest volcano?
Answer: Mauna Loa
44. What is the chemical symbol for helium?
Answer: He
45. Who wrote the novel “1984”?
Answer: George Orwell
46. What is the name of the world’s smallest ocean?
Answer: The Arctic Ocean
47. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie
48. What is the name of the largest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Victoria Falls
49. Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby”?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. What is the capital city of China?
Answer: Beijing
51. What is the name of the world’s largest volcano?
Answer: Mauna Loa
52. Who is the current President of China?
Answer: Xi Jinping
53. What is the name of the world’s largest spider?
Answer: The Goliath bird-eating spider
54. Who wrote the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
Answer: J.D. Salinger
55. What is the name of the world’s largest mammal?
Answer: The blue whale
56. What is the capital city of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
57. What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?
Answer: O
58. Who painted the artwork called “The Persistence of Memory”?
Answer: Salvador Dali
59. Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: Justin Trudeau
60. What is the largest country in Europe?
Answer: Russia
61. Who wrote the novel “The Lord of the Rings”?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
62. What is the name of the world’s largest lizard?
Answer: The Komodo dragon
63. What is the name of the world’s largest desert?
Answer: The Sahara Desert
64. Who painted the artwork called “The Scream”?
Answer: Edvard Munch
65. What is the currency used in Germany?
Answer: The euro
66. What is the name of the world’s largest flower?
Answer: Rafflesia Arnoldii
67. Who wrote the play “Macbeth”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
68. What is the largest continent in the world?
Answer: Asia
69. What is the name of the world’s largest glacier?
Answer: Lambert Glacier
70. What is the chemical symbol for carbon?
Answer: C
71. Who is the current Prime Minister of Japan?
Answer: Yoshihide Suga
72. What is the name of the world’s largest lake?
Answer: Caspian Sea
73. What is the name of the world’s largest bird?
Answer: The ostrich
74. Who wrote the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
Answer: Mark Twain
75. What is the capital city of France?
Answer: Paris
76. What is the name of the world’s largest mushroom?
Answer: Honey fungus
77. Who painted the artwork called “Girl with a Pearl Earring”?
Answer: Johannes Vermeer
78. What is the name of the world’s largest coral reef system?
Answer: The Great Barrier Reef
79. What is the currency used in Mexico?
Answer: The Mexican peso
80. Who wrote the novel “The Hobbit”?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
81. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer: Fe
82. What is the name of the world’s largest cat?
Answer: The Siberian tiger
83. Who painted the artwork called “The Birth of Venus”?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli
84. What is the name of the world’s largest tree?
Answer: General Sherman
85. What is the name of the world’s largest fish?
Answer: The whale shark
86. What is the name of the world’s largest island?
Answer: Greenland
87. Who wrote the novel “Frankenstein”?
Answer: Mary Shelley
88. What is the name of the world’s largest lake by volume?
Answer: Lake Baikal
89. What is the currency used in Brazil?
Answer: The Brazilian real
90. Who painted the artwork called “Water Lilies”?
Answer: Claude Monet
91. What is the capital city of India?
Answer: New Delhi
92. What is the name of the world’s largest snake?
Answer: The anaconda
93. Who wrote the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
94. What is the name of the world’s largest bird of prey?
Answer: The Andean condor
95. What is the capital city of Spain?
Answer: Madrid
96. What is the currency used in Russia?
Answer: The ruble
97. Who painted the artwork called “The Night Watch”?
Answer: Rembrandt
98. What is the name of the world’s largest reptile?
Answer: The saltwater crocodile
99. Who wrote the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
100. What is the name of the world’s largest mammal that can fly?
Answer: The bat
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