Challenge Yourself with These 60 General Knowledge Questions and Correct Answers
Are you the kind of person who loves to learn new things? Do you constantly seek out new knowledge and information? If so, then you might enjoy challenging yourself with some general knowledge questions. These questions cover a wide range of topics and can test your knowledge on everything from history and science to geography and pop culture. So, without further ado, here are 60 general knowledge questions to put your brain to the test.
1. Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
2. What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
3. In what year did World War II end?
Answer: 1945
4. Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Answer: Harper Lee
5. What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
6. Who painted the famous painting known as the “Mona Lisa”?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
7. How many planets are in our solar system?
Answer: Eight
8. Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
9. How many elements are there in the periodic table?
Answer: 118
10. Who was the inventor of the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
11. What is the largest state in the United States?
Answer: Alaska
12. What is the most spoken language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese
13. Who painted the famous painting known as “Starry Night”?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
14. Who wrote the novel “1984”?
Answer: George Orwell
15. What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
16. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
17. What is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
18. Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
19. Who was the first African American President of the United States?
Answer: Barack Obama
20. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
21. Who painted the famous painting known as “The Scream”?
Answer: Edvard Munch
22. Who was the founder of Facebook?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg
23. What is the largest desert in the world?
Answer: Sahara Desert
24. Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
Answer: Jane Austen
25. What is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: Stapes (in the ear)
26. Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
27. What is the largest animal on Earth?
Answer: Blue Whale
28. Who invented the lightbulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison
29. Who wrote the novel “Lord of the Flies”?
Answer: William Golding
30. What is the largest lake in the world?
Answer: Caspian Sea
31. Who was the creator of the “Harry Potter” book series?
Answer: J.K. Rowling
32. Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
33. What is the largest country in the world by land area?
Answer: Russia
34. Who was the first person to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (for physics)
35. What is the fastest land animal in the world?
Answer: Cheetah
36. Who was the first person to sail around the world solo?
Answer: Joshua Slocum
37. What is the highest mountain range in the world?
Answer: The Himalayas
38. Who wrote the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
Answer: J.D. Salinger
39. What is the largest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Victoria Falls
40. Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Amelia Earhart
41. What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen
42. Who painted the famous painting known as “The Persistence of Memory”?
Answer: Salvador Dali
43. What is the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
44. Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby”?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. What is the collective name for a group of crows?
Answer: Murder
46. Who was the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates
47. What is the capital of Brazil?
Answer: Brasília
48. Who was the inventor of the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
49. What is the most visited city in the world?
Answer: Bangkok, Thailand
50. Who wrote the play “Hamlet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
51. What is the largest active volcano in the world?
Answer: Mauna Loa (in Hawaii)
52. Who was the first man-made object to be sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik 1
53. What is the most commonly used letter in the English language?
Answer: E
54. Who painted the famous painting known as the “Water Lilies” series?
Answer: Claude Monet
55. What is the capital of South Africa?
Answer: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
56. Who wrote the novel “The Hobbit”?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
57. What is the smallest ocean in the world?
Answer: Arctic Ocean
58. Who was the first person to discover America?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
59. What is the largest city in the world by population?
Answer: Tokyo, Japan
60. Who wrote the novel “The War of the Worlds”?
Answer: H.G. Wells
There you have it, 60 general knowledge questions to challenge yourself. How many were you able to answer correctly? Whether you got them all right or not, we hope this quiz gave you some new facts to learn and share. Keep seeking out knowledge and expanding your horizons!
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