General Knowledge MCQs


301. The Great Wall of China was primarily built to:
A) Attract tourists
B) Protect against invasions ✅
C) Serve as a trade route
D) Mark territory
Who discovered the law of planetary motion?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Johannes Kepler ✅
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Copernicus
Which city is called the “City of Canals”?
A) Amsterdam
B) Venice ✅
C) Bruges
D) Bangkok
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
A) Charlotte Bronte
B) Jane Austen ✅
C) Emily Bronte
D) Mary Shelley
The chemical symbol for copper is:
A) Cu ✅
B) Co
C) Cp
D) C
The first woman in space was:
A) Sally Ride
B) Valentina Tereshkova ✅
C) Mae Jemison
D) Kalpana Chawla
The currency of Japan is:
A) Yen ✅
B) Won
C) Yuan
D) Dollar
Which river is the longest in Europe?
A) Rhine
B) Volga ✅
C) Danube
D) Thames
The Taj Mahal was built by which Mughal emperor?
A) Akbar
B) Shah Jahan ✅
C) Aurangzeb
D) Babur
Who is known as the “Father of Indian Independence”?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Mahatma Gandhi ✅
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Sardar Patel
The first artificial satellite of the world was:
A) Explorer 1
B) Sputnik ✅
C) Vanguard 1
D) Apollo 11
Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
A) Crete
B) Sardinia
C) Sicily ✅
D) Cyprus
Who discovered the circulation of blood?
A) Hippocrates
B) William Harvey ✅
C) Galen
D) Robert Boyle
The main language spoken in Brazil is:
A) Spanish
B) Portuguese ✅
C) French
D) English
The largest rainforest in the world is:
A) Amazon ✅
B) Congo
C) Daintree
D) Sundarbans
Who painted Starry Night?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh ✅
C) Claude Monet
D) Leonardo da Vinci
The capital of Australia is:
A) Sydney
B) Melbourne
C) Canberra ✅
D) Brisbane
Who wrote Les Misérables?
A) Victor Hugo ✅
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Emile Zola
D) Jules Verne
The chemical formula for water is:
A) H2O ✅
B) H2O2
C) HO
D) OH2
The largest volcano in the world is:
A) Mount Etna
B) Mauna Loa ✅
C) Mount Fuji
D) Mount Vesuvius
The Great Fire of London occurred in which year?
A) 1566
B) 1666 ✅
C) 1766
D) 1866
The national animal of Australia is:
A) Koala
B) Kangaroo ✅
C) Dingo
D) Emu
Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A) Dante Alighieri ✅
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) John Milton
D) William Blake
Which is the fastest bird in the world?
A) Eagle
B) Falcon ✅
C) Hawk
D) Owl
The first European to reach India by sea was:
A) Christopher Columbus
B) Vasco da Gama ✅
C) Ferdinand Magellan
D) Marco Polo
The main component of the sun is:
A) Oxygen
B) Hydrogen ✅
C) Helium
D) Carbon
Which organ in the human body produces insulin?
A) Liver
B) Pancreas ✅
C) Kidney
D) Heart
The first female Prime Minister of Pakistan was:
A) Benazir Bhutto ✅
B) Fatima Jinnah
C) Hina Rabbani Khar
D) Asma Jahangir
Who discovered penicillin?
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Alexander Fleming ✅
C) Robert Koch
D) Joseph Lister
Which is the smallest bone in the human body?
A) Femur
B) Stapes ✅
C) Humerus
D) Tibia
The chemical symbol for silver is:
A) Si
B) Ag ✅
C) Au
D) S
Who wrote The Aeneid?
A) Homer
B) Virgil ✅
C) Ovid
D) Sophocles
The largest country in the world by area is:
A) USA
B) Russia ✅
C) Canada
D) China
The first nuclear-powered submarine was:
A) Nautilus ✅
B) Enterprise
C) Trieste
D) Ohio
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo ✅
D) Donatello
The national bird of the USA is:
A) Bald Eagle ✅
B) Falcon
C) Hawk
D) Owl
The first person to orbit the Earth was:
A) Neil Armstrong
B) Yuri Gagarin ✅
C) John Glenn
D) Alan Shepard
Who is known as the “Father of Modern Physics”?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Isaac Newton
C) Albert Einstein ✅
D) Niels Bohr
The national fruit of India is:
A) Banana
B) Mango ✅
C) Apple
D) Orange
Who invented the telephone?
A) Alexander Graham Bell ✅
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Thomas Edison
D) Guglielmo Marconi
The first man to step on the Moon was:
A) Yuri Gagarin
B) Neil Armstrong ✅
C) John Glenn
D) Buzz Aldrin
Which element is required for the formation of thyroid hormones?
A) Calcium
B) Iodine ✅
C) Iron
D) Sodium
Who wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
A) Agatha Christie
B) Arthur Conan Doyle ✅
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Mark Twain
The first artificial satellite of India was:
A) Rohini
B) INSAT-1A
C) Aryabhata ✅
D) Chandrayaan-1
The largest ocean in the world is:
A) Atlantic
B) Pacific ✅
C) Indian
D) Arctic
Who was the first President of South Africa?
A) Nelson Mandela ✅
B) Thabo Mbeki
C) F.W. de Klerk
D) Jacob Zuma
The tallest mountain in North America is:
A) Mount Logan
B) Denali ✅
C) Mount McKinley
D) Mount Rainier
Who was the first European explorer to reach India by sea?
A) Christopher Columbus
B) Vasco da Gama ✅
C) Ferdinand Magellan
D) Marco Polo
The chemical symbol for lead is:
A) Pb ✅
B) Le
C) Ld
D) La
350. Who wrote David Copperfield?
A) Charles Dickens ✅
B) William Makepeace Thackeray
C) Thomas Hardy
D) George Eliot

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