General Knowledge for Kids in English

1. How many days do we have in a week?
Answer: Seven

2. How many days are there in a year?
Answer: 365 (not a leap year)

3. How many colours are there in a rainbow?
Answer: 7 

4. Which animal is known as the ‘Ship of the Desert?’
Answer: Camel

5. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 26 

6. How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 21

7. How many sides are there in a triangle?
Answer: Three

8. In which direction does the sun rise?
Answer: East 

9. What do you call a type of shape that has five sides?
Answer: Pentagon

10. Which month of the year has the least number of days?
Answer: February

11. Which is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia Arnoldii

12. Which are the vowels in the English alphabet series?
Answer: A, E, I , O, U

13. How many zeros are there in one hundred thousand?
Answer: Five

14. How many hours are there in two days?
Answer: 48 hours (24+24)

15. How many months of the year have 31 days?
Answer: 7 (January, March, May, July, August, October and December)

16. How many weeks are there in one year?
Answer: 52

17. Which are the colours in a rainbow?
Answer: Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red 

18. Which animal is called King of Jungle?
Answer: Lion

19. How many bones does an adult human have?
Answer: 206

20. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong

21. How many primary colours are there?
Answer: Three (red, yellow, blue)

22. Which way is anti-clockwise, left or right?
Answer: Left 

23. How many equal sides does an isosceles triangle have?
Answer: 2 

24. How many millimetres are there in 1cm?
Answer: 10

25. How many days are there in the month of February in a leap year?
Answer: 29 days 

26. Which is the nearest star to planet earth?
Answer: Sun

27. What do you call a house made of ice?
Answer: Igloo

28. Which is the longest river on the earth?
Answer: Nile

29. Which is the principal source of energy for earth?
Answer: Sun

30. Which is the coldest location in the earth?
Answer: East Antarctica 

31. How many lungs does the human body have?
Answer: Two

32. What is the standard taste of the water?
Answer: Water is tasteless

33. Which country is called the land of rising sun?
Answer: Japan

34. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest

35. Which is the fastest animal on the land?
Answer: Cheetah

36. Which continent is known as ‘Dark’ continent?
Answer: Africa

37. Who is the inventor of electricity?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin 

38.Who was the first Muslim president of India?

Answer: Dr. Zakir Hussain

39. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars

40. Which is the tallest animal on the earth?
Answer: Giraffe 

41. Who was the first sikh president of India?

Answer: Giani Zail Singh

42. Which gas does man use to survive ?

Answer: Oxygen Gas

43. Which two parts of the body continue to grow for your entire life?
Answer: Nose and Ears 

44. The largest ‘Democracy’ in the world?
Answer: India

45. Who is the inventor of Television?
Answer: John Logie Baird

46. Which is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

47. Which is the largest plateau in the world?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau

48. Which is the instrument used to measure Blood pressure?
Answer: Sphygmomanometer

49. Which day is observed as World Environment Day?
Answer: June 5

50. How many years are there in a century?
Answer: One Hundred

51. Which is the largest country in the world?
Answer: Russia (By area)

52. Who invented the Computer?
Answer: Charles Babbage

53. Which festival is known as the festival of colours?
Answer: Holi

54. How many players are there in a cricket team?
Answer: 11 players

55. Which day is observed as World Literacy Day?
Answer: September 8

56. Who is the inventor of Radio?
Answer: Marconi 

57. How many days are in a leap year?

Answer: 366 Days

58. Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates

59. During which year did World War I begin?
Answer: 1914

60. Which festival is called the festival of light?
Answer: Diwali 

61. Which is the national bird of India?

Answer: Peacock

62. Which place is known as the roof of the world?
Answer: Tibet

63. How many teeth does a healthy adult have including the wisdom teeth?
Answer: 32 

64. Which gas is most abundant in the earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen

65. How many people are there in the world?
Answer: Over 7 billion

66. Which is the continent with the most number of countries?
Answer: Africa

67. True or false: Chameleon’s have extremely long tongues, sometimes as long as their bodies?
Answer: True

68. Which is the most common non-contagious disease in the world?
Answer: Tooth Decay

69. How many strings does a violin have?
Answer: Four

70. Global warming is caused by the excess of which type of gas?
Answer: Carbon dioxide

71. How many cards are there in a complete pack of cards?
Answer: 52

72. What is the name of the biggest rain forest in the world?
Answer: The Amazon 

73. Who is the founder of Amazon e-commerce company?

Answer: Jeff Bezos

74. What makes up (approx.) 80% of our brain’s volume?
Answer: Glial cells

75. Which instrument is used for measuring wind speed?
Answer: Anemometer

76. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. True or False?
Answer: True 

77. How many planets are there in our solar system?
Answer: 8

78. Which is the hottest continent on Earth?
Answer: Africa

79. Which is the smallest continent in the world?
Answer: Australia 

80. What is the top colour in a rainbow?
Answer: Red

81. How many years are there in a millennium?
Answer: 1000

82. Which country is home to the kangaroo?
Answer: Australia

83. ‘Stars and Stripes’ is the nickname of the flag of which country?
Answer: United States of America

84. Which language is used by the computer to process data?
Answer: Binary language

85. What type of bird lays the largest eggs?
Answer: Ostrich

86. What covers approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface: Land or water?
Answer: Water

87. Which is the hardest substance available on earth?
Answer: Diamond 

88. Which is the biggest desert in the world?
Answer: Sahara desert

89. Which country gifted The Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France

90. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

91. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

92. What is the name of the Greek God of music?
Answer: Apollo

93. What does the “SIM” in the SIM card stand for?
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module 

94. Which is the first element on the periodic table of elements?
Answer: Hydrogen

95. Which is the longest written Constitution in the world?
Answer: India

96. What is the largest joint in the human body?
Answer: Knee

97. What does the Internet prefix WWW stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web

98. How much of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean?
Answer: 71%

99. Which is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: Stapes (Ear bone)

100. Who discovered Penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming 

101. How many stars are there in the American flag?
Answer: 50

102. Which instrument is used to measure Atmospheric Pressure?
Answer: Barometer

103. Which is the largest continent in the world?
Answer: Asia 

104. Which is the largest bone in the human body?

Answer: Femur (Thigh Bone)

105. On whose memory Nobel Prize is awarded?
Answer: Alfred Nobel

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