General Knowledge Quiz: 50 Questions and Answers

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1. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
   Answer: Au
2. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
   Answer: Mars
3. How many continents are there on Earth?
   Answer: Seven
4. What is the largest mammal on Earth?
   Answer: Blue whale
5. Which gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere for photosynthesis?
   Answer: Carbon dioxide
6. What is the capital city of Australia?
   Answer: Canberra
7. How many sides does a hexagon have?
   Answer: Six
8. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
   Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
9. Which river is traditionally regarded as the longest in the world?
   Answer: Nile
10. What is the hardest known natural substance?
    Answer: Diamond
11. In which year did the Second World War end?
    Answer: 1945
12. How many bones are there in the adult human body?
    Answer: 206
13. What is the smallest country in the world by area?
    Answer: Vatican City
14. Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
    Answer: Mercury
15. Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
    Answer: William Shakespeare
16. What is the largest organ of the human body?
    Answer: Skin
17. Which ocean is the largest on Earth?
    Answer: Pacific Ocean
18. How many strings does a standard violin have?
    Answer: Four
19. What is the currency of Japan?
    Answer: Yen
20. Which scientist proposed the theory of general relativity?
    Answer: Albert Einstein
21. In which country would you find the ancient city of Machu Picchu?
    Answer: Peru
22. What is the speed of light in a vacuum, approximately?
    Answer: 300,000 km/s
23. How many players are on a standard football (soccer) team on the pitch?
    Answer: Eleven
24. Which planet is the largest in our solar system?
    Answer: Jupiter
25. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
    Answer: Neil Armstrong
26. What is the main language spoken in Brazil?
    Answer: Portuguese
27. Which vitamin is produced when human skin is exposed to sunlight?
    Answer: Vitamin D
28. How many colours are there in a rainbow?
    Answer: Seven
29. What is the tallest mountain above sea level on Earth?
    Answer: Mount Everest
30. Which composer wrote the 'Ninth Symphony' while almost completely deaf?
    Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
31. What is the chemical symbol for water?
    Answer: H2O
32. In which sport would you perform a 'slam dunk'?
    Answer: Basketball
33. Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
    Answer: France
34. What gas makes up the majority of Earth's atmosphere?
    Answer: Nitrogen
35. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
    Answer: Jane Austen
36. What is the largest desert in the world?
    Answer: Antarctic Desert
37. How many legs does a spider have?
    Answer: Eight
38. Which element has the chemical symbol 'O'?
    Answer: Oxygen
39. In which city would you find the Colosseum?
    Answer: Rome
40. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?
    Answer: Charles Darwin
41. What is the freezing point of water in degrees Celsius?
    Answer: 0
42. Which country has the largest population in the world as of 2023?
    Answer: India
43. What is the study of living organisms called?
    Answer: Biology
44. How many keys are there on a standard piano?
    Answer: 88
45. Which is the smallest planet in our solar system?
    Answer: Mercury
46. What is the capital of Canada?
    Answer: Ottawa
47. Which famous scientist formulated the three laws of motion?
    Answer: Isaac Newton
48. Which part of the human eye controls how much light enters by adjusting the pupil?
    Answer: Iris
49. In which country did the Olympic Games originate?
    Answer: Greece
50. What is the most abundant gas in the Sun?
    Answer: Hydrogen

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