50 GK Questions And Answers That Can Improve Your Child's General Knowledge Quotient

Because of increased academic pressure, children often limit their learning to what is given in their textbooks. While this may help them secure good marks in school exams, it leaves them unaware of what's happening in the world they live in. And current affairs is an important aspect of civic and community living.

What can parents do in this situation? To begin, parents can assemble a list of general knowledge questions and answers for their kids. To help you in this endeavor, we have come up with a classwise list of 50 questions related to various subjects.

GK questions for class 1

1. Who was the first law minister of independent India?

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

2. Who opened the first school for girls in India?

Savitribai Phule

3. Who was the first Indian woman to become a pilot?

Captain Prem Mathur

4. Who was the first Indian to become the president of the UN General Assembly?

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

5. Which language was thought to be spoken by Buddha?

Pali

6. Who is known as the missile woman of India?

Tessy Thomas

7. In which century did the use of the Charkha (spinning wheel) become common in India?

14th Century AD

8. Who was the first Indian woman to win the Ashoka Chakra?

Neerja Bhanot

9. In which year did the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh occur?

1919

10. How many years did it take to build the Taj Mahal?

20 years

GK questions for classes 2 and 3

11. Who was the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics?

Karnam Malleswari

12. Who is the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize?

Rabindranath Tagore

13. What is the name of the oldest known civilization found in the Indian subcontinent? 

Indus Valley Civilisation

14. Who is the first Indian woman to become a botanist? This person also made sugarcanes taste sweeter.

Janaki Ammal

Biology

15. How many bones does a human adult have?

206

16. In which country is the Global Seed Vault located?

Norway

17. Apart from Homo Sapiens, which are the other two species under the genus 'Homo'?

Homo habilis and Homo erectus

18. Why does the Red Sea's water sometimes turn red?

The sea is sometimes filled with the blooms of the algae Trichodesmium Erythraeum. When they die, the water becomes reddish-brown. It is also known as 'sea sawdust'.

19. Which are the easily available sources of Vitamin B12?

Milk, eggs, fish, nuts, legumes, red meat, etc.

Chemistry

20. Which gases are responsible for global warming?

Carbon dioxide, methane, fluorinated gases (F-gases), and nitrous oxide

GK questions for class 4, 5, and 6

21. Who designed the periodic table?

Dmitri Mendeleev

22. What is used for artificially ripening fruit?

Calcium Carbide

23. Which element is a diamond made of?

Carbon

24. Which gas is also known as laughing gas?

Nitrous Oxide

25. What is the highest temperature that mercury thermometers can measure?

360-degree celsius

26. Which metal is used to make the filament of the electric bulb?

Tungsten

27. How many kilometers are there in a light-year?

94,60,73,00,00,000 km

28. At what temperature is the density of water at its maximum?

4-degree celsius

29. What does the ozone layer protect us from?

UV rays

30. In which Indian state is the world's longest sandstone cave located?

Krem Puri in Meghalaya

GK questions for classes 7 and 8

31. Which Indian airport uses only solar power to run its operations?

Cochin International Airport

32. When is National Farmer's Day celebrated in India?

23 December

33. Who is the youngest person to climb Mount Everest?

Malavath Purna

34. Which Indian cities are the cleanest according to Swachh Survekshan 2018?

Indore, Bhopal, and Chandigarh

35. Who is the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

Shaktikanta Das

36. According to the Air Quality Index report released by Central Pollution Control Board in 2018, which is the most polluted city in India?

Patna

37. When is the National Girl Child Day celebrated in India? 

24 January

38. Who is the current chairman of the Central Board Of Secondary Education? 

Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi

39. What day is celebrated as International Day of Charity?

5 September

Sports

40. Which country is hosting the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019?

England

GK questions for class 9 and 10

41. When were the Commonwealth Games first held?

1930

42. Which tennis player was ranked India's National number 1 by the Women's Tennis Association for a decade (2003-2013)?

Sania Mirza

43. Who is the first Indian ever to feature among the top 10 women squash players in the world?

Dipika Pallikal Karthik

44. Who is the popular athlete with 12 toes to win a gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games?

Swapna Barman

Literature

45. In which book does the fictional town of 'Malgudi' first find a mention?

Swami and Friends

46. During which century did the famous poet Kabir live?

15th century AD

47. Which Indian authors have won the Man Booker Prize?

V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga

48. Who won the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature in 2018?

Benyamin for Jasmine Days (Translated from Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib)

49. Who wrote 'The Jungle Book'?

Rudyard Kipling

50. What is the pen name of Munshi Premchand?

Nawab Rai

The world of general knowledge is fun and interesting not only for the child but also for adults. So, go ahead, browse the Internet, read books and newspapers and come up with more questions for your child.