New GK Question 2020 in English
New GK Question 2020 in English Part 1
1) Who discovered magnetic field of electric current?
Answer: Faraday.
2) The moon is a planet or satellite?
Answer: Satellite.
3) Which country is the largest producer of rubber?
Answer: Malaysia.
4) When days and nights are equal throughout the globe?
Answer: When the sun is above equator.
5) Where is The Great Victoria Desert located in?
Answer: Australia.
6) Where is the headquarters of the UNESCO situated?
Answer: Paris.
7) Aspirin is the common name of?
Answer: Acetylsalicylic Acid.
8) What are the dimensions of basketball court for the Olympics and World Tournaments?
Answer: 28m X 15m.
9) Which UN body deals with population problem?
Answer: UNFPA.
10) From which mineral is radium obtained?
Answer: Pitchblende.
11) What is the capital of Greece?
Answer: Athens.
12) What is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia.
13) Which is the biggest literary award of Britain?
Answer: David Cohen Award.
14) L.P.G. is a hydrocarbon consisting of a mixture of?
Answer: Propane and Butane.
15) What is the longest river on Earth?
Answer: The Nile River.
16) Along with whom did Bill Gates found Microsoft?
Answer: Paul Allen.
17) A device used for increasing the strength of electric signal is called?
Answer: Amplifier.
18) What is the smallest planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Mercury.
19) What is the name of NASA’s most famous space telescope?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope.
20) “Black Pearl” was the name given to?
Answer: Pele.
New GK Question 2020 in English Part 2 (Questions 21-40)
21) The Panda belongs to the same family as that of?
Answer: Bear.
22) The intensity of Earthquakes is measured on?
Answer: Richter Scale.
23) The hardest substance available on earth is?
Answer: Platinum.
24) Is dolphin a mammal?
Answer: True.
25) AIDS stands for?
Answer: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
26) How many senses a human being has?
Answer: Five.
27) Diseases which spread by contact are called?
Answer: Contagious diseases.
28) A method of treating cancer or tumor growth using chemicals is known as?
Answer: Chemotherapy.
29) How many bones an adult human body has?
Answer: 206.
30) What is the largest mammal in the world?
Answer: Blue Whale.
31) World’s largest railway station?
Answer: Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York.
32) “Entomology” is the science that studies about?
Answer: Insects.
33) Where is “Garampani” sanctuary located?
Answer: Diphu, Assam, India.
34) Hitler party which came into power in 1933 is known as?
Answer: Nazi Party.
35) FFC stands for?
Answer: Film Finance Corporation.
36) Who was the fastest shorthand writer?
Answer: Dr. G. D. Bist.
37) The term `Knock Out’ is associated with?
Answer: Boxing.
38) Who conducted first human heart transplant operation and on whom it as conducted?
Answer: Dr. Christian Bernard on Louis Washkansky in 1967.
39) Who developed the telescope?
Answer: Galileo.
40) Who receives “Dronacharya” Award?
Answer: Sports Coaches.
Top 100 New GK Question 2020 in English Part 3 (Questions 41-60)
41) Who was the first Indian to be-elected to the British Parliament?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji.
42) Headquarters of Amnesty International is at?
Answer: London.
43) The Yellow Stone National Park is in?
Answer: U. S. A.
44) When a man circles round the earth in a satellite, then?
Answer: Mass remains constant but weight becomes zero.
45) The weight of an object at the poles is greater than at the equator, why?
Answer: Because Gravitational pull is more at the poles.
46) What was the first metal used by the man?
Answer: Copper.
47) The water in an open pond remains cool even in hot summer because?
Answer: Water absorbs heat less rapidly than the atmosphere.
48) The first Indian to secure a Grandmaster norm in chess is?
Answer: Vishwanathan Anand.
49) The overall length of a Badminton court is?
Answer: 44 feet.
50) The old name of table tennis was?
Answer: Ping Pong.
51) The intersecting lines drawn on maps and globes are called?
Answer: Geographic grids.
52) Football legend Pele belonged to?
Answer: Brazil.
53) Who is the father of Geometry?
Answer: Euclid.
54) When the chairmanship/presidency of the UN Security Council rotates among the Council Members?
Answer: Every Month.
55) Where is Permanent Secretariat to coordinate the implementation of SAARC program located?
Answer: Kathmandu.
56) The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is located at which place?
Answer: Geneva.
57) Amnesty International is an organization associated with which field?
Answer: Protection of human rights.
58) Where is The headquarters of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) located?
Answer: Geneva.
59) When World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day get celebrated?
Answer: May 8.
60) Friction can be reduced by?
Answer: Changing from sliding to rolling.
New GK Question 2020 in English Part 4 (Questions 61-80)
61) Fire temple is the place of worship of which religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism (Parsi Religion).
62) Carbon, diamond and graphite are together called?
Answer: Allotropes.
63) Permanent hardness of water, due to sulphates of the metal, can be destroyed by the use of?
Answer: Zeolites.
64) The most potent greenhouse gas is?
Answer: Water Vapor.
65) Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade agreement under negotiation between?
Answer: European Union and USA.
66) Which is the highest literary award of the world?
Answer: Booker Prize.
67) Which body of UNO gives advisory opinion on legal matters to the bodies and special agencies of the UNO?
Answer: International Court of Justice.
68) When was Mandela inaugurated as first black President?
Answer: 1994.
69) When was table tennis introduced in Olympics?
Answer: 1988 at Seoul.
70) When was Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci?
Answer: 1504 AD.
71) Where was the headquarters of European Union located?
Answer: Brussels.
72) Where is the headquarters of International Atomic Energy agency located?
Answer: Vienna.
73) With which activity is the wall street in New York, U.S.A. associated?
Answer: Banking and Finance.
74) Which civilization is considered as oldest civilization of the world?
Answer: Mesopotamian Civilization.
75) Who is considered as the master of Greek comedy?
Answer: Aristophanes.
76) Who is known as the father of Modern Medicine?
Answer: Hippocrates.
77) Who is known as Man of Blood and Iron?
Answer: Bismarck.
78) On which island of France, Napoleon was born?
Answer: Corsica.
79) Who was the king during the french revolution?
Answer: Louis XVI.
80) ‘Boston Tea Party’ protest was associated with which revolution?
Answer: Revolution of America.
New GK Question 2020 in English Part 4 (Questions 81-100)
81) Napoleon was exiled to the Saint Helena after the defeat in the war of?
Answer: Waterloo.
82) Adolf Hitler was also known as?
Answer: Fuhrer.
83) Two Presidents of USA were father and son. What were their names?
Answer: Their names were John Adams & Quincey.
84) Hitler’s secret service was also known as?
Answer: Gestapo.
85) Who was the last emperor of Rome?
Answer: Romulus Augustus.
86) Florence Nightingale was known as?
Answer: Lady of the Lamp.
87) In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by?
Answer: Napolean.
88) Who was the first prime minister of independent Kenya?
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta.
89) During second world war, atomic bombs were dropped in which city of Japan?
Answer: Hiroshima.
90) Who is also known as the Bible of English Constitution?
Answer: Magna Carta.
91) China was also known as?
Answer: Chung hua.
92) Which disease struck Europe in the 14th century?
Answer: Plague.
93) Abraham Lincoln, the American President was a republican from?
Answer: Illinois.
94) In 1867, USA purchased Alaska from?
Answer: Russia.
95) King Leopold was from?
Answer: Belgium.
96) Adolf Hitler was the dictator of?
Answer: Germany.
97) Pearl Harbour is located in?
Answer: Hawai.
98) The 1st person to set foot on Moon was?
Answer: Neil Armstrong.
99) The first British University to admit women for degree courses was?
Answer: London University.
100) How many children did Queen Victoria have?
Answer: 9.
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