General Knowledge (GK) Questions and Answers 2024

General knowledge (GK) for School Students, Recruitment Exam Aspirants

General knowledge is a crucial part of education which enhances overall knowledge of students. All topics of different subjects are part of general knowledge. If a student focuses on developing his general knowledge he will grasp a complete knowledge overall aspects of the world. General knowledge is a complete package covering all topics together at a time. Students get chances of knowing art, culture, food, music, language, history and lifestyle about all the parts of the world. They get to know about whereabouts, all events and happenings on time around the world from general knowledge. Reading general knowledge means uplifting general awareness overall. If a child starts loving general knowledge from the beginning of academics it helps in shaping his personality. Students get future goals and different perspective of living life with their developed knowledge over important aspects.

General knowledge covers all general facts and information about all countries of the world. Like for India students will find all information about Indian states and its capitals, Indian constitution and politics, Indian history, central government schemes, India’s freedom movement, revolutions of India etc. all topics related to India in general knowledge. Indian arts, culture, music, language, cultural heritage, historical events, dynasties, personalities, geographical features, mountain ranges, rivers, plateaus etc. part of static general knowledge. Besides static GK student must consider daily current affairs to be updated with knowledge around them.

Countries

Indian Dynasty

Indian History

Indian states and capitals:

India has total 28 states and 9 union territories till now. To know about the country one student must have complete knowledge about all the states, union territories and their capitals. Capitals are selected for administrative, financial,political and communication purposes with the entire state. In this case, students should know about all the capitals of different states first. After knowing about capitals it will be conducive for them to know details about states. Students will understand about different aspects and features related to states after knowing its capitals.

 

Sports

Famous Cricket Players

Water Transport

States and Cities

National parks of India:

National parks are strictly protected areas for conserving wildlife animals and plants. The government maintains biodiversity in the whole area of national parks. Activities like poaching, hunting, grazing, forestry etc. are not permitted within national parks. The government declares a forest as national park which has adequate ecological balance, biodiversity, natural significance and geographical features. The boundaries of all national parks are marked and circumscribed properly. Private ownership of anything with parks is not allowed. India has national parks in all states more or less in number. India has the oldest, largest, smallest national parks in areas. Madhya Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar islands have the maximum number of national parks in it. The spectacular beauty and diversity of nature attract millions of tourists to visit all national parks in a year.

Wildlife sanctuaries of India:

Wildlife sanctuaries are protected areas by the government to conserve wildlife, flora and fauna in its natural state. The main purpose of it is to maintain ecological balance so that wild animals can live and roam freely within it. There are total 544 wildlife sanctuaries in all states of India. The largest wildlife sanctuary is in Ran of Kutch of Gujarat and the smallest wildlife sanctuary is Bor tiger reserve in Maharashtra.

Highways of India:

National highways of India is the network of roads connecting all states to one another. We can connect to eastern, western, northern and southern parts of the country through highways. All the roads and national highways are maintained and protected by national highways authority of India. These national highways are important to develop our country’s infrastructure and connect to all other parts. NH 44 is the longest national highway which was previously known as NH 7. This road is 3745 km long which starts from Srinagar in north and ends at Kanyakumari in south. There are all over 200 national highways in our country connecting all states and cities together.

Neighbour countries of India:

India is the seventh largest country in terms of area and second largest country in terms of population within the world. It is located in the southern part of Asia within northern hemisphere and eastern hemisphere of the world. India has a vast geographical land area and long coastline which touches the boundaries of total seven neighbouring countries. All the nine countries are Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and china, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Maldives. India shares friendly relation with its neighbouring countries for extending cooperation and communication in all aspects. It enhances business, transport, education, services, technologies etc. at greater level by sharing knowledge and experience with each other.

Highest mountain peaks:

Mountain peaks are the highest parts of any mountain range. In India there are total 10 highest mountain peaks in Himalayan ranges. Kanchenjunga is the highest mountain peak in India and third highest in all over the world. It is situated at the border of India and Nepal within Himalayan ranges in Sikkim. Anaimudi is the highest peak in the Western Ghats of India and highest point of southern part in India.

Folk dances:

India is famous in all over India for its diversity in culture, tradition and language. It is the secular country where people of different culture, language and traditions live together. India has a versatile range of folk and classical dance forms. The origin of most of the dance forms is temples in India. Dramatics and storytelling are essential features of Indian folk dances. Students will find that there are different folk dances state wise of India. All folk dance forms have distinctive features which make them identifiable from others.

Freedom fighters:

India has won freedom from the British rule after long struggle for 200 years. Freedom fighters played great role in making different strategies and earn freedom finally. Freedom fighters fought selflessly to bring the glory of independence. They sacrificed their own lives and left comfortable living. They inspired other people to join the freedom movement. Our greatest heroes of freedom movement are Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, swami Vivekananda, Jawaharlal Nehru, LalaLajpat Rai, Lal bahadur Shastri, Bal GangadharTilak and so on. India has celebrated 77th Independence Day on 15 august, 2024 by commemorating greatest contribution of all freedom fighters, remembering them and showing respect. Students will know details of all individual freedom fighters and their contribution at different stages of education. They will feel inspiration and get motivated towards working for our country by reading the biography of all freedom fighters.

List of ministries and ministers in India:

India is a secular country where the government is democratic type of. The government is parliamentary type of where president has the supreme power. Prime minister is selected by public vote. Every state gets a chief minister elected by public. Chief Ministers look over all administrative, business, political and cooperative factors. Within the government of India there are different ministries to monitor all aspects like ministry of education, ministry of defence, ministry of rural development, ministry of home affairs, ministry of external affairs, ministry of health and family welfare, ministry of corporate affairs, ministry of finance, ministry of food processing industry, ministry of labour and employment, ministry of law and justice and so on. Significant minister is appointed for all individual ministries by prime minister.

State animals:

There is one national animal for all countries. Like that there are individual state animals for all states of India. State animals have been chosen as per the availability of it in a particular region.

Insects

Reptiles

Amphibian

Birds

Aquatic Animals

Tiger reserves:

Royal Bengal tiger had been declared as our national animal in April 1973 through the project tiger initiative. It has become an endangered species for which the tiger reserve of India was established in 1973. In all the states of India there are tiger reserves some of which are national parks and wildlife sanctuaries too. There are total 53 tiger reserves in India administered by national tiger conservation authority.

Books and authors:

Books and authors is significant in general knowledge. Students get to know about new released books and its authors in detail. Despite that they also come to know about old books which were written by some famous authors, greatest heroes, scientists and freedom fighters. Students get great knowledge and wisdom from the famous ancient books.

National languages:

India has total 22 national languages now. It had 17 languages at the beginning then 5 more languages were added by schedules of the Indian constitution. All languages are different state wise. Hindi is the official language of our country. Besides national languages there are many local languages in which local people of a specific region talk.

Art and culture:

The diversity in art and culture in different states attract millions of tourists every year. We can find different art, culture, customs and traditions in different states. This uniqueness makes a state significant from others. We can easily identify an artwork from its individual features and its origin. The government has contributed in many levels and taken initiatives for developing this art and culture of all states. Local people, artisans and artists will be benefitted to survive their individual artworks.

General

Famous Place

Famous Personalities

Famous Novelist

American States

Fruits 

Vegetables

Top 10 (World’s Richest)

Apart from these subjects, there are numerous topics within general knowledge which students will cover in all stages of their academics one by one.