GK for Class 5

1. What is Mahatma Gandhi called? Answer: Father of Nation.

2. Name the folk dance of Assam?Answer: Bihu
3. Name one heavy metal?Answer: Gold.
4. Name the 4th planet of our solar system?Answer: Mars.
5. 30th January is celebrated as:Answer: Martyrs’ day
6. Name the largest river in the world?Answer: Amazon.
7. Where is Gir National Park located?Answer: Gujarat.
8. Which animal can live without drinking water for many days?Answer: Camel.
9. Name one plant which grows in the Desert?Answer: Cactus.
10. Delhi is situated on the bank of which river?Answer: Yamuna
11. National fruit of India:Answer: Mango.
12. How many UT’s are there in India?Answer: 8.
13. Which city is called Pearl City?Answer: Hyderabad.
14. Victoria Memorial is located in which city?Answer: Kolkata.
15. Name one famous crop of Assam?Answer: Tea.
16. Name one cash crop.Answer: Tea, Jute, Sugarcane, Cotton, and Tobacco, etc.
17. Name the brightest planet in the Solar system.Answer: Venus
18. Where does a lion live?Answer: Den.
19. How many players are there on the football team?Answer: 11.
20. Name the president of the USA.Answer: Joe Biden.
21. Young one of a cow is called:Answer: Calf.
22. In Which sea Ganga river falls?Answer: Bay of Bengal.
23. PV Sindhu is associated with which sport?Answer: Badminton
24. Where will the 2021 Olympic Games be held?Answer: Tokyo.
25. How many sides are there in Hexagon?Answer: 6.
26. A Place where dead bodies are kept:Answer: Mortuary
27. Name the largest ocean in the world.Answer: Pacific.
28. Samsung is the company of which country?Answer: South Korea.
29. The scientific study of an earthquake is called:Answer: Seismology.
30. Name the author of the book ‘Wings of Fire’.Answer: A P J Kalam.
31. Which is the 4th planet of our solar system? Ans: Mars
32. Which is the largest river in the world?Ans: Amazon
33. Name a plant that grows in the desert?Ans: Cactus
34. Which is the brightest planet in the solar system?Ans: Venus
35. A football team consists of how many members?Ans: 11
36. What is the young one of a cow called?Ans: Calf
37. Which is the largest ocean in the world?Ans: Pacific Ocean
38. The branch of science that deals with earthquakes is called ___________Ans: Seismology
39. “Wings of Fire” is the autobiography of ______________Ans: Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
40. Which is the national bird of the USA?Ans: Bald Eagle
41. The smallest bone in the human body is __________Ans: Stapes (located in the ear)
42. Which is the deepest oceanic trench in the world?Ans: Mariana Trench
43. Name a country without an official capital?Ans: Nauru
44. Name the capital of Romania?Ans: Bucharest
45. Which is the largest plateau in the world?Ans: Tibetan Plateau
46. Young one of a horse is called?Ans: Foal
47. How many bones does an adult human body have?Ans: 206
48. Who wrote the famous play, “Romeo and Juliet”?Ans: William Shakespeare
49. Atacama Desert is located in which continent?Ans: South America
50. Study of the universe is called? Ans: Cosmology
51. Mt. Vesuvius is located in which country? Ans: Italy
52. Who is known as the “Father of Indian Space Program”? Ans: Vikram Sarabhai
53. Mt. Abu is located in? Ans: India
54. What is the capital of Armenia? Ans: Yerevan
55. “B” in BRICS, an international organization, stands for? Ans: Brazil
56. Where is Spratly Islands located? Ans: South China Sea
57. Where is the headquarters of European Union located? Ans: Brussels, Belgium
58. In which city is the world’s largest port located? Ans: Shanghai
59. For which event did Neeraj Chopra win a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Ans:
Javelin throw
60. In which year did India win the first Cricket World Cup? Ans: 1983
61. In which year was South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
established?Ans: 1985
62. Which country is known as the “land of the blue sky”? Ans: Mongolia
63. Richter Scale is used to measure _________ Ans: Magnitude of earthquakes
64. Coco Islands are located in which sea? Ans: Bay of Bengal
65. Who wrote the book “Midnight’s children”? Ans: Salman Rushdie
66. Who was the first person to go to space? Ans: Yuri Gagarin
67. Which is the deepest lake in the world? Ans: Lake Baikal
68. Name the device that provides power to the connected devices of a computer during power
outages? Ans: Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS)
69. What is the full form of URL? Ans: Uniform Resource Locator
70. Who invented World Wide Web (www)? Ans: Tim Berners-Lee
71. When did the Internet come into existence? Ans: January 1, 1983
72. Where is the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab, the popular cyber security and anti-virus
provider, located?
73. Ans: Moscow
74. Name the planet in our solar system that is known as the “Red Planet”Ans: Mars
75. Name the scientist who discovered gravity? Ans: Sir Isaac Newton
76. Whose birthday is celebrated as “Engineer’s Day” in India? Ans: Sir M Visvesaraya
77. Between which planets does the asteroid belt exist in our solar system?Ans: Mars and
Jupiter
78. Who invented dynamite?Ans: Alfred Nobel
79. Name the country Alfred Nobel, the famous inventor, was born in?Ans: Sweden
80. Which is the longest bone in the human body?Ans: Femur (thigh bone)
81. Who invented airplanes? Ans: Wright brothers (Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright)
82. Which galaxy does solar system belong to?Ans: Milky Way
83. What is the speed of light in vacuum?Ans: 3,00,000 km/sec
84. Which gas is commonly found in our universe?Ans: Hydrogen
85. When is World Heritage Day celebrated?Ans: April 18
86. Which is the smallest continent in the world?Ans: Australia
87. Telephone was invented by ___________Ans: Alexander Graham Bell
88. Who invented light bulb?Ans: Thomas Alva Edison
89. Which is the national game of the USA?Ans: Baseball
90. Which is the lightest gas?Ans: Hydrogen
91. Branch of science that deals with scientific study of insects is known as _________Ans:
Entomology
92. Who invented the television?Ans: John Logie Baird
93. Who was known as “Indian Napolean”?Ans: Samudragupta
94. The total distance between the Sun and the Earth is ___________Ans: 149.6 Million km
95. Who formulated the theory of relativity?Ans: Albert Einstein
96. Which mathematician is known as the “Prince of Indian Mathematics”?Ans: Srinivasa
Ramanujan
97. Sound cannot travel through _________Ans: Vacuum
98. What is the full form of ROM?Ans: Read-Only Memory
99. Name the smallest ocean in the world?Ans: Arctic Ocean
100. Goitre is caused by the deficiency of?Ans: Arctic Ocean
101. The term “LBW” is related to which sport?Ans: Cricket
102. In which year did Christopher Columbus discover America?Ans: 1492
103. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?Ans: Mount Everest
104. The famous novel, Alice in Wonderland, was written by?Ans: Lewis Carroll
105. Name the ocean in which the famous ship, Titanic, had sunk?
Ans: North Atlantic Ocean
106. What is the scientific name of tomato?Ans: Solanum lycopersicum
107. 1024 kilobytes is equal to _.Ans: 1 Megabyte(MB)
108. Who is Paulo Coelho?Ans: Brazilian Novelist
109. A figure with 6 sides is known as ________.Ans: Hexagon
110. What do UPS stand for?Ans: Uninterrupted Power Supply
111. At which temperature does water boil?Ans: 100◦C
112. Name the acid in lemon.Ans: Citric acid
113. Which is the first animal to land on the moon?Ans: Laika, The dog
114. Name the two Oceans in which Australia is sandwiched between?
Ans: The Indian Ocean and The Pacific Ocean
115. What do AM and PM stand for?
Ans: AM stands for Ante Meridiem and PM stands for Post Meridiem
116. Statue of Liberty is in _. Ans- New York City
117. Name the five layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
Ans: Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere
118. Name the border of India and Pakistan. Ans: Radcliffe Line
119. What is Ablutophobia? Ans: It is the Fear of Bathing
120. What is the full form of HTTP? Ans: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
121. Identify the Tennis Player. Ans: Roger Federer
122. Which is the coldest planet in our solar system? Ans: Neptune
123. Which gas is known as “Laughing gas”? Ans: Nitrous Oxide
124. Which is the largest freshwater lake in the world? Ans: Lake Baikal
125. What is the full form of MBBS?
Ans: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
126. Who is the founder of Buddhism? Ans: Siddhartha Gautama
127. What is the capital of Italy? Ans: Rome
128. When is UN day celebrated? Ans: October 24
129. What is the scientific name of Mango? Ans: Mangifera Indica