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🟢 Easy Questions
1. What is the largest continent in the world?
A) Africa
B) Europe
C) Asia
D) North America
Correct Answer: C) Asia
2. Which animal is known as the “King of the Jungle”?
A) Tiger
B) Lion
C) Elephant
D) Leopard
Correct Answer: B) Lion
3. How many months are there in a year?
A) 10
B) 11
C) 12
D) 13
Correct Answer: C) 12
4. What is the capital of Italy?
A) Milan
B) Venice
C) Naples
D) Rome
Correct Answer: D) Rome
5. Which planet is famous for its rings?
A) Mars
B) Venus
C) Saturn
D) Mercury
Correct Answer: C) Saturn
6. What is H₂O commonly known as?
A) Oxygen
B) Hydrogen
C) Water
D) Salt
Correct Answer: C) Water
7. Which country is famous for the pyramids of Giza?
A) Mexico
B) Egypt
C) Greece
D) Peru
Correct Answer: B) Egypt
8. What color do you get by mixing blue and yellow?
A) Purple
B) Orange
C) Green
D) Brown
Correct Answer: C) Green
9. Which bird is commonly associated with peace?
A) Eagle
B) Dove
C) Falcon
D) Swan
Correct Answer: B) Dove
10. How many legs does a spider have?
A) 6
B) 7
C) 8
D) 10
Correct Answer: C) 8
🟡 Medium Questions
11. Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
A) United Kingdom
B) France
C) Spain
D) Italy
Correct Answer: B) France
12. What is the largest organ in the human body?
A) Liver
B) Brain
C) Skin
D) Heart
Correct Answer: C) Skin
13. Which river flows through London?
A) Seine
B) Thames
C) Danube
D) Rhine
Correct Answer: B) Thames
14. Who discovered penicillin?
A) Alexander Fleming
B) Louis Pasteur
C) Marie Curie
D) Robert Koch
Correct Answer: A) Alexander Fleming
15. What is the capital of Brazil?
A) Rio de Janeiro
B) São Paulo
C) Brasília
D) Salvador
Correct Answer: C) Brasília
16. Which country is shaped roughly like a boot?
A) Greece
B) Italy
C) Portugal
D) Croatia
Correct Answer: B) Italy
17. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
A) Quartz
B) Iron
C) Diamond
D) Granite
Correct Answer: C) Diamond
18. Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Pacific Ocean
C) Indian Ocean
D) Arctic Ocean
Correct Answer: C) Indian Ocean
19. Who was the first president of the United States?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) George Washington
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) John Adams
Correct Answer: B) George Washington
20. Which instrument has 88 keys?
A) Violin
B) Guitar
C) Piano
D) Organ
Correct Answer: C) Piano
21. What is the main gas found in Earth’s atmosphere?
A) Oxygen
B) Carbon dioxide
C) Nitrogen
D) Hydrogen
Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen
22. Which country has the city of Barcelona?
A) Portugal
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) France
Correct Answer: B) Spain
23. How many players are on a soccer team on the field at one time?
A) 9
B) 10
C) 11
D) 12
Correct Answer: C) 11
24. Which vitamin is mainly produced by the body when skin is exposed to sunlight?
A) Vitamin A
B) Vitamin B12
C) Vitamin C
D) Vitamin D
Correct Answer: D) Vitamin D
25. What is the smallest prime number?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Correct Answer: C) 2
26. Which country is home to the ancient city of Petra?
A) Jordan
B) Lebanon
C) Egypt
D) Syria
Correct Answer: A) Jordan
27. Who wrote The Odyssey?
A) Homer
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Socrates
Correct Answer: A) Homer
28. Which blood type is often called the universal red-cell donor?
A) AB+
B) A+
C) O−
D) B−
Correct Answer: C) O−
29. What is the freezing point of water at standard atmospheric pressure?
A) 0°C
B) 10°C
C) 32°C
D) 100°C
Correct Answer: A) 0°C
30. Which desert covers much of northern Africa?
A) Gobi
B) Sahara
C) Mojave
D) Sonoran
Correct Answer: B) Sahara
🔴 Hard Questions
31. Which ancient wonder was located in Alexandria?
A) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
B) Lighthouse of Alexandria
C) Temple of Artemis
D) Colossus of Rhodes
Correct Answer: B) Lighthouse of Alexandria
32. What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
A) Almaty
B) Astana
C) Bishkek
D) Dushanbe
Correct Answer: B) Astana
33. Which scientist formulated the laws of planetary motion?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Johannes Kepler
C) Isaac Newton
D) Copernicus
Correct Answer: B) Johannes Kepler
34. What is the longest river in South America?
A) Paraná River
B) Orinoco River
C) Amazon River
D) São Francisco River
Correct Answer: C) Amazon River
35. Which element has the chemical symbol Fe?
A) Fluorine
B) Iron
C) Francium
D) Fermium
Correct Answer: B) Iron
36. Which empire was ruled by Genghis Khan?
A) Roman Empire
B) Mongol Empire
C) Ottoman Empire
D) Byzantine Empire
Correct Answer: B) Mongol Empire
37. What is the study of earthquakes called?
A) Ecology
B) Seismology
C) Meteorology
D) Geology
Correct Answer: B) Seismology
38. Which country has the most islands in the world?
A) Indonesia
B) Philippines
C) Sweden
D) Japan
Correct Answer: C) Sweden
39. What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
A) Brain
B) Liver
C) Lungs
D) Kidney
Correct Answer: B) Liver
40. Which Roman city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79?
A) Athens
B) Pompeii
C) Carthage
D) Sparta
Correct Answer: B) Pompeii
🏆 Very Hard Questions
41. Which mathematician is famous for the theorem concerning right-angled triangles?
A) Euclid
B) Pythagoras
C) Archimedes
D) Aristotle
Correct Answer: B) Pythagoras
42. Which country is home to the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat?
A) Thailand
B) Vietnam
C) Cambodia
D) Laos
Correct Answer: C) Cambodia
43. What is the name of the boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which light cannot escape?
A) Photon sphere
B) Event horizon
C) Singularity
D) Accretion disk
Correct Answer: B) Event horizon
44. Which ancient civilization developed the first known system of writing called cuneiform?
A) Egyptians
B) Sumerians
C) Romans
D) Greeks
Correct Answer: B) Sumerians
45. What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?
A) Volt
B) Watt
C) Ohm
D) Ampere
Correct Answer: C) Ohm
46. Which African country was historically known as Abyssinia?
A) Ethiopia
B) Eritrea
C) Somalia
D) Sudan
Correct Answer: A) Ethiopia
47. Which philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great?
A) Socrates
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Pythagoras
Correct Answer: C) Aristotle
48. What is the deepest lake in the world?
A) Lake Victoria
B) Lake Superior
C) Lake Baikal
D) Lake Tanganyika
Correct Answer: C) Lake Baikal
49. Which particle carries a negative electric charge?
A) Proton
B) Neutron
C) Electron
D) Photon
Correct Answer: C) Electron
50. Which treaty officially ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers?
A) Treaty of Paris
B) Treaty of Versailles
C) Treaty of Vienna
D) Treaty of Rome
Correct Answer: B) Treaty of Versailles
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