100 General Knowledge Questions with One-word Answers
- Capital of France? – Paris
- Largest planet in our solar system? – Jupiter
- Author of “Hamlet”? – Shakespeare
- Smallest country in the world? – Vatican
- Chemical symbol for gold? – Au
- Fastest land animal? – Cheetah
- Hardest natural substance? – Diamond
- Largest mammal? – Blue whale
- First president of the USA? – Washington
- Element with the atomic number 1? – Hydrogen
- Longest river in the world? – Nile
- Currency of Japan? – Yen
- Smallest continent? – Australia
- Inventor of the telephone? – Bell
- Hottest planet in the solar system? – Venus
- Largest desert in the world? – Sahara
- Most spoken language? – Mandarin
- Largest ocean? – Pacific
- First man on the moon? – Armstrong
- Capital of Australia? – Canberra
- Currency of the USA? – Dollar
- Author of “1984”? – Orwell
- Fastest bird? – Falcon
- Largest island? – Greenland
- Hardest rock? – Diamond
- Capital of Canada? – Ottawa
- Chemical symbol for silver? – Ag
- Most populous country? – China
- Largest bone in the human body? – Femur
- Longest bone in the human body? – Femur
- Number of continents? – Seven
- Largest rainforest? – Amazon
- Largest coral reef? – Great Barrier Reef
- Hottest place on Earth? – Death Valley
- Longest wall? – Great Wall
- Highest mountain? – Everest
- Largest land animal? – Elephant
- Oldest city? – Jericho
- First woman to win a Nobel Prize? – Curie
- Largest gland in the human body? – Liver
- Inventor of the light bulb? – Edison
- Chemical symbol for iron? – Fe
- Most populous city? – Tokyo
- Largest country by area? – Russia
- Most valuable gemstone? – Diamond
- Longest railway? – Trans-Siberian
- Oldest written language? – Sumerian
- Largest moon of Saturn? – Titan
- Capital of Italy? – Rome
- Element with the atomic number 6? – Carbon
- First cloned mammal? – Dolly
- Capital of India? – Delhi
- Largest bird? – Ostrich
- Largest volcano? – Mauna Loa
- Fastest fish? – Sailfish
- Author of “Pride and Prejudice”? – Austen
- First man in space? – Gagarin
- Number of planets in the solar system? – Eight
- Largest city in the USA? – New York
- Capital of Egypt? – Cairo
- Heaviest naturally occurring element? – Uranium
- Most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere? – Nitrogen
- First artificial satellite? – Sputnik
- Highest waterfall? – Angel
- First woman in space? – Tereshkova
- Largest lake? – Caspian
- Coldest place on Earth? – Antarctica
- Most abundant element in the universe? – Hydrogen
- Author of “The Odyssey”? – Homer
- Capital of Brazil? – Brasilia
- First computer? – ENIAC
- Element with the atomic number 79? – Gold
- Largest ocean liner? – Titanic
- Capital of Spain? – Madrid
- Largest moon of Jupiter? – Ganymede
- Author of “War and Peace”? – Tolstoy
- Capital of Germany? – Berlin
- First heart transplant surgeon? – Barnard
- Longest reigning British monarch? – Elizabeth
- Largest hot desert? – Sahara
- Deepest ocean trench? – Mariana
- Chemical symbol for lead? – Pb
- Capital of Russia? – Moscow
- Largest dam? – Three Gorges
- Longest river in Asia? – Yangtze
- Largest carnivore? – Polar Bear
- First president of India? – Prasad
- Most widely spoken language in Africa? – Swahili
- Capital of Argentina? – Buenos Aires
- Fastest growing plant? – Bamboo
- Inventor of the airplane? – Wright
- Capital of Thailand? – Bangkok
- First woman Prime Minister of the UK? – Thatcher
- Capital of South Africa? – Pretoria
- Largest star? – UY Scuti
- Chemical symbol for copper? – Cu
- Largest planet in the solar system? – Jupiter
- Longest river in Europe? – Volga
- Largest reptile? – Crocodile
- Largest flower? – Rafflesia