GK Questions For Class 5

This is a stage where kids have learned a lot of new things but will be unsure of many other things. Let’s go with some of the interesting General Knowledge (gk) questions for class 5 Students to quench their thirst for knowledge.

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1. Which is the 4th planet of our solar system? Ans: Mars 2. Which is the largest river in the world? Ans: Amazon 3. Name a plant that grows in the desert? Ans: Cactus 4. Which is the brightest planet in the solar system? Ans: Venus 5. A football team consists of how many members? Ans: 11 6. What is the young one of a cow called? Ans: Calf 7. Which is the largest ocean in the world? Ans: Pacific Ocean 8. The branch of science that deals with earthquakes is called ___________ Ans: Seismology 9. "Wings of Fire” is the autobiography of ______________ Ans: Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam 10. Which is the national bird of the USA?

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Ans: Bald Eagle 11. The smallest bone in the human body is __________ Ans: Stapes (located in the ear) 12. Which is the deepest oceanic trench in the world? Ans: Mariana Trench 13. Name a country without an official capital? Ans: Nauru 14. Name the capital of Romania? Ans: Bucharest 15. Which is the largest plateau in the world? Ans: Tibetan Plateau 16. Young one of a horse is called? Ans: Foal 17. How many bones does an adult human body have? Ans: 206 18. Who wrote the famous play, “Romeo and Juliet”? Ans: William Shakespeare 19. Atacama Desert is located in which continent? Ans: South America 20. Study of the universe is called?

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Ans: Cosmology 21. Mt. Vesuvius is located in which country? Ans: Italy 22. Who is known as the “Father of Indian Space Program”? Ans: Vikram Sarabhai 23. Mt. Abu is located in? Ans: India 24. What is the capital of Armenia? Ans: Yerevan 25. “B” in BRICS, an international organization, stands for? Ans: Brazil 26. Where is Spratly Islands located? Ans: South China Sea 27. Where is the headquarters of European Union located? Ans: Brussels, Belgium 28. In which city is the world’s largest port located? Ans: Shanghai 29. For which event did Neeraj Chopra win a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Ans: Javelin throw 30. In which year did India win the first Cricket World Cup?

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Ans: 1983 31. In which year was South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) established? Ans: 1985 32. Which country is known as the “land of the blue sky”? Ans: Mongolia 33. Richter Scale is used to measure _________ Ans: Magnitude of earthquakes 34. Coco Islands are located in which sea? Ans: Bay of Bengal 35. Who wrote the book “Midnight’s children”? Ans: Salman Rushdie 36. Who was the first person to go to space? Ans: Yuri Gagarin 37. Which is the deepest lake in the world? Ans: Lake Baikal 38. Name the device that provides power to the connected devices of a computer during power outages? Ans: Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) 39. What is the full form of URL? Ans: Uniform Resource Locator 40. Who invented World Wide Web (www)?

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Ans: Tim Berners-Lee 41. When did the Internet come into existence? Ans: January 1, 1983 42. Where is the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab, the popular cyber security and anti-virus provider, located? Ans: Moscow 43. Name the planet in our solar system that is known as the “Red Planet” Ans: Mars 44. Name the scientist who discovered gravity? Ans: Sir Isaac Newton 45. Whose birthday is celebrated as “Engineer’s Day” in India? Ans: Sir M Visvesaraya 46. Between which planets does the asteroid belt exist in our solar system? Ans: Mars and Jupiter 47. Who invented dynamite? Ans: Alfred Nobel 48. Name the country Alfred Nobel, the famous inventor, was born in? Ans: Sweden 49. Which is the longest bone in the human body? Ans: Femur (thigh bone) 50. Who invented airplanes?

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Ans: Wright brothers (Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright) 51. Which galaxy does solar system belong to? Ans: Milky Way 52. What is the speed of light in vacuum? Ans: 3,00,000 km/sec 53. Which gas is commonly found in our universe? Ans: Hydrogen 54. When is World Heritage Day celebrated? Ans: April 18 55. Which is the smallest continent in the world? Ans: Australia 56. Telephone was invented by ___________ Ans: Alexander Graham Bell 57. Who invented light bulb? Ans: Thomas Alva Edison 58. Which is the national game of the USA? Ans: Baseball 59. Which is the lightest gas? Ans: Hydrogen 60. Branch of science that deals with scientific study of insects is known as _________ Ans: Entomology

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61. Who invented the television? Ans: John Logie Baird 62. Who was known as “Indian Napolean”? Ans: Samudragupta 63. The total distance between the Sun and the Earth is ___________ Ans: 149.6 Million km 64. Who formulated the theory of relativity? Ans: Albert Einstein 65. Which mathematician is known as the “Prince of Indian Mathematics”? Ans: Srinivasa Ramanujan 66. Sound cannot travel through _________ Ans: Vacuum 67. What is the full form of ROM? Ans: Read-Only Memory 68. Name the smallest ocean in the world? Ans: Arctic Ocean 69. Goitre is caused by the deficiency of? Ans: Arctic Ocean 70. The term “LBW” is related to which sport? Ans: Cricket 71. In which year did Christopher Columbus discover America? Ans: 1492 72. Which is the tallest mountain in the world? Ans: Mount Everest 73. The famous novel, Alice in Wonderland, was written by? Ans: Lewis Carroll 74. Name the ocean in which the famous ship, Titanic, had sunk? Ans: North Atlantic Ocean 75. What is the scientific name of tomato? Ans: Solanum lycopersicum 76. 1024 kilobytes is equal to _. Ans: 1 Megabyte(MB) 77. Who is Paulo Coelho? Ans: Brazilian Novelist 78. A figure with 6 sides is known as ________. Ans: Hexagon 79. What do UPS stand for? Ans: Uninterrupted Power Supply 80. At which temperature does water boil? Ans: 100◦C 81. Name the acid in lemon. Ans: Citric acid 82. Which is the first animal to land on the moon? Ans: Laika, The dog 83. Name the two Oceans in which Australia is sandwiched between? Ans: The Indian Ocean and The Pacific Ocean 84. What do AM and PM stand for? Ans: AM stands for Ante Meridiem and PM stands for Post Meridiem 85. Statue of Liberty is in _. Ans- New York City 86. Name the five layers of Earth’s atmosphere. Ans: Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere 87. Name the border of India and Pakistan. Ans: Radcliffe Line 88. What is Ablutophobia? Ans: It is the Fear of Bathing 89. What is the full form of HTTP? Ans: Hypertext Transfer Protocol 90. Identify the Tennis Player. gk for kids (2)

Ans: Roger Federer 91. Which is the coldest planet in our solar system? Ans: Neptune 92. Which gas is known as “Laughing gas”? Ans: Nitrous Oxide 93. Name the largest temple in the World. Ans: Angkor Wat 94. Which of the following is not a component of chlorophyll? a) Magnesium b) Carbon c) Calcium d) None of These Ans: C. Calcium 95. Which is the largest freshwater lake in the world? Ans: Lake Baikal 96. What is the full form of MBBS? Ans: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 97. Who is the founder of Buddhism? Ans: Siddhartha Gautama 98. What is the capital of Italy? Ans: Rome 99. When is UN day celebrated? Ans: October 24 100. What is the scientific name of Mango? Ans: Mangifera Indica