40+Class 1 Amazing Gk MCQ Questions&Answers

1. Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
A) Venus
B) Mars
C) Jupiter
D) Saturn

Answer: B) Mars

2. Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Shakespeare
C) Jane Austen
D) Mark Twain

Answer: B) William Shakespeare

3. What is the capital of Australia?
A) Sydney
B) Melbourne
C) Canberra
D) Brisbane

Answer: C) Canberra

4. In what year did the Titanic sink?
A) 1905
B) 1912
C) 1923
D) 1931

Answer: B) 1912

5. Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) George R.R. Martin
C) Suzanne Collins
D) J.R.R. Tolkien

Answer: A) J.K. Rowling

6. Which element has the chemical symbol ‘O’?
A) Oxygen
B) Gold
C) Silver
D) Uranium

Answer: A) Oxygen

7. The Great Barrier Reef is located in which country?
A) Brazil
B) Australia
C) Mexico
D) Thailand

Answer: B) Australia

8. Who is known as the “Father of Computer Science”?
A) Alan Turing
B) Bill Gates
C) Steve Jobs
D) Charles Babbage

Answer: A) Alan Turing

9. What is the currency of Japan?
A) Yuan
B) Yen
C) Won
D) Ringgit

Answer: B) Yen

10. Which continent is the most populous?
A) Asia
B) Africa
C) Europe
D) North America

Answer: A) Asia

11. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Claude Monet

Answer: B) Leonardo da Vinci

12. The Eiffel Tower is located in which city?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Berlin
D) London

Answer: B) Paris

13. What is the largest mammal in the world?
A) Elephant
B) Blue Whale
C) Giraffe
D) Polar Bear

Answer: B) Blue Whale

14. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Marie Curie
B) Mother Teresa
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Rosa Parks

Answer: A) Marie Curie

15. What is the capital of Canada?
A) Toronto
B) Ottawa
C) Vancouver
D) Montreal

Answer: B) Ottawa

16. Which river is the longest in the world?
A) Amazon River
B) Nile River
C) Yangtze River
D) Mississippi River

Answer: B) Nile River

17. Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Harper Lee
D) Ernest Hemingway

Answer: C) Harper Lee

18. In which year did the United States declare its independence?
A) 1765
B) 1776
C) 1789
D) 1801

Answer: B) 1776

19. Which gas makes up the majority of Earth’s atmosphere?
A) Oxygen
B) Nitrogen
C) Carbon dioxide
D) Hydrogen

Answer: B) Nitrogen

20. What is the currency of China?
A) Yen
B) Yuan
C) Won
D) Ringgit

Answer: B) Yuan

21. Who is known as the “Father of Modern Physics”?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Niels Bohr

Answer: B) Albert Einstein

22. Which country is known as the “Land of the Rising Sun”?
A) China
B) Japan
C) South Korea
D) Vietnam

Answer: B) Japan

23. The Taj Mahal is located in which country?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Bangladesh
D) Nepal

Answer: A) India

24. Who is the current President of the United States?
A) Joe Biden
B) Donald Trump
C) Barack Obama
D) George W. Bush

Answer: A) Joe Biden

25. What is the largest ocean on Earth?
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Indian Ocean
C) Southern Ocean
D) Pacific Ocean

Answer: D) Pacific Ocean

26. Which planet is known as the “Blue Planet”?
A) Mars
B) Earth
C) Neptune
D) Uranus

Answer: B) Earth

27. Who is the author of “1984”?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) H.G. Wells

Answer: B) George Orwell

28. Which country is the largest by land area?
A) Russia
B) Canada
C) United States
D) China

Answer: A) Russia

29. Who painted “Starry Night”?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Claude Monet
D) Salvador

Answer: B) Vincent van Gogh

30. What is the capital of Brazil?
A) Rio de Janeiro
B) Sao Paulo
C) Brasilia
D) Salvador

Answer: C) Brasilia

31. In which year did World War II end?
A) 1943
B) 1945
C) 1947
D) 1950

Answer: B) 1945

32. Who is the author of “The Catcher in the Rye”?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Harper Lee

Answer: A) J.D. Salinger

33. Which is the smallest continent in the world?
A) Asia
B) Europe
C) Australia
D) Antarctica

Answer: C) Australia

34. Who developed the theory of relativity?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Niels Bohr
D) Galileo Galilei

Answer: B) Albert Einstein

35. What is the currency of the United Kingdom?
A) Dollar
B) Euro
C) Pound Sterling
D) Franc

Answer: C) Pound Sterling

36. Which is the longest river in Europe?
A) Thames
B) Rhine
C) Danube
D) Seine

Answer: C) Danube

37. Who is the author of “Pride and Prejudice”?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Brontë
D) Charles Dickens

Answer: B) Jane Austen

38. What is the capital of South Africa?
A) Johannesburg
B) Cape Town
C) Pretoria
D) Durban

Answer: C) Pretoria

39. Who discovered penicillin?
A) Marie Curie
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Joseph Lister

Answer: B) Alexander Fleming

40. In which country is the Great Wall located?
A) China
B) Japan
C) India
D) Mongolia

Answer: A) China

41. Which gas is responsible for the greenhouse effect?
A) Oxygen
B) Nitrogen
C) Carbon dioxide
D) Hydrogen

Answer: C) Carbon dioxide

42. Who was the first woman in space?
A) Sally Ride
B) Valentina Tereshkova
C) Mae Jemison
D) Yuri Gagarin

Answer: B) Valentina Tereshkova

43. What is the largest desert in the world?
A) Sahara Desert
B) Gobi Desert
C) Antarctic Desert
D) Arabian Desert

Answer: C) Antarctic Desert

44. Who is the current Prime Minister of India?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Rahul Gandhi
C) Arvind Kejriwal
D) Manmohan Singh

Answer: A) Narendra Modi

45. Which element has the chemical symbol ‘Fe’?
A) Iron
B) Gold
C) Silver
D) Copper

Answer: A) Iron

46. What is the currency of Russia?
A) Ruble
B) Euro
C) Peso
D) Lira

Answer: A) Ruble

47. Who wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Mark Twain

Answer: B) John Steinbeck

48. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
A) 1985
B) 1989
C) 1991
D) 1995

Answer: B) 1989

49. Which country is known as the “Land of the Midnight Sun”?
A) Norway
B) Sweden
C) Finland
D) Iceland

Answer: A) Norway

50. Who is the author of “The Canterbury Tales”?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) William Wordsworth
C) John Milton
D) William Shakespeare

Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer