GK QUESTIONS FOR CLASS II

1. Which is the smallest two-digit number?

Answer: 10
2. What is a figure with 3 sides known as?
Answer: A Triangle
3. Any number multiplied by 0, will give what answer?
Answer: 0
4. What is a shape that has no sides and no corners known as?
Answer: Circle
5. Which is the largest one-digit number?
Answer: 9
6. What is the answer to 10+10?
Answer: 20
7. The smallest even number is?
Answer: 2
8. How many sides does a square have?
Answer: 4
9. Is 74 an even number or an odd number?
Answer: Even
10. In 278, the place value of 7 is?
11. 44, 55, __, 77, 88. What is the missing number in this pattern?
Answer: 66
12. What is the answer to 10-10?
Answer: 0

13. How many sense organs are there in the human body?
Answer: 5
14. Name the largest planet in our solar system.
Answer: Jupiter
15. We can smell with the help of our ______.
Answer: Nose
16. We live on which planet?
Answer: Earth
17. How many eyes do we have?
Answer: 2
18. A chair is a non-living thing. True or false?
Answer: True
19. We can taste the food with the help of our _____.
Answer: Tongue
20. Name the star that shines during the day and provides light at
night that we see.
Answer: The Sun
21. How many thumbs do we have?
Answer: 2
22. What part of the plant conducts photosynthesis?
Answer: Leaves
23. We can see things with the help of our _____.
Answer: Eyes
24. Wood is a transparent material. True or false?
Answer: False
25. Ears, Nose, Tongue, Hair. Which one is not a sense organ?
Answer: Hair
26. How many bones do we have?
Answer: 206
27. Which is the nearest planet to Sun?
Answer: Mercury
28. What do human beings use their teeth for?
Answer: Eating
29. The most beautiful and colourful part of a plant is called the?
Answer: The Flower
30. The human heart is an external organ. True or false?
Answer: False
31. How many planets are there in our solar system?
Answer: 8
32. Which body part do we use to walk, run, and jump?
Answer: Legs
33. Find the vowel in the word – BAT.
Answer: It’s A!
34. Complete the sentence. Let’s __ fishing.
Answer: Go
35. Find the odd one out. Hair, Pair, Chair, Dare
Answer: Dare
36. Fill in a vowel to complete the word – C _ W.
Answer: O. It’s Cow.
37. __ egg. Fill with a or an.
Answer: An
38. Find the odd one out. Mother, Brother, Friend, Father
Answer: Friend
39. Find the adjective – The knife is sharp.
Answer: Sharp
40. Find the vowel in the word – GRASS
Answer: A
41. _ chair. Fill with a or an.
Answer: A
42. Complete the pattern – A, C, _, G, I.
Answer: E
43. It’s time __ lunch. Fill in the blank with can, for, do.
Answer: For
44. Find the odd one out – Tail, Snail, Below, Mail.
Answer: Below
45. Complete the sentence with are, am, is – We __ happy.
Answer: Are
46. Find the vowels in the word – TABLE
Answer: A and E
47. Which is the national sport of India?
Answer: Hockey
48. India became independent in which year?
Answer: 1947
49. Who was the first female Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
50. Name a monument of India, which is also one of the seven wonders
of the world.
Answer: Taj Mahal
51. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
52. The capital of India is?
Answer: New Delhi
53. Who discovered India?
Answer: Vasco da Gama
54. Who is the current Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Narendra Modi
55. Which country was also called “Sone ki Chidiya”?
Answer: India
56. Who was India’s first president?
Answer: Dr Rajendra Prasad
57. What is the national anthem of India?
Answer: Jana Gana Mana
58. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel prize?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
59. Who is popularly known as Iron Man of India?
Answer: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
60. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
61. How many continents are there in the world?
Answer: 7
62. Which is the largest country in the world?
Answer: Russia
63. _____ is the coldest place on Earth.
Answer: Antarctica
64. Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata are cities of which country?
Answer: India
65. Which country has the world’s largest population?
Answer: China
66. What is the capital of China?
Answer: Beijing
67. Which city in India is called Pink City?
Answer: Jaipur
68. Which is the largest state of India?
Answer: Rajasthan
69. Which is the smallest Union Territory of India?
Answer: Lakshadweep
70. Which is the longest river in the world?
Answer: The Amazon
71. Name of the largest ocean in the world.
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
72. What are the colours of the Indian Flag?
Answer: Saffron, White, Green
73. Which is the National Flower of India?
Answer: Lotus
74. How many months are there in a year?
Answer: 12 months
75. How many days are there in February?
Answer: 28/29 (for a leap year)
76. Name the National Animal of India.
Answer: Tiger
77. How many days are there in a week?
Answer: 7
78.Name the four main directions.
Answer: East, West, North, South
79. A house made with snow is called?
Answer: An Igloo
80. What does the red light of the traffic signal indicate?
Answer: Stop
81. Which animal is also called the ship of the desert?
Answer: Camel
82. Which day is celebrated on 15th August in India?
Answer: Independence Day
83. How many colours are there in a rainbow?
Answer: 7
84. What is the currency of India?
Answer: The Indian Rupee (INR)
85. A baby cat is called a?
Answer: Kitten
86. Which festival is celebrated as the birth of Jesus Christ?
Answer: Christmas

87.Which planet has the most moons?

Answer: Saturn

88How many sense organs does a human body have?

Answer: Five

89.What is at the centre of our solar system?

Answer: The Sun

90.Which is the longest river in India?

Answer: Ganga

91.How many oceans are there in the world?

Answer: Four

92.Where is the Taj Mahal located?

Answer: Agra, Uttar Pradesh

93.How many hours are there in a day?

Answer: 24

94.What is the capital of China?

Answer: Beijing
95.Which is the largest state (in area) in India?
Answer: Rajasthan

96.How many months make up a year?

Answer: 12

97.Who is the President of India?

Answer: Draupadi Murmu

98.Who was the first man to step foot on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong

99.How many players are there in a cricket team?

Answer: 11

100.Which bird lays the largest eggs in the world?

Answer: Ostrich

101.What is the currency used in the USA?

Answer: Dollar

102.Which is the smallest state in India?

Answer: Goa

103.Which is the hardest mineral in the world?

Answer: Diamond

104.What is the National Flower of India?

Answer: Lotus

105.What is the capital city of Japan?

Answer: Tokyo
106.Which is the National Animal of India?
Answer: Tiger
107.In which direction does the sun rise?
Answer: East
108.Which is the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile
109.Which is the biggest continent (in area)?
Answer: Asia
110.Which gas makes up most of the earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen
111.Which day is observed as World Literacy Day?
Answer: September
112.How many years are there in a century?
Answer: 100 years
113.Who is credited for discovering the medicine Penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
114.Which mammal can fly?
Answer: Bat
 115.Which is the largest living animal on the Earth?
Answer: Elephant
116.Which planet is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
117.Which state is known as the ‘fruit bowl’ of India?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
118.Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars
119.Char Minar is located in which city?
Answer: Hyderabad
120.Who is known as the ‘Iron Man of India’?
Answer: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
121.Which is the fastest animal on the land?
Answer: Cheetah
122.Which is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
123.Which is the smallest continent in the world?
Answer: Australia
124.Which is the only country in the world to have an ocean named after it?
Answer: India, Indian Ocean
125.In which country is the Mount Everest located?
Answer: Nepal
126.How many colours does the rainbow have?
Answer: 7
127.What is the capital of the USA?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
128.Which state in India is also known as the “Land of Rising Sun”?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
129.Which is the smallest bird in the world?
Answer: Bee Hummingbird
130.What do you call a shape with 6 sides?
Answer: Hexagon
131.Who invented the electric bulb?
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison
132.What is the national bird of India?
Answer: Peacock

133.How many zeros are there in one crore?

Ans: Seven

133. Which is the closest planet to earth?

Ans: Venus.

134. Which is the farthest planet from earth?

Ans: Neptune.
 135. How many moons does the earth have?

Ans: One

136. Which planet has the most moons?

Ans: Saturn

137. Which is the nearest planet to the Sun?

Ans: Mercury.

138. How much time does the sunlight take to reach the Earth?

Ans: 8 minutes 20 seconds.

139. How much time does the moonlight take to reach the Earth?

Ans: 1.26 seconds.

140.Who invented the telephone?

Ans: Alexander Graham Bell

141.Who invented the radio?

Ans: Guglielmo Marconi

142. Who has composed the national anthem of India?

Ans: Rabindranath Tagore

143.How many colours are in a rainbow?

Ans: Seven.

144.Where is Mount Everest located?

Ans: Nepal.

145. Where is the parliament of India located?

Ans: New Delhi

146.In which city Char Minar is located?

Ans: Hyderabad

147.Which two major rivers form the biggest delta system in the world?

Ans: Ganga and Brahmaputra

148. Which is the longest river system in India?

Ans: Ganga

149.How many states are there in India?

Ans: 29

150.How many Union Territories are there in India?

Ans: Seven.

151. Which is the capital city of India?

Ans: New Delhi