100 Easy General Knowledge Questions and Answers: 2024 - best general knowledge quiz questions and answers

What is the capital of Canada?

Answer: Ottawa.

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer: The Nile.

Which desert is the largest in the world?

Answer: The Sahara Desert.

What country has the most natural lakes?

Answer: Canada.

In which continent is the Amazon Rainforest located?

Answer: South America.

What is the smallest country in the world?

Answer: Vatican City.

Mount Everest is located in which mountain range?

Answer: The Himalayas.

What is the capital city of Australia?

Answer: Canberra.

Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?

Answer: Japan.

The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of which Australian state?

Answer: Queensland.

What is the longest river in the USA?

Answer: The Missouri River.

Which U.S. state is known as the "Sunshine State"?

Answer: Florida.

What is the capital of Italy?

Answer: Rome.

What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer: Sicily.

Which country is Prague in?

Answer: Czech Republic.

What river runs through Baghdad?

Answer: Tigris River.

What is the largest country in Africa by area?

Answer: Algeria.

Which two countries share the longest international border?

Answer: Canada and the United States.

What city is the Statue of Liberty in?

Answer: New York City.

What is the capital of New Zealand?

Answer: Wellington.

Category 2: History General Knowledge Questions

Who was the first President of the United States?

Answer: George Washington.

In which year did the Titanic sink?

Answer: 1912.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson.

What was the name of the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth?

Answer: Sputnik.

Which war ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?

Answer: World War I.

Who was known as the 'Maid of Orleans'?

Answer: Joan of Arc.

What ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru?

Answer: The Incas.

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming.

The Great Wall of China was primarily built by which dynasty?

Answer: The Ming Dynasty.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?

Answer: Marie Curie.

What year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Answer: 1989.

Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

Answer: France.

Who was the Egyptian queen who had a relationship with Roman generals Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?

Answer: Cleopatra.

When did the Roman Empire fall?

Answer: 476 AD.

Who was the first emperor of China?

Answer: Qin Shi Huang.

What year did the United States declare independence?

Answer: 1776.

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Answer: Great Britain.

Who was the leader of the Nazi Party?

Answer: Adolf Hitler.

Which famous leader was assassinated by his friend Brutus?

Who was the first human to journey into space?

Answer: Yuri Gagarin.

Category 3: Sports General Knowledge Questions and Answers

What is the national sport of Japan?

Answer: Sumo Wrestling.

Which country won the first ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?

Answer: Uruguay.

Who holds the record for the most Grand Slam titles in tennis?

Answer: Margaret Court.

What is the highest possible score in a single frame of bowling?

Answer: 30 points.

In what year were women first allowed to participate in the modern Olympic Games?

Answer: 1900.

Which sport is known as the 'king of sports'?

Answer: Soccer (Football).

Who is known as the fastest man in the world?

Answer: Usain Bolt.

What sport is played at Wimbledon?

Answer: Tennis.

How many players are there in a rugby league team?

Answer: 13 players.

What is the term used when a golfer scores one under par on a hole?

Answer: Birdie.

In baseball, what is it called when a batter gets three strikes?

Answer: A strikeout.

What is the only sport to be played on the moon?

Answer: Golf.

What sport is known as 'America's pastime'?

Answer: Baseball.

Which country invented table tennis?

Answer: England.

What is the maximum number of clubs a golfer is allowed in their bag during a round?

Answer: 14 clubs.

In basketball, how many points is a shot from beyond the three-point line worth?

Answer: Three points.

Which country hosts the annual Formula One Grand Prix in the city of Monaco?

Answer: Monaco.

What color are the goalposts in American football?

Answer: Yellow.

What is the national sport of Canada?

Answer: Lacrosse (summer) and Ice Hockey (winter).

In which sport would you perform the Fosbury Flop?

Answer: High Jump.

Category 4: Films and Entertainment

Which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2023?

Answer: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Who stars as the lead character in the 2021 film 'Dune'?

Answer: Timothée Chalamet.

What is the name of the 2020 Netflix documentary about Joe Exotic?

Answer: Tiger King.

Which artist won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2022?

Answer: Jon Batiste

Which 2022 film is based on the story of the Williams sisters' early years and their father's coaching?

Answer: King Richard.

Who hosted the Academy Awards in 2023?

Answer: Jimmy Kimmel

What is the title of the 2021 James Bond film, Daniel Craig's last appearance as Bond?

Answer: No Time to Die.

Which movie won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama in 2022?

Answer: The Fabelmans

Who played the lead role in the 2021 film 'The Batman'?

Answer: Robert Pattinson.

What is the name of the Disney+ series, released in 2021, featuring the Marvel character Loki?

Answer: Loki.

Which Korean series on Netflix became a global phenomenon in 2021?

Answer: Squid Game.

What is the name of the 2023 biopic film about Elvis Presley?

Answer: Elvis.

Which film won the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival?

Answer: Ruben Ostlund's 'Triangle of Sadness' Wins Palme d'Or at 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Who performed the halftime show at the 2022 Super Bowl?

Answer: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar.

What is the title of the 2021 sequel to 'A Quiet Place'?

Answer: A Quiet Place Part II.

Who won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2022?

Answer: Zendaya

Which animated film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2023?

Answer:  'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' wins best animated feature.

Which 2020 film, directed by Chloé Zhao, won the Oscar for Best Picture?

Answer: Nomadland.

Who played the character of Geralt of Rivia in the Netflix series 'The Witcher'?

Answer: Henry Cavill.

What film did Bong Joon-ho direct in 2019 that won multiple Oscars in 2020, including Best Picture?

Answer: Parasite.

Category 5: Current Affairs

Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021?

Answer: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov.

Which country hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup?

Answer: Qatar.

What was the name of the Mars rover that NASA landed on Mars in 2021?

Answer: Perseverance.

Which country announced its plans to build the world's first city on Mars by 2054?

Answer: United Arab Emirates.

Who became the Prime Minister of Israel in 2021?

Answer: Naftali Bennett.

What is the name of the global climate summit held in Glasgow in 2021?

Answer: COP26.

Which country won the most medals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics?

Answer: United States.

Who was elected as the President of Germany in 2022?

Answer: Frank-Walter Steinmeier (re-elected).

What new variant of COVID-19 emerged in late 2021, causing global concern?

Answer: Omicron.

Which Asian country declared a state of emergency in 2021 due to the economic crisis?

Answer: Sri Lanka.

Which film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2022?

Answer: CODA.

In 2021, which country became the first in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender?

Answer: El Salvador.

What significant space event was accomplished by China in 2021?

Answer: China's rover Zhurong landed on Mars.

Who was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States in 2021?

Answer: Joe Biden.

Which country announced it would phase out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030?

Answer: United Kingdom.

In 2022, which tennis player was deported from Australia due to vaccination status issues?

Answer: Novak Djokovic.

What major sporting event was postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Answer: Tokyo Summer Olympics.