**50 general knowledge quiz questions** > CommonSense

Sure! Here are **50 general knowledge quiz questions** in English. The answers are provided at the end.

### Questions

1. **What is the capital city of France?**
2. **Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?**
3. **What is the largest planet in our Solar System?**
4. **In which year did the World War II end?**
5. **What is the chemical symbol for water?**
6. **Who painted the Mona Lisa?**
7. **What is the smallest prime number?**
8. **Which language has the most native speakers worldwide?**
9. **What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?**
10. **Who is known as the "Father of Computers"?**
11. **What is the longest river in the world?**
12. **Which element has the atomic number 1?**
13. **In which country is the Great Barrier Reef located?**
14. **What is the square root of 64?**
15. **Who discovered penicillin?**
16. **What is the largest mammal in the world?**
17. **Which planet is known as the Red Planet?**
18. **What is the main ingredient in traditional Japanese miso soup?**
19. **Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?**
20. **What is the tallest mountain in the world?**
21. **Which organ in the human body is responsible for pumping blood?**
22. **What is the currency of Japan?**
23. **Who wrote the novel "1984"?**
24. **What is the process by which plants make their food called?**
25. **Which gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?**
26. **What is the capital city of Australia?**
27. **Who composed the Four Seasons?**
28. **What is the largest continent on Earth?**
29. **Which element is diamond made of?**
30. **What is the freezing point of water in Celsius?**
31. **Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?**
32. **What is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?**
33. **Which country hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics?**
34. **What is the longest bone in the human body?**
35. **Who is the author of the "Harry Potter" series?**
36. **What is the powerhouse of the cell?**
37. **Which planet has the most moons?**
38. **What is the largest desert in the world?**
39. **Who developed the theory of relativity?**
40. **What is the capital of Canada?**
41. **Which vitamin is produced when a person is exposed to sunlight?**
42. **What is the tallest building in the world as of 2023?**
43. **Who invented the telephone?**
44. **What is the main language spoken in Brazil?**
45. **Which organ is responsible for detoxifying chemicals in the body?**
46. **What is the most widely used metal in the world?**
47. **Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?**
48. **What is the largest internal organ in the human body?**
49. **Who wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"?**
50. **What is the speed of light in vacuum in meters per second?**

### Answers

1. **Paris**
2. **William Shakespeare**
3. **Jupiter**
4. **1945**
5. **H₂O**
6. **Leonardo da Vinci**
7. **2**
8. **Mandarin Chinese**
9. **Diamond**
10. **Charles Babbage**
11. **Nile River** *(Note: Some sources cite the Amazon River as the longest)*
12. **Hydrogen**
13. **Australia**
14. **8**
15. **Alexander Fleming**
16. **Blue Whale**
17. **Mars**
18. **Miso paste (fermented soybean paste)**
19. **Neil Armstrong**
20. **Mount Everest**
21. **Heart**
22. **Japanese Yen**
23. **George Orwell**
24. **Photosynthesis**
25. **Carbon dioxide (CO₂)**
26. **Canberra**
27. **Antonio Vivaldi**
28. **Asia**
29. **Carbon**
30. **0°C**
31. **Michelangelo**
32. **Nitrogen**
33. **Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)**
34. **Femur**
35. **J.K. Rowling**
36. **Mitochondria**
37. **Saturn** *(As of 2023)*
38. **Sahara Desert**
39. **Albert Einstein**
40. **Ottawa**
41. **Vitamin D**
42. **Burj Khalifa** *(As of 2023)*
43. **Alexander Graham Bell**
44. **Portuguese**
45. **Liver**
46. **Aluminum**
47. **Japan**
48. **Liver**
49. **Homer**
50. **299,792,458 meters per second**

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