All Free General Knowledge MCQs with Answers

Every General Knowledge question in the bank, across all chapters, each with the correct answer and a written explanation. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.

7,202 questions · page 15 of 361

Fairly easy
  • A. Spain
  • B. France
  • C. China
  • D. Russia

Explanation: The State Hermitage Museum is in St Petersburg, Russia, and occupies part of the former Winter Palace complex.

Correct answer: Russia
Easy
  • A. M. K. Gandhi
  • B. Shakespeare
  • C. K. M. Munshi
  • D. None of these

Explanation: My Experiments with Truth is the commonly used short title of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Correct answer: M. K. Gandhi
Fairly easy
  • A. William Shakespeare
  • B. Jane Taylor
  • C. Charles Dickens
  • D. Jane Austin

Explanation: The words of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star were written by Jane Taylor and published in the early nineteenth century.

Correct answer: Jane Taylor
Fairly easy
  • A. Donalid Trump
  • B. Imran Khan
  • C. Joe Biden
  • D. Obama

Explanation: Promise Me, Dad is Joe Biden's memoir about the year in which his son Beau battled cancer and died.

Correct answer: Joe Biden
Very hard
  • A. Ahmed Faraz
  • B. Dr. Rehan Azmi
  • C. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The record cited in this question is associated with Dr. Rehan Azmi, a Pakistani poet known for Urdu poetry.

Correct answer: Dr. Rehan Azmi
Moderate
  • A. Stanley Lane Poole
  • B. Stanley Lockheart
  • C. Stanley Wolpert
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Stanley Lane-Poole wrote Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule, covering the period from 712 to 1764.

Correct answer: Stanley Lane Poole
Fairly easy
  • A. K.M Munshi
  • B. Leo Tolstoy
  • C. Bhagwan S. Gidwani
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The historical novel The Sword of Tipu Sultan was written by Bhagwan S. Gidwani.

Correct answer: Bhagwan S. Gidwani
Easy
  • A. Shakespeare
  • B. George Orwell
  • C. R.k laxman
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in 1949.

Correct answer: George Orwell
Moderate
  • A. Rahman Baba
  • B. khushal Khan khattak
  • C. HAMZA Baba
  • D. Israr Atal

Explanation: Hamza Shinwari, commonly called Hamza Baba, is known as the Baba-e-Ghazal of Pashto literature.

Correct answer: HAMZA Baba
Very hard
  • A. Ishwar Das
  • B. Aurangzeb
  • C. Dara Shikhon
  • D. Mulla Daud

Explanation: Raqqat-e-Alamgiri is associated with Aurangzeb and contains his letters and official correspondence.

Correct answer: Aurangzeb
Very hard
  • A. Sujan Raj Khatri
  • B. Abdul Hamid Lahori
  • C. Inyat Khan
  • D. Abul Fazl

Explanation: Khulasat-ul-Tawarikh was written by Sujan Raj Khatri, a historian of the Mughal period.

Correct answer: Sujan Raj Khatri
Hard
  • A. Hindal
  • B. Kamran
  • C. Gulbadan Begum
  • D. None of theseRajia Sultana

Explanation: Gulbadan Begum, the daughter of Babur and half-sister of Humayun, wrote Humayun-Nama, an important firsthand account of his life.

Correct answer: Gulbadan Begum
Moderate
  • A. The New York Times
  • B. The Mirror
  • C. World Time
  • D. The Washington Post

Explanation: Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, where he wrote critically about Saudi political…

Correct answer: The Washington Post
Hard
  • A. Pablo Picasso
  • B. Georges Braque
  • C. Peter Drucker
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The remark about computers only giving answers is widely attributed to the painter Pablo Picasso.

Correct answer: Pablo Picasso
Fairly easy
  • A. Sitayana
  • B. Sama Veda
  • C. Anandamath
  • D. Ramayana

Explanation: “Vande Mataram” appears in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s 1882 novel Anandamath.

Correct answer: Anandamath
Moderate
  • A. a poet
  • B. well known for his epic 'Shahnama'
  • C. Both option A and B
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Ferdowsi, also known as Firdausi, was a Persian poet who composed the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings.

Correct answer: Both option A and B
Moderate
  • A. Nelson Mandela
  • B. Bill Clinton
  • C. Barack Obama
  • D. Charles Darwin

Explanation: My Life is the 2004 autobiography of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Correct answer: Bill Clinton
Moderate
  • A. Issac Newton
  • B. Albert Einstein
  • C. Copernicus
  • D. Galileo

Explanation: Isaac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, commonly shortened to Principia, in which he presented laws of motion and…

Correct answer: Issac Newton
Moderate
  • A. Michelangelo
  • B. Edvard Munch
  • C. Gustav Klimt
  • D. None of Above

Explanation: Gustav Klimt’s 1907–08 painting The Kiss is a major work of the Viennese Art Nouveau movement.

Correct answer: Gustav Klimt
Easy
  • A. Enid Blyton
  • B. Roald Dahi
  • C. Denis Robins
  • D. J.K. Rowling

Explanation: J. K. Rowling wrote the seven Harry Potter novels, beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Correct answer: J.K. Rowling