World General knowledge questions with answers (All topics)

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The world's longest bridge is the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China, part of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway. The bridge, which opened in June 2011, spans 102.4 miles (165 kilometers).

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Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak in the world measuring 8848 meters).

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While debate as to whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river has gone on for many years, the historic consensus of geographic authorities has been to regard the Amazon as the second longest river in the world, with the Nile being the longest. However, the Amazon has been measured by different geographers as being anywhere between 6,259 and 6,992 kilometres (3,889 and 4,345 mi) long. The Nile is reported to be anywhere from 5,499 to 6,690 kilometres (3,417 to 4,157 mi).

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Russia is the largest country in the world with an area of 17,098,246 Km square.
Canada is the second largest with an area of 9,984,670 Km square.

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The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins. Covering approximately 59 million square miles.

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By area, Asia is the largest continent at 44,391,162 square km. It is also the largest by population with more than 4 billion people.

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Macau has the highest population density. 21,236 people per square Km.

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China has the highest population followed by India.

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The 828-metre (2,717 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the world's tallest building since 2008.

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The world's longest run without changing trains is one of 10,214 km (6,346 miles) from Moscow, Russia to Pyongyang in North Korea. One train a week makes the journey by this route, which includes sections of the famous Trans-Siberian line. It is scheduled to take 7 days 20 hours 25 minutes.

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New York is the largest city by area.
Area: 34,494 square km

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Oymyakon, Verkhoyansk and Yakutsk are the only three permanently inhabited places in the world that have recorded temperatures below −60.0 °C (−76 °F) for every day in January.

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At an elevation of 4,411 metres (14,472ft) above sea level, Daocheng Yading airport is the highest altitude airport in the world.

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Built in 1800 in Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world in both shelf space and number of books. The Library of Congress is the official research library of the United States Congress.

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Mawsynram is a village in Meghalaya state in north-eastern India. It is reportedly the wettest place on Earth, with an average annual rainfall of 11,872 millimetres.

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Ostrich is the largest living bird on Earth.
Average mass : 104 kg, Maximum mass : 156.8 kHistorically Ostrich is an African bird but due to farming, they are also found in Australia and America. They consume mainly fruit, grass, flowers and even reptiles like snakes, lizards when occasionally available.g, Average total length : 210 cm.

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The Bee hummingbird is the smallest living bird in the world.
Length: 5 to 6 cm, Weight: 1.6 to 1.8 g
They are generally found in the dense forest of Cuba.

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Vatican is the smallest country in the world with an area of 0.44 square km

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There are 8 planets in our solar system. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Prior to 2006 Pluto was also considered a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally defined the term "planet" in 2006, during their 26th General Assembly. That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet.

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Red Planet is a nickname for the planet Mars, due to its surface color.

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Of all the planets in our solar system, Jupitor has most number of moons or natural satellites. It has 69 moons.

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Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun

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Our solar system has only one star i.e Sun.

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Prior to 2006 Pluto was also considered a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally defined the term "planet" in 2006, during their 26th General Assembly. That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet.

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The largest planet in our solar system by far is Jupiter, which beats out all the other planets in both mass and volume. Jupiter's mass is more than 300 times that of Earth, and its diameter, at 140,000 km, is about 11 times Earth's diameter.

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GLONASS provides an alternative to GPS and is the second navigational system in operation with global coverage and of comparable precision.

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The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of Russia and general aerospace research.

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Michael Phelps a swimmer from United States has won 23 Olympic gold medals and he holds the record for the highest number of olympic medals.

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USA won a record 239 medals at the third Olympic Games, held in St Louis, Missouri, USA, in 1904. The record haul consisted of 78 gold, 82 silver and 79 bronze medals.

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Paro is a city in Bhutan, but it is not a capital city. Bhutan's captal is Thimpu.

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Except New Zealand all others lie in Asia.

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The rings are five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white field, known as the "Olympic rings". The symbol was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, co-founder of the modern Olympic Games.

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A maximum of eleven players (excluding substitutes), one of whom must be the goalkeeper.

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A test cricket match between two teams may last up to five days.

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Australian continent has four countries. Australia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and portions of Indonesia

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Pinscreen animation is a technique used for making animated movies with a device called a pinscreen. This device is a screen lit by the two vertical sides and filled with a vast number of movable pins. The pins can be pushed back and forth, casting their shadows on the screen to create images.

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The first tool used for searching content on the Internet was Archie. The name stands for "archive" without the "v". It was created by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, computer science students at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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The first subcutaneous pacemaker was built in 1949 by Canadian engineer John Hopps, based on observations made by two Toronto-based cardiac surgeons, Wilfred Bigelow and John Callaghan.

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Insulin was discovered in 1921 by Toronto doctor Frederick Banting and further developed at the University of Toronto by Banting, Charles Best, John Macleod and Bertram Collip.

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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England. world’s first intercity rail line.

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The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.

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The modern Olympic games were started in Athens, the capital of Greece.

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The modern Olympic games were started on 6th April 1896.

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The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger". It was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin upon the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.

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The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Washington is a city in North America. Rest all cities are in Europe.

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The Axis powers, also known as "Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis" were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allies.

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The national flag of Nepal is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign nation. The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennons known as a double-pennon.