200+ Unique GK Questions for School Assembly for Class 1 to 12

During the School Morning Assembly, the students are often given the task to ask general knowledge questions to the students

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During the School Morning Assembly, the students are often given the task to ask general knowledge questions to the students in the school assembly. So, it is only natural for students to present a similar type of questions to the school which takes out the fun from the activity. But do not worry, in this article, we will provide you with an abundance of GK Questions for School Assembly that will make this activity more fun than ever.

So, if you have been given the task to prepare GK Question for your School Assembly and you are clueless about what to ask the students then do check out this complete article through to the end.

GK Questions for School Assembly

Unique GK Questions for School Assembly Category-Wise

For your ease, we have subdivided the Unique GK Questions for School Assembly into various categories. So, you can accordingly pick the GK questions for your assembly from the category that fits the theme of your own school assembly.

GK Questions for School Assembly Related to Famous Personalities

  1. Who is known as the father of Geometry?
    • Euclid
    • Pythagoras
    • Kepler
    • Bohr
      • Answer- Euclid
  2. Which famous scientist had a bacteria named after him?
  3. Which of the following Journalists first reported about World War II?
    • Clare Hollingworth
    • Clara Hollingsworth
    • Claire Hollingsworth
    • Claire Wentworth
      • Answer- Clare Hollingworth
  4. Which Nobel laureate discovered blood groups successful in blood transfusion?
    • Karl Smith
    • Karl Landsteiner
    • Karl Hodgkin
    • Karl Ivan
      • Answer- Karl Lansteiner
  5. Who is known as the ‘Father of German Unity’?
    • George Bush
    • Helmut Kohl
    • Morarji Desai
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
      • Answer- Helmut Kohl
  6. What was M.F. Hussain’s profession?
    • Social Work
    • Cricket
    • Music
    • Painting
      • Answer- Painting
  7. Greto Garbo is a name associated with
    • Literature
    •  Acting
    • Journalism
    • Dance
      • Answer- Acting
  8. Who is referred to as the ‘Saint of the Gutters’?
    • Mahatma Gandhi
    • Mother Teresa
    • Dr B.R. Ambedkar
    • Jawaharlal Nehru
      • Answer- Mother Teresa
  9.  Samantha Fox is associated with
    • Sports
    • Politics
    • Pop Music
    • Journalism
      • Answer- Pop Music
  10. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which of the following fields?
    • Social Service
    • Journalism
    • Literature
    • Film
      • Answer- Journalism
  11. Who is famously known as the Desert Fox?
    • Walter White
    • Eisenhower
    • Gen. Rommel
    • Walter Schott
      • Answer- Gen. Rommel
  12. Norman Ernest Borlaug, known as the father of the Green Revolution in India, originally belonged to which country?
    • United States of America
    • Mombasa
    • New Zealand
    • Australia
      • Answer- United States of America
  13. Which of these was not a well-known historian?
    • David McCullough
    • Albert Schweitzer
    • Thucydides
    • Arnold Toynbee
      • Answer- Albert Schweitzer
  14. Which of these was a philosopher during the Renaissance period?
    • Charles Darwin
    • Karl Popper
    • Jean-Paul Sartre
    • Erasmus
      • Answer- Erasmus
  15. What was American abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s original name?
    • Anges Tubman
    • Araminta Ross
    • Harriet Jones
    • Chloe Abernathy
      • Answer- Harriet Jones
  16. In what modern-day country was Karl Marx, the communist philosopher, born?
    • India
    • Russia
    • Germany
    • China
      • Answer- Germany
  17. Who built the Golghar granary in Patna?
    • John Garstin
    • Winston Churchill
    • Robert Clive
    • Arthur Wellesley
      • Answer- John Garstin
  18. For what was Beau Brummell known?
    • Revolutionary Politics
    • Food
    • Fashion
    • Acting
      • Answer- Fashion
  19. Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
    • Augustus
    • Hesiod
    • Hippocrene
    • Hippocrates
      • Answer- Hippocrates
  20. Which of these was not the first name of a Brontë sister?
    • Anne
    • Emily
    • Mary
    • Charlotte
      • Answer- Mary
  21. What war correspondent reported on the Battle of Omdurman?
    • Bernard Fall
    • Ernest Hemingway
    • Ernie Pyle
    • Winston Churchill
      • Answer- Winston Churchill
  22. What was T.E. Lawrence’s nickname?
    • Tom Thumb
    • D.H. Lawrence
    • Lawrence of Arabia
    • D.H. Lawrence
      • Answer- Lawrence of Arabia
  23. Who gave the first theory about the structure of the atom?
    • Sir John Dalton
    • JJ Thompson
    • Rutherford
    • Neil Bohr
      • Answer- Sir John Dalton
  24. Which filmmaker directed the most Oscar-winning movie in the year 1997?
    • Christopher Nolan
    • Martin Scorsese
    • James Cameron
    • Satyajit Ray
      • Answer- James Cameron
  25. Who is referred to as the “Father of Physics?
    • Isaac Newton
    • Albert Einstien
    • Galileo Galilei
    • Neil Bohr
      • Answer- Isaac Newton
  26. Which scientist’s biopic was directed by Christopher Nolan in the year 2023?
    • Marie Curie
    • Neil Amstrong
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • Galileo Galilei
      • Answer- J. Robert Oppenheimer
  27. The founder of Boys Scouts and Civil Guide was?
    • Charles Andrew
    • Richard Temple
    • Baden Powell
    • Robert Montgomery
      • Answer- Baden Powell
  28. The first English newspaper in India was started by?
    • J A Hickey
    • Dadabhai Naoroji
    • Lord William Bentinck
    • Rabindranath Tagore
      • Answer- J A Hickey
  29. Who was the first Indian Woman to swim across the English Channel?
    • Kamaljit Sandhu
    • Arati Saha
    • Shanta Rangaswami
    • Santosh Yadav
      • Answer- Arati Saha
  30. Dr. Joon Lew of Korea, the recipient of the international Gandhi Award is known for his service in the?
    • Campaigning against AIDS
    • Campaigning against child labour
    • Campaigning against drugs
    • Eradication of leprosy
      • Answer- Eradication of leprosy

GK Questions for School Assembly Related to Books and Authors

  1. Who wrote the famous book “The Fault in Our Stars” that was later on adapted for a movie screenplay as well?
    • John Green
    • Stephen King
    • Emile Zola
    • Walter Scott
      • Answer- John Green
  2. Who is the author of the book ‘Forbidden Verses’?
    • Salman Rushdie
    • Abu Nuwas
    • D.H. Lawrence
    • Ms Taslima Nasrin
      • Answer- Abu Nuwas
  3. Which of the following books is written by famous book author David Grann?
    • Killers of the Flower Moon
    • The Shining
    • House of Leaves
    • A Murder in Alaska
      • Answer- Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. What is the name of the book based on which the screenplay of the tv show Game of Thrones is written?
    • Devil’s Dance
    • Dance of Death
    • A Song of Ice and Fire
    • Winds of Winter
  5. Which Indian movie’s screenplay is adapted from Shakespeare’s play “The Comedy of Errors”?
    • Omkara
    • Haider
    • Angoor
    • Maqbool
      • Answer- Angoor
  6. Who wrote the book, Devadas?
    • Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    • Munshi Premchand
    • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
      • Answer- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  7. Who is the author of the book, India-From Midnight to the Millennium?
    • Amartya Sen
    • Sashi Tharoor
    • Chetan Bhagat
    • Indira Gandhi
      • Answer- Sashi Tharoor
  8. Which of the following books was written by Mahatma Gandhi?
    • Our Moon has blood clots
    • Hind Swaraj
    • Gora
    • My Nation My Pride
      • Answer- Hind Swaraj
  9. Who wrote “All Time Favorites for Children”?
    • Ruskin Bond
    • William Shakespeare
    • Stephen King
    • J.R.R. Tolkien
      • Answer- Ruskin Bond
  10. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice, adapted for a tv series and a movie later on?
    • Jane Austen
    • Ernest Hemingway
    • JK Rowling
    • Virginia Woolf
      • Answer- Jane Austen
  11. Which author is famously known to write the fantasy epic “The Lord of the Rings”?
    • Ronal Dahl
    • J.R.R. Tolkien
    • George R.R. Martin
    • Emily Bronte
      • Answer- J.R.R. Tolkien
  12. The author of Invisible Man is?
    • Ralph Ellison
    • James Baldwin
    • Joe Wright
    • Emily Johnson
      • Answer- Ralph Ellison
  13. Who is the author of “How I Taught My Grandmother to Read.”
    • Sudha Murty
    • Ruskin Bond
    • Subhadra Sen Gupta
    • R.K. Narayan
      • Answer- Sudha Murty
  14. The author of “The Village by the Sea” is?
    • Anita Desai
    • Charles Dickens
    • John Keats
    • Ruskin Bond
      • Answer- Anita Desai
  15. Who is the author of “The Jungle Book”?
    • Rudyard Kipling
    • Enid Blyton
    • Rita Williams-Garcia
    • Dr Seuss
      • Answer- Rudyard Kipling

GK Questions for School Assembly Related to Honours and Awards

  1. B.C. Roy Award is given in which field?
    • Answer- Journalism
  2. Who was the first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi’s “Khel Ratna” award?
    • Answer- Vishwanathan Anand
  3. Who won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953?
    • Answer- Winston Churchill
  4. In which year The Arjuna Awards were instituted?
    • Answer- 1961
  5. The Nobel Prize was first awarded in which year?
    • Answer- 1901
  6. The ‘Cannes Award’ is given for excellence in which field?
    • Answer- Films
  7. Which Indian journalist refused to accept the Padma Bhushan award?
    • Answer- Kushwant Singh
  8. Who is the only Indian to win a Nobel Prize in the field of Physics?
    • Answer- Dr. C.V. Raman
  9. The Pulitzer Prize was established in which year?
    • Answer- 1917
  10. In which city was the Noble Peace Prize awarded?
    • Oslo

Miscellaneous GK Questions for School Assembly

  1. Which is the only reptile with a 4-chambered heart?
    • Answer- Crocodile
  2. Which country has the largest natural gas reserves in the world?
    • Answer- Russia
  3. Black Hole Tragedy took place on?
    • Answer- 20 June 1756
  4. Where was the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade Established?
    • Answer- Geneva
  5.  What is the interlocking pattern of food chains called?
    • Answer- Food Web
  6. Nobel Prizes are annually distributed in which place?
    • Answer- Stockholm
  7. When is the International Day of the Girl Child observed?
    • Answer- 11th of October
  8. What is the largest tribe in India?
    • Answer- Gonds
  9.  A disease that affects many people in different countries is termed a?
    • Answer- Pandemic
  10. Which decade is declared as the ‘United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing’?
    • Answer- 2021-2030

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