How it works
Which river is known as the Sorrow of Bihar, and which sport once went by the name Poona? These India quiz questions are written for a community quiz night or a family evening. Tap a choice to see the answer.
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Run a six-round quiz night
After ten questions the card offers More options, where Topic holds six rounds of 25: Geography and states, History and the freedom movement, National symbols and landmarks, Science and space, Sport and Festivals, food and languages. The quizmaster reads each question and its four choices aloud, teams write down a letter, and a tap on a choice settles it.
Print sheets for the hall
Answer ten questions and the end card shows Print question sheet: the next 20 questions with lettered choices. Set Topic first and the paper stays inside one round. Print answer key, under More options, repeats them with each reason.
Tips
- Children do best on National symbols and landmarks, which asks about the tiger, the peacock and the mango.
- Cousins in two countries can play one quiz: Share this set copies a link to the same questions in the same order.
Questions and answers
Are these general knowledge questions and answers about India easy enough for a family?
Each round has easy, medium and hard questions, and Show only, under More options, keeps the ones marked Family, such as the national animal or the smallest state. The levels are our estimate.
Where do the answers to these quiz questions on India come from?
Each question was written for this site and checked against the English Wikipedia article linked under it on October 1, 2026. On October 3 the national symbols were read again on India's Know India portal, and the 1857, 1919 and 1947 questions in Britannica.
Do general knowledge questions related to India go out of date?
These are built not to. None asks who holds an office now, and a record carries its date, such as the 104 satellites one rocket carried in February 2017. Where nothing official exists, as with a national game, the answer says so.