Here are 50 questions along with their answers suitable for Indian students in higher secondary education:

1. Question: Who wrote the famous book “The God of Small Things”? Answer: Arundhati Roy.
2. Question: What is the capital of Australia? Answer: Canberra.
3. Question: Who discovered the theory of relativity? Answer: Albert Einstein.
4. Question: What is the chemical symbol for gold? Answer: Au.
5. Question: Who is the author of the play “The Merchant of Venice”? Answer: William Shakespeare.
6. Question: What is the formula for the area of a circle? Answer: πr² (pi times the radius squared).
7. Question: Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India? Answer: Indira Gandhi.
8. Question: What is the capital of Canada? Answer: Ottawa.
9. Question: Who painted the famous artwork “The Starry Night”? Answer: Vincent van Gogh.
10. Question: What is the chemical formula for water? Answer: H2O.
11. Question: Who composed the famous musical piece “Für Elise”? Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven.
12. Question: What is the capital of South Africa? Answer: Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town (administrative capitals); Johannesburg (largest city).
13. Question: Who discovered the structure of DNA? Answer: James Watson and Francis Crick.
14. Question: What is the chemical symbol for iron? Answer: Fe.
15. Question: Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Answer: Harper Lee.
16. Question: What is the capital of Italy? Answer: Rome.
17. Question: Who is the author of the novel “1984”? Answer: George Orwell.
18. Question: What is the chemical symbol for sodium? Answer: Na.
19. Question: Who composed the famous opera “The Barber of Seville”? Answer: Gioachino Rossini.
20. Question: What is the formula for the Pythagorean theorem? Answer: a² + b² = c².
21. Question: Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”? Answer: William Shakespeare.
22. Question: What is the chemical symbol for oxygen? Answer: O2.
23. Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Answer: Marie Curie.
24. Question: What is the capital of Brazil? Answer: Brasília.
25. Question: Who composed the famous piece “Moonlight Sonata”? Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven.
26. Question: What is the chemical formula for glucose? Answer: C6H12O6.
27. Question: Who is the author of the novel “Pride and Prejudice”? Answer: Jane Austen.
28. Question: What is the chemical symbol for carbon? Answer: C.
29. Question: Who painted the famous artwork “The Last Supper”? Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
30. Question: What is the capital of France? Answer: Paris.
31. Question: Who wrote the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”? Answer: J.D. Salinger.
32. Question: What is the chemical symbol for nitrogen? Answer: N2.
33. Question: Who composed the famous symphony “Symphony No. 9”? Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven.
34. Question: What is the capital of Russia? Answer: Moscow.
35. Question: Who wrote the novel “Brave New World”? Answer: Aldous Huxley.
36. Question: What is the chemical symbol for calcium? Answer: Ca.
37. Question: Who painted the famous artwork “Mona Lisa”? Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
38. Question: What is the capital of Spain? Answer: Madrid.
39. Question: Who composed the famous opera “La Traviata”? Answer: Giuseppe Verdi.
40. Question: What is the chemical symbol for potassium? Answer: K.
41. Question: Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby”? Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
42. Question: What is the capital of Japan? Answer: Tokyo.
43. Question: Who composed the famous musical piece “The Four Seasons”? Answer: Antonio Vivaldi.
44. Question: What is the chemical symbol for mercury? Answer: Hg.
45. Question: Who wrote the novel “Crime and Punishment”? Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky.
46. Question: What is the capital of China? Answer: Beijing.
47. Question: Who composed the famous ballet “Swan Lake”? Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
48. Question: What is the chemical symbol for lead? Answer: Pb.
49. Question: Who wrote the novel “War and Peace”? Answer: Leo Tolstoy.
50. Question: What is the capital of India? Answer: New Delhi.

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