Current Affairs for Kids - 100+ Questions for All Classes (Mar 2024)

A comprehensive list of current affairs questions for all classes and age groups.

The ever-increasing sources of current affairs for kids are doing more harm than good. It's only causing more confusion in the minds of young students. How do parents and teachers tackle the problem of choosing the best source of current affairs for kids? What should they keep in mind while doing so?

First, the most important criterion is the objectivity and trustworthiness of the news portal that fleshes out current affairs for kids. Second, the news portal must write current affairs for kids in a more accessible and easily understandable manner. Third, only the most relevant themes of current affairs for kids should be published by them.

Which current affairs for kids' source ticks all these boxes? Newsahoot, a news for kids website!

Newsahoot has built the ultimate news for kids platform - using one child-friendly article every day, we inform children of current events across the world in a safe and fact-checked environment. Alongside our vast library of articles, we have also written this easy-to-use article to give teachers and parents some of the most important current affairs for kids - use the list of questions below and make sure that your kids know what’s happening in the world!

Current Affairs for Kids in Class 1

1. What is the Swachch Bharat Abhiyan all about?
   Answer: Keeping our surroundings clean
2. What sport does Virat Kohli play?
   Answer: Cricket
3. Which is India’s top sports award?
   Answer: Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
4. What does IPL stand for?
   Answer: Indian Premier League
5. Who is the current President of India? 
   Answer: Droupadi Murmu
6. Which is the largest continent in the world?
   Answer: Asia
7. Where does our solar system’s main asteroid belt lie?
   Answer: Between Mars and Jupiter
8. How many colours are there in the Indian flag?
   Answer: Four
9. What is the national animal of India?
   Answer: Tiger
10. How many colours are there in a rainbow?
    Answer: Seven
11. The Garba dance form belongs to which state of India? 
    Answer: Gujarat
12. What is the capital of India?
    Answer: New Delhi
13. Which continent does the Amazon River flow in?
    Answer: South America
14. What do we call the gases that cause global warming?
    Answer: Greenhouse gases
15. Which planet in our solar system has rings?
    Answer: Saturn

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 2

1. Chandigarh is the shared capital of which two Indian states?
   Answer: Punjab & Haryana
2. Which planets of our solar system are called rocky planets?
   Answer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
3. What is the old name of the city Prayagraj?
   Answer: Allahabad
4. What is Formula 1?
   Answer: It is a car racing championship.
5. Who wrote the National Anthem of India?
   Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
6. Which sport do Messi and Ronaldo play?
   Answer: Football
7. What is the national currency of the USA?
   Answer: Dollar
8. Where is the Statue of Unity located?
   Answer: Gujarat
9. Which is the longest river in India?
   Answer: Ganga
10. Who is the current Prime Minister of India?
    Answer: Narendra Modi
11. What is Ramadan?
    Answer: It is the holy month of fasting for Muslims.
12. Which famous singer’s fans are called ‘Swifties’?
    Answer: Taylor Swift
13. Which is the tallest mammal on Earth?
    Answer: Giraffe
14. What is the original name of Santa Claus?
    Answer: Saint Nicholas 
15. Which European city is called ‘the city of canals’?
    Answer: Venice

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 3

1. Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?
   Answer: J. K. Rowling
2. How many states does India currently have?
   Answer: 28
3. Which galaxy does our planet Earth lie in?
   Answer: The Milky Way galaxy
4. What is the full form of ICJ?
   Answer: International Court of Justice
5. Who are the BTS?
   Answer: A famous Korean pop music band.
6. Which is the most populous country in the world?
   Answer: India
7. When will the next FIFA World Cup be held?
   Answer: 2026
8. Which body part does air pollution affect the most?
   Answer: Lungs
9. Which Indian state was formed in 2014?
   Answer: Telangana
10. What does WHO stand for?
    Answer: World Health Organisation
11. Who is the Chief Minister of Delhi?
    Answer: Mr Arvind Kejriwal
12. Who is the founder of Apple Inc?
    Answer: Steve Jobs
13. Which Indian leader’s birthday is celebrated as Teacher’s Day?
    Answer: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
14. What is the full form of AI?
    Answer: Artificial intelligence 
15. What is the full form of BSF?
    Answer: Border Security Force

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 4

1. What is the name of the lost and submerged continent in the South Pacific Ocean?
   Answer: Zealandia
2. Which desert is expanding in size due to climate change?
   Answer: Sahara Desert
3. What is ChatGPT?
   Answer: It is an artificial intelligence chatbot.
4. What was the name of India’s first space mission to Mars?
   Answer: Mangalyaan
5. Which type of whales can sign underwater?
   Answer: Baleen whales
6. What is the Agniveer Scheme related to?
   Answer: Short-term job in the defence forces.
7. What is the Paris Agreement about?
   Answer: Fighting climate change
8. Who is the current Prime Minister of the UK?
   Answer: Rishi Sunak
9. Who is the founder of the tech company Meta?
   Answer: Mark Zuckerberg
10. Who is the CEO of OpenAI?
    Answer: Sam Altman
11. Where is the South Pole located?
    Answer: Near the continent of Antarctica.
12. Which team has won the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup six times?
    Answer: Australia
13. Which organisation developed the NavIC system?
    Answer: ISRO
14. How many UNESCO Heritage Sites are there in India?
    Answer: 42
15. When do we celebrate Air Force Day in India?
    Answer: 8th October

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 5

1. How many union territories are currently there in India?
   Answer: 8
2. Who is John Cena?
   Answer: A professional wrestler from the USA.
3. What is the Artemis Mission?
   Answer: It is NASA’s mission to go to the moon.
4. How many countries are members of the European Union?
   Answer: 27
5. In which country is the Cannes Film Festival held every year?
   Answer: France
6. What was the Chernobyl disaster about?
   Answer: Accident at a nuclear power plant.
7. Which is the world's largest iceberg?
   Answer: A23a
8. What is the full form of COVID?
   Answer: Coronavirus disease.
9. How many countries are members of the UN?
   Answer: 193
10. Who is P. V. Sindhu?
    Answer: Indian badminton player
11. Which cricketer holds the record for scoring 50 ODI centuries?
    Answer: Virat Kohli
12. What is Virgin Galactic?
    Answer: It is the world’s first commercial spaceline.
13. Where was India’s first all-girls Sainik School inaugurated?
    Answer: Vrindavan
14. What is the name of the navigation system developed by Russia?
    Answer: GLONASS
15. Which country has the Iron Dome air defence system?
    Answer: Israel

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 6

1. Which country recently left the European Union?
   Answer: United Kingdom
2. Who is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh?
   Answer: Sheikh Hasina
3. What is the full form of SAARC?
   Answer: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
4. Which two countries developed the BrahMos missile?
   Answer: India & Russia
5. Which is the first spaceship to leave our solar system and enter interstellar space?
   Answer: Voyager 1
6. What is the Line of Actual Control (LAC)?
   Answer: A line that separates Indian-controlled areas from Chinese-controlled areas in the Ladakh region.
7. Which European country recently legalised same-sex marriage?
   Answer: Greece
8. Who is the wealthiest person in the world?
   Answer: Elon Musk
9. Which country developed the vaccine Sputnik-V?
   Answer: Russia
10. Which countries are members of the QUAD grouping?
    Answer: USA, India, Australia, and Japan
11. Who is the current Prime Minister of France?
    Answer: Gabriel Attal
12. What is the name of the buffalo sport race event that is held in coastal Karnataka?
    Answer: Kambala
13. Where is the country of Morroco located?
    Answer: North Africa
14. Which is the world’s largest operating system?
    Answer: Android
15. What is the name of the female humanoid robot that ISRO will send into space in 2024?
    Answer: Vyomitra

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 7

1. Which tropical rainforest is referred to as the ‘Lungs of the Earth’?
   Answer: Amazon Rainforest
2. Which government body issues currency in India?
   Answer: Reserve Bank of India
3. Which countries are immediate neighbours of India?
   Answer: Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
4. In which regions do auroras usually occur?
   Answer: In the Antarctic and Arctic circles
5. How many members does the Rajya Sabha currently have?
   Answer: 245
6. What is the White House?
   Answer: It is the official residence of the President of the USA.
7. Who is the richest person in India?
   Answer: Mukesh Ambani
8. What is the name of India’s first privately built rocket?
   Answer: Vikram-S
9. Where did Apple Inc. open its first showroom in India?
   Answer: Mumbai
10. Which gas is majorly responsible for global warming?
    Answer: Carbon dioxide
11. Which social media platform recently changed its name to ‘X’?
    Answer: Twitter
12. What is the name of the rocket that launched Chandrayaan 3?
    Answer: LVM 3 (aka Bahubali)
13. Where is India’s longest sea bridge located?
    Answer: Mumbai (Atal Setu)
14. What is the name of the tiny robots made from human cells?
    Answer: Anthrobots
15. How many organisations come under the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)?
    Answer: Seven

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 8

1. When do we celebrate International Yoga Day?
   Answer: June 21
2. Which is the world’s largest coral reef system?
   Answer: The Great Barrier Reef of Australia
3. Which space agency launched the James Webb Telescope?
   Answer: NASA
4. Who was appointed as the 50th Chief Justice of India?
   Answer: Justice DY Chandrachud
5. Which ancient planet’s parts are said to be buried inside Earth?
   Answer: Theia
6. How many countries are part of NATO at present?
   Answer: 31
7. Who is the current President of the USA?
   Answer: Joseph Biden
8. Who is Greta Thunberg?
   Answer: A 20-year-old Swedish climate-change activist.
9. Where is the Donbas region located?
   Answer: Ukraine
10. Who releases the Human Development Index?
    Answer: UNDP
11. Which international organisation published the Global Risks Report?
    Answer: World Economic Forum
12. Which is the oldest national sports award in India?
    Answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy
13. In which two countries was UPI launched recently?
    Answer: Sri Lanka and Mauritius
14. Where is the ‘Swahili’ language spoken?
    Answer: East Africa
15. Who is the first female archer without arms to compete internationally?
    Answer: Sheetal Devi

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 9

1. Who is the owner of the social media platform 'X'?
   Answer: Elon Musk
2. What is the name of the submersible that imploded near the Titanic ship's wreckage under the ocean?
   Answer: Titan
3. Where is the headquarters of the World Bank?
   Answer: Washington D.C., the capital of the USA
4. What is the full form of NFT?
   Answer: Non-Fungible Token
5. Who is the Dalai Lama?
   Answer: The highest spiritual leader and head of Tibet.
6. Which is the world’s tallest and most powerful rocket?
   Answer: Starship by SpaceX
7. What is the purpose of Starlink satellites?
   Answer: They provide satellite internet services.
8. What is the national aquatic animal of India?
   Answer: Gangetic Dolphin
9. Which kind of plastic has particles smaller than 1 micron?
   Answer: Nanoplastics
10. The recently launched semi-high-speed train with automated doors is called?
    Answer: Vande Bharat Express
11. Who is the director of the ‘Barbie’ movie?
    Answer: Greta Gerwig
12. Which countries sent cheetahs to India as part of ‘Project Cheetah’?
    Answer: Namibia and South Africa
13. In which year was ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ first telecasted?
    Answer: 2000
14. Who is the upcoming president of G20?
    Answer: Brazil
15. What is the name of the space station built by China?
    Answer: Tiangong Space Station

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Current Affairs for Kids in Class 10

1. Which currency notes has the Indian government stopped printing?
   Answer: ₹2000
2. What are Bitcoin, Ether, and Dogecoin an example of?
   Answer: Cryptocurrency
3. What does UPI stand for?
   Answer: United Payment Interface
4. Which organisation developed the Indian Railway’s Kavach system? 
   Answer: The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO)
5. Who are the current rulers of Afghanistan?
   Answer: The Taliban
6. Russia is currently at war with which country?
   Answer: Ukraine
7. In which states did three trains collide recently?
   Answer: Odisha
8. Which song featuring PM Modi was recently nominated for the Grammy Awards?
   Answer: Abundance in Millets
9. Which is the country that joined NATO in 2023?
   Answer: Finland
10. What is the name of the intelligence agency of Russia?
    Answer: KGB
11. Who is India’s youngest grandmaster?
    Answer:  GM Gukesh
12. What is the name of the alliance formed by India’s Opposition parties?
    Answer: I.N.D.I.A (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance)
13. Which is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom?
    Answer: Birmingham
14. Which Indian music group won the Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album in 2024?
    Answer: Shakti
15. Palestinians reside in which two disputed areas of West Asia?
    Answer: West Bank and Gaza

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Last updated on 8 February 2024.