MCQs | General knowledge(GK)/World Famous Personality set 1 Sample Test,Sample questions

Question:
Benazir Bhutto was the Prime Minister of

1.Brazil

2.France

3.Pakistan

4.Bangladesh


Question:
Charles Correa has distinguished himself in which of the following fields?

1.Painting

2.Ballet

3.Architecture

4.Western Music


Question:
Cleopatra was the queen of

1.Egypt

2.Italy

3.Spain

4.Britain


Question:
Euclid was

1.Greek mathematician

2.Contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry

3.Propounded the geometrical theorems

4.All of the above


Question:
Kemal Ataturk was

1.The first President of Independent Kenya

2.The founder of modern Turkey

3. Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union

4.None of the above


Question:
Late Marcel Landowski was a famous

1.Musician

2.Author

3.Tennis Player

4.Cine Artiste


Question:
Michael Jackson is a distinguished person in the field of?

1. Pop Music

2.Journalism

3.Sports

4.Acting


Question:
The first attempt in printing was made in England by

1.James Arkwright

2.James Watt

3.William Caxton

4. Isaac Newton


Question:
The life history of human malaria parasite in Anopheles was first described by

1.Partrick Manson

2.Laveran

3.Ronald Ross

4.Richard Pfeiffer


Question:
Which among the following was first among the European Nations to trade with India?

1.Portugal

2.Britain

3.France

4.Spain


Question:
Who said, “The child is the father of man”?

1.Shakespeare

2.Wordsworth

3.Keats

4.Bacon


Question:
Who was the first Asian to win a Novel Prize?

1.Hideki Yuka

2.Har Gobind Khorana

3.C. V. Raman

4.Rabindranath Tagore


Question:
David Copperfield is the name of a

1.Famous Actor

2.Novel

3.Poem

4.Writer


Question:
Dr. Joon Lew of korea, the recipient of international Gandhi Award is known for his service in the?

1.Eradication of leprosy

2.Campaigning against AIDS

3.Against

4.Against child labour


Question:
Fa-Hien was

1.The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya

2.The discoverer of Puerto Rico and Jamaica

3.The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China

4.None of the above


Question:
Florence Nightingale is also called

1.The Benign Lady

2.The Lady with a healing touch

3.The Lady with a candle

4.The Lady with the lamp


Question:
Florence Nightingale is also called

1.The Benign Lady

2.The Lady with a healing touch

3. The Lady with a candle

4.The Lady with the lamp


Question:
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was

1. A German Physicist

2.Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714

3.Devised temperature scale

4.All of the above


Question:
George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was

1.A Welsh

2. An Irishman

3.A Scotsman

4.An Englishman


Question:
Guernica was painted by

1.Leonardo da Vinci

2.Michelangelo

3.Picasso

4.Raphael


Question:
John F. Kennedy was

1.One the most popular Presidents of USA

2.The first Roman Catholic President

3.Writer of Why England slept and Profile in Courage

4.All of the above


Question:
Karl Marx's ideology advocated

1.A classed unique society

2.A united society

3.A classed society

4.None of the above


Question:
Karoline Mikkelsen was the first woman to

1.Reach North Pole

2.Reach South Pole

3.Climb Mt. Everest

4.Set foot on the moon


Question:
Leonardo da Vinci

1.Was a great Italian painter, sculptor and architect

2.Got universal fame form his masterpiece "Monalisa"

3. Drew models of organs such as the heart, lungs and womb

4.All of the above


Question:
Marco Polo

1.Discovered Greenland

2.Travelled through China, India and other parts of Asia

3.Travelled round the Cape of Good Hope

4.Discovered Canada


Question:
Mother Teresa received the Magsaysay Award in 1962 in the area of

1.Community leadership

2.Public service

3.Journalism and literature

4.International understanding


Question:
Mount Everest was captured by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in the year

1.1951

2.1952

3.1953

4.1954


Question:
Ms Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime Minister of

1.Portugal

2.Canada

3.Switzerland

4.Congo


Question:
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first to

1.Step on the moon

2.Circle the moon

3.Walk in space

4.Journey into space


Question:
Pythagoras was first to _________ the universal validity of geometrical theorem.

1.Give

2.Prove

3.Both

4.and (b)


Question:
Raja Rammohan Roy

1.Was a social reformer who tried to eradicate sati, purdah and child marriage

2.Advocated widow remarriage and woman's education

3. Was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj

4.All of the above


Question:
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a well known freedom fighter of

1.Bangladesh

2.Myanmar

3.Pakistan

4.Afghanistan


Question:
Sir Humphry Davy was a British chemist who

1.Invented the safety lamp for miners

2.Discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

3. Both (a) and (b)

4.None of the above


Question:
Sir Thomas Fearnley Cup is awarded to

1. A club or a local sport association for remarkable achievements

2.Amateur athlete, not necessarily an Olympian

3.National Olympic Committee for outstanding work

4.None of the above


Question:
Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma was India's first man to go into space. He was _________ cosmonaut to be in space in the world.

1.12th

2.107th

3.139th

4.151st


Question:
The first chairman of the Africa fund committee was

1. Late Rajiv Gandhi

2.Late Indira Gandhi

3.Late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

4.None of the above


Question:
The first lady Prime Minister of a country was

1.Srimavo Bhadaranaike (Sri Lanka)

2. Maria Estate Pew (Argentina)

3.Junko Taibei (Japan)

4.None of the above


Question:
The first women to climb Mt. Everest was

1.Junko Taibei

2.Karoline Mikkelson

3.Valentina Tereshkova

4.None of the above


Question:
The Law of Natural Selection is associated with

1.Dalton

2.Darwin

3.Kepler

4.Mendel


Question:
The only Indian woman who become President of the World Health Organization so far is/was

1.Smt. Kamala Devi Chattopadhyaya

2.Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur

3.Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

4. Dr. Sushila Nayar


Question:
The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves round the sun was

1. Newton

2.Dalton

3.Copernicus

4.Einstein


Question:
The Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin was

1.Alexander Fleming

2. Albert Einstein

3.Archimedes

4.Aryabhatta


Question:
The theory of utilitarianism was expounded by

1.Jeremy Bentham (1748-1836)

2. James Mill (1773-1839)

3.Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)

4.All of the above


Question:
Walt Disney was

1.The President of America during World War-I

2.The greater of cartoon films starring popular cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

3.The British physician known for his discovery of Addison's disease

4.None of the above


Question:
When did Margaret Thatcher became the first women Prime Minister of Britain?

1.1998

2.1989

3.1979

4.1800


Question:
When was Lord Buddha born?

1.586 BC

2.1000 BC

3.560 BC

4.750 BC


Question:
When was Prophet Mohamed, the founder of Islam, born?

1.420 AD

2.570 AD

3.868 AD

4.1138 AD


Question:
When was Shakespeare born?

1.1564 AD

2.1618 AD

3.1642 AD

4.1776 AD


Question:
When was Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism born in Media (Iran)?

1. 2000 BC

2. 660 BC

3.1075 BC

4.740 BC


Question:
Who is the father of Geometry?

1.Aristotle

2.Euclid

3.Pythagoras

4.Kepler


Question:
Yuri Gagarin was

1. A Russian cosmonaut & became the first man to travel in space

2.The first person to fly at great height of about 340 km from the earth

3.Both (a) and (b)

4.None of the above


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