PERSONALITIES OF THE WORLD – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Test No. 1- Online MCQs for Competition Exams

Match the following Column I Column II A. Charles de Gaulle 1. Cuba B. Fidel Castro 2. Russia C. Vladimir Lenin 3. France D. Kemal Ataturk 4. Turkey

A german scientist who discovered x-rays

He was granted 1,093 patents for inventions ranging from the light bulb, typewriter and electric pen to the phonograph, motion-picture camera and alkaline storage battery. When he died in 1931, he left 3,500 notebooks containing thousands of new product ideas. Who was he

Who is called Father of International law

Who among the following proposed the theory that life could have arisen from non-organic molecules

The first woman to climb Mount Everest was:

Who was the painter of Mona Lisa

Which term, used to describe well-to- do businessmen, comes from the Japanese words meaning Great Lord or Great Prince

Which research scientist is one of the co-founders of Sony Corporation, the other being Akio Monta

J.B. Priestly was a well-known

Give the chronological order of the birth of the following scientists. 1. John Dalton 2. Linus Pauling 3. Dmitri Mendeleev 4. Ptolemy

Software King Bill Gates was a dropout from which University

The contemporary of Shakespeare was

He invented the process of the vulcanisation of rubber and gave his name to a famous tyre company. Name him

Who founded the famous Philips company in 1891 and began manufacturing of incadescent lamps

He founded the oil company Shell in 1897 and named it after his father s hobby of collecting shells. Who was he

Which one of the following scientists started the modern system of using symbols for the elements

Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched Richard Arkwright - Spinning Samuel Crompton - Mule Eli Whitney - Cotton gin Select the correct answer using the codes given below

A college dropout, DeWitt Wallacc was an avid magazine reader who placed the facts he wanted to remember on 3-inch by 5-inch slips of paper.Before going to bed at night, he would review what he had read during the day, and from time to time he would go through his files to refresh his memory. From this practice was lorn the idea for a magzine in 1922, that went on to pioneer the direct mail maketing of magazines, books, recorded music collections, home videos, and other products. Name the magazine

Match the following: A. Father of Botany 1. Carolus Linnaeus B. Father of Zoology 2. Theoph rastus C. Father of Taxonomy 3. Gregor Mendel D. Father of Genetics 4. Aristotle

Which of the following gases is used for purification of water

In the 19th century, he changed his name to Paul Julius Reuter and founded the news agency, Reuter. Who was he

Which American industrialist was praised by Adolf Hitler in his autobiography, Mein Kampf. In fact, he was the only American to be praised by Hitler

Method for the preparation of Varnish was discovered by

Early in the 1860s Sweden was in the middle of her major epoch of railway building and there was an acute need for more effective and powerful blasting methods to conquer the stubborn Swedish primeval rock, both for mining end for extension of the new means of transport. This problem of the country was solved by a chemist, who patented his technology of controlled blast of nitroglycerine in 1863. Who was he

Who invented the Steam Locomotive

This Japanese legend built his motorcycle and car empire Out of the ruins of WW II. One of his biggest sources of metals and parts were the fuel tanks dropped by the bombers sent by Henry Truman (then President of the USA), which he used to call Truman s Gift. Who is he

The first person who sailed around the world was

Who was known as Man of Destiny

Fahien was a

English translation of the book "Al Chemia" of Jabir Bin Hayyan was done by

Saudi billionaire Osama Bin Laden made his money through which business

Which one of the following scientists is credited with the successful production of the first cloned sheep

Penicillin was discovered by

The scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son was

Who gifted $8,500,000 to the UNO to buy 18 acres of land in New York City as the site for building a permanent headquarters

The winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature John Maxwell Coetzee belongs to which of the following countries

One among the two most powerful leaders in the world, he now occasionally goes on lecture tours, and acts in Pizza Hut commercials. Name him:

He was the first to make his clothes available as ready-to-wear collections. Who is he

The famous nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is written by

The acid prepared by Jabir Bin Hayyan is

Who among the following has won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize

Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on

Bata Shoe Organisation (BSO) the parent company of Bata Pakistan, is a(n):

Sun Yat-sen was the

Britain s Clive Granger and Robert Engle from the US have won 2003 Nobel Prize for

Who is the founder of Chemistry