PERSONALITIES OF THE WORLD – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Test No. 3 – Online MCQs for Competition Exams

Category : General Knowledge
Topic : FAMOUS PERSONALITIES OF THE WORLD
Basic Purpose : Online Preparation for Competition and Commission Exams for different Jobs/Recruitments in Pakistan , India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Iran and China etc.
Test Type : Multiple Choice Questions [MCQ’s]

Time Limit : 47 Minutes

PERSONALITIES OF THE WORLD - GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Test No. 3

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Question 1

Who was the devoted British nurse which reformed the nursing profession and was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit (1907)

A	Florence Nightingale
B	Mother Tressa
C	Kathic Johnson
D	Samaz Hillary

Question 2

Name the British Physicist who put forward the idea of an absolute measurement of temperature and invented the scale of measurement

A	Michael Farady
B	William Thompson Kelvin
C	John Dalton
D	William Bentinck

Question 3

Came to India as a clerk in the East india Company, became Commander-in-Chief and fought against French in india he defeated siraj-ud-Daulah in the battle of Plassey We are talking about

A	Robert Clive
B	None of them
C	D H Lawrence
D	Lord Curzon

Question 4

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe scientist and a major figure in the world of literature devoted his life to writing poetry, novels and plays, belonged to

A	Germany
B	Russia
C	France
D	British

Question 5

Dr. Robert Edward and his colleagues done great job in 1978

A	None of these
B	They discovered virus
C	Successful experiment of first test tube baby
D	They discovered virus of aids

Question 6

Name the chemist and professor at Harvard who worked on the first atomic bomb and later strongly advocated the banning of nuclear weapon

A	Jones Addison
B	Robert Boyle
C	George Kisitiakowsky
D	Mathew Arnold

Question 7

Name the US policy advisor who remained secretary of state wide President Nixon

A	Arnald Alemen
B	None of these
C	Henry Kissinger
D	Joseph Estrade

Question 8

Who was the youngest President of USA

A	George W Bush
B	John F Kennedy
C	George Trueman
D	Benjamin Franklin

Question 9

Name the English poet who wrote an epic poem Paradise Lost which was published in 10 volumes in 1667 and in 12 volumes in 1674

A	D.H. Lawrance
B	Coleridge
C	Wordsworth
D	John Milton

Question 10

Name the first President of Egypt who was put under house arrest in 1954 by Jamal Abdul Nasser

A	None of them
B	Mohammad Najib
C	Jamal Abdul Nassir
D	Yaser Arafat

Question 11

Who was the first Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and Prime Minister during 1958-64

A	Andre Gromeako
B	Nikita Khrushchev
C	Lenin
D	Joseph Stalin

Question 12

Name the English poet whose famous works include The Prelude, The Recluse etc

A	Crlos Dickens
B	William Wordsworth
C	None of them
D	T.S. Elliot

Question 13

Who was the Russian revolutionary and one of the leader of Boishevist revolution assassinated in 1940 when in exile in Mexico

A	Leon Trotsky
B	Louis Pasteur
C	Leo Tolstoy
D	None of them

Question 14

Meir Golda was Former Prime Minister, former Labour and Youth Leader and Former Foreign Minster

A	Israel
B	Chille
C	Macedonia
D	None of these

Question 15

John Logie Baird, a Scotlish who invented television in

A	1924
B	1915
C	1920
D	1926

Question 16

Stalin became the Prime Minister former USSR in

A	1943
B	1940
C	1942
D	1941

Question 17

Name the renowned Austrian Psychologist, who developed the theory of psychoanalysis and authored the Interpretation of Dreams and The Ego and the id

A	George Mendal
B	David Harvey
C	Sigmund Freud
D	William Henry

Question 18

Name the British Physician known for his discovery of what is now known as Addison's Disease and for his works on ductless glands

A	None of them
B	George Stevenson
C	Thomas Addison
D	Thomas Alva Addison

Question 19

Name the great scholar and traveller from Somalia who visited India in 1333 AD during the reign of Muhammad-bin Tughlaq on way to China

A	lbn Rushd
B	lbn Batuta
C	None of them
D	Ibn Sina

Question 20

Who was the famous English critic, which created famous poems like Sohrab and Rustam and Scholar Gipsy

A	Mathew Arnold
B	John Milton
C	John Keats
D	Louis Braille

Question 21

Who played an important role In the Chinese revolution of 1911 and became the first President of the Chinese Republic in 1912

A	Sat Yat Sen
B	Lin Biao
C	Chung He
D	Lao Tze

Question 22

Who was the powerful Chughtai Turk who conquered Persia, Armenia, Georgia, attacked and plundered Delhi during his invasion of India Tamul Lang

A	None of them
B	Abdul Hamid Yaldrum
C	Tamur Lang
D	Al-Tutmush

Question 23

Britain s supreme allied commander in South-East Asia in World War II he became the last viceroy of India. We are talking about

A	Lord Curzon
B	Lord Irwin
C	None of them
D	Lord Moutbatten

Question 24

A Black American clergyman and civil rights leader Martin Lugher King, led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American negroes and became a martyr for his cause. He was awarded the nobel prize for peace in 1964. He was assassinated in

A	1968
B	1965
C	1966
D	1967

Question 25

Name the Polish astronomer known for his discovery of heavenly bodies, their movement around the sun and that the sun is the centre of the universe

A	Robert Wilhelm
B	Robert Boyle
C	Nicolaus Copernicus
D	Yuri Gagarin

Question 26

Vasco de Gama the Portuguese explorer who made the first voyage from Europe, round Africa to the east and reached India in

A	1476
B	1450
C	1498
D	1472

Question 27

Name the statesman who established a commonwealth in Britain and became its head with the title "Lord Protector" and ruled the country between 1653-58

A	Richard Simon
B	Richard Dalton
C	Roger Bacon
D	Oliver Cromwell

Question 28

Name the French traveller who served as physician to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb during his stay in India

A	Francis Xavier
B	Francois Bernier
C	Maria Arovet
D	Gabrial Danial

Question 29

What did Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer invent in 1893

A	Rudyard Kipling
B	Lock John
C	D.H. Lawrence
D	Bernard Shaw

Question 30

A Russian revolutionary leader exiled to Siberia in 1895; Created Bolshevik Party to bring about communist revolution in Russia. We are talking about

A	Nikita Khrushchev
B	Valadimir llich Lenin
C	Stalin
D	Karl Marx

Question 31

Galilao the Italian astronomer, who developed the telescope and discovered satellites of

A	Venice
B	Saturn
C	Jupiter
D	Neptune

Question 32

In American. history the only preseident who give resign

A	Richard Nixon
B	Truman
C	Ronald Reagon
D	Eisen Hower

Question 33

Name the Mangolian Emperor who conquered most of Asia and used missile as war weapon for the first time in history

A	Halaku Khan
B	Ganges Khan
C	Kublai Khan
D	Akuba Khan

Question 34

John Keats, poet and author of La Bella Dame Sans Merci a poet of

A	France
B	USA
C	England
D	German

Question 35

What did Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer invent in 1893

A	Magnifying glass
B	None of them
C	Gun powder
D	Diesel engine

Question 36

French statesman and king of France won a series of splended victories against England. Russia and Australia, was finally defeated in the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St. Helena. where he died in

A	1820
B	1819
C	1821
D	1822

Question 37

Who is considered the father of English Poetry. His famous works include The Book of Dutches and Canterbury Tales

A	Geoffrey Chaucer
B	Robert Ped
C	Milton
D	Frost

Question 38

When did Tamuir Lane, the powerful Chughtai Turk attack and plundered Delhi

A	1398
B	1458
C	1354
D	1425

Question 39

Who was the President of USA during World War I

A	George Washington
B	Abraham Lincoln
C	Woodrow Wilson
D	George Trueman

Question 40

Name the British Chemist physicist who discovered element Thalluim in 1861

A	John Loudon Macadam
B	Dmitri Mendeleev
C	William Crooks
D	Robert John

Question 41

He ruled India from 1539-45 and paid lot of attention to administrative reforms. The Grand Trunk Road was built during his rule. We are talking about

A	Ibrahim Lodhi
B	Humayun
C	Sher Shah Suri
D	Sakindar Lodhi

Question 42

He was considered the greatest literary figure in English literature, a son of trades man whose first play was Henry VI and his first major poem Venus and Adonis. We are talking about

A	Leon Trotsky
B	William Wordsworth
C	William Shakespeare
D	John Milton

Question 43

Who is known as the founder of Modern Turkey

A	Ahmad Pasha
B	None of them
C	Turgat Ozal
D	Kemal Ataturk

Question 44

Who was the German scientist who developed the petrol driven internal combustion engine. He founded a Motor Company in 1890 which built the first Mercedes

A	None of them
B	Gottleib Daimler
C	Rudy Daimler
D	Goitleib Wilhelm

Question 45

Name the American General who led the revolt against the British and declared American lndependence

A	Abraham Lincoln
B	David Elsonhower
C	George Trueman
D	George Washington

Question 46

Karl Marx who propounded the doctrine of communism also known as Marxism and the author of Das Kapital originally belonged to

A	Germany
B	Russia
C	Britian
D	France

Question 47

Who was the Greek Writer considered to be the author of classic epics the lliad and the Odyssey which rank among the most precious treasure of the world literature