Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 21

Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 21

1. Marie Curie won Nobel Prize for Isolation of Metallic radium in
(a) 1910
(b) 1911 ✓
(c) 1909
(d) 1912

2. Who is called “lion of the Punjab”?
(a) Sultan Tipu
(b) Ranjit Singh ✓
(c) Zaffar Ali Khan
(d) Akbar the Great

3. Name the scientist in whose name hundreds of useful things were patented. The electric lamp bulb is his great achievement
(a) John Walker
(b) Mickheal Faraday
(c) Thomas Alva Edison ✓
(d) Dr. Alferd Noble

4. T.S. Eliot, a famous English lyric poet, his works include Murder in the Cathedral, The Waste Land, The Cocktail Party. He won Nobel Prize for literature in
(a) 1946
(b) 1947
(c) 1944
(d) 1948 ✓

5. Name the Muslim Philosopher and theologist who wrote 114 books, including Ihsa-ui-Alum, Ma Yanbai un Taallama, Qabal al-Falsafa
(a) Al Farabi ✓
(b) Abul Wafa
(c) Omer Khayyam
(d) Ibn Rashed

6. Name the Punjab’s public man Twice minister of Punjab, member Governor- General’s executive Council (1930-35). delegate to the League of Nations (1927)
(a) Sir Sakindar Hayat
(b) Sir Fazl-i-Hussain ✓
(c) Shaukat Hayat
(d) Omer Hayat Tawana

7. Sigmund Freud a psychiatrist, who investigated the connection between hidden thoughts in subconscious part of the mind and nervous disorder and found the treatment by psycho-analysis belonged to
(a) Germany
(b) Austria ✓
(c) England
(d) Australia

8. Name the famous poet of Urdu unique for a rare poetic genius. Other than poetry Ud-i- Hindi and Urdu-i-Mualla are his masterpiece prose work.
(a) MirTaqi Mir
(b) Nazir Akbaralabadi
(c) Mirza Ghalib ✓
(d) None of them

9. Which of the following scientists was the inventor and originator of rubber vulcanisation (patent) 1844
(a) William Sherman
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Cecil John
(d) Charles Good Year ✓

10. Who was the second powerful member of the Cuban government under Castro who served as minister of industry from 1961-1965. He was killed while leading a guerilla band against Bolivia
(a) Ch-Guevara ✓
(d) Francisco Pizarro
(c) Louis Pasteur
(d) None of them

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