Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 4

Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 4

1. Software King Bill Gates was a dropout from which University?
(a) Harvard ✓
(b) Stanford
(c) Ohio State University
(d) MIT

2. 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?
(a) John D Rockefeller, Jr ✓
(b) Henry Ford
(c) Thomas Watson, Sr
(d) Thomas Alva Edison

3. He founded the oil company Shell in 1897 and named it after his father’s hobby of collecting shells. Who was he?
(a) John D Rockefeller
(b) Marcus Samuel ✓
(c) James J Hill
(d) Norman Kittson

4. Who founded the famous Philips Company in 1891 and began manufacturing of incandescent lamps?
(a) Gerard Philips ✓
(b) Thomas Alva Edison
(c)John Loai Baird
(d) Charles Goodvear

5. Who was the painter of Mona Lisa?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci ✓
(b) F.A. Bartholdi
(c) Henry Smith
(d) None of these

6. Volga is the river of
(a) Russia  ✓
(b) Canada
(c) USA
(d) British

7. Fahien was a
(a) Chinese traveler ✓
(b) Portuguese sailor
(c) Norwegian traveler
(d) Japanese navigator

8. J B. Priestly was a well-known
(a) French scientist
(b) German scientist
(c) British author ✓
(d) Italian author

9. Sun Yat-sen was the
(a) First President of the Chinese Republic ✓
(b) First Chairman of Communist Party of China
(c) First Premier of China
(d) None of these

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