Famous Persons Mcqs - General Knowledge Question and Answers

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1. 21 Hometown of Mother Teresa was _____
   

   1. India

   2. Afghanistan

   3. Macedonia

   4. Ireland

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   : Macedonia

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   After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries in 2012.

2. 22 Who was the first explorer to have travelled around the world
   

   1. Ferdinand Magellan

   2. Vasco Da Gama

   3. Amerigo Vespucci

   4. Christopher Columbus

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   : Ferdinand Magellan

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   Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth

3. 23 Who was shorthand system inventor
   

   1. Samuel Taylor

   2. Isaac Pitman

   3. Benjamin Pitman

   4. None

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   : Isaac Pitman

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   Sir Isaac Pitman, was a teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.

4. 24 Earnest hemingway is nobel laureate of ____
   

   1. Physics

   2. Chemistry

   3. Literature

   4. Economy

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   : Literature

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   The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style

5. 25 Nationality of Albert Einstein was ___
   

   1. German

   2. English

   3. Irish

   4. Italian

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   : German

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   Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.

6. 26 Nationality of Isaac Newton was ___
   

   1. American

   2. English

   3. German

   4. Irish

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   : English

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   Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

7. 27 Founder of Chemistry is ___
   

   1. Jabir Bin Hayan

   2. Boo Ali Sina

   3. Antoine Lavoisier

   4. Robert Boyle

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   : Jabir Bin Hayan

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   Jabir Bin Hayan was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.

8. 28 Alexander the Great was the king of _____
   

   1. Macedonia

   2. Hungary

   3. USA

   4. England

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   : Macedonia

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   Alexander 3 of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

9. 29 ___ was avowed Marxist
   

   1. Ghalib

   2. Allama Iqbal

   3. Faiz Ahmad Faiz

   4. Mohsin Naqvi

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   : Faiz Ahmad Faiz

   Explanation

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   Faiz was an avowed Marxist, and he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962. His work remains influential in Pakistan literature and arts. Faiz's literary work was posthumously publicly honoured when the Pakistan Government conferred upon him the nation's highest civil award, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, in 1990.

10. 30 The only poet to have received Lenin Award from Soviet Union
    

    1. Faiz Ahmad Faiz

    2. Allama Iqbal

    3. M. Faraz

    4. Mirza Ghalib

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    : Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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    Faiz was an avowed Marxist, and he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962. His work remains influential in Pakistan literature and arts. Faiz's literary work