Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 11

Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 11

1. 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) Rudy Daimler
(b) Gottlieb Wilhelm
(c) Gottlieb Daimler ✓
(d) None of them

2. Name the US policy advisor who remained secretary of state under President Nixon?
(a) Joseph Estrade
(b) Henry Kissinger ✓
(c) Arnald Alemen
(d) None of these.

3. Who was the Greek writer considered to be the author of classic epics the llliad and the Odyssey which rank among the most precious treasure of the world literature?
(a) Homer ✓
(b) Pluto
(c) Aristotle
(d) None of them

4. 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) Ibn Sina
(b) Ibn Rushd
(c) Ibn Battuta ✓
(d) None of them

5. 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) Wordsworth
(b) John Milton ✓
(c) Coleridge
(d) D.H. Lawrence

6. John Keats, poet and author of La Bella Dame Sans Merci is a poet of
(a) France
(b) England ✓
(c) German
(d) USA

7. 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) France
(c) British
(d) Russia

8. John Logie Baird, a Scottish who invented television in.
(a) 1915
(b) 1920
(C) 1924
(d) 1926 ✓

9. The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on December 30, after being convicted by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ite in 1982.
(a) 2002
(b) 2004
(c) 2006 ✓
(d) 2008

10. Who is known as the founder of Modern Turkey?
(a) Turgat Ozal
(b) Kemal Ataturk ✓
(c) Ahmad Pasha
(d) None of them

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