Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 3

Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 3

1. One among the two most powerful leaders in the world, he now occasionally goes on lecture tours, and acts in Pizza Hut commercials. Name him:
(a) Ronald Reagan
(b) George Bush
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev ✓
(d) Leonid Brezhnev

2. This Japanese legend built his motorcycle and car empire out of the ruins of WWII. One of his biggest sources of metals and parts were the fuel tanks dropped by the bombers sent by Henry Truman (then President of the USA), which he used to call “Truman’s Gift”. Who is he?
(a) Soichiro Honda ✓
(b) Hiroshi Okuda
(c) Nobuhiko Kawamoto
(d) O Suzuki

3. He invented the process of the vulcanization of rubber and gave his name to a famous tyre company Name him.
(a) Dunlop
(b) Charles Goodyear ✓
(c) Pirelli
(d) Michelin

4. In the 19th century, he changed his name to Paul Julius Reuter and founded the news agency, Reuter. Who was he?
(a) John D Rockefeller, Sr
(b) Israel ben Beers ✓
(c) Rupert Murdoch
(d) Kerry Packer

5. Early in the 1860s Sweden was in the middle of her major epoch of railway building and there was an acute need for more effective and powerful blasting methods to conquer the stubborn Swedish primeval rock, both for mining and for the extension of the new means of transport. This problem of the country was solved by a chemist, who patented his technology of controlled blast of nitroglycerine in 1863. Who was he?
(a) Alfred Nobel ✓
(b) L H Baekeldrtd
(c) Charles Drew
(d) Paul Muter

6. Which research scientist is one of the co¬founders of Sony Corporation, the other being Akio Morita?
(a) Masao Morita
(b) Masaru Ibuka ✓
(c) Kaoru Shoki
(d) Shuzaburo Tachikawa

7. A college dropout, DeWitt Wallace was an avid magazine reader who placed the facts he wanted to remember on 3-inch or 5-inch slips of paper. Before going to bed at night, he would review what he had read during the day, and from time to time he would go through his files to refresh his memory. From this practice was born the idea for a magazine in 1922, that went on to pioneer the direct mail marketing of magazines, books, recorded music collections, home videos, and other products. Name the magazine:
(a) Time
(b) Newsweek
(c) Forbes
(d) Reader's Digest ✓

8. Which term, used to describe well-to-do businessmen, comes from the Japanese words meaning “Great Lord” or “Great Prince"?
(a) Business Magnate
(b) Samurai
(c) Shogun
(d) Tycoon ✓

9. Saudi billionaire Osama Bin Laden made his money through which business?
(a) Drug trafficking
(b) Weapons trading
(c) Petroleum trading
(d) Construction ✓

10. He was granted 1,093 patents for inventions ranging from the light bulb, typewriter and electric pen to the phonograph, motion- picture camera and alkaline storage battery. When he died in 1931, he left 3,500 notebooks containing thousands of new product ideas. Who was he?
(a) Thomas Alva Edison ✓
(b) John Logi Baird
(c) George Eastman
(d) Alfred Nobel

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