This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Famous Personalities > Famous Personalities – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Famous Personalities Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The National Sports Day in India is celebrated on ..... A) 14th November. B) 26th January. C) 29th August. D) 5th September. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 29th August. 2. What is the height of the Statue of Unity? A) 118 m. B) 182 m. C) 108 m. D) 888 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 182 m. 3. From the following who is referred as "Nightingale of india ''? A) Vijayalakshmi Pandit. B) Sarojini naidu. C) Indira gandhi. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarojini naidu. 4. Who is husband of priyanka gandhi A) Roberta vantra. B) Mahmta gandhi. C) Feroze gandhi. D) Rajiv gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roberta vantra. 5. The most famous work of Rabindranath Tagore A) Geetanjali. B) Godan. C) Devdas. D) Ananda Math. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geetanjali. 6. What was the claim to fame of Dr. Dwarka Nath Kotnis? A) He set up hospitals in the difficult to reach regions of India. B) He was a leading Indian nationalist. C) He laid down his life providing medical help to the Eighth Route Army. D) He provided succour to the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He laid down his life providing medical help to the Eighth Route Army. 7. Who invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century? A) Bill Gates. B) Charles Babbage. C) Steve Jobs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Babbage. 8. When indra gandhi become president A) July 6790. B) June 4568. C) October 1984. D) August 7078. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) October 1984. 9. Of the given dancers, who is renowned for Kuchipudi Dance style? A) Josyula Seetharamaiah. B) Bala Saraswati. C) Birju Maharaj. D) Guru Bipan Sinha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Josyula Seetharamaiah. 10. Who is the current Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog? A) Raghuram Rajan. B) V.K. Saraswati. C) Arvind Panagariya. D) Bibek Debroy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arvind Panagariya. 11. Who is popularly known as 'Netaji'? A) Subhash Chandra Bose. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subhash Chandra Bose. 12. Who amongst the following is a famous Sarod player? A) Shiv Kumar Sharma. B) Hari Prasad Chourasia. C) Zakir Hussain. D) Amjad Ali Khan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amjad Ali Khan. 13. Name the President of India who was elected unopposed A) Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma. B) Dr. Zakir Hussain. C) Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. D) Dr. Fakruddina Ali Ahmed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. 14. Who is an Indian writer of British decent recognized for his work in children's literature? A) Ruskin Bond. B) Robert Frost. C) William Shakespeare. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin Bond. 15. The Planning Commission of India has set up a 12 member committee on financial sector reforms. Who is the Chairman of the Committee? A) K.V Kamath. B) Raghuram Rajan. C) Rakesh Mohan. D) Janki Raman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raghuram Rajan. 16. Who among the following Urdu poets was invited to the Second and Third Round Table Conference? A) Muhammad Iqbal. B) Josh Malihabadi. C) Firaq Gorakhpuri. D) Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Faiz Ahmad Faiz. 17. Yves Saint Laurent recently died. He was A) U.S.A film director. B) First man to go to Mars mission. C) Renowned fashion designer. D) An internationally renowned financial expert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renowned fashion designer. 18. Who is the first women Governor in India? A) Vijyalakshami Pandit. B) Durga Banerjee. C) Sarojini Naidu. D) Dr. Annie Besant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarojini Naidu. 19. Who are the most world's richest person? A) Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. B) Pichai and Jack Ma. C) Bill Gates and Sandeep Maheshwari. D) Khan Sir and Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. 20. Which country has given asylum to Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder? A) Russia. B) Ecuador. C) Cuba. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecuador. 21. ..... teaches non-violence and kindness towards all living beings. A) Sikhism. B) Buddhism. C) Jainism. D) Zoroastrianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jainism. 22. The meeting of Commonwealth Nations was held in Uganda on November 25, 2007. Who was elected its General Secretary? A) Kailash Sharma. B) Bimalesh Sharma. C) Kamlesh Sharma. D) Mahesh Sharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kamlesh Sharma. 23. Whose birthday is celebrated as World Students Day? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. C) A.R.Rahman. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. 24. Mahatma Gandhi is also called as ..... A) Bapu. B) Iron man. C) Khadi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bapu. 25. Who is the chief of the Indian Army? A) Gen. Bikram Singh. B) Gen. J.J. Singh. C) Gen. Dalbir Singh. D) Gen. V.K. Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gen. Bikram Singh. 26. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of Central Electricity Authority A) J.L Bajaj. B) H.L Bajaj. C) J.L Raina. D) Y.N Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) H.L Bajaj. 27. Kelucharan Mohapatra is famous in Which Indian Classical dance form? A) Odissi. B) Kathak. C) Bharathanatyam. D) Kuchipudi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Odissi. 28. Who discovered the phenomenon of electricity? A) Benjamin Franklin. B) Thomas Alva Edison. C) Nikola Tesla. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benjamin Franklin. 29. Who was affectionately known as the "Grand Old man of India" ? A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. B) Dadabhai Naoroji. C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale. D) Mahatma Ghandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dadabhai Naoroji. 30. Who is also known as Netaji? A) Abdul Kalam. B) Rajendra Prasad. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subhash Chandra Bose. 31. Which of the following fields A. Nageshwara Rao is associated with? A) Motion Pictures. B) Literature. C) Politics. D) Sports. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sports. 32. Who is the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog constituted in 2015? A) Sindhu Sri Khullar. B) Arvind Panagaria. C) Bibek Debroy. D) V.S. Saraswat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arvind Panagaria. 33. Name of S. Chandrashekhar is associated with which of the following subjects? A) Astrophysics. B) Fluid Mechanics. C) Chemistry. D) Cosmology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Astrophysics. 34. The first woman in space was? A) Valentina Tereshkova. B) Sally Ride. C) Naidia Comenci. D) Tamara Press. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Valentina Tereshkova. 35. Which is the most famous literary creation of J.K Rowling? A) Lord of the Rings series. B) Harry Potter series. C) Spiderman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harry Potter series. 36. Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus belongs to which one of the following countries? A) Sri Lanka. B) Maldives. C) Pakistan. D) Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bangladesh. 37. You ..... stay until late tonight if you want. A) Can. B) Could. C) Are able to. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can. 38. Who declared that his ultimate aim was to wipe 'every tear from every eye'? A) Rajendra Prasad. B) Sardar Patel. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jawaharlal Nehru. 39. ..... was the teacher of Swami Vivekananda. A) Adi Shankaracharya. B) Ramkrishna Paramhansa. C) Dayanand Saraswati. D) Guru Nanak Dev. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ramkrishna Paramhansa. 40. "Man of Peace" is associated with? A) Lal Bhadur Shastri. B) Gandhi. C) Nehru. D) Ashoka the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lal Bhadur Shastri. 41. Who is known as the iron man of India? A) Govind ballabh pant. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Subash chandra bose. D) Sardar vallabhai patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sardar vallabhai patel. 42. Who is called as "father of Genetics ''? A) Charles Darwin. B) Louis Pasteur. C) Gregor Mendel. D) Hugo De vries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gregor Mendel. 43. Which one of these is not a famous Indian Tennis player? A) Sania Mirza. B) Leander Paes. C) Mahesh Bhupathi. D) Saina Nehwal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saina Nehwal. 44. This famous woman was the first blind and deaf person to earn a college degree A) Barbra Walters. B) Helen Keller. C) Jojo Siwa. D) Mrs. Fiorelli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helen Keller. 45. Who was known as the 'Father of Loksabha'? A) Anantasayanam. B) Bashyam. C) Mavlankar. D) Zkir Hussain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mavlankar. 46. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission constituted by the Government of India in February 2014? A) Justice Mridula Singh. B) Justice B.K. Singh. C) Justice Swatanter Kumar. D) Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur. 47. Who amongst the following is called as Deen bandhu? A) Gopala krishna gokhale. B) Rabindra nath tagore. C) Vinobha bhave. D) C F Andrews. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) C F Andrews. 48. In which country, Ms. Julia Gillard was made the first woman Prime Minister in the Year 2011? A) Australia. B) Canada. C) Germany. D) Poland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australia. 49. Mulk raj Anand was a Famous writer in ..... language? A) Bengali. B) English. C) Telugu. D) Tamil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English. 50. The Indian representing an international organization who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with AI Gore of U.S. was A) R.N. Tagore. B) Rajendra Pachauri. C) Viswanathan Subramanian. D) Mother Teresa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajendra Pachauri. 51. The campaign of Interpol, "Turn Back Crime" has associated which Indian personality as its brand ambassador? A) Amitabh Bachchan. B) Amir Khan. C) Shahrukh Khan. D) Ajay Devgan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shahrukh Khan. 52. Greta Garbo is associated with A) Acting. B) Literature. C) Journalism. D) Classical dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acting. 53. Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi is associated with which one of the following countries? A) Bahrain. B) Libya. C) Yemen. D) Tunisia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Libya. 54. Who among the following Union Ministers in the UPA-II Government resigned for reasons not connected with charges of corruption? A) Raja. B) Dinesh Trivedi. C) Dayanidhi Maran. D) Virbhadra Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raja. 55. Where was the famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan born? A) Goa. B) Kerala. C) Tamil Nadu. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tamil Nadu. 56. Who is considered as 'Trimurti' of Carnatic Music? A) Muthuswami Dikshitar. B) Thyagaraja. C) Swami Thirunal. D) Purandardasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muthuswami Dikshitar. 57. What is the sequence number of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of the Republic India? A) 12th. B) 14th. C) 13th. D) 15th. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th. 58. Ms. Vijaya Mehta has earned distinction in which of the field? A) Theatre. B) Classical Dance. C) Film Direction. D) Journalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theatre. 59. Who of the following has been inducted into National Academy of Engineering in the United States of America? A) N.R. Narayana Murthy. B) Kumar Mangalam Birla. C) Adi Godrej. D) Ratan Tata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ratan Tata. 60. What is the real name of Mother Teresa? A) Madam curie. B) Anges Bojaxhiu. C) Teresa. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anges Bojaxhiu. 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