This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Famous Personalities > Famous Personalities – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Famous Personalities Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ashok Pandit is known for his outstanding performance in which field? A) Shooting. B) Kabaddi. C) Swimming. D) Wrestling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shooting. 2. "Success always stands on the pillar of failure." This personality always lived with this philosophy and inspired others also. Clue:Was also known as Netaji? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) APJ Abdul Kalam. C) Ratan Tata. D) Subhas Chandra Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subhas Chandra Bose. 3. Which American President was a famous film/T.V. star before he became the President? A) Richard Nixon. B) Gerald R. Fond. C) J.F. Kennedy. D) Ronald Regan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ronald Regan. 4. Rajyavardhan singh Rathore is famous in which sport/game? A) Swimming. B) Badminton. C) Shooting. D) Table Tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shooting. 5. Islam was founded by ..... A) Prophet Mohammad. B) Prophet Zarathustra. C) Prophet Abdullah. D) Prophet Isaiah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prophet Mohammad. 6. Who built the JAMA Masjid? A) Shah Jahan. B) Akbar. C) Jahangir. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Jahan. 7. Charles Correa has distinguished himself in which of the following fields? A) Painting. B) Ballet. C) Architecture. D) Western Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Architecture. 8. Who among the following was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha? A) G.V. Mavalankar. B) M.A. Ayyangar. C) N. Sanjiva Reddy. D) Sardar Hukam Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G.V. Mavalankar. 9. Which of the following is/are true about Sarojini Naidu? A) She was the First woman President of the Congress. B) She wrote the famous Golden Bough. C) She was the First Health Ministerin Independent India. D) She was the First woman Governer in Independent India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was the First woman Governer in Independent India. 10. ..... birthday is celebrated as Good Governance Day in India. A) Vallabh Bhai Patel's. B) Vajpayee's. C) C V Raman's. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vajpayee's. 11. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which of the following fields? A) Journalism. B) Politics. C) Social Service. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Journalism. 12. Former Central Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Mr. A. Raja belongs to which of the following parties? A) Communist Party of India. B) Congress. C) BJP. D) DMK. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DMK. 13. The title of 'sparrow' given to A) Napoleon. B) T. T. Krishnamachari. C) Sardar Patel. D) Major General Rajinder Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Major General Rajinder Singh. 14. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, this lady was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. To which Indian city did she dedicate A) Chennai. B) Darjeeling. C) Kolkata. D) Hyderabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kolkata. 15. Who amongst the following has taken over as the President of Serbia after the General elections held there in February 2008? A) Samak Sundaravej. B) Novak Djokovic. C) Boris Tadic. D) Tomislav Nicolic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boris Tadic. 16. From the following who is not a cricketer? A) Syed Kirmani. B) G R Vishwanath. C) Ramesh Krishnan. D) Chetan Chauhan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ramesh Krishnan. 17. Who is referred as 'Star of the Millennium' A) Jackie chan. B) Sachin Tendulkar. C) Amitabh bachchan. D) Illayaraja. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amitabh bachchan. 18. Shovna Narayan is a reputed personality in which of the following fields? A) Classical music. B) Literature. C) Journalism. D) Classical dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Classical dance. 19. Who is Edward White? A) The first Vice President of USA. B) The first American astronaut to float in space. C) First person to discard Nobel Prize. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The first American astronaut to float in space. 20. Who was the only Indian woman to be elected as the President of U.N. General Assembly? A) Vijayalakshmi Pandit. B) V.K Krishna Menon. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Rajeswar Dayal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vijayalakshmi Pandit. 21. Who is the first Air Chief to receive the honour of "Marshal" ? A) Sam Manekshaw. B) Satish Kumar Sarin. C) Arjan Singh. D) K.M.Cariappa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arjan Singh. 22. Kuldip Nayar, a journalist, was appointed as a high Commissioner in A) Sri Lanka. B) Pakistan. C) Australia. D) UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) UK. 23. Who is this person? Hint:She was better known as Hannah Montanah. A) Thumbelina. B) Katy Perry. C) Miley Cyrus. D) Tinker Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miley Cyrus. 24. Fill in the gap:I ..... the bathroom and grasp the soap A) Go down to. B) Run up to. C) Go up to. D) Run down to. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Run down to. 25. What is common between Manjit bawa,Tyeb mehta and Satish Gujral? A) Painting. B) Making Ad films. C) Music. D) Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Painting. 26. Who was called Iron Man of India A) Sardar Vallahbhai Patel. B) CV Raman. C) APJ Abdul Kalam. D) Lata Mangeshkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sardar Vallahbhai Patel. 27. The name of the train "Shatabdi Express" refers to the centenary of A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Indian National Congress. C) India's War of Independence. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jawaharlal Nehru. 28. Where did Jaiswal stayed at Mumbai? A) Ketki Maidan. B) Oval Maidan. C) Azad Maidan. D) Eidgah Maidan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Azad Maidan. 29. Prof. Milton Friedman was the leader of A) London School. B) Chicago School. C) Cambridge School. D) Ohio School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chicago School. 30. When was Jawahar Lal Nehru born? A) 14 August, 1889. B) 14 November, 1889. C) 14 March, 1889. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14 November, 1889. 31. Bismillah Khan was associated with? A) Shehnai. B) Sarod. C) Tabla. D) Flute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shehnai. 32. Who is the flying Sikh of India? A) Joginder Singh. B) Mohinder singh. C) Ajit Pal Singh. D) Milkha Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Milkha Singh. 33. On which day in India, Good Governance Day is celebrated? A) 25 December. B) 19 July. C) 2 October. D) 15 August. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 25 December. 34. The "Ahmadiyya Movement" was inititated by which of the following? A) Syed Shariat Allah. B) Mirza Gulam Ahmad. C) Syed Ahmed Khan. D) Babaruddin Tayyabji. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mirza Gulam Ahmad. 35. Who is the founder of Reliance Industries? A) Gautam Adani. B) Dirubhai Ambani. C) A.R. Rahman. D) Srinivasa Ramanujan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dirubhai Ambani. 36. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of IIM Ahmedabad? A) M. Damodaran. B) N.R. Narayana Murthy. C) Sanjiv Gupta. D) Y.C. Daveshwar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) N.R. Narayana Murthy. 37. The famous historian Bipin Chandra authored which book as his last work? A) The Writings of Bipan Chandra:The Making of Modern India from Marx to Gandhi. B) India since Independence. C) The Indian Left: Critical Appraisal. D) Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Writings of Bipan Chandra:The Making of Modern India from Marx to Gandhi. 38. Who won the most trophies in football history A) Ronaldo. B) Dani Alves. C) Messi. D) Pele. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dani Alves. 39. Who has become the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest for the fourth time? A) Anshu jamsenpa. B) Malavath Purna. C) Lhakpa Sherpa. D) Dickey Dolma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anshu jamsenpa. 40. Freud is associated with A) Detective work. B) Physiology and medicine. C) Psychology. D) Leprosy control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychology. 41. Who amongst the following is founder of Dropbox? A) Evan Spiegel. B) Drew Houston. C) Brian Chesky. D) Jack Dorsey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drew Houston. 42. Michael Jackson is a distinguished person in the field of? A) Acting. B) Jounalism. C) Sports. D) Pop Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pop Music. 43. Who is the father of Geometry? A) Kepler. B) Aristotle. C) Euclid. D) Pythagoras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euclid. 44. Ban Ki-moon, the UNO Secretary-General belong to A) Egypt. B) Brazil. C) South Korea. D) Saudi Arab. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South Korea. 45. Ms. Bachendri Pal had undertaken a unique expedition for focusing attention on which of these? A) National Integration. B) One Nation one Family. C) The Girl Child. D) Sprit of Adventure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sprit of Adventure. 46. Who is the present chief of ISRO? A) S. Kiran Kumar. B) Madhavan Nair. C) M. Arindam. D) Anil Kakodkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) S. Kiran Kumar. 47. It's been a ..... since I last met my cousin. A) Wheel. B) Whole. C) While. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) While. 48. Ramabai Ranade founded ..... to help women and orphans. A) Sampurna Sewa Sadan. B) Sewa sansthan. C) Sewa Sadan. D) Poona Sewa Sadan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poona Sewa Sadan. 49. Ntrepreneurial venture Named? A) Softronics. B) IBM. C) Wipro. D) Infosys. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Softronics. 50. Who is Richard Halbrooke? A) Producer and Director of Hollywood movies. B) US special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan. C) US ambassador to India. D) UN observer for overseeing the rehabilitation process of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) US special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan. 51. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is associated with A) Short story writing. B) Music. C) Novels. D) Dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music. 52. Ben kingsley is associated with which of the following fields? A) Sports. B) Politics. C) Motion Pictures. D) Social Service. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motion Pictures. 53. Professor Malcolm Adiseshaih had earned worldwide distinction in which of the fields? A) Literature. B) Economics. C) Defence. D) Medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Economics. 54. Which one of the peaks did Phu Dorjee, the first Indian woman climb without oxygen? A) Mt. Makalu. B) Mt. Kanchenjunga. C) Mt. Everest. D) Mt. Anna Purna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mt. Everest. 55. What's Poppin? ..... A) Brand new whip just hopped in. B) I got options. C) Old whip just hopped in. D) My friends whip got socks in em. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brand new whip just hopped in. 56. How did Anne Frank document her experience during Word War 2? A) A Diary. B) Writing Secret Notes. C) A YouTube Video. D) A Radio Broadcast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Diary. 57. Who was Charu Majumdhar? A) Criticized Dyarchy System. B) Founder of the naxalite movement. C) A great patriot in the early 10's in India. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Founder of the naxalite movement. 58. Sanjay Dutt, a noted film actor was held under A) Narcotics Act. B) TADA. C) Anti - Defection Act. D) Act 302. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TADA. 59. Of the given artists, which is renowned as a Carnatic flute artist? A) MS Subbulakshmi. B) Sikkil Mala Chandrashekhar. C) Sri Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer. D) L.Subramaniam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) L.Subramaniam. 60. Who is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures? A) Mahadevi Verma. B) Kaifi Azmi. C) Suryakant Tripathi Nirala. D) Harivansh Rai Bachchan. 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