This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Famous Personalities > Famous Personalities – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Famous Personalities Quiz 7 (44 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. First Hindu-American to enter in the US House of Representative as senator is A) Ami Bera. B) Tulsi Gabbard. C) Jyoti Sengupta. D) Sunita Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tulsi Gabbard. 2. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) celebrated its silver jubilee on Mar 1 2015. The present chairman of NASSCOM is? A) Kris Gopalakrishnan. B) R Chandrasekaran. C) Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan. D) Ratan tata. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) R Chandrasekaran. 3. Major Dyanchand's birthday is celebrated as A) World Music Day. B) National Environment Day. C) National Teacher's Day. D) National Sports Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) National Sports Day. 4. R.K Laxman is a renowned A) Writer. B) Journalist. C) Dance master. D) Cartoonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartoonist. 5. Who is known as the 'Columbus of the Space Age'? A) Kalpana Chawla. B) Leela Seth. C) Yuri Gagarin. D) Mithali Raj. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yuri Gagarin. 6. Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army? A) Dutch. B) Napoleon. C) Alexander. D) Hannibal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hannibal. 7. Dr. V.Kurien has distinguished himself in which of the following areas? A) Poultry farms. B) Dairy development. C) Atomic energy. D) Economic Reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dairy development. 8. The Statue of Unity is located in ..... A) Gujrat. B) Bengaluru. C) Mumbai. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gujrat. 9. Ratan Thylam, the famous personality from Manipur, is known for his work in the field of A) Social reform. B) Music. C) Theatre. D) Sports. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theatre. 10. Of the given options, who is often recognized as "Modern Meera" ? A) Mahadevi Verma. B) Sister Nivedita. C) Sarojini Naidu. D) Mahasweta Devi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahadevi Verma. 11. Manjit Bawa was a famous? A) Dancer. B) Actor. C) Politician. D) Painter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Painter. 12. Where is Raman Research Institute situated? A) New Delhi. B) Mumbai. C) Bengaluru. D) Kolkata. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bengaluru. 13. ..... was founder of the Brahmo Samaj. A) Ramabai Ranade. B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. C) Kabir. D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 14. Miss Universe 1994, Ms. Sushmita Sen hails from which of the following cities? A) Chandigarh. B) Mumbai. C) Bangalore. D) New Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Delhi. 15. When mahatma gandhi born A) August 3, 1230. B) October 2, 1869. C) June 5, 1390. D) July 6, 1380. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) October 2, 1869. 16. The first Defence Minister of India was A) Sardar Patel. B) Baldev Singh. C) Gopalaswami Aiyangar. D) K M Cariappa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baldev Singh. 17. Hima Das was born in ..... A) Assam. B) Nagaland. C) Manipur. D) Sikkim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assam. 18. Which of the following pairs of artists and their areas of specialization is not correct? A) Ustad Zakir Hussain Khan - Tabla. B) M. S. Subbulakshmi - Dance. C) Hari Prasad Chaurasia - Flute. D) Pt. Ravi Shankar - Sitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) M. S. Subbulakshmi - Dance. 19. Who is this person? Hint:This person was on wizards of waverly place. A) Miley Cyrus. B) Amiyah Wiggins. C) Selena Gomez. D) Lady Liberty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Selena Gomez. 20. Which of the following are the names of famous personalities who are not actors? A) Salman Khan, Katrina, Aamir Khan. B) Bill Gates, Salman Khan, Katrina. C) Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Aamir Khan. D) Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos. 21. Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowed player of A) Sarod. B) Flute. C) Shehnai. D) Tabla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flute. 22. Who is known as the 'Saint of the gutters'? A) B.R.Amedkar. B) Mother Teresa. C) Mahatma gandhi. D) Baba Amte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mother Teresa. 23. In the context of global economy, which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? A) JP Morgan : Financial Services Chase. B) Warburg Pincus : Private Equity Firm. C) Roche Holding : Financial Services AG. D) WL Ross & : Private Equity Co. Firm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roche Holding : Financial Services AG. 24. Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)? A) Vinod Dham. B) Edward Kasner. C) Tim Berners-Lee. D) Mother Teresa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tim Berners-Lee. 25. What was the special name given to Sachin Tendulkar? A) Little master. B) Master Blaster. C) Mahi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Master Blaster. 26. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan has distinguished himself in which of the following fields? A) Medicine. B) Astrophysics. C) Physics. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agriculture. 27. Pandit K. G. Ginde, was well known for his contribution in the field of? A) Dance. B) Sanskrit. C) Ayurveda. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Music. 28. The first woman to become a Chief Minister of any State in India was A) Nandini Satpathy. B) Dr. J. Jayalalitha. C) Sucheta Kriplani. D) Mayawati. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sucheta Kriplani. 29. In which of the following dance forms 'Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra' is associated with? A) Bharathanatiyam. B) Kathakali. C) Kathak. D) Odissi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Odissi. 30. What is the sequence number of MS. Pratibha Patel as the President of the Republic India? A) 12th. B) 13th. C) 11th. D) 10th. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12th. 31. First Indian to make a speech in Hindi before the UN General Assembly was A) B Vajpayee. B) Lal Bahadhur Shastri. C) Lal Krishna Advani. D) Morarji Desai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B Vajpayee. 32. Late Raja Ravi Verma, was an eminent figure in which of the following fields? A) Painting. B) History. C) Dance. D) Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Painting. 33. Who wanted to built a temple for Bharatha Matha? A) Bharathiyar. B) Kattabomman. C) T.K Shanmugham. D) Subramaniya Siva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subramaniya Siva. 34. Who is well known collector of artefacts and curios? A) Motilal Nehru. B) Salar Jung. C) Rabindranath Tagore. D) Wadeyar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rabindranath Tagore. 35. Ms Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime Minister of A) Switzerland. B) Portugal. C) Congo. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canada. 36. Who headed the first scientific group to leave for Antarctica in 1982? A) Dr. V. K. Raina. B) Dr. H. K. Gupta. C) Dr. D.R. Sengupta. D) Dr. S.Z. Kasim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr. S.Z. Kasim. 37. Anita desai is a famous? A) Entrepreneur. B) Politician. C) Sports person. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writer. 38. C.V. Raman was a professor of ..... A) Physics. B) Biology. C) Chemistry. D) Maths. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physics. 39. Who is the Chief Minister of Jharkhand? A) Shri Hemant Soren. B) Shri Pramod Sawant. C) Shri Pinarayi Vijayan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shri Hemant Soren. 40. Stefan Edberg is famous in which sport/game? A) Tennis. B) Golf. C) Football. D) Cricket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennis. 41. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on 17-4-2014. He was A) Nobel Laureate. B) Space Scientist. C) President of Columbia. D) Soccer Player. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nobel Laureate. 42. With which field was the Late BKS Iyengar associated? A) Yoga Guru. B) Artist. C) Film Director. D) Folk Singer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yoga Guru. 43. Mohammed Azharuddin, former Indian Cricket Team Captain, represents ..... constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha? A) Mathura. B) Meerut. C) Moradabad. D) Mirzapur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moradabad. 44. Who is the current captain of Indian cricket team? A) Virat Kohli. B) M.s Dhoni. C) SachinTendulkar. D) Rohit Sharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virat Kohli. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesFamous Personalities Quiz 1Famous Personalities Quiz 2Famous Personalities Quiz 3Famous Personalities Quiz 4Famous Personalities Quiz 5Famous Personalities Quiz 6 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books