1. Greek Mathematician who is regarded as The Father of Geometry':
(a) Archimedes (b) Pythagoras (c) Euclid (d) Epicurus
Ans: c
2. The Portuguese Navigator who led the expedition which completed the first circumnavigation:
(a) Columbus (b) Magellan (c) Cook (d) Cabral
Ans: b
3. Who was known as lady with the lamp'?
(a) Joan of Arc (b) Florence Nightingale
(c) Mother Theresa (d) None of these
Ans: b
4. Magellan was killed in:
(a) Philippines (b) Indonesia (c) Sri Lanka (d) China
Ans: a
5. Voltaire was a/an _____ philosopher:
(a) Greek (b) German (c) French (d) American
Ans: c
6. Who gave Pacific Ocean that name?
(a) Cabral (b) Magellan (c) Vasco da Gama (d) Columbus
Ans: b
7. Who developed mercury thermometer?
(a) Torricelli (b) Fahrenheit (c) Marconi (d) Edison
Ans: b
8. Who developed telescope and discovered four satellites of Jupiter?
(a) Newton (b) Galileo (c) Herschel (d) Tombaugh
Ans: b
9. The father of English poetry:
(a) William Shakespeare (b) Byron
(c) Shelly (d) Geoffrey Chaucer
Ans: d
10. The first president of USA:
(a) Abraham Lincoln (b) Thomas Jefferson
(c) James Madison (d) George Washington
Ans: d
11. Who developed petrol driven internal combustion engine?
(a) Gottleib Daimler (b) Karl Benz
(c) Cockrell (d) Wright brothers
Ans: a
12. Who invented radio and wireless system?
(a) Marconi (b) Faraday (c) Newton (d) Huygens
Ans: a
13. Who authored 'Tropic of Cancer' and Tropic of Capricorn'?
(a) Mink Miller (b) Henry Kissinger
(c) Henry Miller (d) Pearl S. Buck
Ans: c
14. Homer authored the epics The Iliad' and The Odyssey', was a/an _____ writer.
(a) Greek (b) Italian (c) French (d) German
Ans: a
15. The US diplomat Henry Kissinger shared Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho for negotiating the Vietnam issue, for the year.
(a) 1973 (b) 1974 (c) 1975 (d) 1976
Ans: a
16. Who invented Safety lamp?
(a) Alfred Nobel (b) William Ramsay
(c) Edison (d) Humphrey Devy
Ans: d
17. Isac Newton who is famous for his discovery of Laws of gravitation and three laws of motion, was born in:
(a) France (b) Germany (c) Spain (d) England
Ans: d
18. Who discovered steam engine?
(a) James Watt (b) Daimler (c) Chrysler (d) Benz
Ans: a
19. Who wrote 'Paradise Lost?
(a) Shelly (b) Keats (c) John Milton (d) Shakespeare
Ans: c
20. Who is known as the maid of Orleans?
(a) Mother Theresa (b) Joan of Arc
(c) Cleopatra (d) Florence Nightingale
Ans: b
21. Goethe was a/an _____ writer.
(a) Italian (b) English (c) German (d) French
Ans: c
22. Who postulated Atomic Theory?
(a) Heisenberg (b) Nails Bohr
(c) Madam Curie (d) John Dalton
Ans: d
23. John Logie Baird invented:
(a) Computer (b) Typewriter
(c) Gramophone (d) Television
Ans: d
24. The first Roman Catholic to become the US president:
(a) Theodore Roosevelt (b) Eisenhower
(c) FD Roosevelt (d) John F Kennedy
Ans: d
25. Kamal Ataturk is regarded as the builder of modern ____.
(a) Egypt (b) Greece (c) Turkey (d) None of these
Ans: c
