Famous Personalities MCQ GK

Total Questions: 100

51) Who is known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'?

a) Florence Nightingale

b) Marie Curie

c) Clara Barton

d) Mother Teresa

52) Who invented the World Wide Web?

a) Tim Berners-Lee

b) Bill Gates

c) Steve Jobs

d) Larry Page

53) Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

a) Harper Lee

b) J.K. Rowling

c) Ernest Hemingway

d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

54) Which actor portrayed 'Forrest Gump' in the 1994 film?

a) Tom Hanks

b) Robert Redford

c) Leonardo DiCaprio

d) Brad Pitt

55) Who is the founder of Facebook?

a) Mark Zuckerberg

b) Elon Musk

c) Jeff Bezos

d) Larry Page

56) Who is the author of the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series?

a) George R.R. Martin

b) J.K. Rowling

c) Tolkien

d) C.S. Lewis

57) Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

a) Bertha von Suttner

b) Marie Curie

c) Malala Yousafzai

d) Mother Teresa

58) Who is known for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a) John F. Kennedy

b) Lyndon B. Johnson

c) Richard Nixon

d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

59) Which famous personality is known for saying 'Give me liberty or give me death'?

a) Patrick Henry

b) Benjamin Franklin

c) George Washington

d) Thomas Jefferson

60) Who is the youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize?

a) Malala Yousafzai

b) Greta Thunberg

c) Barack Obama

d) Nelson Mandela

61) Who is known as the 'Father of Computer Science'?

a) Alan Turing

b) Charles Babbage

c) John von Neumann

d) Tim Berners-Lee

62) Who discovered the vaccine for polio?

a) Jonas Salk

b) Alexander Fleming

c) Edward Jenner

d) Louis Pasteur

63) Which famous architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York?

a) Frank Lloyd Wright

b) Le Corbusier

c) Frank Gehry

d) Zaha Hadid

64) Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

a) Sandra Day O'Connor

b) Ruth Bader Ginsburg

c) Elena Kagan

d) Sonia Sotomayor

65) Who is the founder of Tesla and SpaceX?

a) Elon Musk

b) Jeff Bezos

c) Richard Branson

d) Bill Gates

66) Who is known as the 'Father of Modern Economics'?

a) Adam Smith

b) John Maynard Keynes

c) Karl Marx

d) Milton Friedman

67) Who was the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Prize?

a) Mother Teresa

b) Indira Gandhi

c) Kalpana Chawla

d) Arundhati Roy

68) Who is the author of 'Moby Dick'?

a) Herman Melville

b) Mark Twain

c) Jules Verne

d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

69) Who is the youngest Grand Slam winner in tennis history?

a) Martina Hingis

b) Serena Williams

c) Steffi Graf

d) Monica Seles

70) Which U.S. President is famous for the Emancipation Proclamation?

a) Abraham Lincoln

b) George Washington

c) Franklin D. Roosevelt

d) Theodore Roosevelt

71) Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?

a) Junko Tabei

b) Arunima Sinha

c) Tenzing Norgay

d) Bachendri Pal

72) Which scientist developed the general theory of relativity?

a) Albert Einstein

b) Isaac Newton

c) Galileo Galilei

d) Niels Bohr

73) Who was the first person to win both an Olympic gold medal and an Academy Award?

a) Kobe Bryant

b) Bruce Jenner

c) Johnny Weissmuller

d) Carl Lewis

74) Which actress won an Academy Award for her role in 'The Iron Lady'?

a) Meryl Streep

b) Kate Winslet

c) Natalie Portman

d) Sandra Bullock

75) Who is known for their role in the development of the atomic bomb?

a) J. Robert Oppenheimer

b) Albert Einstein

c) Enrico Fermi

d) Niels Bohr

76) Which famous painter is known for 'The Persistence of Memory'?

a) Salvador Dalí

b) Pablo Picasso

c) Claude Monet

d) Vincent van Gogh

77) Who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics?

a) Maryam Mirzakhani

b) Emmy Noether

c) Shafi Goldwasser

d) Katherine Johnson

78) Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

a) J.D. Salinger

b) Ernest Hemingway

c) F. Scott Fitzgerald

d) John Steinbeck

79) Which scientist is known for the discovery of radioactivity?

a) Henri Becquerel

b) Marie Curie

c) Isaac Newton

d) John Dalton

80) Who is the author of 'The Divine Comedy'?

a) Dante Alighieri

b) Homer

c) Virgil

d) Geoffrey Chaucer

81) Who is known for leading the Salt March in India?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Bhagat Singh

d) Sardar Patel

82) Who was the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?

a) Halle Berry

b) Viola Davis

c) Whoopi Goldberg

d) Oprah Winfrey

83) Which famous scientist formulated the laws of planetary motion?

a) Johannes Kepler

b) Isaac Newton

c) Galileo Galilei

d) Tycho Brahe

84) Who wrote 'The Republic'?

a) Plato

b) Socrates

c) Aristotle

d) Confucius

85) Who was the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean?

a) Charles Lindbergh

b) Amelia Earhart

c) Howard Hughes

d) Yuri Gagarin

86) Who is the founder of Amazon?

a) Jeff Bezos

b) Elon Musk

c) Steve Jobs

d) Larry Page

87) Who wrote the famous novel '1984'?

a) George Orwell

b) Aldous Huxley

c) Ray Bradbury

d) Isaac Asimov

88) Which famous leader is known for his role in the abolition of slavery in the UK?

a) William Wilberforce

b) Abraham Lincoln

c) Thomas Clarkson

d) John Newton

89) Who is the longest-reigning monarch in British history?

a) Queen Elizabeth II

b) Queen Victoria

c) King George III

d) Queen Elizabeth I

90) Which musician is known as the 'King of Pop'?

a) Michael Jackson

b) Elvis Presley

c) Prince

d) Freddie Mercury

91) Who is the famous director of 'Titanic' and 'Avatar'?

a) James Cameron

b) Steven Spielberg

c) Christopher Nolan

d) Martin Scorsese

92) Who is known as the 'Father of the Constitution' in the United States?

a) James Madison

b) George Washington

c) Thomas Jefferson

d) Alexander Hamilton

93) Who was the first Indian astronaut to go into space?

a) Rakesh Sharma

b) Kalpana Chawla

c) Sunita Williams

d) Yuri Gagarin

94) Who is the author of 'The Hobbit'?

a) J.R.R. Tolkien

b) C.S. Lewis

c) George R.R. Martin

d) J.K. Rowling

95) Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in two different fields?

a) Marie Curie

b) Rosalind Franklin

c) Lise Meitner

d) Dorothy Hodgkin

96) Which scientist is known for developing the modern periodic table?

a) Dmitri Mendeleev

b) John Dalton

c) Niels Bohr

d) Marie Curie

97) Who was the first female U.S. Secretary of State?

a) Madeleine Albright

b) Hillary Clinton

c) Condoleezza Rice

d) Janet Reno

98) Who is known as the 'Father of Modern Chemistry'?

a) Antoine Lavoisier

b) Robert Boyle

c) Marie Curie

d) Dmitri Mendeleev

99) Which famous composer wrote the opera 'The Magic Flute'?

a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

b) Ludwig van Beethoven

c) Johann Sebastian Bach

d) Franz Schubert

100) Who was the first Indian woman to become Miss World?

a) Reita Faria

b) Aishwarya Rai

c) Sushmita Sen

d) Priyanka Chopra

Total Questions: 100

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