Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 14
1. Name the British Physician known for his discovery of what is now known as Addison’s Disease and for his works on ductless glands.
(a) Thomas Alva Addison
(b) Thomas Addison ✓
(c) George Stevenson
(d) None of them
2. Vasco de Gama the Portuguese explorer who made the first voyage from Europe, round Africa to the east and reached India in
(a) 1450
(b) 1476
(c) 1498 ✓
(d) 1472
3. Who was the powerful Chughtai Turk who conquered Persia, Armenia, Georgia, attacked and plundered Delhi during his invasion of India Tamul Lang.
(a) Abdul Hamid Yaldrum
(b) Tamur Lang ✓
(c) Al-Tutmush
(d) None of them
4. When did Tamerlane, the powerful Chughtai Turk attack and plundered Delhi?
(a) 1458
(b) 1425
(c) 1354
(d) 1398 ✓
5. A Russian revolutionary leader exiled to Siberia in 1895. Created Bolshevik Party to bring about communist revolution in Russia. We are talking about
(a) Vladimir Lenin ✓
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Nikita Khrushchev
(d) Stalin
6. Who was the President of USA during World War I.
(a) Woodrow Wilson ✓
(b) George Trueman
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) George Washington
7. Name the English poet whose famous works include The Prelude, The Recluse etc.
(a) William Wordsworth ✓
(b) T. S. Elliot
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of them
8. In American history the only president who give resign
(a) Richard Nixon ✓
(b) Eisen Hower
(c) Ronald Reagon
(d) Truman
9. Name the British Chemist and physicist who discovered the element Thalluim in 1861
(a) Dmitri Mendeleev
(b) John Loudon Macadam
(c) William Crooks ✓
(d) Robert John
10. Name the British Physicist who put forward the idea of an absolute measurement of temperature and invented the scale of measurement
(a) William Bentinck
(b) William Thompson Kelvin ✓
(c) Michael Farady
(d) John Dalton
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