Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 15
1. He was considered the greatest literary figure in English literature, a son of trades man whose first play was Henry VI and his first major poem Venus and Adonis. We are talking about
(a) John Milton
(b) Leon Trotsky
(c) William Wordsworth ✓
(d) William Shakespeare
2. Michelangelo was famous artist and painter of
(a) Spain
(b) Italy ✓
(c) Netherlands
(d) France
3. Which of the following is known as Abulcasis in the west, is recognised as the greatest Muslim Surgeon. He was the personal Physician of Caliph Mamoon
(a) Yaqub Ibn Ishaq
(b) Abul Qasim Al-Zahrawi ✓
(c) Abu al-Wafa
(d) None of them
4. Al-Zahrawi was also a dentist. Which deadly disease was for the first time explained by him?
(a) Hemophilia ✓
(b) Leukemia
(c) Cancer
(d) All of them
5. Name the Muslim mathematician who made important contributions to the development of trigonometry?
(a) Abu Ishaq Kindi
(b) Al-Biruni
(c) Abu al-Wafa ✓
(d) Alhazen
6. Born in Basra in the beginning of 19th century, is called, “Philosopher of Arabs" in west. What is his name?
(a) Ibn Ishaq Al Kindi ✓
(b) Abu’al Qasim Al-Zahrawi
(c) Abu al-Wafa
(d) Ibn-e-Sina
7. Who was the Prime Minister of Italy during world war II. He was assassinated near Como in 1945.
(a) Mussolini ✓
(b) Parodi Nariag
(c) Nansen Fridjof
(d) Moliere
8. Who among the following is regarded as the forerunner of revenue administration in medeval India?
(a) Akbar
(b) Sher Shah ✓
(c) Balban
(d) Shahjahan
9. Which of the following was the companion of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and the first Interpreter of the Quran
(a) Abu Bakr (RA)
(b) Ibn Abbas (RA) ✓
(c) Saad Bin Abi Waqas (RA)
(d) Bilal (RA)
10. Who is the author of Asrar al-Baqiya, a Choronology of ancient nations This book also discuss current theory of the rotation of earth on its axis and longitudes and latitude, have been accurately determined
(a) Al-Biruni ✓
(b) Abu-ul-Fath
(c) Ishaq Kindi
(d) Al-Zahrawi
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