Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 17
1. A German engineer who invented the motor car. His first car a three wheeler was built in 1885. The car manufacturing company he founded became part of another company now known as.
(a) Mercedes-Benz ✓
(b) BMW
(c) Opal
(d) Volkswagen
2. Which of the Agha Khan represented India in the League of Nations in 1932, 34, 37 and was instrumental in the formation of Muslim League in 1906?
(a) Agha Khan I
(b) Agha Khan II
(c) Agha Khan 111 ✓
(d) Agha Khan IV
3. Name the king who laid the foundation of Muslim Empire in Indo-Pakistan. He fell from the horse while playing Polo and died.
(a) Akbar
(b) Muhammad Ghori
(c) Zaheer-ud-Din Babar
(d) Qutbuddin Aibak ✓
4. Who was the author of Akbar Namah, Ain-i- Akbari and a trusted adviser of Akbar the Great?
(a) Abul-Fazal ✓
(b) Abu-al-Wafa
(c) Firdause
(d) Sheikh Saadi
5. Name the Iranian mathematician who discovered that when the moon revolves around the earth the sun’s gravitational pull causes a 1/4 degree delay in the moon’s orbital time
(a) Naseer-ud-Din Toosi
(b) Ibn Baitar
(c) Abu-al-Wafa ✓
(d) Ibn Ishaq
6. Who was the second president of USA?
(a) George Washington
(b) John Adam ✓
(c) Benjamin Franklin
(d) Abraham Lincoln
7. Name the Muslim scientist who formulated the Laws of Straight Propagation of Light, Reflection of Light, Refraction of Light and host of other phenomena.
(a) Al-Farabi
(b) Ibn Hazam
(c) Al-Biruni
(d) Ibn al-Haitham ✓
8. Name the famous Muslim scientist who discovered sun spots
(a) Ibn Rushd ✓
(b) Ibn Zubir
(c) Ibn-Tubrezi
(d) None of them
9. Ludwig Von Beathovin is regarded as the greatest musical composer of all time, although in middle age he became deaf and could not hear any thing. He belonged to
(a) Germany ✓
(b) Austria
(c) Polland
(d) France
10. Willy Brandt was a Chancellor of Germany. When did he win Nobel Prize for Peace?
(a) 1972
(b) 1974 ✓
(c) 1971
(d) 1975
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