Famous Personalities General Knowledge MCQs - 16
1. Which Muslim Philosopher and scientist discovered that light travels faster than sound.
(a) Al-Zahrawi
(b) Abu-ul-Fath
(c) Al-Biruni ✓
(d) Ishaq Kindi
2. Who was the Muslim scientist to use zero for the first time. He also competed his own tables (ZJ), which formed the basis of later astronomical researches in the East and the West
(a) Al-Biruni
(b) Al-Zahrawi
(c) Ishq Kindi
(d) Al-Kbwarizmi ✓
3. Who were the two persons to fly over Atlantic non-stop for the first time in 1919, covering 3116 km in 16 hours.
(a) Geoffery Clive and William Caxton
(b) Antoine Mark
(c) Alcock and Whitten Brown ✓
(d) None of them
4. Which of the following was the founder of the National Muhammaden Association in 1877, wrote the first Presentation of Islam by a Muslim in English language, 'The Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Muhammad (SAW)” (1873) Spirit of Islam (1891).
(a) Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan
(b) Sayyed Amir Ali ✓
(c) Ch. Rehmat Ali
(d) None of them
5. Who was one of India’s greatest Persian language poets, also known as parrot of India. Two historical poems for which he is well-known are Nuh Sipih and the Tughlaq- Namah.
(a) Hasrat Mohani
(b) Amir Khusrow ✓
(c) Ibn Ishaa
(d) Firdusi
6. Which of the following Greek scientists and mathematicians showed that object float because they displace a weight of liquid equal to their own weight
(a) Plato
(b) Archimedes ✓
(c) Aristotle
(d) None of them
7. Which of the following was a Greek philosopher and doctor, who started the system of classification of animals and plants. He was also the teacher of Alexander the Great?
(a) Aristotle ✓
(b) Plato
(c) Homer
(d) Archimedes
8. An English novelist, she was almost unknown when she died at 41. She is now recognized as one of the greatest English novelists. Her works include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma. What is her name?
(a) Geoffery Clive
(b) Jane Austin ✓
(c) George Smith
(d) None of them
9. Name the well-known surgeon, who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December, 1967
(a) Dr. Lawrence Neil
(b) Dr. George Smith
(c) Dr Christopher Nelson
(d) Dr. Christian Barnard ✓
10 Who amongst the following is the inventor of telephone?
(a) Dmitri Ivanovich
(b) Alexander Graham Bell ✓
(c) Robert Orwell
(d) Sir Isaac Newton
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