General Knowledge Quiz 4 - Great Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 4 - Great Personalities Quiz

The questions are about world renowned personalities from different fields. 

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1. Blood and Iron is the title of a speech given by this founder and first chancellor of the German Empire. Who is he?

Otto von Bismarck
Leo von Caprivi
Bernhard von Bulow
Georg Michaelis

2. Name the US president who was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for having negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-05

Theodore Roosevelt
John F Kennedy
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson

3. Which US President made the speech to Congress that outlined the Fourteen Points for peace and the end of World War I?

William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Frnaklin D Roosevelt

4. He was the founder of the Pakistan People's Party and served as the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan. Can you name this Pakistani politician who was executed in 1979?

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Nurul Amin
Ayub Khan

5. A research chemist before becoming a barrister, this great personality later became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.

James Callaghan
John Major
Margaret Thatcher
Tony Blair

6. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of a nation in the world?

Margaret Thatcher
Indira Gandhi
Benazir Bhuto
Sirimavo Bandaranaike

7. Mary Ann Evans was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. By what name she was known?

George Eliot
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Enid Blyton

8. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was a revolutionary hero and a major figure of the Cuban Revolution. What was his nationality?

Cuba
Bolivia
Argentina
Paraguay

9. We all know George Washington, the first President of United States. But do you know the second President, who was also a Founding Father, a leader of the movement for American Independence from Great Britain?

Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
John Adams

10. Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician known for a system which is prevalent throughout the world. In which field she introduced her philosophy?

Medicine
Education
Physics
Politics

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