General Knowledge Quiz 17: Great Personalities

General Knowledge Quiz 17: Great Personalities

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1. He holds the unique record for scoring the first run in Test cricket and also making the first Test century. Who is he?

Charles Bannerman
W G Grace
Pelham Warner
Harry Graham

2. Yasnaya Polyana is a writer's house museum in Russia and was the house of a famous writer. Name the writer?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alexander Pushkin
Anton Checkov
Leo Tolstoy

3. Who was the first female writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Selma Lagerlof
Grazia Deledda
Sigrid Undset
Pearl Buck

4. Which world leader is known by the name "Madiba"?

Nelson Mandela
Mao Zedong
Martin Luther King
Hosni Mubarak

5. Which famous US President has been portrayed as "The Rail Splitter"?

Theodor Roosevel
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John F Kennedy

6. Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City in memory of a President of a country. Name the country?

United States of America
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Philippines

7. Which famous scientist and inventor said "Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today"?

Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Thomas Alva Edison
Benjamin Franklin

8. The phrase "the Child is the father of Man" first appeared in a poem, "my Heart Leaps Up". Who was the poet?

William Wordsworth
W B Yeats
John Keats
John Milton

9. Who said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."?

Thomas Alva Edison
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Jagdish Chandra Bose

10. This well known politician once said: "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time". Who is he?

Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Jawaharlal Nehru
Joseph Stalin

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