General Knowledge Quiz 18: Great Personalities

General Knowledge Quiz 18: Great Personalities

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1. Her autobiographical work is one of the most read books of all time and her words "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same" are famous. Who is she?

Anne Frank
Helen Keller
Sarojini Naidu
Enid Blyton

2. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judges by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." Name the Nobel Peace Prize winning personality who had this dream?

Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr.
Abraham Lincoln

3. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart". Who said this?

Helen Keller
Harriet Tubman
Louis Braille
John Milton

4. Who said: "Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time". These are the words of a famous literary critic who won the Nobel Prize i Literature in 1925. Who is he?

Rudyard Kipling
Rabindranath Tagore
Romain Rolland
George Bernard Shaw

5. "Hiroshima Diary:The Journal of a Japanese Physician" is written by

Yasunari Kawabata
Haruki Murakami
Akira Kurosowa
Michihiko Hachiya

6. Who authored the best seller "Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie"?

Eve Curie
Irene Curie
Barbara Goldsmith
Isaac Asimov

7. He is known for coining the expression "the medium is the message" and also for predicting the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented. Who is he?

Tim Berners-Lee
Robert Cailliau
Marshall McLuhan
Charles Babbage

8. The first World Sanskrit Award instituted by Government of India was conferred to Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in 2016. Which country she belong to.

Nepal
Myanmar
Thailand
Sri Lanka

9. "Em and The Big Hoom", the first novel by an Indian writer won the Windham-Campbell Prize 2016. The writer was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award 2016 for the same novel. Who is this author?

Jerry Pinto
Cyrys Mistry
Temsula Ao
Jeet Thayil

10. Darpana Academy of Performing Arts is a school for performing arts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat which was founded in 1949. Name the founder

Mallika Sarabhai
Yamini Krishnamurthy
Padma Subrahmanyam
Mrinalini Sarabhai

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