General Knowledge Quiz 36: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 35: Personalities Quiz

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1. "Gone with the Wind" was written by

Leo Tolstoy
Salman Rushdie
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Atwood

2. Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime Minister of which one of the following countries?

Canada
Switzerland
Italy
Argentina

3. Which Indian swimmer has become the first Asian to swim across Ocean Seven?

Rohan More
Rehan Poncha
Bhakti Sharma
Santosh Manohar Patil

4. Who among the following defeated Indian player P V Sindhu to win the Indian Open Badminton Tournament in 2018?

Beiwen Zhang
Saina Nehwal
Cheung Ngan Yi
Ratchanok Intanon

5. Who is the youngest in the world and first Asian girl to swim in freezing water of Antarctica?

Lynne Cox
Bhakti Sharma
Arti Saha
Gaurvi Singhvi

6. Who was known by the nick name "Desert Fox" during World War II?

Adolf Hitler
Erwin Rommel
Joesph Stalin
Harry S Truman

7. With which sports is Sbhubhankar Sharma associated?

Hockey
Cricket
Golf
Chess

8. Who is credited with introducing "@" for use in e-mail addresses?

Ray Tomlinson
Tim Berners-Lee
Robert Cailliau
Douglas Engelbart

9. Who designed and built Z1, the first binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability?

Alan Turing
Konard Zuse
Douglas Engelbart
Robert Noyce

10. Who gave the definition of the term "computer virus" in 1983 and known as the inventor of computer virus defense techniques?

Fred Cohen
John McAfee
Peter Norton
Basit Farooq

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