General Knowledge Quiz 53: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 53: Personalities Quiz

---

1. Mazar-e-Quaid is the final resting place of a famous politician. Who is he?

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Ashfaqulla Khan

2. This poem written by John Milton first appeared as a collection of elegies entitled "Justa Edouardo King Naufrago" dedicated to the memory of his friend. Name the poem

Lycidas
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Il Penseroso

3. Which American state is named after the English monarch Queen Elizabeth I?

Maryland
Louisiana
West Virginia
Georgia

4. Mahatma Gandhi's death was announced on the radio by saying "The Father of the Nation is No More". Who announced it?

Ramdas Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sardar Patel
Bal Gangadhar Tilak

5. Name the poet who invented the word "Pandæmonium" for the capital of Hell?

Robert Frost
Edgar Allen Poe
W B Yeats
John Milton

6. Eddy Meckx, known by the nickname "The Cannibal", is a famous sports person. In which sports he has earned fame?

Shooting
Swimming
Cycling
Car racing

7. In what name you know Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu?

Sister Niveditha
Mother Teresa
Annie Besant
Florence Nightingale

8. Who is the founder of Cynicism, a school of thought of ancient Greek philosophy practiced by Cynics?

Socrates
Diogenes
Antisthenes
Plato

9. Knesset is the parliament of which one of the following countries?

Sweden
Israel
Jordan
Malaysia

10. "Utopia" is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. Who coined the word?

Thomas Moore
Samuel Butler
Francis Bacon
Aldous Huxley

Share this

Scholastic World