General Knowledge Quiz 45: Personalities Quzi

Personalities Quiz

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1. Who is known as the "Man of Peace" in India?

Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Lala Lajpat Rai
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri

2. Who mong the following won the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2017 in English Language?

Payal Kapadia
Ruskin Bond
Paro Anand
Roopa Pai

3. Name the only test cricketer in the history to score a century in all 11 countries that have hosted Test matches

Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Younis Khan
Virat Kohli

4. Recipient of 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, this famous writer modestly told that Carl Sandburg, Isak Dinesen and Bernard Berenson deserved the prize. Who is he?

George Bernard Shaw
Pablo Neruda
Samuel Beckett
Earnest Hemingway

5. Samuel Colt, American inventor, is associated with the invention of

Refrigerator
Revolver
Fountain pen
Air Conditioner

6. Which cricketer is a member of the Australian rock band "Six & Out"?

Shane Warne
Scott Muller
Brett Lee
Glenn McGrath

7. Who among the following is recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas?

Anaximander
Abraham Ortelius
Martin Behaim
Captain James Rennell

8. Who coined the terms "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages?

John Lubbock
Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel

9. Who contributed the terms scientist, physicist, linguist and many other scientific terms?

Michael Faraday
William King
Galileo Galilei
William Whewell

10. Who introduced PH Scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution?

John Dalton
SPL Sorensen
Humphry Davy
Robert Boyle