CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 10 - MCQExams.com

Who is the Author of the Book "Das Capital"?
  • Lewis Wallace
  • Barack Obama
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Kari Marx
Who estimated the Indian National Income and criticized the constant drain of wealth from India to England ?
  • Gandhi
  • Gokhale
  • Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Tilak
Who is the Author of the Book "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance".
  • Barack Obama
  • Bill Clinton
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Abraham Lincon
Who is the Author of the Book "Jyoti punj"?
  • Rajiv Gandhi
  • Atal Behari Vajpayee
  • Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • Narendra Modi
'Bicycle ' was invented by
  • Macmillan
  • Alexanderson
  • Eijkman
  • None of these
Who is the Author of the Book "My Life in Action"?
  • Jackie Chan
  • Bruce Lee
  • Tom Cruise
  • Jet Lee
Who is the Author of the Book "My Life"?
  • Barack Obama
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Bill Clinton
  • Yann Martel
Who is the Author of the Book "The Book of Indian Birds"?
  • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • Salin Ali
  • Indira Gandhi
''Lundstrom'' invented
  • Gas Engine
  • Metallurgy
  • Safety Match
  • None of these
Who is the Author of the Book "India My Dream"?
  • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dr. Manmoham Singh
  • Pranab Mukherjee
  • Kabil Sibal
Who is the Author of the Book "Eternal India"?
  • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • Rajiv Gandhi
  • Indira Gandhi
Author of the book Sherlock Holmes.
  • Arthur Koestler
  • Arther Conan Doyle
  • Seymour Hersh
  • Karl Marx
'Aeroplane' was invented in the year
  • 1896
  • 1929
  • 1903
  • None of these
Author of the book Gulliver's Travels.
  • Jonathan Swift
  • P.G. Wodehouse
  • Rod Barker
  • Saul Bellow
Who is the Author of the Book "My Experiments with Truth"?
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Rajiv Gandhi
  • Indira Gandhi
Who is the Author of the Book "A Better India A Better World"?
  • N.R. Narayan Murthy
  • Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
  • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  • Amrita Pritam
Who is the Author of the Book "Ayodhya"?
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • P.V. Narasimha Rao
  • Rajiv Gandhi
  • Indira Gandhi
Who is the Author of the Book "The English Teacher"?
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • R.K. Narayanan
  • Sarojini Naidu
  • Shakespeare
Who is the Author of the Book "Aid and Growth"?
  • Arun Jaitley
  • Raghuram Rajan
  • D. Subbarao
  • P. Chidambaram
Direct Action was the brain child of
  • Subash Chandra bose
  • Mahatma Gandhiji
  • Mohd. Ali Jauhar
  • Mohd. Ali Jinnah
Who wrote the autobiography "Dreaming Big; My Journey to Connect India"?
  • Vishnu Sharma
  • Vikram Seth
  • Sam Pitroda
  • L.K. Advani
Who among the following was the 'Political Guru' of Mahatma Gandhi ?
  • B G Tilak
  • G.K. Gokhale
  • Dadabhai Naorji
  • S N Banerjee
Who is the Author of the Book "Women of India"?
  • Vishnu Sharma
  • Vikram Seth
  • Veda Vyas
  • Swami Vivekananda
The book 'Vish Vriksha' was written by:
  • Annie Basant
  • Bankimchandra Chatterjee
  • Kalidas
  • Tulsidas
Who is the Author of the Book "A Brief History of Time" From the Big Bang to Black Holes"?
  • Vishnu Sharma
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • V.S. Naipaul
  • Stephen Hawking
Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas?
  • Ramchatitmanas
  • Vinay Patrika
  • Yashodhara
  • Both A and B
Who directed the film '1942: A love story?
  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  • Mahesh Bhatt
  • Ketan Mehta
  • Yash Chopra
Who amongst the following is the author of the book ' Freedom from Fear'? 
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Taslima Nasreen
Who is the Author of the Book "Imagining India"?
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Nandan Nilekani
  • R.K. Narayanan
  • Antia Desai
Who is the author of famous statement: " That Government is the best which governs least"?
  • Harold Laski
  • Alexis De Tocqueville
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Herbert Spencer
Who amongst the following UN Secretaries-General, was killed in an air crash?
  • Dag Harnmarskjold
  • U. Thant
  • Kurt Waldheim
  • None of these
The book 'Satyartha Prakash' was written by
  • Swami Vivekanand
  • Swami Dayanand
  • Kalidas
  • Sarojini Naidu
'Mirchchhakatika' was written by
  • Kalhana
  • Vikramaditya
  • Banabhatta
  • Shudraka
Who wrote the famous poem "Trees" 
  • Alexander Dumas
  • Joyce Kilmer
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Jonathan Swift
George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist was
  • a Welsh
  • an Englishman
  • an Irishman
  • a Scotsman
Who was appointed as the Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in December, 2009?
  • Mohammed El Baradei
  • Yukiya Amano
  • Mark Malloch Brown
  • Koichiro Matsuuna
The characters "Tommy and Tuppence Beresford" were created by 
  • Agatha Christie
  • Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Richard Jefferie
Who were awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2016?
  • Man Martin and Cecilia Bartoli
  • Paul Simon & Yo-Yo Ma
  • Kronos Quartet & Patti Smith
  • Bjork & Ennio Moricone
Who was conferred the French Government's "Chevalier dans I'ordre des Arts et Letters" (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) Award at the Cannes Film Festival in August, 2016?
  • Aishwarya Rai
  • Sharukh Khan
  • Kamal Hassan
  • Lata Mangeshkar
From the following choose the set in which names of Secretaries-General of UNO are arranged in correct chronological order?
  • U. Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Dag Hamrnarskjold, Trygve Lie
  • Trygve Lie, Dag Hamrnarskjold, U. Thant, Kurt Waldheim
  • Trygve Lie, U. Thant, Dag Hammarskjold, Kurt Waldheim
  • U. Thant, Dag Hammarskjold, Trygve Lie, Kurt Waldheim.
What is the name of the book written by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari?
  • Wings of Fire
  • A Voice for Freedom
  • The Sea
  • A Woman's Life
Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize?
  • Marie Curie
  • Selma Lagerlof
  • Emily G. Balch
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer
Author of the famous children book " The Adventure Of Alice In Wonderland".
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Charles Dickens
Which of the following awards is NOT given by the government of Madhya Pradesh?
  • Kalidas Samman
  • Tansen Samman
  • Lata Mangeshkar Samman
  • Saraswati Samman
Who among the following is a Nobel prize winner?
  • Homi J. Bhabha
  • M.G.K. Menon
  • Raja Ramanna
  • H.G. Khorana
Name the two-part book series written by the eminent agricultural scientist Dr. M.S. Swaminathan______________.
  • M.S. Swaminathan : The Reform
  • Agricultural Marketing
  • M.S. Swaminathan : The Urban Farmer
  • M.S. Swaminathan : The Quest for a World without Hunger
Who was selected for the Mathrubhumi Literary Award $$2016$$ in recognition of contribution to the field of Literature?
  • Anandji Shah
  • C.Radhakrishnan
  • A.R.Rehman
  • Kalyanji
Who designed the city Chandigarh?
  • Nasser
  • Le Corbusier
  • Ferdinand de lesseps
  • none of these
Recently a Bench headed by National Green Tribunal chairperson justice Swantanter Kumar has banned open defecation and waste dumping on the floodplains of which river?
  • Narmada river
  • Yamuna river
  • Godavari river
  • Brahmaputra river
Which among the following entity has received 2014 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize?
  • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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