CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 13 - MCQExams.com

Vasco-da-Gaeta found out new sea route to India and in 1498 reached
  • Pulicat
  • Karam
  • Goa
  • Calicut.
Who is referred to as the 'Grand old man of India'?
  • Gandhiji
  • Sardar Patel
  • Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Frontier Gandhi.
Sunita William is
  • Italian born Indian
  • Russian born Indian
  • Amerikan born Indian
  • UK born Indian
Name the Indian industrialist on whose 175th birth anniversary, Union Government launched the commemorative stamp on 6  January, 2015?
  • GD. Birla
  • T.V. Sundaram Iyengar
  • Kasturbhai Lalbhai
  • Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
Who said: "Political Freedom is the life breath of a nation'?
  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Aurobindo Ghosh
  • Bipin Chandra Pal
  • Mahatma Gandhi.
Who among the following was the first Indian woman to go into space?
  • Trishna Iyer
  • Kalpana Chawla
  • Rita Chowdhary
  • Monika Behl
Who among the following communists of India played a notable role in the World Communist movement?
  • M.N. Roy
  • S.A. Dange
  • A.K. Gopalan
  • E.M. Nambudripad.
Who was the Chairman of the $$13^{th}$$ Finance Commission?
  • Vijay Kelkar
  • K.C. Pant
  • C. Rangarajan
  • N.K.P. Salve
Who among the following was an ICS Officer
  • Surendranath Banerjee
  • Swami Vivekanand
  • Swami Dayanand
  • Ramakrishna Paramhansa.
Who among the following was not a lawyer
  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Bhulabhai Desai
  • M.K. Gandhi
  • All the above.
On 15th August, 1947, Gandhiji was
  • Happy over formation of Pakistan
  • Happy over the attainment of independence
  • Satisfied with his political achievement
  • A disillusioned man.
Penicillin was discovered by
  • Alexander Fleming
  • Thompson
  • Eduard Jenner
  • Christian Barnard
Sarojini Naidu was
  • the First woman President of the Congress
  • the first woman Governor in Independent India
  • the first married woman President of the Congress
  • writer of the famous 'Golden Bough'.
What was the real name of Munshi Premchand?
  • Nabab Rai
  • Dhanpat Rai
  • Ram Chandra Srivastava
  • Hari Shankar.
"No religion, no caste and no God for mankind." These words were spoken by
  • Sahadaran Ayyapan
  • Annie Besant
  • Shri Narayan Gury
  • Shadaran Ayyapan.
Who propounded the theory of split genes
  • hargobind Khurana
  • Carl Von Linne
  • RJ Roberts and P.A. Sharp
  • Robert Brown
The Dal Khalsa was founded by
  • Guru Gobind Singh
  • Kapur Singh
  • Ranjit Singh
  • Guru Teg Bahadur.
.............. is considered as the father of Homeopathy.
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Samuel Hahnemann
  • Both (a) and (b)
  • None of the above
The first woman Prime Minister was
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Srimavo Bandaranaike
  • Golda Meir
  • Elizabeth Domitien.
Vasco da Gama landed in
  • Kochi
  • Kozhikode
  • Trivandrum
  • Diu.
Cashed up, aspirational and a marketer's dream the hoi polloi are on the march, writes Bridie Smith.
Choose the antonym of the word hoi polloi.
  • Middle class
  • Aristocracy
  • Masses
  • Working class.
Who amongst the following is not a poet?
  • M. Zahur Khayyam
  • John Milton
  • Virgil
  • John Keats.
Who among the following won Miss India, $$2014$$?
  • Miss Koyal Rana
  • Miss Resul Pookutty
  • Miss Sunitha Reddy
  • None of the above
Aristotle argued for the existence of a divine being described as?
  • God
  • Prime Mover
  • The Being
  • Spiritual Entity of Soul.
In 1751 Alivardi virtually ceded Odisha to
  • Nanaji Holkar
  • Raghuji Bhosle
  • Mahajadi Sindhia
  • Baji Rao.
In which town was Rajiv Gandhi assassinated?
  • Sriharikota
  • Sriperumbudur
  • Thiruanantpuram
  • Chembur.
Who, among the following, was referred to as the 'Mozart of Madras' by the Time magazine?
  • Ilayaraja
  • A.R. Rahman
  • Santha P. Nair
  • S.P. Balasubrahmanyam.
Who created the cartoon character Tintin?
  • Bill Watterson
  • John Calvin
  • Charles M. Schulz
  • Herge.
To whom does the slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan" relate?
  • Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Shri Morarji Desai
  • Smt. Indira Gandhi
  • Shri Atal Behari Bajpayee.
Who was known as the 'Desert Fox?
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Manfred von Richthofen
  • Erwin Rommel
  • George S. Patton.
When was Christ born, according to the Gospels of Mathew and Luke?
  • Jordan
  • Nazareth
  • Bethlehem
  • Jerusalem.
Each of the following personalities were victims of assassination except one. Mark the one.
  • Indira Gandhi
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Zulfikar All Bhutto
  • Abraham Lincoln.
Who created the popular fictional character, Jeeves?
  • P.G. Wodehouse
  • Jerome K. Jerome
  • The creators of www.askjeeves.com
  • Charles Dickens.
Who is credited with the depiction of 'The Common Man' through his cartoon strips?
  • R.K. Narayan
  • K.R. Narayanan
  • R.K. Laxman
  • Pran.
The first woman Chief Minister of a State
  • Mayawati
  • Jayalalita
  • Sucheta Kriplani
  • Sarojini Naidu.
Who Is the President of United States of America?
  • None of these
In Roman Catholic Church, what is the title given to a person who is appointed to oppose a candidate's claim for canonization?
  • Church Defendant
  • Hell's Angel
  • Church Prosecutor
  • Devil's Advocate.
Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
Time Magazine named whom as the person of the year 2016?
  • Narendra Modi
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • None of the above
Who raised the slogan "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it"?
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Subhash Chandra Bose
  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Lala Lajpat Rai
Which of the following popular fictional characters is not the public face of a superhero?
  • Peter Parker
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent
  • Paul Drake.
Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
Who among the following, was the founder of the Satya Shodhak Samaj?
  • B. R. Ambedkar
  • Jyotiba Phule
  • Narayan Guru
  • Rama Swami Naiker
What is the title of the film documenting Michael Jackson's preparations for his scheduled 2009-10 concert series?
  • I'll Be There
  • Thriller
  • This is it
  • Heal the World.
Tendulkar Committee has estimated that in India the percentage of the population below poverty line is
  • $$27.2$$
  • $$37.2$$
  • $$22.2$$
  • $$32.7$$
Who created the 'Common Man' associated with the Times of India?
  • R.K. Narayan
  • R.K. Narayanan
  • R.K. Laxman
  • K.R. Narayanan.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on
  • 31 January 1949
  • 30 January 1950
  • 30 January 1948
  • 31 January 1948
Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
    Traveller                                Country from
Marco polo                                Italy
Ibn Battuta                                Morocco
Nikitin                                        Russia
Seydi Ali Reis                            Turkey 
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
  • 1, 2 and 3 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 1, 2, 3, and 4
  • 1 and 4 only
______________ claims that the abilities of entrepreneur are "so great and so numerous that very few people can exhibit them in all in a very high degree".
  • Adam Smith
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Marshall
  • David Ricardo
Who among the following did Gandhiji regard as his political Guru?
  • Mahadev Desai
  • Dayanand Saraswati
  • Acharya Narendra Dev
  • Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Who among the following Indians did NOT hold the title of Miss World?
  • Reita Faria
  • Sushmita sen
  • Diana Hayden
  • Yukta Mookhey
Who among the following first used the term 'Industrial Revolution' in English to describe the changes that occurred in British industrial development between 1760 and 1820?
  • Karl Marx
  • Georges Michelet
  • Arnold Toynbee
  • Friedrich Engels
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