CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 16 - MCQExams.com

Clyde Tombaugh is credited with the discovery of this object on the fringes of our Solar System in $$1930$$. He did so by systematically imaging the night sky in pairs of photographs, then examining each pair and determining whether any objects had shifted position. Name the object.
  • Ceres
  • Triton
  • Deimos
  • Pluto
The American theoretical physicist shown in the picture is known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in $$1965$$. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the $$1980s$$ as a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Identify this scientist.
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  • Erwin Schrodinger
  • Richard Feynman
  • Max Planck
  • Paul Dirac
He is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and actor, well-known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis and as a solo artist. His most successful singles include 'One More Night', 'Sussudio' and 'Another day in Paradise'. Which rock star are we talking about?
She was an outlaw-turned-politician who was assassinated by Sher Singh Rana for her role in the Behmai massacre. Who was she?
  • Sarala Jatav
  • Putli Bai
  • Phoolan Devi
  • Seema Parihar
Harry Potter is $$40$$ years old now and works at the Ministry of Magic. He is married to his childhood sweetheart Ginny Weasley, and has $$3$$ adorable children. This work by J K Rowling tells the story of the adult Harry's troubled relationship with his second son Albus Severus. Name the play.
  • Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Happy Potter and the Deathly Hollows
Eenadu was launched from Visakha-patnam by this successful entrepreneur whose other enterprises included Priya Foods and Margadarsi Chitfunds. From a meagre circulation of $$3,000$$ copies in $$1974$$, Eenadu $$6$$ among the Indian language dailies with a total readership of about $$6$$ lakhs. Who is its founder-publisher?
He is the founder and former chairman of the Inditex fashion group, best known for its global brand Zara. As of January $$2018$$, he is the richest man in Europe and the wealthiest retailer in the world. Identify him/her.
He was the first poet from the Arab world to receive the Tagore Peace Award. He was chosen for promoting the human values of love and peace via his poetic works. Who is he?
  • None of these
Facebook, as we all know, is an online social networking service that was launched in $$2004$$ by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students. Since then it has grown from strength to strength. Which of the following companies is not acquired since its inception?
  • Branch
  • WhatsApp
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
The British primatologist featured in the given picture is also an anthropologist and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she is best known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Identify her.
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  • Dian Fossey
  • Birute Galdikas
  • Joy Adamson
  • Dame Jane Goodall
Detective Moochhwala was an eponymous Indian magazine comic strip that chronicled the adventures of the fictional detective and his dog Pooch, who solve several crimes armed with high tech equipment and a little bit of luck. It was published in the Target magazine. Who drew the popular detective?
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  • Ajit Ninan
  • Sudhir tailang
  • Neelabh
  • Mario Miranda
This ex-Prime Minister of Portugal and diplomat succeeded Ban Ki-moon as the 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees between $$2005$$ and $$2015$$. Who is he?
He was a Canadian voyageur who is known for his part in experiments on digestion in human, conducted on him by the American Army physician William Beaumont between $$1822$$ and $$1833$$. Who was he?
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  • Charles Darwin
  • Alexander Fleming
  • Stephen Jay Gould
  • Alexis St. Martin
The Apprentice is an American game show that judges the business skills of a group of contestants. Episodes ended with the host eliminating the poorest contributor from the competition, with the words "You're fired!" Real estate tycoon Donald Trump was the show's host for the first 14 seasons. After Trump winning the Presidential elections of the United States, who will host the $$15^{th}$$ season?
He is an imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist who has been awarded the $$2017$$ UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Identify him.
His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realisation that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in $$1902$$ for his work on the transmission of malaria. Who was he?
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  • Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
  • Robert Koch
  • Ronald Ross
  • Paul Ehrlich
Chandra Shekhar Azad worked with two other martyrs to avenge the death of
  • Bhagat Singh
  • Tantya Tope
  • Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Subhash Chandra Bose
The Time magazine's Person of the Year features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year". Who was named as the Time magazine's Person of the year in $$2017$$?
  • Angela Merkel
  • Pope Francis
  • The Silence Breakers
  • Melinda Gates
He was an Italian scientist who discovered the principle of the pendulum. He observed the movement of the lamp hanging from the ceiling and noticed that its oscillatory movement was constant. Who was he?
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  • Isaac Newton
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Albert Einstein
  • Max Planck
He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary politician who also served as president of South Africa. During the struggle against the apartheid movement he was imprisoned for 27 years. Who was he?
America is named after an Italian explorer called
  • Vasco da gama
  • Marco polo
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • George Washington
Abraham Lincon, the $$16^{th}$$ US President, was watching the play Our American Cousin at the Food Theatre with his wife when he was assassinated. Who killed him?
  • Mark David Chapman
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • James Earl Ray
Shakespeare introduces his character Puck as a 'shrewd and knavish sprite'. He is clever, mischievous elf and jester to the fairy king Oberon. In which of Shakespeare's plays does he feature?
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • As You Like It
  • The Tempest
  • Twelfth Night
Margaret Mitchell's Civel War saga set in and around Atlanta, Georgia, became one of the twentieth century's best selling books. It was made into a movie starring Clarke Gable and Vivien Leigh, which went to win many Oscar awards. What is this book called?
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Giant
  • Gone With the Wind
  • The Good Earth
'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains'. This starts the treatise by one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Who is he?
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rene Descartes
  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Engels
Some of the inventions and their inventors are given. Select the mismatched pairs.
(i) Atomic bomb - J Robert Oppenheimer
(ii) Piano - Georges Audemars
(iii) Steel - Henry Bessemer
(iv) Cinema - Bartolomeo Cristofori
  • (i) and (ii)
  • (ii) and (iii)
  • (iii) and (iv)
  • (ii) and (iv)
He is the first American to orbit Earth and also the oldest person to fly in space. He was one of the members of "Mercury Seven", the seven men who flew on the Mercury spacecraft. Name him.
  • Ed White
  • Alexei Leonov
  • Alan Shepard
  • John Glenn
Robin Hood's band of Merry Men terrorised the rich who passed through Sherwood Forest. Who among the Merry Men was the religious man who had been defrocked?
  • Saint Marian
  • Friar Tuck
  • Brother John Little
  • Will Scarlett
What does a numismatist do?
  • Collects coins
  • Collects new things
  • Collects insects
  • Collects stamps
The term 'robot' first appeared in the Czech play R.U.R. (Russum's Universal Robots) in 1920, and has its roots in the Czech word 'robota' meaning compulsory labour. Who wrote this play?
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the scared river, ran Through caverns measurless to man Down sunless sea.
Who wrote the famous poem Kubla Khan; or; A Vision in a Dream : A fragment?
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Robert Browning
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Sarojini Naidu
This famous Indian cartoonist and illustrator was best known for his creation 'The Common Man' and for his daily cartoon strip 'You said it' in The Times of India. he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. We are talking about ______.
  • Abu Abraham
  • R.K. Laxman
  • K. Shankar Pillai
  • O.V. Vijyan
In which country did Emiliano Zapata Salazar lead a peasant uprising in the early twentieth century?
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  • Uruguay
  • Mexico
  • Honduras
  • Panama
The logo in the given picture is of famous brand of luxury clothing. This brand also sells footwears and fragrances. Identify it.
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  • Burberry
  • U.S. Polo Assn
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Allen Solly
He is known as the 'Father of the White Revolution' in India. His brainchild, Operation Flood, is the world's biggest dairy development programme. He founded the Amul C-operative at Anand, Gujarat. Who was he?
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  • Dhirubhai Ambani
  • Verghese Kurien
  • JRD Tata
  • N. R. Narayana Murthy
'Stern' magazine caused a sensation a few decades ago, when it published the alleged secret diaries of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator. These however turned out to be forged. In which country is 'Stern' published?
  • UK
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • France
I was born with the ability to see and hear, but an early childhood illness left me blind and deaf. I overcame the disability to become an author, political activist and lecturer. I was the first deaf blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Who am I?
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  • Mary Shelley
  • Marlee Matlin
  • Helen Keller
  • Rosa Parks
Banknotes carry the pictures of eminent people of a country. Whose picture would you find on a $$100$$ dollar note?
I was a black woman who refused to give up my bus seat to a white man in $$1955$$. This incident started the Civil Rights Movement in the USA with blacks campaigning for equal rights. Who am I?
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  • Rosa Parks
  • Michelle Obama
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Harriet Tubman
Bangle sellers are we who bear Our shining loads to the temple fair.... Who will buy these delicate, bright Rainbow tinted circles of light?
This extract is taken from the poem 'The Bangle Sellers' of a very famous Indian Poet. Name her.
  • Sarojini Nadiu
  • Nandini Sahu
  • Amrita Pritam
  • Kamala Das
Who was the Merchant of Venice in Shakespeare's play of the same name?
  • Antonio
  • Salerio
  • Bassanio
  • Gratiano
Homi Bhabha was the President of the United Nations Conference on __________.
  • Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy
  • Development of Atomic Weapons
  • Development of Nuclear Power
  • Indian Space Program
Gerger Mendel was born in
  • U.K
  • Austria
  • Russia
  • Czechoslovakia
Vikram Sarabhai had to discontinue his education at Cambridge because of the
  • World War II
  • World War I
  • Cold War
  • Plague
While studying at Cambridge, Homi Bhabha Spent time for research at ___________.
  • Bohr's Institute
  • Cavendish Laboratory
  • Harvard University
  • University of Oxford
Homi Bhabha belonged to the _______ community and followed __________.
  • Baniya, Buddhism
  • Parsi, Jainism
  • Sikh, Sikhism
  • Parsi, Zoroastrianism
The name of Homi Bhabha's mother was _________.
  • Kamala
  • Meheren
  • Mahbanoo
  • Mahrukh
Homi Bhabha suggested the name for the Yukawa particle. The particle is _____________.
  • Bosons
  • Mesons
  • Leptons
  • Hardons
Homi Bhabha was awarded the _______ scholarship which enabled him to continue his research work at Cambridge till $$1939$$.
  • Exhibition Scholarship
  • Isaac Newton Studentship
  • Fields Medal
  • Cavendish Scholarship
He is an Indian journalist who was editor-in-chief and also a news anchor of the Indian news channel Times Now and ET Now. He anchored a live debate show called Newshour. Identify him.
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