NTSE GK Prep | Eminent Personalities Quiz 4
Here are some general knowledge questions and answers about eminent personalities. This question bank will benefit students preparing for various competitive examinations like NTSE and Bank tests.
NTSE GK Prep | Eminent Persons Quiz 4
1. Who among the following described Gandhiji as ‘Half-naked Fakir’?
a) Joseph Stalin
b) Mussolini
c) Winston Churchill
d) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
2. Who is the author of the book ‘Unto This Last’ which profoundly influenced Gandhiji?
a) John Ruskin
b) Emerson
c) Tolstoy
d) Vivekananda
3. Who founded the Rotary Club?
a) Michael Kalashnikov
b) Paul Harris
c) Pat Barker
d) Paul Crutzen
4. Who among the following was the first popularly elected president of Russia?
a) Michael Gorbachev
b) Boris Yeltsin
c) Vladimir Putin
d) none of these
5. Who was the first Indian to win the World Food Prize?
a) V Kurien
b) MS Swaminathan
c) MGS Narayan
d) none of these
6. Who created Dolly, the first cloned sheep?
a) Eric E Wieschaus
b) Ian Wilmut
c) James Watson
d) Franscis Crick
7. Who is the only woman to have climbed Mount Everest twice?
a) Santhosh Yadav
b) Junko Tabei
c) Bachendri Pal
d) Rita Ang
8. Who is the chief architect of Green Revolution in India?
a) V Kurien
b) MS Swaminathan
c) Norman Ernest Borlaug
d) Sundar Lal Bahuguna
9. Who among the following former Presidents of America was also a film star and television artist?
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Ronald Reagan
c) Wudro Wilson
d) John F Kennedy
10. Who is known as the ‘Father of India’s White Revolution’?
a) V Kurien
b) MS Swaminathan
c) MGS Narayanan
d) Hargobind Khorana
Answers
1. Winston Churchill
2. John Ruskin
3. Paul Harris
4. Boris Yeltsin
5. MS Swaminathan
6. Ian Wilmut
7. Santhosh Yadav
8. MS Swaminathan
9. Ronald Reagan
10. V Kurien
