GK Practice Test: Question Set - 03
1. Charles Correa has distinguished himself in which of the following fields?
- (A) Painting
- (B) Ballet
- (C) Architecture
- (D) Western
Music
2. Michael Jackson is a distinguished person in the field of?
- (A) Pop Music
- (B) Journalism
- (C) Sports
- (D) Acting
3. Who said, “The child is the father of man”?
- (A) Shakespeare
- (B) Wordsworth
- (C) Keats
- (D) Bacon
4. Florence Nightingale is also called
- (A) The
Benign Lady
- (B) The
Lady with a healing touch
- (C) The
Lady with a candle
- (D) The
Lady with the lamp
5. Mount Everest was captured by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in the year
- (A) 1951
- (B) 1952
- (C) 1953
- (D) 1954
6. Leonardo da Vinci
- (A) Was
a great Italian painter, sculptor and architect
- (B) Got
universal fame form his masterpiece "Monalisa"
- (C) Drew
models of organs such as the heart, lungs and womb
- (D) All of the
above
7. Sir Humphry Davy was a British chemist who
- (A) Invented
the safety lamp for miners
- (B) Discovered
the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
- (C) Both (a) and
(b)
- (D) None of the
above
8. When was Lord Buddha born?
- (A) 586 BC
- (B) 1000 BC
- (C) 560 BC
- (D) 750 BC
9. The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves round the sun was
- (A) Newton
- (B) Dalton
- (C) Copernicus
- (D) Einstein
10. Yuri Gagarin was
- (A) A
Russian cosmonaut & became the first man to travel in space
- (B) The first
person to fly at great height of about 340 km from the earth
- (C) Both (a) and
(b)
- (D) None of the
above