GK Practice Test: Question Set - 04
1. Late Marcel Landowski was a famous
- (A) Musician
- (B) Author
- (C) Tennis
Player
- (D) Cine Artiste
2. David Copperfield is the name of a
- (A) Famous Actor
- (B) Novel
- (C) Poem
- (D) Writer
3. Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma was India's first man to go into space. He was _________ cosmonaut to be in space in the world.
- (A) 12th
- (B) 107th
- (C) 139th
- (D) 151st
4. Sir Thomas Fearnley Cup is awarded to
- (A) A
club or a local sport association for remarkable achievements
- (B) Amateur
athlete, not necessarily an Olympian
- (C) National
Olympic Committee for outstanding work
- (D) None of the
above
5. The Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin was
- (A) Alexander
Fleming
- (B) Albert
Einstein
- (C) Archimedes
- (D) Aryabhatta
6. Pythagoras was first to _________ the universal validity of geometrical theorem.
- (A) Give
- (B) Prove
- (C) Both (a) and
(b)
- (D) None
of the above
7. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a well known freedom fighter of
- (A) Bangladesh
- (B) Myanmar
- (C) Pakistan
- (D) Afghanistan
8. Ms Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime Minister of
- (A) Portugal
- (B) Canada
- (C) Switzerland
- (D) Congo
9. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was
- (A) A
German Physicist
- (B) Developed
the mercury thermometer in 1714
- (C) Devised
temperature scale
- (D) All of the
above
10. Fa-Hien was
- (A) The
first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta
Vikramaditya
- (B) The
discoverer of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
- (C) The
first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China
- (D) None
of the above