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People, awards and books

Written by Prof. Ayesha Malik (Pakistan Studies)

22 Government jobs General knowledge questions with answers and explanations.

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  1. The youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is:

    • 1 Malala Yousafzai
    • 2 Kailash Satyarthi
    • 3 Barack Obama
    • 4 Greta Thunberg
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    Correct answer: Malala Yousafzai

    Malala received the prize in 2014 at the age of 17, and she shared it with Kailash Satyarthi.

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  2. The first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize was:

    • 1 Ahmed Zewail
    • 2 Malala Yousafzai
    • 3 Mahbub ul Haq
    • 4 Abdus Salam
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    Correct answer: Abdus Salam

    Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.

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  3. The author of the 'Shikwa' and 'Jawab-e-Shikwa' is:

    • 1 Faiz Ahmed Faiz
    • 2 Hafeez Jalandhari
    • 3 Mirza Ghalib
    • 4 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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    Correct answer: Allama Muhammad Iqbal

    Both long poems were written by Iqbal.

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  4. The author of 'The Prince' is:

    • 1 Thomas Hobbes
    • 2 Plato
    • 3 Niccolo Machiavelli
    • 4 John Locke
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    Correct answer: Niccolo Machiavelli

    Machiavelli wrote The Prince in the early 16th century.

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  5. The Nobel Prizes are awarded in the city of Stockholm, except the Peace Prize, which is awarded in:

    • 1 Oslo
    • 2 Helsinki
    • 3 Copenhagen
    • 4 Geneva
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    Correct answer: Oslo

    The Peace Prize ceremony is held in Oslo.

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  6. The founder of the Mughal Empire in India was:

    • 1 Humayun
    • 2 Babur
    • 3 Shah Jahan
    • 4 Akbar
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    Correct answer: Babur

    Babur won the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 and founded the empire.

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  7. The 'Muqaddimah' was written by:

    • 1 Al-Farabi
    • 2 Al-Ghazali
    • 3 Ibn Khaldun
    • 4 Ibn Sina
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    Correct answer: Ibn Khaldun

    Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah in 1377, an introduction to the study of history and society.

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  8. The Taj Mahal is located in:

    • 1 Delhi
    • 2 Lahore
    • 3 Agra
    • 4 Jaipur
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    Correct answer: Agra

    Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal at Agra as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.

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  9. The FIFA World Cup 2022 was held in:

    • 1 Qatar
    • 2 Brazil
    • 3 Russia
    • 4 South Africa
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    Correct answer: Qatar

    Argentina won the 2022 tournament, which was played in Qatar.

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  10. The Olympic Games are held every:

    • 1 Three years
    • 2 Five years
    • 3 Four years
    • 4 Two years
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    Correct answer: Four years

    The Summer Olympics take place every four years.

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  11. The first man to walk on the Moon was:

    • 1 Alan Shepard
    • 2 Yuri Gagarin
    • 3 Buzz Aldrin
    • 4 Neil Armstrong
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    Correct answer: Neil Armstrong

    Armstrong stepped on the Moon on 20 July 1969 during Apollo 11.

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  12. The first person in space was:

    • 1 Alan Shepard
    • 2 John Glenn
    • 3 Neil Armstrong
    • 4 Yuri Gagarin
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    Correct answer: Yuri Gagarin

    Gagarin orbited the Earth on 12 April 1961.

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  13. The author of 'A Brief History of Time' is:

    • 1 Stephen Hawking
    • 2 Carl Sagan
    • 3 Albert Einstein
    • 4 Isaac Newton
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    Correct answer: Stephen Hawking

    Hawking wrote the book in 1988.

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  14. The Mona Lisa was painted by:

    • 1 Leonardo da Vinci
    • 2 Raphael
    • 3 Michelangelo
    • 4 Van Gogh
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    Correct answer: Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo painted it in the early 16th century.

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  15. The Nobel Prize in Literature was won in 1913 by:

    • 1 Rabindranath Tagore
    • 2 Allama Iqbal
    • 3 Pablo Neruda
    • 4 Rudyard Kipling
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    Correct answer: Rabindranath Tagore

    Tagore was the first non-European to receive it.

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  16. The first woman Prime Minister of an Islamic country, elected in 1988, was:

    • 1 Benazir Bhutto
    • 2 Sheikh Hasina
    • 3 Indira Gandhi
    • 4 Tansu Ciller
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    Correct answer: Benazir Bhutto

    Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan in December 1988.

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  17. The theory of relativity was developed by:

    • 1 Isaac Newton
    • 2 Galileo
    • 3 Niels Bohr
    • 4 Albert Einstein
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    Correct answer: Albert Einstein

    Einstein published special relativity in 1905 and general relativity in 1915.

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  18. The founder of the Sikh religion was:

    • 1 Guru Arjan
    • 2 Guru Tegh Bahadur
    • 3 Guru Nanak
    • 4 Guru Gobind Singh
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    Correct answer: Guru Nanak

    Guru Nanak was born near Lahore in 1469.

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  19. The author of 'Das Kapital' is:

    • 1 Hegel
    • 2 Lenin
    • 3 Adam Smith
    • 4 Karl Marx
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    Correct answer: Karl Marx

    Karl Marx published the first volume in 1867.

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  20. The inventor of the telephone is generally credited as:

    • 1 Thomas Edison
    • 2 Alexander Graham Bell
    • 3 Nikola Tesla
    • 4 Marconi
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    Correct answer: Alexander Graham Bell

    Bell received the patent in 1876.

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  21. The Olympic Games of 2024 were held in:

    • 1 Los Angeles
    • 2 London
    • 3 Paris
    • 4 Tokyo
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    Correct answer: Paris

    Paris hosted the Summer Olympics in July and August 2024.

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  22. The first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize was:

    • 1 Tawakkol Karman
    • 2 Shirin Ebadi
    • 3 Benazir Bhutto
    • 4 Malala Yousafzai
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    Correct answer: Shirin Ebadi

    Shirin Ebadi of Iran won it in 2003. Malala (2014) is the youngest winner.

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