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People, awards and books
Government jobs · General knowledge · 22 questions
Name: ____________________ Date: ____________
The youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is:
- A Malala Yousafzai
- B Kailash Satyarthi
- C Barack Obama
- D Greta Thunberg
The first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize was:
- A Ahmed Zewail
- B Malala Yousafzai
- C Mahbub ul Haq
- D Abdus Salam
The author of the 'Shikwa' and 'Jawab-e-Shikwa' is:
- A Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- B Hafeez Jalandhari
- C Mirza Ghalib
- D Allama Muhammad Iqbal
The author of 'The Prince' is:
- A Thomas Hobbes
- B Plato
- C Niccolo Machiavelli
- D John Locke
The Nobel Prizes are awarded in the city of Stockholm, except the Peace Prize, which is awarded in:
- A Oslo
- B Helsinki
- C Copenhagen
- D Geneva
The founder of the Mughal Empire in India was:
- A Humayun
- B Babur
- C Shah Jahan
- D Akbar
The 'Muqaddimah' was written by:
- A Al-Farabi
- B Al-Ghazali
- C Ibn Khaldun
- D Ibn Sina
The Taj Mahal is located in:
- A Delhi
- B Lahore
- C Agra
- D Jaipur
The FIFA World Cup 2022 was held in:
- A Qatar
- B Brazil
- C Russia
- D South Africa
The Olympic Games are held every:
- A Three years
- B Five years
- C Four years
- D Two years
The first man to walk on the Moon was:
- A Alan Shepard
- B Yuri Gagarin
- C Buzz Aldrin
- D Neil Armstrong
The first person in space was:
- A Alan Shepard
- B John Glenn
- C Neil Armstrong
- D Yuri Gagarin
The author of 'A Brief History of Time' is:
- A Stephen Hawking
- B Carl Sagan
- C Albert Einstein
- D Isaac Newton
The Mona Lisa was painted by:
- A Leonardo da Vinci
- B Raphael
- C Michelangelo
- D Van Gogh
The Nobel Prize in Literature was won in 1913 by:
- A Rabindranath Tagore
- B Allama Iqbal
- C Pablo Neruda
- D Rudyard Kipling
The first woman Prime Minister of an Islamic country, elected in 1988, was:
- A Benazir Bhutto
- B Sheikh Hasina
- C Indira Gandhi
- D Tansu Ciller
The theory of relativity was developed by:
- A Isaac Newton
- B Galileo
- C Niels Bohr
- D Albert Einstein
The founder of the Sikh religion was:
- A Guru Arjan
- B Guru Tegh Bahadur
- C Guru Nanak
- D Guru Gobind Singh
The author of 'Das Kapital' is:
- A Hegel
- B Lenin
- C Adam Smith
- D Karl Marx
The inventor of the telephone is generally credited as:
- A Thomas Edison
- B Alexander Graham Bell
- C Nikola Tesla
- D Marconi
The Olympic Games of 2024 were held in:
- A Los Angeles
- B London
- C Paris
- D Tokyo
The first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize was:
- A Tawakkol Karman
- B Shirin Ebadi
- C Benazir Bhutto
- D Malala Yousafzai
Answer key
1. A, 2. D, 3. D, 4. C, 5. A, 6. B, 7. C, 8. C, 9. A, 10. C, 11. D, 12. D, 13. A, 14. A, 15. A, 16. A, 17. D, 18. C, 19. D, 20. B, 21. C, 22. B
Malala received the prize in 2014 at the age of 17, and she shared it with Kailash Satyarthi.
Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.
Both long poems were written by Iqbal.
Machiavelli wrote The Prince in the early 16th century.
The Peace Prize ceremony is held in Oslo.
Babur won the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 and founded the empire.
Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah in 1377, an introduction to the study of history and society.
Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal at Agra as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Argentina won the 2022 tournament, which was played in Qatar.
The Summer Olympics take place every four years.
Armstrong stepped on the Moon on 20 July 1969 during Apollo 11.
Gagarin orbited the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Hawking wrote the book in 1988.
Leonardo painted it in the early 16th century.
Tagore was the first non-European to receive it.
Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan in December 1988.
Einstein published special relativity in 1905 and general relativity in 1915.
Guru Nanak was born near Lahore in 1469.
Karl Marx published the first volume in 1867.
Bell received the patent in 1876.
Paris hosted the Summer Olympics in July and August 2024.
Shirin Ebadi of Iran won it in 2003. Malala (2014) is the youngest winner.