General Knowledge — All MCQs

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Q421.Who was the first European to reach India by sea?

Easy
A Vasco da Gama
B Christopher Columbus
C Ferdinand Magellan
D Marco Polo
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Correct Answer: A

Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in India by sea in 1498.

Q422.Who was the first man to travel into space?

Easy
A Yuri Gagarin
B Neil Armstrong
C Alan Shepard
D John Glenn
World Records & Firsts PPSC

Correct Answer: A

Yuri Gagarin of the USSR orbited Earth on 12 April 1961.

Q423.Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?

Easy
A Neil Armstrong
B Buzz Aldrin
C Michael Collins
D Yuri Gagarin
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Correct Answer: A

Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon on 20 July 1969.

Q424.Who was the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize?

Easy
A Dr Abdus Salam
B Malala Yousafzai
C Dr Atta-ur-Rahman
D Abdul Qadeer Khan
Important World Personalities PPSC

Correct Answer: A

Dr Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.

Q425.Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?

Medium
A Roald Amundsen
B Robert Scott
C Ernest Shackleton
D James Cook
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Correct Answer: A

Roald Amundsen of Norway reached the South Pole in December 1911.

Q426.Who was the first President of Turkey?

Medium
A Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
B Ismet Inonu
C Adnan Menderes
D Celal Bayar
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Correct Answer: A

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Republic of Turkiye in 1923.

Q427.Who was the first Secretary-General of the UN from Africa?

Hard
A Boutros Boutros-Ghali
B Kofi Annan
C U Thant
D Dag Hammarskjold
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Correct Answer: A

Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt served as UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996.

Q428.Who was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest?

Easy
A Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
B Reinhold Messner
C George Mallory
D Junko Tabei
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Correct Answer: A

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest on 29 May 1953.

Q429.Who was the first woman Prime Minister in the world?

Medium
A Sirimavo Bandaranaike
B Indira Gandhi
C Golda Meir
D Margaret Thatcher
Important World Personalities FPSC

Correct Answer: A

Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the first woman PM in 1960.

Q430.Who was the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan?

Easy
A Benazir Bhutto
B Fatima Jinnah
C Begum Rana Liaquat
D Hina Rabbani Khar
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Correct Answer: A

Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988.

Q431.Who was the first woman to travel into space?

Medium
A Valentina Tereshkova
B Sally Ride
C Kalpana Chawla
D Helen Sharman
World Records & Firsts FPSC

Correct Answer: A

Valentina Tereshkova flew aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963.

Q432.Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Medium
A Marie Curie
B Mother Teresa
C Pearl Buck
D Selma Lagerlof
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Correct Answer: A

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.

Q433.Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Hard
A Bertha von Suttner
B Marie Curie
C Mother Teresa
D Jane Addams
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Correct Answer: A

Bertha von Suttner won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.

Q434.Who was the founder of Pakistan?

Easy
A Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
B Allama Iqbal
C Liaquat Ali Khan
D Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Important World Personalities PPSC

Correct Answer: A

Muhammad Ali Jinnah founded Pakistan and became its first Governor-General.

Q435.Who was the teacher of Alexander the Great?

Medium
A Aristotle
B Plato
C Socrates
D Pythagoras
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Correct Answer: A

Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great.

Q436.Who was the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Easy
A Malala Yousafzai
B Nelson Mandela
C Mother Teresa
D Barack Obama
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Correct Answer: A

Malala Yousafzai won at age 17 in 2014.

Q437.Who wrote Das Kapital?

Easy
A Karl Marx
B Friedrich Engels
C Adam Smith
D Max Weber
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Correct Answer: A

Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital, a critique of political economy.

Q438.Who wrote Leviathan?

Medium
A Thomas Hobbes
B John Locke
C Rousseau
D Montesquieu
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Correct Answer: A

Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651.

Q439.Who wrote the book Brave New World?

Medium
A Aldous Huxley
B George Orwell
C Ray Bradbury
D Isaac Asimov
Books, Authors & Literature PMS

Correct Answer: A

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932.

Q440.Who wrote the book Crime and Punishment?

Medium
A Fyodor Dostoevsky
B Leo Tolstoy
C Ivan Turgenev
D Nikolai Gogol
Books, Authors & Literature FPSC

Correct Answer: A

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment in 1866.