Important World Personalities
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Q1.Al Sheikh al Raees is the title of:
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Q2.Florence Nightingale is associated with which profession?
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Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing.
Q3.Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize in which category?
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Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Q4.Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in which two fields?
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Marie Curie won Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911.
Q5.Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in which year?
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Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Q6.Nelson Mandela became the President of which country?
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Nelson Mandela was President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Q7.Who developed the periodic table of elements?
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Dmitri Mendeleev formulated the periodic table in 1869.
Q8.Who discovered penicillin?
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.
Q9.Who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
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Sir Isaac Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Q10.Who founded the Aligarh Movement?
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan led the Aligarh Movement for Muslim education.
Q11.Who founded the International Committee of the Red Cross?
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Henry Dunant founded the Red Cross and won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
Q12.Who invented the electric light bulb?
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Thomas Edison developed the first commercially practical incandescent bulb.
Q13.Who invented the printing press with movable type in Europe?
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the European printing press around 1440.
Q14.Who invented the radio?
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Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of radio telegraphy.
Q15.Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876.
Q16.Who invented the television?
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John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television system in 1926.
Q17.Who is credited with the European discovery of America in 1492?
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Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492.
Q18.Who is known as the father of modern genetics?
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Gregor Mendel established the basic principles of heredity.
Q19.Who is regarded as the father of the Indian independence non-violence movement?
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Mahatma Gandhi led the non-violent independence movement in India.
Q20.Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
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Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17 in 2014.