Important Personalities
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Q21.Sir Syed Ahmad Khan died in which year?
Correct Answer: D
Sir Syed died on 27 March 1898 at Aligarh.
Q22.The newspaper "Zamindar" was published by?
Correct Answer: A
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan published the influential Urdu daily Zamindar from Lahore.
Q23.The pamphlet "Now or Never" was written in which year?
Correct Answer: B
Chaudhry Rehmat Ali published "Now or Never" on 28 January 1933 at Cambridge.
Q24.What was the profession of Quaid-e-Azam?
Correct Answer: B
Quaid-e-Azam was a barrister trained at Lincoln's Inn, London.
Q25.Which book of Allama Iqbal contains the lecture "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam"?
Correct Answer: C
It is his famous English collection of lectures published in 1930.
Q26.Which title was given to Liaquat Ali Khan?
Correct Answer: B
Liaquat Ali Khan was called Quaid-e-Millat and, after assassination, Shaheed-e-Millat.
Q27.Who founded the newspaper Dawn?
Correct Answer: B
Quaid-e-Azam founded Dawn in 1941 as the Muslim League's mouthpiece.
Q28.Abdul Sattar Edhi is famous for?
Correct Answer: B
Edhi built the world's largest volunteer ambulance network.
Q29.Aga Khan III served as president of the League of Nations Assembly in which year?
Correct Answer: C
Sir Aga Khan III presided over the League of Nations Assembly in 1937.
Q30.Allama Iqbal earned his PhD from which university?
Correct Answer: C
Iqbal received his doctorate from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich in 1908.
Q31.Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was a student at which university when he coined "Pakistan"?
Correct Answer: B
Rehmat Ali was studying at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1933.
Q32.Fatima Jinnah died in which year?
Correct Answer: B
Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah passed away on 9 July 1967 in Karachi.
Q33.Fatima Jinnah was by profession a?
Correct Answer: B
Fatima Jinnah qualified as a dental surgeon from Calcutta in 1923.
Q34.In the word PAKSTAN coined by Rehmat Ali, the letter K stands for?
Correct Answer: B
P-Punjab, A-Afghania (NWFP), K-Kashmir, S-Sindh, TAN-Balochistan.
Q35.Iqbal was elected to the Punjab Legislative Council in which year?
Correct Answer: B
Iqbal served in the Punjab Legislative Council from 1926 to 1930.
Q36.Iqbal's doctoral thesis was titled?
Correct Answer: B
His thesis was "The Development of Metaphysics in Persia".
Q37.Liaquat Ali Khan visited which country in 1950, setting a foreign policy direction?
Correct Answer: B
Liaquat Ali Khan chose to visit the USA in May 1950 despite a Soviet invitation.
Q38.Maulana Shaukat Ali was the brother of?
Correct Answer: B
Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali Jauhar were the famous Ali Brothers of the Khilafat Movement.
Q39.Quaid-e-Azam left Congress in which year?
Correct Answer: C
Jinnah left the Congress in 1920 over Gandhi's non-cooperation methods.
Q40.Quaid-e-Azam presided over the Constituent Assembly for the first time on?
Correct Answer: A
Jinnah was elected President of the Constituent Assembly and addressed it on 11 August 1947.