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- The “Iron Curtain” speech was delivered by:
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Winston Churchill
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Harry Truman
Answer: B - The first President of Russia after USSR collapse was:
A) Vladimir Putin
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Leonid Brezhnev
Answer: B - The last leader of the Soviet Union was:
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Vladimir Lenin
Answer: C - The founder of the Ottoman Empire expansion was:
A) Mehmed II
B) Osman I
C) Suleiman
D) Selim I
Answer: B - The conqueror of Constantinople was:
A) Osman I
B) Mehmed II
C) Suleiman
D) Murad I
Answer: B - The founder of the Safavid Empire was:
A) Shah Abbas
B) Ismail I
C) Nader Shah
D) Darius
Answer: B - The founder of the Mughal administrative system (Zabt system) was:
A) Babur
B) Akbar
C) Aurangzeb
D) Humayun
Answer: B - The author of “The Republic” was:
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Herodotus
Answer: B - The author of “Politics” was:
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Socrates
D) Machiavelli
Answer: B - The author of “The Prince” was:
A) Machiavelli
B) Hobbes
C) Locke
D) Rousseau
Answer: A - The philosopher of “Social Contract” theory was:
A) Rousseau
B) Hobbes
C) Locke
D) All of these
Answer: D - The “Father of Modern Political Science” is:
A) Machiavelli
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Hobbes
Answer: A - The founder of positivism philosophy was:
A) Auguste Comte
B) Karl Marx
C) Hegel
D) Kant
Answer: A - The founder of modern sociology is:
A) Max Weber
B) Emile Durkheim
C) Auguste Comte
D) All of these
Answer: C - The founder of psychoanalysis theory after Freud was:
A) Carl Jung
B) Pavlov
C) Skinner
D) Watson
Answer: A - The discoverer of gravity was:
A) Galileo
B) Newton
C) Einstein
D) Kepler
Answer: B - The scientist who discovered penicillin was:
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Robert Koch
D) Edward Jenner
Answer: B - The inventor of steam engine improvement was:
A) James Watt
B) Thomas Edison
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Faraday
Answer: A - The inventor of electric bulb was:
A) Thomas Edison
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Faraday
D) Marconi
Answer: A - The inventor of alternating current system was:
A) Edison
B) Tesla
C) Newton
D) Einstein
Answer: B - The founder of relativity theory was:
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Galileo
D) Bohr
Answer: B - The founder of quantum mechanics concept was:
A) Max Planck
B) Newton
C) Darwin
D) Tesla
Answer: A - The discoverer of electron was:
A) J.J. Thomson
B) Rutherford
C) Bohr
D) Chadwick
Answer: A - The discoverer of neutron was:
A) Rutherford
B) Chadwick
C) Bohr
D) Einstein
Answer: B - The founder of periodic table was:
A) Mendeleev
B) Dalton
C) Rutherford
D) Bohr
Answer: A - The father of atomic theory is:
A) Dalton
B) Bohr
C) Rutherford
D) Einstein
Answer: A - The founder of modern genetics was:
A) Mendel
B) Darwin
C) Watson
D) Crick
Answer: A - The co-discoverer of DNA structure is:
A) Watson and Crick
B) Darwin and Mendel
C) Newton and Einstein
D) Tesla and Edison
Answer: A - The discoverer of vaccination was:
A) Jenner
B) Pasteur
C) Fleming
D) Koch
Answer: A - The founder of bacteriology is:
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Robert Koch
C) Fleming
D) Both A and B
Answer: D - The founder of microbiology is:
A) Robert Koch
B) Louis Pasteur
C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
D) All of these
Answer: D - The first Chancellor of Germany after WWII was:
A) Hitler
B) Konrad Adenauer
C) Angela Merkel
D) Otto von Bismarck
Answer: B - The longest-serving UK Prime Minister was:
A) Churchill
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Tony Blair
D) Robert Walpole
Answer: D - The British wartime leader in WWII was:
A) Churchill
B) Chamberlain
C) Eden
D) Disraeli
Answer: A - The US President during WWII end was:
A) Roosevelt
B) Truman
C) Eisenhower
D) Kennedy
Answer: B - The US President who issued Emancipation Proclamation was:
A) Lincoln
B) Washington
C) Jefferson
D) Jackson
Answer: A - The first US President to resign was:
A) Nixon
B) Clinton
C) Carter
D) Ford
Answer: A - The first female Prime Minister of UK was:
A) Theresa May
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Queen Elizabeth
D) Angela Merkel
Answer: B - The first female President of India was:
A) Indira Gandhi
B) Pratibha Patil
C) Sarojini Naidu
D) Sushma Swaraj
Answer: B - The founder of Bangladesh is:
A) Sheikh Hasina
B) Ziaur Rahman
C) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
D) Hussain Ershad
Answer: C - The first President of Bangladesh was:
A) Mujibur Rahman
B) Ziaur Rahman
C) Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
D) Ershad
Answer: C - The founder of modern Singapore is:
A) Lee Kuan Yew
B) Mahathir Mohamad
C) Suharto
D) Sukarno
Answer: A - The founder of Malaysia is:
A) Tunku Abdul Rahman
B) Mahathir Mohamad
C) Suharto
D) Sukarno
Answer: A - The founder of Indonesia independence is:
A) Sukarno
B) Suharto
C) Lee Kuan Yew
D) Ho Chi Minh
Answer: A - The founder of Vietnam independence movement was:
A) Ho Chi Minh
B) Mao Zedong
C) Deng Xiaoping
D) Pol Pot
Answer: A - The founder of modern China (PRC) is:
A) Sun Yat-sen
B) Mao Zedong
C) Deng Xiaoping
D) Chiang Kai-shek
Answer: B - The architect of modern China reforms was:
A) Mao Zedong
B) Deng Xiaoping
C) Xi Jinping
D) Hu Jintao
Answer: B - The founder of North Korea is:
A) Kim Jong-il
B) Kim Il-sung
C) Mao Zedong
D) Stalin
Answer: B - The founder of South Korea presidency system was:
A) Syngman Rhee
B) Kim Il-sung
C) Park Chung-hee
D) Moon Jae-in
Answer: A - The founder of Israel was:
A) Golda Meir
B) David Ben-Gurion
C) Yitzhak Rabin
D) Netanyahu
Answer: B - The first Prime Minister of Israel was:
A) Ben-Gurion
B) Golda Meir
C) Netanyahu
D) Sharon
Answer: A - The founder of Zionism movement was:
A) Herzl
B) Ben-Gurion
C) Golda Meir
D) Rabin
Answer: A - The founder of modern Egypt was:
A) Gamal Abdel Nasser
B) Anwar Sadat
C) Hosni Mubarak
D) King Farouk
Answer: A - The Egyptian leader of Camp David Accords was:
A) Nasser
B) Sadat
C) Mubarak
D) Sisi
Answer: B - The founder of Iran Islamic Revolution was:
A) Reza Shah
B) Ayatollah Khomeini
C) Ahmadinejad
D) Khamenei
Answer: B - The founder of modern Saudi Arabia is:
A) Ibn Saud
B) King Faisal
C) King Salman
D) King Abdullah
Answer: A - The founder of United Arab Emirates was:
A) Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
B) Sheikh Rashid
C) Sheikh Mohammed
D) None of these
Answer: A - The founder of modern Turkey Republic is:
A) Suleiman
B) Atatürk
C) Erdogan
D) Abdul Hamid
Answer: B - The founder of modern Afghanistan monarchy reforms was:
A) Amanullah Khan
B) Zahir Shah
C) Taliban
D) Daoud Khan
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan cricket world cup winning team (1992) was captain:
A) Imran Khan
B) Wasim Akram
C) Javed Miandad
D) Inzamam-ul-Haq
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan missile scientist program is:
A) Samar Mubarakmand
B) Dr. Qadeer Khan
C) Ishfaq Ahmad
D) Abdul Salam
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan nuclear test leadership (1998) was:
A) Nawaz Sharif
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Pervez Musharraf
D) Zia-ul-Haq
Answer: A - The founder of NATO was:
A) USA and USSR
B) Western allies (US, UK, France etc.)
C) Germany only
D) China
Answer: B - The first Secretary-General of NATO was:
A) Lord Ismay
B) Churchill
C) Eisenhower
D) Truman
Answer: A - The founder of European Union idea was:
A) Jean Monnet
B) Churchill
C) Napoleon
D) Hitler
Answer: A - The first President of European Commission was:
A) Walter Hallstein
B) Ursula von der Leyen
C) Juncker
D) Prodi
Answer: A - The founder of United Nations Human Rights Declaration was:
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Churchill
C) Stalin
D) Mao
Answer: A - The first Nobel Prize winner in physics was:
A) Roentgen
B) Einstein
C) Newton
D) Bohr
Answer: A - The discoverer of X-rays was:
A) Roentgen
B) Rutherford
C) Bohr
D) Curie
Answer: A - The discoverer of radioactivity was:
A) Marie Curie
B) Becquerel
C) Rutherford
D) All of these
Answer: D - The first woman Nobel laureate was:
A) Marie Curie
B) Mother Teresa
C) Malala
D) Rosalind Franklin
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan Supreme Law interpretation system was:
A) A.R. Cornelius
B) Muhammad Munir
C) Allama Iqbal
D) Liaquat Ali Khan
Answer: A - The first Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan after independence reforms was:
A) Khan F. A. Khan
B) Justice S. A. Rahman
C) Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
D) None
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan economic planning was:
A) Mahbub ul Haq
B) Ishrat Hussain
C) Ghulam Ishaq Khan
D) Dr. Salam
Answer: A - The founder of Human Development Index (HDI) was:
A) Mahbub ul Haq
B) Amartya Sen
C) Adam Smith
D) Keynes
Answer: A - The co-developer of HDI concept is:
A) Amartya Sen
B) Keynes
C) Marx
D) Friedman
Answer: A - The founder of modern microeconomics is:
A) Alfred Marshall
B) Adam Smith
C) Keynes
D) Ricardo
Answer: A - The author of “Wealth of Nations” is:
A) Adam Smith
B) Keynes
C) Marx
D) Friedman
Answer: A - The founder of Keynesian economics is:
A) Adam Smith
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Marx
D) Ricardo
Answer: B - The founder of communism revolution in Russia was:
A) Lenin
B) Stalin
C) Trotsky
D) Marx
Answer: A - The first leader of Soviet Union was:
A) Stalin
B) Lenin
C) Khrushchev
D) Gorbachev
Answer: B - The founder of Nazi Germany was:
A) Hitler
B) Goebbels
C) Himmler
D) Stalin
Answer: A - The founder of Fascism was:
A) Hitler
B) Mussolini
C) Franco
D) Stalin
Answer: B - The founder of modern Italy unification was:
A) Garibaldi
B) Cavour
C) Both A and B
D) Napoleon
Answer: C - The founder of modern Germany unification was:
A) Bismarck
B) Hitler
C) Kaiser Wilhelm
D) Adenauer
Answer: A - The founder of modern Japan reforms was:
A) Emperor Meiji
B) Hirohito
C) Tokugawa
D) Nobunaga
Answer: A - The founder of Buddhism spread to China was:
A) Bodhidharma
B) Confucius
C) Laozi
D) Sun Tzu
Answer: A - The founder of Confucianism was:
A) Confucius
B) Laozi
C) Buddha
D) Socrates
Answer: A - The founder of Taoism was:
A) Confucius
B) Laozi
C) Buddha
D) Plato
Answer: B - The founder of Islam’s first caliphate administration was:
A) Hazrat Umar (RA)
B) Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA)
C) Hazrat Ali (RA)
D) Hazrat Usman (RA)
Answer: B - The second caliph of Islam was:
A) Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA)
B) Hazrat Umar (RA)
C) Hazrat Usman (RA)
D) Hazrat Ali (RA)
Answer: B - The third caliph of Islam was:
A) Hazrat Usman (RA)
B) Hazrat Umar (RA)
C) Hazrat Ali (RA)
D) Hazrat Hassan (RA)
Answer: A - The fourth caliph of Islam was:
A) Hazrat Ali (RA)
B) Hazrat Usman (RA)
C) Hazrat Umar (RA)
D) Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA)
Answer: A - The founder of Umayyad Caliphate was:
A) Muawiya I
B) Yazid
C) Umar II
D) Abdul Malik
Answer: A - The founder of Abbasid Caliphate was:
A) Harun al-Rashid
B) Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah
C) Al-Mansur
D) Al-Ma’mun
Answer: B - The founder of Ottoman Caliphate expansion is:
A) Osman I
B) Mehmed II
C) Suleiman
D) Selim I
Answer: A - The founder of Mughal Empire India is:
A) Babur
B) Akbar
C) Humayun
D) Shah Jahan
Answer: A - The founder of Sikh Empire was:
A) Guru Nanak
B) Ranjit Singh
C) Gobind Singh
D) Arjan Dev
Answer: B - The founder of Maurya Empire was:
A) Ashoka
B) Chandragupta Maurya
C) Bindusara
D) Harsha
Answer: B - The founder of Gupta Empire was:
A) Chandragupta I
B) Samudragupta
C) Ashoka
D) Harsha
Answer: A