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- The first explorer to reach the South Pole was:
A) Roald Amundsen
B) Robert Scott
C) Ernest Shackleton
D) Marco Polo
Answer: A - The first explorer to reach the North Pole is widely credited as:
A) Robert Peary
B) Roald Amundsen
C) James Cook
D) Vasco da Gama
Answer: A - The founder of the theory of relativity (special/general) also developed:
A) Quantum theory
B) Brownian motion explanation
C) Atomic bomb
D) Periodic table
Answer: B - The discoverer of insulin was:
A) Alexander Fleming
B) Frederick Banting
C) Edward Jenner
D) Louis Pasteur
Answer: B - The co-discoverer of insulin with Banting was:
A) Charles Best
B) James Watson
C) Francis Crick
D) Robert Koch
Answer: A - The inventor of telephone exchange system was:
A) Alexander Graham Bell
B) Thomas Edison
C) Almon Strowger
D) Nikola Tesla
Answer: C - The founder of modern nursing education system was:
A) Clara Barton
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Mary Seacole
D) Edith Cavell
Answer: B - The founder of modern Red Crescent movement in Muslim world is linked to:
A) Osman II
B) Abdul Hamid II
C) Suleiman
D) Atatürk
Answer: B - The first woman Prime Minister of Sri Lanka was:
A) Chandrika Kumaratunga
B) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Sheikh Hasina
Answer: B - The first female President of Sri Lanka was:
A) Chandrika Kumaratunga
B) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C) Gotabaya Rajapaksa
D) Maithripala Sirisena
Answer: A - The founder of modern Burma (Myanmar) independence movement was:
A) Aung San
B) U Nu
C) Ne Win
D) Suu Kyi
Answer: A - The first State Counsellor of Myanmar was:
A) Aung San
B) Aung San Suu Kyi
C) Ne Win
D) Than Shwe
Answer: B - The founder of modern Israel defense forces ideology was:
A) Golda Meir
B) David Ben-Gurion
C) Herzl
D) Rabin
Answer: B - The founder of modern Jordan monarchy was:
A) King Abdullah I
B) King Hussein
C) King Abdullah II
D) Sharif Hussein
Answer: A - The founder of Saudi Arabia oil state development was:
A) King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
B) King Faisal
C) King Salman
D) King Fahd
Answer: A - The founder of OPEC (key initiator from Venezuela) was:
A) Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo
B) Hugo Chávez
C) Simón Bolívar
D) Fidel Castro
Answer: A - The first Secretary-General of OPEC was:
A) Abdullah Tariki
B) Mohammed Barkindo
C) Subroto
D) Alirio Parra
Answer: A - The founder of modern Angola independence movement was:
A) Agostinho Neto
B) Jonas Savimbi
C) Eduardo dos Santos
D) Mandela
Answer: A - The founder of modern South Africa democracy is widely credited to:
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Desmond Tutu
C) Both A and B
D) F.W. de Klerk
Answer: C - The first black President of South Africa was:
A) Thabo Mbeki
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Jacob Zuma
D) Cyril Ramaphosa
Answer: B - The founder of Apple Macintosh project was:
A) Steve Jobs
B) Steve Wozniak
C) Jef Raskin
D) Bill Gates
Answer: C - The founder of Microsoft Windows concept development was:
A) Steve Jobs
B) Bill Gates
C) Paul Allen
D) Tim Cook
Answer: B - The founder of Linux kernel is:
A) Linus Torvalds
B) Richard Stallman
C) Dennis Ritchie
D) Ken Thompson
Answer: A - The founder of C programming language is:
A) Dennis Ritchie
B) Bjarne Stroustrup
C) James Gosling
D) Guido van Rossum
Answer: A - The co-creator of UNIX system was:
A) Ken Thompson
B) Dennis Ritchie
C) Both A and B
D) Bill Gates
Answer: C - The founder of Java programming language is:
A) James Gosling
B) Dennis Ritchie
C) Bjarne Stroustrup
D) Linus Torvalds
Answer: A - The founder of Python programming language is:
A) Guido van Rossum
B) Dennis Ritchie
C) James Gosling
D) Elon Musk
Answer: A - The founder of Facebook parent company Meta is:
A) Mark Zuckerberg
B) Bill Gates
C) Larry Page
D) Jack Dorsey
Answer: A - The founder of Google DeepMind is:
A) Demis Hassabis
B) Larry Page
C) Sergey Brin
D) Sundar Pichai
Answer: A - The CEO of Google (Alphabet) is:
A) Sundar Pichai
B) Larry Page
C) Sergey Brin
D) Eric Schmidt
Answer: A - The founder of OpenAI is:
A) Elon Musk
B) Sam Altman
C) Both A and B (plus others)
D) Bill Gates
Answer: C - The founder of SpaceX rocket reusability success leadership is:
A) Elon Musk
B) Jeff Bezos
C) Richard Branson
D) NASA
Answer: A - The founder of Blue Origin is:
A) Elon Musk
B) Jeff Bezos
C) Bill Gates
D) Mark Zuckerberg
Answer: B - The founder of Virgin Group is:
A) Richard Branson
B) Elon Musk
C) Jeff Bezos
D) Steve Jobs
Answer: A - The founder of Wikipedia foundation is:
A) Jimmy Wales
B) Larry Sanger
C) Both A and B
D) Elon Musk
Answer: C - The founder of Tesla Motors engineering innovation includes:
A) Elon Musk
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Henry Ford
D) Thomas Edison
Answer: A - The inventor of radioactivity term is:
A) Marie Curie
B) Henri Becquerel
C) Rutherford
D) Bohr
Answer: B - The discoverer of radium was:
A) Marie Curie
B) Pierre Curie
C) Both A and B
D) Rutherford
Answer: C - The discoverer of proton nucleus model was:
A) Rutherford
B) Bohr
C) Thomson
D) Chadwick
Answer: A - The scientist who proposed heliocentric theory was:
A) Copernicus
B) Galileo
C) Kepler
D) Newton
Answer: A - The scientist who confirmed heliocentric theory observations was:
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Copernicus
C) Kepler
D) Einstein
Answer: A - The laws of planetary motion were given by:
A) Kepler
B) Newton
C) Galileo
D) Copernicus
Answer: A - The founder of calculus (co-inventor) is:
A) Newton
B) Leibniz
C) Both A and B
D) Euler
Answer: C - The founder of modern probability theory is:
A) Pascal
B) Fermat
C) Both A and B
D) Newton
Answer: C - The founder of modern statistics is:
A) Karl Pearson
B) Ronald Fisher
C) Both A and B
D) Gauss
Answer: C - The founder of Bell Laboratories innovations was:
A) Alexander Graham Bell
B) AT&T engineers
C) Tesla
D) Edison
Answer: B - The founder of IBM is:
A) Thomas Watson Sr.
B) Bill Gates
C) Steve Jobs
D) Larry Page
Answer: A - The founder of Intel microprocessor revolution was:
A) Gordon Moore
B) Robert Noyce
C) Both A and B
D) Steve Jobs
Answer: C - The founder of Dell Computers is:
A) Michael Dell
B) Bill Gates
C) Steve Jobs
D) Elon Musk
Answer: A - The founder of HP (Hewlett-Packard) is:
A) Bill Hewlett and David Packard
B) Steve Jobs
C) Larry Page
D) Elon Musk
Answer: A - The founder of Adobe Systems is:
A) Steve Jobs
B) John Warnock and Charles Geschke
C) Bill Gates
D) Larry Page
Answer: B - The founder of Intel co-inventor of Moore’s Law is:
A) Gordon Moore
B) Bill Gates
C) Steve Jobs
D) Elon Musk
Answer: A - The founder of modern economics “laissez-faire” idea is:
A) Adam Smith
B) Keynes
C) Marx
D) Ricardo
Answer: A - The founder of Marxist ideology co-author was:
A) Karl Marx
B) Friedrich Engels
C) Both A and B
D) Lenin
Answer: C - The founder of Russian Revolution ideology leadership was:
A) Lenin
B) Stalin
C) Trotsky
D) Marx
Answer: A - The founder of Stalinist USSR system was:
A) Lenin
B) Stalin
C) Khrushchev
D) Gorbachev
Answer: B - The founder of Cold War containment policy was:
A) Truman
B) Churchill
C) Stalin
D) Roosevelt
Answer: A - The author of Truman Doctrine was:
A) Harry Truman
B) George Marshall
C) Both A and B
D) Eisenhower
Answer: C - The founder of Marshall Plan was:
A) George Marshall
B) Truman
C) Eisenhower
D) Kennedy
Answer: A - The founder of NATO expansion strategy was:
A) Churchill
B) Truman administration
C) Stalin
D) Roosevelt
Answer: B - The founder of European Coal and Steel Community was:
A) Jean Monnet
B) Robert Schuman
C) Both A and B
D) Churchill
Answer: C - The founder of modern EU currency (Euro) concept was:
A) Jacques Delors
B) Jean Monnet
C) Churchill
D) Merkel
Answer: A - The first President of Russia Federation after USSR was:
A) Putin
B) Yeltsin
C) Gorbachev
D) Medvedev
Answer: B - The founder of modern China economic reforms was:
A) Mao
B) Deng Xiaoping
C) Xi Jinping
D) Sun Yat-sen
Answer: B - The founder of Pakistan nuclear scientist program leadership (scientific) was:
A) Dr. Abdus Salam
B) Dr. Samar Mubarakmand
C) Both A and B
D) Einstein
Answer: C - The founder of Pakistan missile program scientific head was:
A) Samar Mubarakmand
B) Abdus Salam
C) Newton
D) Edison
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan space satellite program early vision was:
A) Abdus Salam
B) Ishfaq Ahmad
C) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
D) All of these
Answer: D - The founder of Pakistan nuclear test decision 1998 was:
A) Nawaz Sharif
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Pervez Musharraf
D) Ayub Khan
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan constitution 1973 leadership was:
A) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
B) Liaquat Ali Khan
C) Ayub Khan
D) Jinnah
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan judiciary independence early chief was:
A) Muhammad Munir
B) Cornelius
C) Both A and B
D) Iqbal
Answer: C - The founder of Pakistan cricket 1992 World Cup captain was:
A) Imran Khan
B) Wasim Akram
C) Miandad
D) Inzamam
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan hockey dominance era captain was:
A) Hassan Sardar
B) Islahuddin Siddiqui
C) Samiullah
D) Shahbaz Ahmed
Answer: B - The founder of Pakistan squash world dominance was:
A) Jahangir Khan
B) Jansher Khan
C) Both A and B
D) None
Answer: C - The founder of Pakistan atomic scientist identity is:
A) Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
B) Abdus Salam
C) Ishfaq Ahmad
D) All of these
Answer: D - The founder of Pakistan Edhi ambulance service was:
A) Abdul Sattar Edhi
B) Bilquis Edhi
C) Both A and B
D) Imran Khan
Answer: C - The founder of Shaukat Khanum Hospital is:
A) Imran Khan
B) Edhi
C) Zia-ul-Haq
D) Nawaz Sharif
Answer: A - The founder of Namal University Pakistan is:
A) Imran Khan
B) Asif Ali Zardari
C) Nawaz Sharif
D) Benazir Bhutto
Answer: A - The founder of PTI political party is:
A) Imran Khan
B) Nawaz Sharif
C) Zardari
D) Benazir Bhutto
Answer: A - The founder of PPP political party is:
A) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Asif Zardari
D) Liaquat Ali Khan
Answer: A - The founder of PML-N major leadership is:
A) Nawaz Sharif
B) Zardari
C) Imran Khan
D) Jinnah
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan movement ideology revival is linked to:
A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
B) Allama Iqbal
C) Jinnah
D) All of these
Answer: D - The founder of Pakistan resolution 1940 leadership was:
A) Allama Iqbal
B) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
C) Liaquat Ali Khan
D) A.K. Fazlul Haq
Answer: D - The founder of Lahore Resolution is:
A) A.K. Fazlul Haq
B) Jinnah
C) Nehru
D) Gandhi
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan independence movement final leader was:
A) Jinnah
B) Iqbal
C) Sir Syed
D) Liaquat
Answer: A - The founder of modern journalism Pakistan pioneer is:
A) Hameed Nizami
B) Jinnah
C) Iqbal
D) Edhi
Answer: A - The founder of Pakistan Times newspaper was:
A) Mian Iftikharuddin
B) Jinnah
C) Liaquat
D) Bhutto
Answer: A - The founder of Urdu literature modern reform is:
A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
B) Mirza Ghalib
C) Faiz
D) Iqbal
Answer: A - The founder of Aligarh Muslim University movement continuation is:
A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
B) Jinnah
C) Liaquat
D) Iqbal
Answer: A - The founder of scientific revolution concept is:
A) Galileo
B) Newton
C) Copernicus
D) All of these
Answer: D - The founder of modern astronomy observation tools was:
A) Galileo
B) Kepler
C) Newton
D) Einstein
Answer: A - The founder of modern chemistry periodic law was:
A) Mendeleev
B) Dalton
C) Rutherford
D) Bohr
Answer: A - The founder of modern biology evolution theory was:
A) Darwin
B) Mendel
C) Lamarck
D) Wallace
Answer: A - The co-founder of evolution theory with Darwin was:
A) Wallace
B) Mendel
C) Newton
D) Einstein
Answer: A - The founder of modern computing theory was:
A) Alan Turing
B) John von Neumann
C) Both A and B
D) Tesla
Answer: C - The founder of modern architecture engineering is:
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Le Corbusier
C) Both A and B
D) Einstein
Answer: C - The founder of modern psychology behaviorism expansion was:
A) Skinner
B) Watson
C) Pavlov
D) All of these
Answer: D - The founder of classical conditioning theory was:
A) Pavlov
B) Skinner
C) Freud
D) Jung
Answer: A - The founder of operant conditioning theory was:
A) Skinner
B) Pavlov
C) Watson
D) Freud
Answer: A - The founder of modern economics macro theory was:
A) Keynes
B) Adam Smith
C) Marx
D) Ricardo
Answer: A - The founder of globalization modern theory concept is associated with:
A) Thomas Friedman
B) Keynes
C) Marx
D) Smith
Answer: A