CBSE Class 8 English Famous Personalities MCQs

FAMOUS PERSONALITIES

Question. Name this Indian Tennis player who has turned Hollywood filmmaker?
A) Leander Paes
B) Mahesh Bhupathi
C)Vijay Amritraj
D)Ashok Amritraj

Answer: D

Question. With what honour has Dr. Kalam been decorated, the highest honour that an Indian citizen can receive?
A)Arjuna Award
B)Padma Bhushan
C)The Bharat Ratna
D)Padma Vibhushan

Answer: C

Question. What is the full form of the "APJ" in Dr. Kalam's name?
A)Ahmed Panthwawala Jain
B) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen
C) Ali Ponnuswamy Jampiru
D) Akbar Panneer Jalant

Answer: B

Question. The theatre with which Shakespeare is most closely associated is the...?
A)National Advancement
B) Monarch
C) Globe
D) Thespian

Answer: C

Question. Exactly how many plays did Shakespeare write?
A) 29
B) 46
C) 40
D) 37

Answer: D

Question. The disappearance of which famous queen of fiction led to a nationwide search?
A) Agatha Christie
B) J K Rowling
C) Sarojini Naidu
D) Louisa M Allcott

Answer: A

Question. Mohandas Gandhi, later called Mahatma, was born in Gujarat, India in 1869. When he was 19, he went to England to study at University College, London (UCL). What did Gandhi study in England?
A) Political Science
B) Poetry
C) Law
D) Dentistry

Answer: C

Question. Who was the first to command the Indian navy?
A) Kartik
B) Katari
C) Katira
D) Krutari

Answer: B

Question. Who was the first Muslim lady to sit in the throne of Delhi?
A) Noorjehan
B) Razia Riaz Monnera
C) Iltumisha
D) Sultana Razia Begum

Answer: D

Question. Who was the first person in India to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Nowroji
B) CV Raman
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Chandrasekhar

Answer: C

Question. Florence became famous as "The Lady with the Lamp", looking after wounded British soldiers in which war?
A) Franco-Prussian War
B) Afghan War
C) Crimean War
D) Boxer Rebellion

Answer: C

Question. Disgraced cricketer Ajay Jadeja is the son-in-law of which politician?
A) Jaya Jaitley
B) V.P.Singh
C) Jaya Lalitha
D) Jaya Prada

Answer: A

Question. Which is the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Theresa?
A) Nirmal Hriday
B) Shishu Bhavan
C) Asha Sadan
D) Shanti Nagar

Answer: A

Question. The 'Satyagraha Ashram' was founded in 1921 at Wardha in Maharashtra by...?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jamnalal Bajaj
C) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
D) Mother Teresa

Answer: B

Question. Who, in collaboration with the Japanese, started the 'Indian National Army', in the hope of expelling the British from India?
A) Gandhi
B) Tantia Tope
C) Bhagat Singh
D) Subhash Chandra Bose

Answer: D

Question. Rabindra Nath Tagore composed the National Anthem of...
A) India
B) Bangla Desh
C) India & BanglaDesh
D) India and Nepal

Answer: C

Question. Who is the founder of Advita philosophy?
A) Swami Vivekananda
B) Basaveshwara
C) Adi Shankaracharya
D) Sri Ramanujacharya

Answer: C

Question. Who is the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice?
A) Madame Cama
B) Madam Curie
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Mother Teresa

Answer: B

Question. Which Asian leader was called “the little frown saint”?
A) Dalai lama
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Kemal Pasha
D) Gandhi

Answer: D

Question. Name the first man or men to reach the North Pole?
A) Robert Peary
B) Edmund Hillary
C) Tensing Norway
D) Yuri Gagarin 

Answer: A