Famous Personalities & Founders Questions with Solutions
This topic covers famous personalities from India and the world: leaders, reformers, scientists, entrepreneurs and their nicknames, along with the founders of organisations, companies, institutions, religions and movements. Questions often use popular titles such as 'Iron Man of India' (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel) or 'Nightingale of India' (Sarojini Naidu), or ask who founded an organisation, such as the Ramakrishna Mission (Swami Vivekananda). Grouping people by field and by title makes revision faster and helps you spot wrong options. Practise the famous personalities questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.
- Q21.
The famous cartoonist Mario de Miranda was from which state?
A. KeralaB. GoaC. KarnatakaD. MaharashtramediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q22.
Tanguturi Prakasam was popularly known as:
A. Andhra RatnaB. Andhra KesariC. DesabhaktaD. Andhra BhojamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q23.
Jayaprakash Narayan was popularly known as:
A. RajarshiB. DeshbandhuC. Lok NayakD. NetajieasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q24.
Which Indian politician was popularly known as 'Babuji'?
A. Rajendra PrasadB. Jagjivan RamC. Lal Bahadur ShastriD. Charan SinghmediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q25.
On which date was Mother Teresa canonised as a saint by Pope Francis?
A. 10 December 1979B. 19 October 2003C. 4 September 2016D. 5 September 1997mediumAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q26.
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai was built by:
A. Ratanji TataB. J. R. D. TataC. Dorabji TataD. Jamsetji TataeasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q27.
Who is known as the 'Milkman of India'?
A. Norman BorlaugB. Tribhuvandas PatelC. Verghese KurienD. M. S. SwaminathaneasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q28.
India Gate in New Delhi was designed by the architect:
A. George WittetB. Robert Tor RussellC. Herbert BakerD. Edwin LutyenseasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q29.
What was the real name of the Hindi-Urdu writer Munshi Premchand?
A. Dhanpat Rai SrivastavaB. Ghanshyam Das GuptaC. Nawab Rai SaxenaD. Sahib Singh VermaeasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q30.
Who was the first Indian woman to win the Miss Universe title?
A. Harnaaz SandhuB. Lara DuttaC. Sushmita SenD. Aishwarya RaieasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q31.
Who was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World crown?
A. Aishwarya RaiB. Persis KhambattaC. Zeenat AmanD. Reita FariaeasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q32.
The Hindi poet Mahadevi Verma is often called:
A. The modern MeeraB. The Nightingale of IndiaC. The Queen of MelodyD. The Mother of Hindi poetrymediumAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q33.
The 'Nanhi Kali' project for the education of underprivileged girls was launched in 1996 by:
A. Sudha MurtyB. Anand MahindraC. Azim PremjiD. Ratan TatamediumAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q34.
Who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006?
A. Ban Ki-moonB. Kofi AnnanC. Boutros Boutros-GhaliD. Javier Pérez de CuéllareasyAsked in RailwayView solution › - Q35.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in 2009 in which field?
A. Physiology or MedicineB. PhysicsC. ChemistryD. EconomicseasyAsked in PoliceView solution › - Q36.
The Vaishnava saint and reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in:
A. Puri, OdishaB. Nadia (Nabadwip), West BengalC. Majuli, AssamD. Vrindavan, Uttar PradeshmediumAsked in PoliceView solution › - Q37.
The name of the mystic poetess Lal Ded (Lalleshwari) is associated with:
A. KarnatakaB. MaharashtraC. RajasthanD. KashmireasyAsked in PoliceView solution › - Q38.
Who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army after independence?
A. Sam ManekshawB. Rajendrasinhji JadejaC. K. S. ThimayyaD. K. M. CariappaeasyAsked in PoliceView solution › - Q39.
Who was the first Indian to head the Indian Air Force as Chief of the Air Staff?
A. Arjan SinghB. Idris Hasan LatifC. Subroto MukerjeeD. Aspy EngineermediumAsked in PoliceView solution › - Q40.
The singer and composer Bhupen Hazarika belonged to which state?
A. AssamB. ManipurC. West BengalD. MeghalayaeasyAsked in PoliceView solution ›