Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni (973-1048) was one of the well-known figures associated with the court of:
A. Mahmood Gauri
B. Sultan Mahmood Ghazni
C. Akbar the great
D. None of them
Answer
Correct Answer: A. Mahmood Gauri
Earnest Hemingway was awarded Nobel Prize for:
A. Chemistry
B. Physics
C. History
D. Literature
Answer
Correct Answer: D. Literature
Democrat Barack Obama defeated which republican presidential candidate in 2008?
A. Joe Biden
B. Nancy Palsy
C. John McCain
D. Bill Clinton
Answer
Correct Answer: C. John McCain
Willian Shakespeare is the greatest Playwright in European literature. In which category do his plays fall?
A. Comedies
B. Tragedies
C. History
D. All of the above
Answer
Correct Answer: D. All of the above
Which of the following was a Muslim Jurist and theologian whose systemization of Islamic legal doctrine was acknowledge as one of the four Islamic School of law which are followed in Pakistan, India, Turkey and Central Asia?
A. Abu Hanifa
B. Abu Hambal
C. Abu Zakria
D. Abu Hamid
Answer
Correct Answer: A. Abu Hanifa
Name the Muslim mathematician and physicist who made the first significant contributions to optical theory since the time of Ptolemy?
A. Ibn-Al-Haytham
B. Ibn Baitar
C. Al-Kindi
D. Al-Biruni
Answer
Correct Answer: A. Ibn-Al-Haytham
Name the greatest Muslim scientist who collected herbs from Spain to Syria and wrote an outstanding book “Kitab al Jami fi Adwiya al Mufrada”.
A. Al-Razi
B. Ibn-Baitar
C. Al-Farabi
D. Ibn-Hazm
Answer
Correct Answer: B. Ibn-Baitar
Alfred Bernhard Noble who created a trust for the award of five annual prizes of about late on 8000 each which were later on called Nobel Prizes was himself a scientist who invented?
A. Chronometer
B. Dynamo
C. Carburetor
D. Dynamite
Answer
Correct Answer: D. Dynamite
Name the American President Who had to resign when it became clear that the was about to be impeached and convicted by congress:
A. Ulysses S. Grand
B. William McKinley
C. Richard Nixon
D. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Answer
Correct Answer: C. Richard Nixon
Name the English mathematician who first stated the laws of gravitation and light:
A. Isaac Newton
B. Richard Gatling
C. Jhones Elva Addison
D. Edwin Armstrong
Answer
Correct Answer: A. Isaac Newton