Here are 50 World Quiz Questions on the topic Famous Personalities, with 4 options, correct answers marked, and suitable for general knowledge quizzes, school competitions, or competitive exams.


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🌍 World Famous Personalities Quiz (50 Questions)

1. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
A) Margaret Thatcher
B) Theresa May
C) Angela Merkel
D) Indira Gandhi
✅ Answer: A) Margaret Thatcher

2. Who is known as the ‘Father of the Nation’ in South Africa?
A) Jacob Zuma
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Desmond Tutu
D) Cyril Ramaphosa
✅ Answer: B) Nelson Mandela

3. Who discovered the theory of relativity?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Albert Einstein
D) Stephen Hawking
✅ Answer: C) Albert Einstein

4. Who was the first person to set foot on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldrin
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Yuri Gagarin
D) Michael Collins
✅ Answer: B) Neil Armstrong

5. Who painted the famous artwork “Mona Lisa”?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Michelangelo
✅ Answer: C) Leonardo da Vinci

6. Who was the first President of the United States?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) John Adams
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) George Washington
✅ Answer: D) George Washington

7. Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) William Shakespeare
C) Charles Dickens
D) Jane Austen
✅ Answer: B) William Shakespeare

8. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Mother Teresa
B) Marie Curie
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Ada Lovelace
✅ Answer: B) Marie Curie

9. Who is known for developing the iPhone?
A) Jeff Bezos
B) Steve Jobs
C) Elon Musk
D) Bill Gates
✅ Answer: B) Steve Jobs

10. Who is the founder of Facebook?
A) Elon Musk
B) Larry Page
C) Mark Zuckerberg
D) Sundar Pichai
✅ Answer: C) Mark Zuckerberg


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11. Who wrote “The Diary of a Young Girl”?
A) Helen Keller
B) Anne Frank
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Virginia Woolf
✅ Answer: B) Anne Frank

12. Who is the longest-reigning British monarch?
A) Queen Victoria
B) Queen Elizabeth I
C) Queen Elizabeth II
D) King George V
✅ Answer: C) Queen Elizabeth II

13. Who is called the ‘Iron Lady’ of India?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Sushma Swaraj
D) Pratibha Patil
✅ Answer: B) Indira Gandhi

14. Who discovered gravity?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Albert Einstein
C) Isaac Newton
D) Johannes Kepler
✅ Answer: C) Isaac Newton

15. Who was the first female Chancellor of Germany?
A) Angela Merkel
B) Ursula von der Leyen
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Simone Veil
✅ Answer: A) Angela Merkel

16. Who is known as the ‘Father of Modern Physics’?
A) Newton
B) Bohr
C) Galileo
D) Einstein
✅ Answer: D) Einstein

17. Who is known as the ‘Father of Computers’?
A) Charles Babbage
B) Alan Turing
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Steve Wozniak
✅ Answer: A) Charles Babbage

18. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for female education?
A) Benazir Bhutto
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Angela Merkel
D) Shirin Ebadi
✅ Answer: B) Malala Yousafzai

19. Who founded Microsoft?
A) Bill Gates
B) Steve Jobs
C) Larry Page
D) Mark Zuckerberg
✅ Answer: A) Bill Gates

20. Who was the first man in space?
A) Neil Armstrong
B) Yuri Gagarin
C) Alan Shepard
D) Buzz Aldrin
✅ Answer: B) Yuri Gagarin


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21. Who is known for the theory of evolution?
A) Gregor Mendel
B) Charles Darwin
C) Isaac Newton
D) Louis Pasteur
✅ Answer: B) Charles Darwin

22. Who is the spiritual leader of Tibet?
A) Karmapa
B) Dalai Lama
C) Pope Francis
D) Ram Dass
✅ Answer: B) Dalai Lama

23. Who was the first black President of the USA?
A) Jesse Jackson
B) Barack Obama
C) Colin Powell
D) Kamala Harris
✅ Answer: B) Barack Obama

24. Who invented the telephone?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Thomas Edison
D) Guglielmo Marconi
✅ Answer: B) Alexander Graham Bell

25. Who is known as the ‘Wizard of Menlo Park’?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Steve Jobs
C) Thomas Edison
D) Alexander Bell
✅ Answer: C) Thomas Edison

26. Who is the current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (as of 2025)?
A) Pope Benedict XVI
B) Pope Francis
C) Pope John Paul II
D) Pope Leo XIII
✅ Answer: B) Pope Francis

27. Who is the famous British naturalist and broadcaster known for wildlife documentaries?
A) Richard Attenborough
B) Steve Irwin
C) David Attenborough
D) Bear Grylls
✅ Answer: C) David Attenborough

28. Who is known as the founder of psychoanalysis?
A) Carl Jung
B) Jean Piaget
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Alfred Adler
✅ Answer: C) Sigmund Freud

29. Who led the Indian independence movement through non-violence?
A) Sardar Patel
B) Subhash Chandra Bose
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
✅ Answer: C) Mahatma Gandhi

30. Who was the founder of the Red Cross?
A) Florence Nightingale
B) Jean Henri Dunant
C) Clara Barton
D) Louis Pasteur
✅ Answer: B) Jean Henri Dunant


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31. Who is the author of “Harry Potter” series?
A) Suzanne Collins
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Stephanie Meyer
D) Agatha Christie
✅ Answer: B) J.K. Rowling

32. Who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX?
A) Jeff Bezos
B) Sundar Pichai
C) Elon Musk
D) Tim Cook
✅ Answer: C) Elon Musk

33. Who is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations (as of 2025)?
A) António Guterres
B) Ban Ki-moon
C) Kofi Annan
D) Kurt Waldheim
✅ Answer: A) António Guterres

34. Who was the first woman in space?
A) Sally Ride
B) Kalpana Chawla
C) Valentina Tereshkova
D) Mae Jemison
✅ Answer: C) Valentina Tereshkova

35. Who is the famous Argentinian footballer known as ‘La Pulga’?
A) Diego Maradona
B) Lionel Messi
C) Sergio Agüero
D) Angel Di Maria
✅ Answer: B) Lionel Messi

36. Who is known as the ‘Nightingale of Florence’?
A) Clara Barton
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Marie Curie
D) Annie Besant
✅ Answer: B) Florence Nightingale

37. Who is regarded as the greatest chess player of all time?
A) Vishwanathan Anand
B) Garry Kasparov
C) Bobby Fischer
D) Magnus Carlsen
✅ Answer: D) Magnus Carlsen

38. Who is the first woman Vice President of the United States?
A) Hillary Clinton
B) Nancy Pelosi
C) Kamala Harris
D) Elizabeth Warren
✅ Answer: C) Kamala Harris

39. Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?
A) Amelia Earhart
B) Valentina Tereshkova
C) Bessie Coleman
D) Sally Ride
✅ Answer: A) Amelia Earhart

40. Who is the Nobel Laureate economist known for his work on poverty and welfare?
A) Jeffrey Sachs
B) Paul Krugman
C) Amartya Sen
D) Joseph Stiglitz
✅ Answer: C) Amartya Sen


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41. Who developed the polio vaccine?
A) Edward Jenner
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Jonas Salk
D) Louis Pasteur
✅ Answer: C) Jonas Salk

42. Who is known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Myanmar?
A) Aung San Suu Kyi
B) Htin Kyaw
C) Win Myint
D) Thazin Hlaing
✅ Answer: A) Aung San Suu Kyi

43. Who composed the famous symphony “Beethoven’s 5th”?
A) Mozart
B) Tchaikovsky
C) Bach
D) Ludwig van Beethoven
✅ Answer: D) Ludwig van Beethoven

44. Who discovered penicillin?
A) Edward Jenner
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Robert Koch
✅ Answer: B) Alexander Fleming

45. Who is considered the first programmer in history?
A) Charles Babbage
B) Ada Lovelace
C) Alan Turing
D) John von Neumann
✅ Answer: B) Ada Lovelace

46. Who wrote “War and Peace”?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Alexander Pushkin
✅ Answer: A) Leo Tolstoy

47. Who is the current President of France (as of 2025)?
A) Nicolas Sarkozy
B) Emmanuel Macron
C) Francois Hollande
D) Marine Le Pen
✅ Answer: B) Emmanuel Macron

48. Who is considered the father of the Internet?
A) Bill Gates
B) Vint Cerf
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Steve Jobs
✅ Answer: B) Vint Cerf

49. Who is the founder of Amazon?
A) Larry Page
B) Elon Musk
C) Jeff Bezos
D) Jack Ma
✅ Answer: C) Jeff Bezos

50. Who wrote “The Republic”?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Cicero
✅ Answer: C) Plato




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51. Who was the famous Indian-born author of “Midnight’s Children”?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Chetan Bhagat
✅ Answer: B) Salman Rushdie

52. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Nikita Khrushchev
✅ Answer: B) Joseph Stalin

53. Who invented the World Wide Web?
A) Bill Gates
B) Steve Jobs
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Vint Cerf
✅ Answer: C) Tim Berners-Lee

54. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate?
A) Greta Thunberg
B) Kailash Satyarthi
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Nadia Murad
✅ Answer: C) Malala Yousafzai

55. Who is the famous martial artist who starred in “Enter the Dragon”?
A) Jackie Chan
B) Jet Li
C) Bruce Lee
D) Donnie Yen
✅ Answer: C) Bruce Lee

56. Who is known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’?
A) Florence Nightingale
B) Marie Curie
C) Helen Keller
D) Clara Barton
✅ Answer: A) Florence Nightingale

57. Who was the first African-American President of the USA?
A) Colin Powell
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Barack Obama
D) Jesse Jackson
✅ Answer: C) Barack Obama

58. Who was known as the ‘Desert Fox’ during World War II?
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Bernard Montgomery
C) Erwin Rommel
D) George Patton
✅ Answer: C) Erwin Rommel

59. Who led the Salt March in India’s independence struggle?
A) Subhash Chandra Bose
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Answer: D) Mahatma Gandhi


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