1. When did Sean MacBride get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1963
b) 1974
c) 1985
d) 1978
2. When was Sean MacBride born?
a) 26 January 1904
b) 21 April 1906
c) 14 September 1908
d) 16 October 1903
3. Where was Sean MacBride born?
a) Belfast
b) Cork
c) Paris
d) Armagh
1) When was John Keats born?
a) 22 June 1750
b) 16 August 1785
c) 31 October 1795
d) 31 December 1800
2) Where was John Keats born?
a) Paris
b) Berlin
c) Moscow
d) London
3) Which school did John Keats attend?
a) St. Peter’s School
b) Gable School
c) Clarke School
d) St. Albert’s School
1. When did Himachal Pradesh become a state?
a) 25 January 1971
b) 25 June 1964
c) 7 July 1982
d) 1 November 1956
2. Which state is to the north of Himachal Pradesh?
a) Rajasthan
b) Nagaland
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Tripura
3. Which state is to the south of Himachal Pradesh?
a) Bihar
b) Haryana
c) Sikkim
d) West Bengal
1) Who are credited with the discovery of Neptune?
a) Adams and Le Verrier
b) Hubble and Slipher
c) Lowell and Kelvin
d) Newton and Kepler
2) Galileo had observed Neptune. What did he think of it?
a) Satellite
b) Meteor
c) Asteroid
d) Star
3) Which is the outermost ring of Neptune?
a) Adams
b) Galatea
c) Leverrier
d) Galle
(This quiz is about Victor Alexander John Hope, also known as Lord Linlithgow.)
1. When was Victor Hope viceroy of India?
a) 1943-1947
b) 1936-1943
c) 1916-1921
d) 1905-1910
2. When was Victor Hope born?
a) 17 March 1898
b) 6 April 1892
c) 24 September 1887
d) 11 November 1884
3. Where was Victor Hope born?
a) Abercorn
b) Winchester
c) Belfast
d) Dover
1) When was Rembrandt van Rijn born?
a) 19 March 1554
b) 16 May 1624
c) 15 July 1606
d) 5 December 1636
2) Where was Rembrandt van Rijn born?
a) Leiden
b) Brussels
c) Copenhagen
d) Helsinki
3) Which university did Rembrandt van Rijn attend?
a) Amsterdam University
b) Leiden University
c) Rotterdam University
d) Brussels University
1. When was Samuel Phillips Huntington born?
a) 21 February 1915
b) 18 April 1927
c) 23 August 1929
d) 30 November 1922
2. Where was Samuel Phillips Huntington born?
a) New York
b) Chicago
c) Saigon
d) Los Angeles
3. From which university did Samuel Phillips Huntington get doctorate in 1951?
a) Columbia
b) Harvard
c) Yale
d) Princeton
(This quiz about Alexander III of Macedon (Macedonia) aka Alexander the Great who lived in 4th century BC.)
1) Who of the following philosophers taught Alexander?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Heraclitus
2) What was Bucephalus?
a) Alexander’s cat
b) Alexander’s dog
c) Alexander’s horse
d) Alexander’s parrot
3) How old was Alexander when he became king?
a) 10 years
b) 15 years
c) 20 years
d) 40 years
1) Which date is considered the founding of FBI?
a) 4 July 1901
b) 24 June 1903
c) 26 July 1908
d) 16 August 1910
2) What is the FBI motto?
a) Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
b) Purity, Charity, Duty
c) Poverty, Chastity, Obedience
d) Charity, Unity, Fraternity
3) Where are the headquarters of FBI?
a) Philadelphia
b) New York
c) Washington DC
d) New Orleans
1) When was Yuri Andropov born?
a) 31 January 1901
b) 15 June 1914
c) 14 August 1912
d) 21 December 1916
2) Where was Yuri Andropov born?
a) Talinn
b) Nagutskoye
c) Helsinki
d) Warsaw
3) On which river did Yuri Andropov work as a boatman?
a) Thames
b) Danube
c) Rhine
d) Volga