Q 1 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Technology Pioneers
Who invented the World Wide Web?
View answer & explanation Ans: Tim Berners-Lee
Correct Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989.
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PMS 2026 GK Famous Personalities Practice Set (Q151–200) Solved MCQs
Solved PMS 2026 GK famous personalities practice set Q151–200: Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Jeff Bezos, Amundsen, Hillary, Sadat, Harvey, Freud, Wundt, Plato, Socrates, Alexander, Babur, Shah Jahan, Atatürk, Balboa, Tereshkova, Bandaranaike, Marx, Darwin, Thomson, Chadwick, Rutherford, Dalton, Lavoisier, Mendeleev, Hippocrates, Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Khaldun, Herodotus, Trygve Lie, Adam Smith, Watt, Tabei, Marconi, Banting, Baird, Leeuwenhoek, Ebadi, Faraday and Obaid-Chinoy, with verified answers and explanations. A Sir Adnan practice set, not an official past paper.
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Sir Adnan's 'Famous Personalities (GK) PMS GK' booklet (19 pp, header 'ONE-LINER 500- (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2025-26)') from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack. It prints 300 one-liners; this file publishes Q151–200 (Berners-Lee through Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy), with authored distractors under the 2026-10-28 single-format decision. All 50 answers verified as standard facts; 2 corrections (Q156 first Muslim Nobel laureate: Anwar Sadat, 1978, not the booklet's Abdus Salam; Q196 first Muslim woman Nobel laureate: Shirin Ebadi, 2003, not the booklet's Tawakkol Karman) and 6 note flags (Q152, Q173, Q186, Q190, Q193, Q195). Q201–300 remain for later runs.
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PMS 2026 GK Famous Personalities Practice Set (Q151–200)
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General Knowledge
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Topic Section
Famous Personalities — Technology Pioneers
3 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 2 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Technology Pioneers
Who is called the father of the internet?
View answer & explanation Ans: Vint Cerf
Correct Answer: Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf is conventionally called the father of the internet for co-developing the TCP/IP protocols on which the internet runs.
Q 3 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Technology Pioneers
Who founded Amazon?
View answer & explanation Ans: Jeff Bezos
Correct Answer: Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore, later the world's largest online retailer.
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Famous Personalities — Explorers And Adventurers
3 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 4 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Explorers And Adventurers
Who was the first man to reach the South Pole?
View answer & explanation Ans: Roald Amundsen
Correct Answer: Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911, ahead of Robert Falcon Scott's party.
Q 5 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Explorers And Adventurers
Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest?
View answer & explanation Ans: Edmund Hillary
Correct Answer: Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953, climbing with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
Q 20 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Explorers And Adventurers
Who discovered America's Pacific coast?
View answer & explanation Ans: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Correct Answer: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean in September 1513.
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Famous Personalities — Nobel Laureates
2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 6 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Nobel Laureates
Who was the first Muslim Nobel Laureate?
View answer & explanation Ans: Anwar Sadat
Correct Answer: Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, the first Muslim Nobel laureate.
Q 46 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Nobel Laureates
Who was the first Muslim woman Nobel Laureate?
View answer & explanation Ans: Shirin Ebadi
Correct Answer: Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, the first Muslim woman Nobel laureate.
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Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
17 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 7 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who discovered blood circulation?
View answer & explanation Ans: William Harvey
Correct Answer: William Harvey
William Harvey described the circulation of blood in 'De Motu Cordis' (1628).
Q 24 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who founded the theory of evolution?
View answer & explanation Ans: Charles Darwin
Correct Answer: Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin founded the theory of evolution by natural selection in 'On the Origin of Species' (1859).
Q 25 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who discovered the electron?
View answer & explanation Ans: J.J. Thomson
Correct Answer: J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897 through his cathode-ray experiments.
Q 26 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who discovered the neutron?
View answer & explanation Ans: James Chadwick
Correct Answer: James Chadwick
James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932.
Q 27 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who discovered the proton?
View answer & explanation Ans: Ernest Rutherford
Correct Answer: Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford identified the proton in 1917-1920 through his nuclear experiments.
Q 28 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who proposed atomic theory?
View answer & explanation Ans: John Dalton
Correct Answer: John Dalton
John Dalton proposed the modern atomic theory in the early 1800s: matter is made of indivisible atoms.
Q 29 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who is known as the father of chemistry?
View answer & explanation Ans: Antoine Lavoisier
Correct Answer: Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier is conventionally called the father of modern chemistry for the law of conservation of mass and his chemical nomenclature.
Q 30 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who discovered the periodic table?
View answer & explanation Ans: Dmitri Mendeleev
Correct Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev published the periodic table of the elements in 1869.
Q 31 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who is known as the father of medicine?
View answer & explanation Ans: Hippocrates
Correct Answer: Hippocrates
Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BC) is conventionally called the father of medicine for separating medicine from superstition.
Q 32 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who is called the father of surgery?
View answer & explanation Ans: Al-Zahrawi
Correct Answer: Al-Zahrawi
Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis, 936-1013), the Andalusian surgeon, is conventionally called the father of surgery for his 'Kitab al-Tasrif' and surgical instruments.
Q 40 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who invented the steam engine?
View answer & explanation Ans: James Watt
Correct Answer: James Watt
James Watt patented his improved steam engine in 1769, the design that powered the Industrial Revolution.
Q 42 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who invented radio?
View answer & explanation Ans: Guglielmo Marconi
Correct Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi developed practical wireless telegraphy in the 1890s and is conventionally credited with inventing radio.
Q 43 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who discovered insulin?
View answer & explanation Ans: Frederick Banting
Correct Answer: Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1921, making diabetes treatable.
Q 44 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who invented television?
View answer & explanation Ans: John Logie Baird
Correct Answer: John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television system in 1926.
Q 45 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who invented the microscope?
View answer & explanation Ans: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Correct Answer: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek built powerful single-lens microscopes in the 1670s and first observed bacteria and other micro-organisms.
Q 48 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who invented the electric generator?
View answer & explanation Ans: Michael Faraday
Correct Answer: Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday built the first electromagnetic generator (the Faraday disk) in 1831.
Q 49 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Inventors
Who is known as the father of electromagnetism?
View answer & explanation Ans: Michael Faraday
Correct Answer: Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday is conventionally called the father of electromagnetism for discovering electromagnetic induction in 1831.
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Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Philosophers
5 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Philosophers
Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?
View answer & explanation Ans: Sigmund Freud
Correct Answer: Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis in the 1890s, with its theories of the unconscious, dreams and childhood development.
Q 9 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Philosophers
Who is known as the father of modern psychology?
View answer & explanation Ans: Wilhelm Wundt
Correct Answer: Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt founded the first experimental psychology laboratory at Leipzig in 1879 and is conventionally called the father of modern psychology.
Q 10 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Philosophers
Who wrote 'The Republic'?
View answer & explanation Ans: Plato
Correct Answer: Plato
Plato wrote 'The Republic' (c. 375 BC), his dialogue on justice and the ideal state.
Q 11 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Philosophers
Who was the teacher of Plato?
View answer & explanation Ans: Socrates
Correct Answer: Socrates
Socrates (469-399 BC) was Plato's teacher; Plato's dialogues record Socrates' philosophy.
Q 23 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Philosophers
Who wrote 'The Communist Manifesto'?
View answer & explanation Ans: Karl Marx
Correct Answer: Karl Marx
Karl Marx wrote 'The Communist Manifesto' (1848), the founding text of Marxism.
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Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
9 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 12 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who was the student of Aristotle?
View answer & explanation Ans: Alexander the Great
Correct Answer: Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle as a youth in Macedon before becoming king in 336 BC.
Q 13 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who conquered most of the known world by age 30?
View answer & explanation Ans: Alexander the Great
Correct Answer: Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great had conquered an empire stretching from Greece to India by his death at age 32 in 323 BC.
Q 14 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who founded the Mughal Empire?
View answer & explanation Ans: Babur
Correct Answer: Babur
Babur founded the Mughal Empire after defeating Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526.
Q 15 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who built the Taj Mahal?
View answer & explanation Ans: Shah Jahan
Correct Answer: Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal at Agra (1632-1653) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Q 16 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who was the last Mughal Emperor?
View answer & explanation Ans: Bahadur Shah Zafar
Correct Answer: Bahadur Shah Zafar
Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, was deposed and exiled after the 1857 uprising.
Q 17 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who founded the Ottoman Empire?
View answer & explanation Ans: Osman I
Correct Answer: Osman I
Osman I founded the Ottoman state in Anatolia around 1299; the empire is named after him.
Q 18 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who abolished the Khilafat in Turkey?
View answer & explanation Ans: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Correct Answer: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk abolished the Ottoman caliphate in March 1924 as part of Turkey's secular reforms.
Q 19 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who was the founder of Saudi Arabia?
View answer & explanation Ans: King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
Correct Answer: King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud unified the Arabian Peninsula and founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
Q 47 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Empires
Who is known as the father of modern Turkey?
View answer & explanation Ans: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Correct Answer: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 and is conventionally called the father of modern Turkey.
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Famous Personalities — Women Pioneers
4 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 21 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Women Pioneers
Who was the first female astronaut?
View answer & explanation Ans: Valentina Tereshkova
Correct Answer: Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963.
Q 22 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Women Pioneers
Who was the first woman Prime Minister in the world?
View answer & explanation Ans: Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Correct Answer: Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1960, the world's first woman prime minister.
Q 41 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Women Pioneers
Who was the first woman to climb Everest twice?
View answer & explanation Ans: Junko Tabei
Correct Answer: Junko Tabei
Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb Mount Everest (1975) and climbed it again in 1992.
Q 50 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Women Pioneers
Who was the first Pakistani woman to win an Oscar?
View answer & explanation Ans: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Correct Answer: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won Academy Awards for the documentaries 'Saving Face' (2012) and 'A Girl in the River' (2016), the first Pakistani to win an Oscar.
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Famous Personalities — Writers And Historians
2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 33 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Writers And Historians
Who wrote 'Muqaddimah'?
View answer & explanation Ans: Ibn Khaldun
Correct Answer: Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun wrote the 'Muqaddimah' (1377), his introduction to history and the study of civilisations.
Q 34 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Writers And Historians
Who is known as the father of historiography?
View answer & explanation Ans: Herodotus
Correct Answer: Herodotus
Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC) is conventionally called the father of history for his systematic inquiry into past events.
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Famous Personalities — International Organisations
3 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 35 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — International Organisations
Who was the first Secretary-General of the UN?
View answer & explanation Ans: Trygve Lie
Correct Answer: Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie of Norway was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations (1946-1952).
Q 36 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — International Organisations
Who founded the United Nations?
View answer & explanation Ans: 51 Allied Nations
Correct Answer: 51 Allied Nations
The United Nations was founded by its 51 original member states, which signed the UN Charter at San Francisco in 1945.
Q 37 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — International Organisations
Who was the first woman UN Secretary-General?
View answer & explanation Ans: None (yet)
Correct Answer: None (yet)
No woman has yet served as Secretary-General of the United Nations; all nine holders to date have been men.
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Famous Personalities — Economists
2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 38 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Economists
Who is known as the father of modern economics?
View answer & explanation Ans: Adam Smith
Correct Answer: Adam Smith
Adam Smith is conventionally called the father of modern economics for 'The Wealth of Nations' (1776).
Q 39 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Economists
Adam Smith wrote which famous book?
View answer & explanation Ans: Wealth of Nations
Correct Answer: Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith wrote 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' (1776).
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Is this an official PMS past paper? +
No. It is Sir Adnan's 'Famous Personalities (GK)' practice booklet from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack, published as paperType 'practice', never as a past paper. The year 2026 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
How many questions are in this set? +
50 questions (printed Q151–200 of the booklet's 300 one-liners). Q1–150 were published in earlier runs; Q201–300 remain for later runs in the same chunk pattern.
Which personalities does Q151–200 cover? +
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Jeff Bezos, Roald Amundsen, Edmund Hillary, Anwar Sadat, William Harvey, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Wundt, Plato, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Babur, Shah Jahan, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Osman I, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Valentina Tereshkova, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, J.J. Thomson, James Chadwick, Ernest Rutherford, John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, Dmitri Mendeleev, Hippocrates, Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Khaldun, Herodotus, Trygve Lie, Adam Smith, James Watt, Junko Tabei, Guglielmo Marconi, Frederick Banting, John Logie Baird, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Shirin Ebadi, Michael Faraday and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Are the answers verified? +
Yes. Every answer was checked as a standard fact; the booklet prints statement + answer only, so the three distractors per question are authored under the 2026-10-28 single-format decision (optionsSource 'authored'). Two booklet answers were corrected to the standard answer and flagged: Q156 first Muslim Nobel laureate is Anwar Sadat (1978), not Abdus Salam (first Muslim science laureate, 1979); Q196 first Muslim woman Nobel laureate is Shirin Ebadi (2003), not Tawakkol Karman (2011).