Q 1 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Abraham Lincoln was the President of?
View answer & explanation Ans: USA
Correct Answer: USA
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States (1861-1865).
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PMS 2026 GK Famous Personalities Practice Set (Q51–100) Solved MCQs
Solved PMS 2026 GK famous personalities practice set Q51–100: Lincoln, Washington, Napoleon, Churchill, Marx, Plato, Ibn Sina, Tipu Sultan, Darwin, Shakespeare, Armstrong, Atatürk, Benazir Bhutto, Edhi and more, 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 Q51–100 (Lincoln through Arfa Karim), with authored distractors under the 2026-10-28 single-format decision. All 50 answers verified as standard facts; one note flag (Marxism co-developed with Engels). Q101–300 remain for later runs.
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PMS 2026 GK Famous Personalities Practice Set (Q51–100)
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Subject 1
General Knowledge
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Topic Section
Famous Personalities — World Leaders
12 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 2 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Abraham Lincoln abolished?
View answer & explanation Ans: Slavery
Correct Answer: Slavery
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and the 13th Amendment (1865) abolished slavery in the United States.
Q 3 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
George Washington was the first President of?
View answer & explanation Ans: USA
Correct Answer: USA
George Washington was the first President of the United States (1789-1797).
Q 4 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte was a famous?
View answer & explanation Ans: Military leader
Correct Answer: Military leader
Napoleon Bonaparte was the French military leader and emperor who dominated Europe in the early 1800s.
Q 5 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Adolf Hitler was leader of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Nazi Germany
Correct Answer: Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany as Chancellor from 1933 and Führer from 1934 until 1945.
Q 6 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Adolf Hitler wrote which book?
View answer & explanation Ans: Mein Kampf
Correct Answer: Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf' ('My Struggle') while imprisoned in 1924-1925.
Q 7 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of?
View answer & explanation Ans: United Kingdom
Correct Answer: United Kingdom
Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1940-1945 and 1951-1955.
Q 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Winston Churchill led Britain during?
View answer & explanation Ans: World War II
Correct Answer: World War II
Churchill led Britain through most of World War II, from May 1940 to July 1945.
Q 37 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Che Guevara was a revolutionary from?
View answer & explanation Ans: Argentina
Correct Answer: Argentina
Che Guevara was born in Argentina and became a leading figure of the Cuban Revolution.
Q 38 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Fidel Castro was leader of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Cuba
Correct Answer: Cuba
Fidel Castro led Cuba from the 1959 revolution until 2008.
Q 39 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Ho Chi Minh was leader of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Vietnam
Correct Answer: Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese independence movement and North Vietnam.
Q 40 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — World Leaders
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded?
View answer & explanation Ans: Modern Turkey
Correct Answer: Modern Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 after abolishing the Ottoman sultanate.
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Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Economists
2 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 9 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Economists
Karl Marx was the founder of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Communism
Correct Answer: Communism
Karl Marx is conventionally called the founder of modern communism (Marxism), set out in the Communist Manifesto (1848).
Q 10 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Thinkers And Economists
Karl Marx wrote?
View answer & explanation Ans: Das Kapital
Correct Answer: Das Kapital
Marx's 'Das Kapital' (1867) is his major work on political economy and capitalism.
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Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
8 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 11 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Plato was a student of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Socrates
Correct Answer: Socrates
Plato was a student of Socrates and founded the Academy in Athens.
Q 12 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Aristotle was tutor of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Alexander the Great
Correct Answer: Alexander the Great
Aristotle tutored the young Alexander of Macedon, later Alexander the Great.
Q 13 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Confucius was a philosopher from?
View answer & explanation Ans: China
Correct Answer: China
Confucius (551-479 BC) was the Chinese philosopher whose teachings became Confucianism.
Q 14 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Ibn Sina is known in the West as?
View answer & explanation Ans: Avicenna
Correct Answer: Avicenna
The Persian polymath Ibn Sina (980-1037) is known in the Latin West as Avicenna.
Q 15 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Ibn Sina's famous book is?
View answer & explanation Ans: Canon of Medicine
Correct Answer: Canon of Medicine
Ibn Sina's 'Canon of Medicine' (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb) was a standard medical text for centuries.
Q 16 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Al-Khwarizmi is known as father of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Algebra
Correct Answer: Algebra
Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850) is conventionally called the father of algebra for his book 'Al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-Jabr wal-Muqabala'.
Q 17 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Ibn-e-Battuta was a famous?
View answer & explanation Ans: Traveler
Correct Answer: Traveler
Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) was the Moroccan traveller whose journeys across Asia and Africa fill the Rihla.
Q 22 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Philosophers And Scholars
Socrates was sentenced to death by?
View answer & explanation Ans: Poison
Correct Answer: Poison
Socrates was sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC and died by drinking hemlock poison.
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Famous Personalities — Rulers And Conquerors
4 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 18 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Conquerors
Tipu Sultan was ruler of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Mysore
Correct Answer: Mysore
Tipu Sultan ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his death in 1799.
Q 19 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Conquerors
Salahuddin Ayyubi recaptured?
View answer & explanation Ans: Jerusalem
Correct Answer: Jerusalem
Salahuddin Ayyubi (Saladin) recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187 after the Battle of Hattin.
Q 20 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Conquerors
Cleopatra was queen of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Egypt
Correct Answer: Egypt
Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (51-30 BC).
Q 21 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Rulers And Conquerors
Julius Caesar belonged to?
View answer & explanation Ans: Rome
Correct Answer: Rome
Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman of the late Roman Republic.
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Famous Personalities — Scientists And Thinkers
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Q 23 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Thinkers
Galileo supported which theory?
View answer & explanation Ans: Heliocentric theory
Correct Answer: Heliocentric theory
Galileo supported the heliocentric theory that the Earth moves around the Sun.
Q 24 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Thinkers
Copernicus proposed theory of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Heliocentrism
Correct Answer: Heliocentrism
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed heliocentrism — the Sun at the centre of the planetary system — in 'De revolutionibus' (1543).
Q 25 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Thinkers
Charles Darwin gave theory of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Evolution
Correct Answer: Evolution
Charles Darwin gave the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Q 26 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Scientists And Thinkers
Darwin's famous book is?
View answer & explanation Ans: Origin of Species
Correct Answer: Origin of Species
Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' was published in 1859.
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Famous Personalities — Humanitarians And Writers
3 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 27 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Humanitarians And Writers
Florence Nightingale is founder of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Modern nursing
Correct Answer: Modern nursing
Florence Nightingale is conventionally called the founder of modern nursing for her work in the Crimean War and her nursing school.
Q 28 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Humanitarians And Writers
Helen Keller was famous for being?
View answer & explanation Ans: Deaf and blind
Correct Answer: Deaf and blind
Helen Keller lost both sight and hearing as a young child and became a famous author and activist.
Q 29 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Humanitarians And Writers
Anne Frank wrote?
View answer & explanation Ans: Diary of a Young Girl
Correct Answer: Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank's 'The Diary of a Young Girl' records her family's hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation.
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Famous Personalities — Artists And Writers
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Q 30 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Artists And Writers
Shakespeare was a famous?
View answer & explanation Ans: Playwright
Correct Answer: Playwright
William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, author of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear.
Q 31 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Artists And Writers
Shakespeare wrote?
View answer & explanation Ans: Hamlet
Correct Answer: Hamlet
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's plays; the booklet's single answer is Hamlet.
Q 32 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Artists And Writers
Pablo Picasso was a?
View answer & explanation Ans: Painter
Correct Answer: Painter
Pablo Picasso was the Spanish painter who co-founded Cubism.
Q 33 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Artists And Writers
Picasso founded which art movement?
View answer & explanation Ans: Cubism
Correct Answer: Cubism
Picasso, with Georges Braque, founded Cubism in the early 1900s.
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Famous Personalities — Space Pioneers
3 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 34 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Space Pioneers
Neil Armstrong was first man on?
View answer & explanation Ans: Moon
Correct Answer: Moon
Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.
Q 35 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Space Pioneers
Neil Armstrong landed on Moon in?
View answer & explanation Ans: 1969
Correct Answer: 1969
Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July 1969.
Q 36 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Space Pioneers
Yuri Gagarin was first man in?
View answer & explanation Ans: Space
Correct Answer: Space
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961 aboard Vostok 1.
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Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
10 solved MCQs shown directly below
Q 41 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Imran Khan was Pakistan's Prime Minister from?
View answer & explanation Ans: 2018–2022
Correct Answer: 2018–2022
Imran Khan served as Pakistan's Prime Minister from August 2018 to April 2022.
Q 42 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Benazir Bhutto was first woman PM of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Pakistan
Correct Answer: Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan's prime minister in 1988, the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
Q 43 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in?
View answer & explanation Ans: 2007
Correct Answer: 2007
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007.
Q 44 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Liaquat Ali Khan was Pakistan's first?
View answer & explanation Ans: Prime Minister
Correct Answer: Prime Minister
Liaquat Ali Khan was Pakistan's first Prime Minister (1947-1951).
Q 45 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Fatima Jinnah was sister of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Quaid-e-Azam
Correct Answer: Quaid-e-Azam
Fatima Jinnah was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-e-Azam).
Q 46 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Edhi was founder of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Edhi Foundation
Correct Answer: Edhi Foundation
Abdul Sattar Edhi founded the Edhi Foundation, Pakistan's largest welfare organisation.
Q 47 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Abdul Sattar Edhi was known as?
View answer & explanation Ans: Angel of mercy
Correct Answer: Angel of mercy
Abdul Sattar Edhi is conventionally called the Angel of Mercy for his humanitarian work.
Q 48 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Dr. Ruth Pfau worked for eradication of?
View answer & explanation Ans: Leprosy
Correct Answer: Leprosy
Dr Ruth Pfau spent decades fighting leprosy in Pakistan and is credited with its effective control there.
Q 49 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Arfa Karim was youngest?
View answer & explanation Ans: Microsoft Certified Professional
Correct Answer: Microsoft Certified Professional
Arfa Karim became the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in 2004, at age nine.
Q 50 General Knowledge Famous Personalities — Pakistani Leaders
Arfa Karim belonged to?
View answer & explanation Ans: Pakistan
Correct Answer: Pakistan
Arfa Karim Randhawa (1995-2012) was a Pakistani child prodigy from Faisalabad.
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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 Q51–100 of the booklet's 300 one-liners). Q1–50 were published in the previous run; Q101–300 remain for later runs in the same chunk pattern.
Which personalities does Q51–100 cover? +
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Napoleon, Hitler, Churchill, Karl Marx, Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Ibn Sina, Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Battuta, Tipu Sultan, Salahuddin Ayyubi, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Shakespeare, Picasso, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Atatürk, Imran Khan, Benazir Bhutto, Liaquat Ali Khan, Fatima Jinnah, Edhi, Ruth Pfau and Arfa Karim.
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').