Important Personalities
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Q1.Show Boy of Congress?
Correct Answer: B
Abul Kalam Azad was referred to as the 'Show Boy' of the Congress, used to project its secular image.
Q2.The newspaper "Zamindar" was published by?
Correct Answer: A
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan published the influential Urdu daily Zamindar from Lahore.
Q3.Abdul Sattar Edhi is famous for?
Correct Answer: B
Edhi built the world's largest volunteer ambulance network.
Q4.Which leader is called Muhsin-e-Pakistan for the nuclear programme?
Correct Answer: B
Dr. A.Q. Khan is popularly called Muhsin-e-Pakistan.
Q5.Who presented the Kashmir case at the UN eloquently as Foreign Minister?
Correct Answer: B
Sir Zafarullah Khan advocated Kashmir and Palestine causes at the UN.
Q6.Who was Pakistan's first Nobel laureate?
Correct Answer: B
Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.
Q7.Who was the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan?
Correct Answer: B
Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan served as Pakistan's first Foreign Minister.
Q8."Daughter of the East" is the autobiography of?
Correct Answer: B
Benazir Bhutto's autobiography was published in 1988.
Q9."In the Line of Fire" is the autobiography of?
Correct Answer: B
Musharraf's memoir was published in 2006.
Q10.Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in which year?
Correct Answer: B
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 at Rawalpindi.
Q11.Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for his work on?
Correct Answer: B
Salam shared the 1979 Physics Nobel for electroweak unification theory.
Q12.Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy belonged to which party?
Correct Answer: B
Suhrawardy, PM 1956-57, was a leader of the Awami League.
Q13.Nawaz Sharif has served as Prime Minister how many times?
Correct Answer: B
Nawaz Sharif served as PM three times (1990-93, 1997-99, 2013-17).
Q14.Under which PM was the 1956 Constitution framed?
Correct Answer: B
PM Chaudhry Muhammad Ali's government framed the 1956 Constitution.
Q15.Who became PM after Liaquat Ali Khan's assassination?
Correct Answer: B
Khawaja Nazimuddin stepped down as Governor-General to become PM in 1951.
Q16.Who founded the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)?
Correct Answer: B
Z.A. Bhutto founded the PPP in November 1967 at Lahore.
Q17.Who is the author of "Friends Not Masters"?
Correct Answer: B
"Friends Not Masters" is Ayub Khan's political autobiography (1967).
Q18.Who was Pakistan's first female Foreign Minister?
Correct Answer: B
Hina Rabbani Khar became the first female Foreign Minister in 2011.
Q19.Who was Pakistan's first female Speaker of the National Assembly?
Correct Answer: B
Dr. Fehmida Mirza became the first woman Speaker in 2008.
Q20.Who was the last Governor-General of Pakistan?
Correct Answer: B
Iskander Mirza was the last Governor-General (1955-56) and first President.