World Knowledge Online Quiz

World Knowledge Online Test

Sr. #	Questions	Answers Choice
1	Who is considered to be the founder of the Quakers?	James Fox  John Fox Charles Fox George Fox
2	Which French physicist invented the gyroscope?	Fermat Foucault Fenelon  Flaubert
3	Name the winner of Pulitzer in 1976 for Humboldt gift and who also won Laureate in 1979.	Michael Shaara Norman Mailer James Alan McPherson Saul Bellow
4	Name the recipient of the Booker in 1971 for In A free state and who also won Nobel Prize in literature in 2001?	V.S.Naipaul Doris Lessing  Elizabeth Taylor Thomas Kilroy
5	He was banished from rome by emperor Augustus because of an unexplained "act of folly"	Virgil Catullus Horace Ovid
6	Which British subject is considered to be the world's first war photographer?	Farnaby Formby Flanagan Penton
7	Who was the Italian anatomy professor that was teacher to the great British physician William Harvey?	Fracastoro Fabius Fabricius Fontana
8	She worked as a reporter for the "Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine".	Margaret Mitchell Harriet Beecher Stowe Louisa May Alcott Sylvia Plath
9	What was the name of the Chinese explorer who,during the 2nd century B.C. pioneered the Silk Route?	Chang Ch'ien Chiang Ch'ing  Ch'ien Long  Chen Dushu
10	In Naples he met the woman whom he was to immortalise in his literary work as Fiammetta.	Francesco Petrarch Giovanni Boccaccio Dante Alighieri Guido Cavalcanti