All Free General Knowledge MCQs with Answers

• A. Writing poems
• B. Writing songs
• C. Writing text books
• D. Writing dictionaries

Explanation: A. S. Hornby was the chief editor of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and is chiefly associated with English learner’s…

• A. Leo Tolstoy
• B. Agatha Cristie
• C. V.I. Lenin
• D. Mao Tse Tung

Explanation: Agatha Christie is widely identified by UNESCO-based rankings as the world’s most translated individual author.

• A. Ernest Hemingway
• B. Churchill
• C. Wilson
• D. Hardy

Explanation: Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, a novella about the Cuban fisherman Santiago.

• A. Samuel Huntington
• B. Francis Fukuyama
• C. Robert Frost
• D. David Lynn

Explanation: Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History and the Last Man, published in 1992.

• A. Robert Frost
• B. Walt Whitman
• C. Emily Dickinson
• D. None of these

Explanation: Robert Frost wrote The Road Not Taken, a poem that uses a traveller’s choice between two paths as its central image.

• A. Shelley
• B. Long Lellow
• C. Frost
• D. Walt Whitman

Explanation: Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s major collection of poetry, first published in 1855 and repeatedly revised during his life.

• A. Imam Ghazali
• B. Imam Muslim
• C. Sir Syeed Ahmad khan
• D. None Of These

Explanation: Kimiya-e Sa'adat, meaning “The Alchemy of Happiness,” was written by the Persian theologian and philosopher Imam al-Ghazali.

• A. Firoz Shah
• B. Al-beruni
• C. Firozbadi
• D. Isami

Explanation: Al-Biruni wrote the work commonly known as Kitab al-Tahqiq, or his detailed investigation of India and its culture.

• A. Charles Dickens
• B. Thomas Hardy
• C. Jane Austen
• D. Henry Fielding

Explanation: Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations, a coming-of-age novel centred on the orphan Pip and his unexpected rise in social status.

• A. Leo Tolstoy
• B. James Joyce
• C. E.M. Forster
• D. Gustave Flaubert

Explanation: Madame Bovary was written by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert and published in 1857.

• A. Susan Wise Bauer
• B. James McPherson
• C. Barbara Tuchman.
• D. Jared Mason Diamond

Explanation: Jared Diamond wrote The World Until Yesterday, a study of traditional societies and the lessons they may offer modern societies.

• A. William Manchester
• B. James McPherson
• C. Barbara Tuchman.
• D. Jared Mason Diamond

Explanation: Guns, Germs, and Steel was written by Jared Diamond and explains how geography, environment and technology shaped differences among human…

• A. Z.A Bhutto
• B. Abdul Sattar
• C. Sharif-Ud-Din Pirzada
• D. Hafeez Jallundri

Explanation: Shahnama-e-Islam is a celebrated Urdu epic on Islamic history and was written by Hafeez Jalandhari, who also wrote Pakistan’s national…

• A. Shakesspeare
• B. Karl Marx
• C. Allah Bux Yousufi
• D. M.A.H Isphani

Explanation: The book The Frontier Tragedy was written by Allah Bux Yousufi, whose work dealt with political and historical issues of the frontier…

• A. Isphahani
• B. Syed Mahmud Hassan
• C. Abdul Waheed
• D. Ayub Khan

Explanation: A Nation Is Born is attributed to Syed Mahmud Hassan and discusses the emergence of Pakistan as a nation.

• A. Coleridge
• B. Karl Marx
• C. Thomas Hardy
• D. William Shakespear

Explanation: As You Like It is a comedy by William Shakespeare, probably written around the end of the sixteenth century.

• A. Crows
• B. Ducks
• C. Eagles
• D. Magpies

Explanation: Heckle and Jeckle are anthropomorphic magpies, known for their black-and-white appearance and mischievous behaviour.

• A. 1923
• B. 1934
• C. 1945
• D. 1918

Explanation: Time magazine was first published in New York on 3 March 1923 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden. Thus, its founding year was 1923.

• A. Gibbon
• B. Milton
• C. Dante Alighieri
• D. Geothe

Explanation: Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy, an epic poem divided into Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.

• A. Moulana Abul Kalam Azad
• B. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
• C. Moulana Muhammad Ali johar
• D. Syed Ameer Ali

Explanation: India Wins Freedom is the memoir of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, covering India’s struggle for independence and the partition period.