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Famous Achievements Quiz

Match the achievement to the person who did it. A 30-question quiz on the discoveries, records and works of famous personalities.

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  1. Who is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
    Answer: Marie Curie
  2. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
    Answer: Malala Yousafzai
  3. Who wrote On the Origin of Species, published in 1859?
    Answer: Charles Darwin
  4. Who wrote the Principia, setting out the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
    Answer: Isaac Newton
  5. Who invented the practical incandescent light bulb in 1879?
    Answer: Thomas Edison
  6. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
    Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
  7. Who painted Guernica in 1937, in response to the Spanish Civil War?
    Answer: Pablo Picasso
  8. Who co-founded Apple in 1976?
    Answer: Steve Jobs
  9. Who co-founded Microsoft in 1975?
    Answer: Bill Gates
  10. Who is regarded as the founder of Pakistan?
    Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  11. For what work did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921?
    Answer: The photoelectric effect
  12. Who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
    Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
  13. Who is Pakistan's only Nobel laureate in science?
    Answer: Abdus Salam
  14. Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. In which year did he become South Africa's first Black president?
    Answer: 1994
  15. In which year did Mother Teresa found the Missionaries of Charity?
    Answer: 1950
  16. Who is often called the first computer programmer?
    Answer: Ada Lovelace
  17. Who wrote A Brief History of Time, published in 1988?
    Answer: Stephen Hawking
  18. In which year did Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiere?
    Answer: 1824
  19. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813?
    Answer: Jane Austen
  20. Who wrote A Christmas Carol, published in 1843?
    Answer: Charles Dickens
  21. Which actor has received the most Academy Award nominations ever, with 21?
    Answer: Meryl Streep
  22. For which film did Leonardo DiCaprio win his first Academy Award?
    Answer: The Revenant
  23. Who won two Academy Awards for the music of Slumdog Millionaire?
    Answer: A.R. Rahman
  24. Whose work made alternating current (AC) power systems practical?
    Answer: Nikola Tesla
  25. In which year did Barack Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize?
    Answer: 2009
  26. Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize in which field?
    Answer: Literature
  27. Which 1975 film by Steven Spielberg is regarded as the first modern blockbuster?
    Answer: Jaws
  28. Which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film features the famous shower scene?
    Answer: Psycho
  29. In which film did Charlie Chaplin satirise Adolf Hitler?
    Answer: The Great Dictator
  30. In which year did Abdul Sattar Edhi start his welfare work with a small free dispensary in Karachi?
    Answer: 1951

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