Solved MCQs on famous Pakistani personalities: national heroes, Nishan-e-Haider recipients, scientists, social workers, artists and record-setters.
This set covers people who shaped Pakistan and made it proud: Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah, Nobel laureates, Dr Ruth Pfau, Nishan-e-Haider recipients, mountaineers and others known by their titles and achievements.
Personality questions often use a title, such as Madar-e-Millat, or a first achievement. Learning each person with their title and main contribution makes these easy marks.
Correct answer: D. Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah, the Quaid's sister and close companion, is honoured as Madar-e-Millat. She contested the 1965 presidential election against Ayub Khan.
Read detailsCorrect answer: A. Liaquat Ali Khan
Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister, is called Quaid-e-Millat (Leader of the Nation) and also Shaheed-e-Millat.
Read detailsCorrect answer: A. Dr. Abdus Salam
Dr. Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces.
Read detailsCorrect answer: C. 2014
Malala shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi. At 17, she became the youngest Nobel laureate.
Correct answer: A. Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi devoted his life to serving the poor through ambulances, orphanages and shelters. He died in 2016 and was given a state funeral.
Read detailsCorrect answer: A. Hakim Muhammad Said
Hakim Muhammad Said founded Hamdard Pakistan and the education city Madinat-al-Hikmah in Karachi. He also served as Governor of Sindh.
Read detailsCorrect answer: D. Leprosy
The German-born doctor led Pakistan's leprosy control programme from Karachi. The WHO declared leprosy controlled in Pakistan in 1996.
Read detailsCorrect answer: D. Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan founded APWA for women's welfare. She later became the first woman Governor of Sindh.
Correct answer: B. Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar
Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar was martyred in Kashmir in July 1948 and became the first recipient of Pakistan's highest military award.
Read detailsCorrect answer: B. 1965 war
Major Aziz Bhatti defended the BRB Canal sector near Lahore in September 1965 and was martyred there.
Correct answer: B. Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas
Rashid Minhas of the Pakistan Air Force was 20 when he was martyred in August 1971 while preventing his aircraft from being hijacked to India.
Read detailsCorrect answer: B. 1965 war
Squadron Leader Muhammad Mahmood Alam is credited with shooting down several Indian aircraft within about a minute on 7 September 1965.
Read detailsCorrect answer: C. Nazir Sabir
Nazir Sabir reached the summit of Everest in May 2000. Ashraf Aman was the first Pakistani to climb K2, in 1977.
Correct answer: C. Samina Baig
Samina Baig from Hunza reached the top of Everest in May 2013 and later climbed the highest peak on every continent.
Correct answer: D. Microsoft Certified Professional
Arfa Karim earned the Microsoft Certified Professional credential at age nine in 2004. A software technology park in Lahore is named after her.
Read detailsCorrect answer: C. Qawwali
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan brought qawwali, Sufi devotional music, to audiences around the world.
Correct answer: D. Painter and calligrapher
Sadequain created large murals and calligraphy, including the ceiling of Frere Hall in Karachi.
Correct answer: D. Painter
Chughtai developed a distinctive Mughal-inspired style of painting. He also designed early Pakistani postage stamps.
Correct answer: C. Sir Abdul Rashid
Sir Abdul Rashid was the first Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Pakistan (1949–1954). Muhammad Munir succeeded him.
Read detailsCorrect answer: B. General Muhammad Ayub Khan
Ayub Khan replaced General Douglas Gracey in January 1951, the first Pakistani to command the army.