Famous Personalities GK Questions for Class 6

Here is a list of Famous Personalities of India and World questions in English for Class 6,

1) “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The
brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” were
the famous words of ________

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Winston Churchill

c) Rabindranath Tagore

d) Nelson Mandela

2) Montgomery Bus Boycott resulted in the emergence of ______ which became a

turning point in the civil rights struggle in the United States of America.

a) Martin Luther King Jr

b) Malcolm X

c) Michael Johnson

d) Barack Obama

3) ________ was an American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist.

nicknamed as "the Greatest”

a) Rocky Bilbao

b) Muhammad Ali

c) Mike Tyson

d) Joe Louis
4) Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. He was from ______

a) Spain

b) Italy

c) Germany

d) Portugal

5) ‘Life Divine’ was written by ____

a) Sri Aurobindo

b) Swami Vivekanand

c) Rabindranath Tagore

d) Mahatma Gandhi

6) Vincent Van Gogh is a world famous painter from _____

a) Germany

b) Britain

c) France

d) Netherlands

7) Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of ______

a) Bhutan

b) Tibet

c) Taiwan

d) Japan
8) Jesse Owens was a famous American athlete who won many Gold medals in
______ Olympics, an achievement not matched until Carl Lewis in the 1984
Olympics.

a) 1936

b) 1928

c) 1972

d) 1964

9) Fiedel Castro was the long serving and most popular President of ________.

a) Nicaragua

b) Russia

c) Mexico

d) Cuba

10) Charles De Gaulle was a famous Army officer and former President of ______

a) Germany

b) France

c) Italy

d) Great Britain

11) _________ was the founder of Academy in Athens, it was the first institution of

higher learning in Western World.

a) Plato

b) Aristotle

c) Socrates
 d) None of the above

12) _____ is known as the Machiavelli of India

a) Dayanand Saraswati

b) Vallabha

c) Rabindranath Tagore

d) Chanakya

13) _________ was known as Ajatshatru

a) C V Raman

b) Dr S Radhakrishnan

c) Dr Rajendra Prasad

d) None of the above

14) ________ was known as Vishwa Kavi

a) Rabindranath Tagore

b) Kabir Das

c) Sarojini Naidu

d) None of the above

15) _______ is famously known as Flying Sikh

a) Milkha Singh

b) Yuvraj Singh

c) Sandeep Singh

d) None of the above

Here are the Answers for Famous Personalities of India and World Questions for Class 6:

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