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Solved PMS 2026 GK famous personalities practice set Q1–50: Abdus Salam, A. Q. Khan, Malala, Mandela, Gandhi, Jinnah, Iqbal, Einstein, Newton, Curie and more, with verified answers and explanations. A Sir Adnan practice set, not an official past paper.
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Sir Adnan's 'Famous Personalities (GK) PMS GK' booklet (19 pp, header 'ONE-LINER 500- (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2025-26)') from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack. It prints 300 one-liners; this file publishes Q1–50 (Abdus Salam through Elon Musk), with authored distractors under the 2026-10-28 single-format decision. All 50 answers verified as standard facts; one rounded figure noted (Edison's ~1000 patents = 1,093 US patents).
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10 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: Physics
Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for the electroweak unification theory.
Correct Answer: 1979
Abdus Salam received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, shared with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg.
Correct Answer: Electroweak Theory
Salam's Nobel-winning work unified electromagnetism with the weak nuclear force — electroweak theory.
Correct Answer: Jhang
Abdus Salam was born in Jhang, Punjab, in 1926.
Correct Answer: Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam (Physics, 1979) was Pakistan's first Nobel laureate; Malala Yousafzai (Peace, 2014) was the second.
Correct Answer: Pakistan's nuclear programme
A. Q. Khan led Pakistan's uranium-enrichment programme and is conventionally called the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
Correct Answer: Gas centrifuge
Pakistan's enrichment programme under Khan was based on gas-centrifuge technology.
Correct Answer: 1998
Pakistan conducted its Chagai nuclear tests in May 1998.
Correct Answer: 1936
Abdul Qadeer Khan was born in Bhopal in 1936.
Correct Answer: Chagai
Pakistan's 1998 nuclear tests were carried out at Chagai in Balochistan.
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Correct Answer: 2014
Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, shared with Kailash Satyarthi.
Correct Answer: 17
Malala was 17 when she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, the youngest Nobel laureate.
Correct Answer: Swat Valley
Malala Yousafzai is from Mingora in the Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Correct Answer: Girls' education
Malala was honoured for her campaign for girls' right to education.
Correct Answer: 2012
Malala was shot by the Taliban in Swat in October 2012.
Correct Answer: 1876
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born on 25 December 1876 in Karachi.
Correct Answer: Pakistan
Jinnah served as Pakistan's first Governor-General from August 1947 until his death in September 1948.
Correct Answer: Lawyer
Jinnah trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn and practised law in Bombay and Karachi.
Correct Answer: Poet of the East
Allama Muhammad Iqbal is conventionally known as the Poet of the East (Shair-e-Mashriq).
Correct Answer: 1930
Iqbal outlined a separate Muslim state in north-western India in his Allahabad address of December 1930.
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Correct Answer: South Africa
Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994.
Correct Answer: 27 years
Mandela spent 27 years in prison, most of them on Robben Island, before his release in 1990.
Correct Answer: 1993
Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. de Klerk.
Correct Answer: Apartheid
Mandela led the African National Congress's struggle against South Africa's apartheid system.
Correct Answer: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela's autobiography, published in 1994, is 'Long Walk to Freedom'.
Correct Answer: Indian nation
Gandhi is conventionally called the Father of the Indian Nation (Father of India).
Correct Answer: Non-violence
Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha was based on non-violence (ahimsa).
Correct Answer: 1948
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948.
Correct Answer: Civil Disobedience Movement
The booklet's answer is the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930–34), launched with the Salt March.
Correct Answer: Dandi March
Gandhi's 1930 Salt March from Sabarmati to Dandi is the Dandi March.
Correct Answer: Poor and sick
Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity served the poorest of the poor and the sick in Calcutta and beyond.
Correct Answer: 1979
Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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Correct Answer: Theory of Relativity
Einstein is famous for the theory of relativity (special, 1905, and general, 1915).
Correct Answer: 1921
Einstein's Nobel Prize in Physics was for the year 1921 (announced and presented in 1922) for the photoelectric effect.
Correct Answer: Motion and gravity
Newton formulated the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Correct Answer: Principia
Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (1687) is known as the Principia.
Correct Answer: Electric bulb
Edison developed the first commercially practical incandescent electric bulb (1879).
Correct Answer: 1000
Edison held 1,093 US patents; the booklet's 'approximately 1000' is that rounded figure.
Correct Answer: Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876.
Correct Answer: Airplane
The Wright brothers made the first sustained powered airplane flight in 1903.
Correct Answer: Physics and Chemistry
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and in Chemistry (1911).
Correct Answer: Radium and Polonium
Marie Curie discovered polonium (1898) and radium (1898) with Pierre Curie.
Correct Answer: Physicist
Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist known for work on black holes and cosmology.
Correct Answer: A Brief History of Time
'A Brief History of Time' (1988) is Hawking's best-known popular book on cosmology.
Correct Answer: Microsoft
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.
Correct Answer: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates's philanthropy runs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000.
Correct Answer: Tesla and SpaceX
Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla and of SpaceX.
Correct Answer: SpaceX
Musk founded SpaceX in 2002.
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Correct Answer: Painter and scientist
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, anatomist, engineer and scientist — the classic Renaissance polymath.
Correct Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, now in the Louvre, Paris.
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No. It is Sir Adnan's 'Famous Personalities (GK)' practice booklet from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack, published as paperType 'practice', never as a past paper. The year 2026 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
50 questions (printed Q1–50 of the booklet's 300 one-liners). The remaining Q51–300 are held for later runs in the same chunk pattern.
Abdus Salam, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Iqbal, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, Marie Curie, Mother Teresa, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
Yes. Every answer was checked as a standard fact; the booklet prints statement + answer only, so the three distractors per question are authored under the 2026-10-28 single-format decision (optionsSource 'authored').
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