PMS · PMS · 2026
Solved PMS 2026 GK famous personalities practice set Q251–300: Eratosthenes, Chinese compass scholars, Galileo, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Torricelli, Pasteur, Morton, Sun Tzu, Drucker, Taylor, Watson, Maslow, Wertheimer, Binet, Petrie, Champollion, Bingham, Mirzakhani, Eberhard & Tarpenning, Tesla, Wright Brothers, Coubertin, Vikelas, Mazzini, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Nazir Sabir, Baden-Powell, Muir, Brundtland Commission, Stowe, U Thant, Patil, Indira Gandhi, Obama, Al Gore and Malala, 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 the FINAL chunk Q251–300 (Eratosthenes' circumference measurement through Malala as youngest Nobel Peace laureate), completing the booklet — Q1–250 were published in five earlier runs. 42 of 50 printed items published, with authored distractors under the 2026-10-28 single-format decision. 8 dropped, cross-linked not re-extracted: Q258 (vaccination principle, Jenner — same fact as Q236 'Who introduced vaccination?'), Q260 (modern nursing education, Nightingale — same fact as Q77 'Florence Nightingale is founder of? Modern nursing'), Q264 (psychoanalysis founder, Freud — identical to Q158), Q275 (SpaceX founder, Musk — same fact as Q50 'Elon Musk founded which space company?'), Q279 (practical light bulb, Edison — same fact as Q37 'Thomas Edison invented the? Electric bulb'), Q280 (telephone, Bell — same fact as Q39 'Alexander Graham Bell invented the? Telephone'), Q287 ('first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan's Punjab' — wrong premise: Punjab has no prime minister, the office is Chief Minister, and the fact is already Q209, Maryam Nawaz as first woman Chief Minister), Q288 (first female Supreme Court judge, Ayesha Malik — same fact as Q113). 7 note flags (Q257, Q266, Q273, Q277, Q286, Q290, Q294). The booklet PDF was removed from work/pms-screening/ after this run, closing the booklet.
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Correct Answer: Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (3rd century BC, Alexandria) measured Earth's circumference by comparing the Sun's angle at Syene and Alexandria, arriving at roughly 39,375 km — remarkably close to the true value.
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Correct Answer: Chinese scholars
The compass was invented in China during the Han dynasty, using lodestone, and later refined there for navigation before spreading westward.
Correct Answer: Galileo Galilei
Hans Lippershey patented the first telescope in 1608; Galileo Galilei built an improved version in 1609 and used it for his astronomical observations, which is why the booklet credits him with the improved telescope.
Correct Answer: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in 1714 and devised the Fahrenheit temperature scale.
Correct Answer: Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius proposed the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale in 1742.
Correct Answer: Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli invented the mercury barometer in 1643, demonstrating atmospheric pressure.
Correct Answer: Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur founded modern microbiology through germ theory, pasteurisation and vaccines.
Correct Answer: William Morton
William Morton gave the first public demonstration of ether anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, in October 1846.
Correct Answer: Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani of Iran won the Fields Medal in 2014, the first woman to receive mathematics' highest honour.
Correct Answer: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla developed the alternating-current power system that became the basis of the modern electric power industry.
Correct Answer: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla developed the polyphase alternating-current system (generator, transformer and motor), licensed to Westinghouse in 1888.
Correct Answer: Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained powered flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, and are conventionally called the fathers of aviation.
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Correct Answer: Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu, a Chinese general of the 5th century BC, wrote 'The Art of War', the classic treatise on military strategy.
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Correct Answer: Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker, author of 'The Practice of Management' (1954), is conventionally called the father of modern management.
Correct Answer: F. W. Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor introduced scientific management in 'The Principles of Scientific Management' (1911), applying systematic study to work efficiency.
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Correct Answer: John B. Watson
John B. Watson founded behaviorism with his 1913 paper 'Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It', insisting psychology study observable behaviour.
Correct Answer: Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow, author of the hierarchy of needs, is the founder figure of humanistic psychology.
Correct Answer: Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow proposed the hierarchy of needs (physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualisation) in his 1943 paper 'A Theory of Human Motivation'.
Correct Answer: Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer founded Gestalt psychology with his 1912 study of the phi phenomenon, the perception of apparent motion.
Correct Answer: Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet, with Théodore Simon, devised the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale of 1905.
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Correct Answer: Flinders Petrie
Flinders Petrie pioneered systematic excavation and recording in Egypt, including sequence dating of pottery, founding modern archaeological method.
Correct Answer: Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822, using the trilingual Rosetta Stone inscription.
Correct Answer: Champollion
Jean-François Champollion founded Egyptology as a discipline after his 1822 decipherment, becoming the first professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France in 1831.
Correct Answer: Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham brought Machu Picchu to world attention in 1911, publishing it internationally.
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Correct Answer: Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors in 2003; Elon Musk joined in 2004 as an investor and chairman, not as a founder.
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Correct Answer: Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894 and organised the first modern Olympic Games at Athens in 1896.
Correct Answer: Demetrius Vikelas
Demetrius Vikelas, a Greek businessman and writer, was the first president of the International Olympic Committee (1894–1896).
Correct Answer: Nazir Sabir
Nazir Sabir became the first Pakistani to summit Mount Everest in May 2000.
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Correct Answer: Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of Young Italy, is conventionally called the father of modern nationalism for his doctrine of the nation-state.
Correct Answer: Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck, Prussia's chancellor, unified Germany through the wars of 1864–1871, proclaiming the German Empire in January 1871.
Correct Answer: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi led the military campaigns of Italian unification, above all the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 that conquered Sicily and Naples.
Correct Answer: U Thant
U Thant of Burma (Myanmar) served as UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971, the first holder of the office from Asia.
Correct Answer: Pratibha Patil
Pratibha Patil served as President of India from 2007 to 2012, the first woman to hold the office.
Correct Answer: Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1984, the first woman to hold the office.
Correct Answer: Barack Obama
Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, the first African-American to hold the office.
Correct Answer: Al Gore
Al Gore shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC for work on climate change, including his film 'An Inconvenient Truth' (2006).
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Correct Answer: British colonial administration
Murree, nicknamed the 'Queen of the Hills', was established by the British colonial administration in 1851 as a hill station and sanatorium town.
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Correct Answer: Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement with the 1907 Brownsea Island camp and his book 'Scouting for Boys' (1908).
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Correct Answer: John Muir
John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club (1892) and campaigner for Yosemite, is conventionally called the father of environmentalism.
Correct Answer: Brundtland Commission
The Brundtland Commission's report 'Our Common Future' (1987) defined sustainable development as meeting present needs without compromising future generations.
Correct Answer: Irving Stowe (co-founder)
Irving Stowe was a co-founder of Greenpeace, formed in Vancouver in 1971 to oppose nuclear testing.
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Correct Answer: Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, the youngest Nobel laureate in any category.
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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.
42 questions (printed Q251–300 of the booklet's 300 one-liners, minus 8 dropped items: Q258, Q260, Q264, Q275, Q279, Q280, Q287 and Q288). With this chunk the whole 300-item booklet is now published across six files (Q1–50, Q51–100, Q101–150, Q151–200, Q201–250, Q251–300).
Six were internal duplicates of earlier items in the same booklet, cross-linked not re-extracted: Q258 (Jenner vaccination, = Q236), Q260 (Nightingale modern nursing, = Q77), Q264 (Freud psychoanalysis, = Q158), Q275 (Musk SpaceX, = Q50), Q279 (Edison light bulb, = Q37), Q280 (Bell telephone, = Q39). Q288 (Ayesha Malik, first female Supreme Court judge) duplicates Q113. Q287 was dropped as a wrong-premise item: Punjab has no prime minister, the office is Chief Minister, and that fact is already Q209 (Maryam Nawaz).
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'). Seven note flags cover dual-attribution items: Q257 (van Leeuwenhoek also called father of microbiology), Q266 (Rogers co-developed humanistic psychology), Q273 (Machu Picchu known to locals before Bingham), Q277 (Westinghouse commercialised Tesla's AC system), Q286 (Cavour was unification's political architect), Q290 (Murree's 'founder' is an administration, 1851), Q294 (Greenpeace had several co-founders).
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