General Knowledge - Personalities

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Question - 1

Which one among the following statements about Mohammad Nasheed of Maldives is not correct?

  • A He was the first President of Maldives to be elected through Mutiparty elections
  • B He become the President of Maldives in the year 2008.
  • C He was a strong advocate of the policies of longtime President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
  • D He has been advocating and promoting democracy and human rights in Maldives

Question - 2

Which of the following is correctly matched?

  • A Ms Swaminathan : Nuclear Scientist
  • B TN Kaul : Diplomat 
  • C Ganga : Dancer
  • D Astral Boo : Cartoonist

Question - 3

Umayalpuram K Sivaraman is well-known exponent of 

  • A Flute
  • B Mridangam
  • C Shehnai
  • D Violin

Question - 4

Ms Reena Kaushal Dharmashaktu is the first Indian woman

  • A to reach Antartica
  • B pilot inducted in India Air Force
  • C to ski to the South Pole
  • D to win the Gold Medal in Asian Boxing Championship

Question - 5

Who among the following heads are matched correctly with the organisation?

1.Irina Bokova UNESCO
2.Babatunde Osotimehin UNFPA
3.Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi UNHCR
  • A 1 and 2
  • B 2 and 3
  • C 1 and 3
  • D All of the above

Question - 6

Arrange the following Vice-Presidents of India in the correct chronology of their tenures

1.VV Giri

2.M Hindayatullah

3.BD Jatti

4.G S Pathak

  • A 1,4,3,2
  • B 2,1,3,4
  • C 3,2,1,4
  • D 4,1,3,2

Question - 7

who served as India's first Ambassador to the Soviet Union?

  • A VK Krishna Menon
  • B Vijayalakshmi Pandit
  • C KM Pannikar
  • D KR Narayanan

Question - 8

Match the following

List I

(Distinguished Persons)

List II

(Achievements Known as)

A.Guenter Grass 1.First women Prime Minister of Canada
B.Trevor Huddleston 2.Nobel Prize winner for literature
C.Dicky Dolma 3.Leading campaigner against apartheid in South Africa
D.Kim Campbell 4.American violinist
  5.Youngest woman to climb the Mt Everest
  • A A B C D 5 3 2 1
  • B A B C D 2 3 5 1
  • C A B C D 5 3 4 2
  • D A B C D 2 4 1 3

Question - 9

Which among the following famous dancers is not an exponent of the Odissi dance style?

  • A Sonal Man Singh
  • B Sanjukta Panigrahi
  • C Yamini Krishnamurthy
  • D Madhavi Mudgal

Question - 10

Mario Miranda is well known as

  • A editor
  • B story writer
  • C cartoonist
  • D Politician