Personalities
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
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
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
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
Mario Miranda is well known as
- (a)
editor
- (b)
story writer
- (c)
cartoonist
- (d)
Politician
In which one of the following films did the Nobel Laureate Pearl S Buck collaborate?
- (a)
Shatranj Ke Khilari
- (b)
Guide
- (c)
Lawrence of Arabia
- (d)
Titanic
Robert Webster is known for his work associated with which one of the following?
- (a)
Cardiology
- (b)
Influenza virus
- (c)
HIV/AIDS
- (d)
Alzheimer
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are well-known as
- (a)
creators of Bluetooth device
- (b)
founders of Google
- (c)
stem cell researchers
- (d)
scientists of human genome
Consider the following statements
1.Mohammed Dilawar is the 'Sparrow Man of India'.
2.Preet Bharara is the Indo-American US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Which of the above statements is/are true?
- (a)
Only 1
- (b)
Only 2
- (c)
Both 1 and 2
- (d)
None of these
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
- (a)
Anna Hazare : Anti corruption
- (b)
Dr Pramod Karan Sethi : Jaipur Foot
- (c)
Dr MS Swaminathan : Agriculture
- (d)
Dr Abdul Kalam : Development of Economics
Which of the following
List I | List II |
A.Bhajan Sopori | 1.Bharatnatyam |
B.Birju Maharaj | 2.Exponent of Santoor |
C.Priyadarshini Govind | 3.Mridangam maestro |
D.TV Gopalakrihnan | 4.Kathak dancer |
- (a)
A B C D 2 1 4 3 - (b)
A B C D 3 1 4 2 - (c)
A B C D 2 4 1 3 - (d)
A B C D 3 4 1 2
Which of the following
List I(Players) | List II(Specialisation) |
A.Heena Sidhu | 1.Discus |
B.Krishna | 2.Air-pistol event |
C.Ranjith Maheswary | 3.Triple jumper |
D.Vijendra Singh | 4.Wrestler |
- (a)
A B C D 2 1 3 4 - (b)
A B C D 1 3 4 2 - (c)
A B C D 3 2 1 4 - (d)
A B C D 4 1 2 3
Which of the following associations of artists and their art or instrument is wrong?
- (a)
Sarangi : Ravi Verma
- (b)
Painting : Gaganendranath Tagore
- (c)
Dance : Rukmini Devi Arundale
- (d)
Violin : Vaidyanathan
Who was the first Mathematician to treat zero as a number?
- (a)
S Ramanujan
- (b)
Brahmagupta
- (c)
Bhaskara
- (d)
Aryabhatta
Which of the following forms of dance is Shobhana Narayan known for?
- (a)
Kathak
- (b)
Bharatnatyam
- (c)
Odissi
- (d)
Kathakali
Which of the following association of personality and their public office is wrong?
- (a)
Ajit Kumar Seth : Cabinet
- (b)
Shashikant Sharma: CAG
- (c)
Subba Rao : Governor, RBI
- (d)
Querishi : Cheif Election Commisioner
Who of the following published a famous pamphlet as 'Right of Man' and urged the people in England,America and France to fight for their liberty?
- (a)
Thomas jefferson
- (b)
Thomas Paine
- (c)
John Locke
- (d)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Which of the following statements regarding Rabindranath Tagore's concern for the natural world and environment is not correct?
- (a)
Caring for nature on aesthetic ground, as Tagore did, has now become one of the major environmental concerns in the developed countries of the world
- (b)
Tagore's short stories and novels exhibit his concern for nature
- (c)
Tagore's vision of education emphasized the need to generate environmental awareness among the students
- (d)
Tagore's concern about the environment was activated by pragmatic and utilitarian considerations.
Which among the following leaders is not correctly matched with its authoritarian state/regime?
Authoritarian (Authoritarian leader state)
1.Egypt : Hosni Mubarak
2.Libya : Muammar Gaddafi
3.Sudan : Bashar Al-Asad
4.Tunisia : Zine el-Abidine Ben
- (a)
1 and 3
- (b)
2 and 3
- (c)
Only 3
- (d)
All of these
Match the following
List I(Indian Scientists) | List II(Areas) |
A.SK Vasal | 1.Agriculture |
B.CNR Rao | 2.Medical Science |
C.P Venugopal | 3.Physis |
D.BV Rao | 4.Poultry |
- (a)
A B C D 2 4 1 3 - (b)
A B C D 1 3 2 4 - (c)
A B C D 2 3 1 4 - (d)
A B C D 1 4 2 4
Under whose reign was Newton honoured with a knighthood?
- (a)
King Charles II
- (b)
Queen Anne
- (c)
King James
- (d)
King William III and Queen Mary II
Born Agnes Gonxha, this lady was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.To which Indian city did she dedicate over forty years of her life tending to the needs of the poor,sick,orphaned and dying?
- (a)
Kolkata
- (b)
Darjeeling
- (c)
Hyderabad
- (d)
Chennai
Indian novelist, Anita Desai has been short-listed for the Booker Prize three times.Which of these works was not short-listed?
- (a)
Fire on The Mountain
- (b)
In Custody
- (c)
Clear Light of Day
- (d)
Fasting,Feasting
MF Hussain, is also known as
- (a)
Michelangelo
- (b)
Socrates of India
- (c)
Plato of India
- (d)
Picasso of India
Ms Vijaya Mehta has earned distinction in which of the field?
- (a)
Theater
- (b)
Film Direction
- (c)
Classical Dance
- (d)
Journalism
Satyen Bose has shown his excellence in which of the following fields?
- (a)
Stage Acting
- (b)
Drawing and Painting
- (c)
Classical Dance
- (d)
Motion Picture
Which one of the following statements is correct?
- (a)
Socrates was a disciple of Plato
- (b)
Plato was a disciple of Socrates
- (c)
Plato was a disciple of Aristotle
- (d)
Socrates and Plato were disciples of Aristotle
Consider the following famous names
1.Amrita Sher Gil
2.Bikash Bhattacharjee
3.NS Bendre
4.Subodh Gupta
Who of the above is/are well known as artist(s)?
- (a)
Only 1
- (b)
1 and 4
- (c)
2,3 and 4
- (d)
1,2,3 and 4
Consider the following statements
1.Gopalkrishna Gandhi was the Governor of West Bengal.
2.He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
3.His maternal grandfather was C Rajagopalachari(Rajaji).
- (a)
1 and 2 are correct
- (b)
2 and 3 are correct
- (c)
1 and 3 are correct
- (d)
All are correct
Consider the following statements.
1.Jyoti Amge Nagpur was declared the world's shortest adult by Guinness Book of World Records officials.
2.Her restricted height is due to a growth anomaly called achondroplasia.
- (a)
1 is correct
- (b)
2 is correct
- (c)
Both 1 and 2 are correct
- (d)
Neither 1 nor 2 is correct
Justice Dalveer Bhandari was associated with
- (a)
He became member of UN Human Rights Council
- (b)
He was elected to the International Court of Justice
- (c)
Direction General of world Trade Organisation
- (d)
Secretary-General of SAARC