General Knowledge - Personalities
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
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
who served as India's first Ambassador to the Soviet Union?
- (a)
VK Krishna Menon
- (b)
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- (c)
KM Pannikar
- (d)
KR Narayanan
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
Match the following
List I(Scientists) | List II (Country) |
A.Archimedes | 1.Britain |
B.Alexander Graham | 2.Germany |
C.Nicolaus Copernicus | 3.Greece |
D.Albert Einstern | 4.USA |
5.Poland |
- (a)
A B C D 3 2 4 5 - (b)
A B C D 4 5 2 1 - (c)
A B C D 4 5 2 1 - (d)
A B C D 4 3 5 2
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
Raghu Rai is well known for which one of the following areas?
- (a)
Research in Mathematics
- (b)
Photograph
- (c)
Water harvesting
- (d)
Pollution control
Who among the following person is called 'Desert Fox'?
- (a)
Walter Scott
- (b)
Erwin Rommel
- (c)
Eisenhower
- (d)
Bismarck
Consider the following statements
1. The former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was from Nigeria.
2. Kofi Annan was the first UN Secretary-General to be appointed from the ranks of the United Nations staff.
3.Kofi Annan appointed for a second term to the office of the UN Secretary-General.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a)
1,2 and 3
- (b)
1 and 2
- (c)
2 and 3
- (d)
1 and 3
Which of the following
List I | List II |
A.Vedantam Satyanarayana | 1.Kathakali dancer |
B.Kottakkal Sivaraman | 2.Kuchipudi dancer |
C.Raghunath | 3.Odissi dancer |
4.Bharatnatyam dancer |
- (a)
A B C 2 1 3 - (b)
A B C 2 1 4 - (c)
A B C 3 2 1 - (d)
A B C 4 2 3
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
Match the following
List I(Dances) | List II(Exponents) |
A.Bharatanatyam | 1.Yamini Reddy |
B.Kuchipudi | 2.Alarmel Valli |
C.Kathak | 3.Madhavi Mudgal |
D.Odissi | 4.Vaishali Trivedi |
- (a)
A B C D 2 1 4 3 - (b)
A B C D 1 2 4 3 - (c)
A B C D 2 1 3 4 - (d)
A B C D 1 2 3 4
How is Leila Seth known as?
- (a)
First Woman Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission
- (b)
First Woman Election Commissioner of India.
- (c)
First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India
- (d)
First Woman Governor of a State in India
Ratan Thiyam , the famous personality from Manipur, is known for his work in the field of
- (a)
sports
- (b)
music
- (c)
theatre
- (d)
social reform
Which of the following associations of artists and their profession is wrong?
- (a)
Chidananda : Bengali Indian
- (b)
Balachander K : Tamil Indian Filmaker
- (c)
Soumitra Chatterjee : Assamese Play writer
- (d)
Bhyrappa : Kannada writer
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.
Consider the following paragraph and identify the person referred to therein using the codes given below.
She joined the diplomatic corps in 1949 and became the first woman diplomat of India.She was the Ambassador to Hungary, Ghana and the Netherlands.
- (a)
CB Muthamma
- (b)
Nirupama Rao
- (c)
Chokila lyar
- (d)
Meera Kumar
Who of the following is an accomplished vocalist?
- (a)
Monu Mazumdar
- (b)
Shiv Kumar Sharma
- (c)
Satish Gujral
- (d)
Dinanath Mishra
What is the of Edison's motion picture invention?
- (a)
Film
- (b)
Kinetoscope
- (c)
Phonoscope
- (d)
Moviesscope
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
The name of Pierre Cardin is associated with which of the following fields?
- (a)
Painting
- (b)
Films
- (c)
Pop Music
- (d)
Fashion Designing
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
Who declared that his ultimate aim was to wipe 'every tear from every eye'?
- (a)
Rajendra Prasad
- (b)
Sardar Patel
- (c)
Jawaharlal Nehru
- (d)
Mahatma Gandhi
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 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
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists
List I(Person) | List II(Company) |
A.Steve Jobs | 1.Google |
B.Sherly Sanderg | 2.Apple |
C.Larry Page | 3.Yahoo |
D.Ross Levinson | 4.Facebook |
- (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
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