Rajyavardhan singh Rathore is famous in which sport/game ?
Answer: C
He is famous in shooting.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver in the double trap at Athens in 2004, India's first individual Olympic silver. He later became a Union minister.
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National Commission on Farmers was chaired by-
Answer: D
Dr M.S. Swaminathan chaired the National Commission on Farmers.
Constituted in 2004, it submitted five reports, and recommended among other things that the minimum support price be at least 50 per cent above the weighted average cost of production - a formula still debated as the 'Swaminathan formula'.
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Of the following options, who received the G.K Reddy Memorial Award in 2014?
Answer: B
Vinod Mehta received the G.K. Reddy Memorial Award in 2014.
He founded Outlook and had earlier edited The Pioneer, The Sunday Observer and The Independent. He died in March 2015.
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With which of the following was U. R. Rao who passed away at 85 is associated with ?
Answer: A
U.R. Rao was a scientist.
He led the team that built Aryabhata, India's first satellite, launched in 1975, and was Chairman of ISRO from 1984 to 1994. He was the first Indian inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame, and died in July 2017.
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Who among the following Urdu poets was invited to the Second and Third Round Table Conference?
Answer: A
Muhammad Iqbal attended the Second and Third Round Table Conferences.
He took part in the London conferences of 1931 and 1932 as a Muslim League representative, having delivered his Allahabad address of 1930 proposing a consolidated Muslim state in north-west India. Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a generation younger and not a participant.
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With which of the following was Satyajit Ray associated?
Answer: D
Satyajit Ray was associated with the direction of films.
He began as a commercial artist, and illustrating an edition of Pather Panchali led him to film it in 1955. He directed some thirty-six films and received an honorary Academy Award in 1992.
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In which field 'Aachan Maharaj' has distinguished himself?
Answer: C
Achhan Maharaj distinguished himself in dance.
He was a master of the Lucknow gharana of Kathak, and the father of Birju Maharaj. His brothers Shambhu Maharaj and Lachhu Maharaj were also leading Kathak dancers of the same lineage.
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Who became the first Asian women to sail around the world ?
Answer: B
Ujwala Patil was the first Asian woman to sail around the world.
She was part of the crew of INS Samudra, which completed a circumnavigation in 1988. Golda Meir, Cleopatra and Sirimavo Bandaranaike were heads of government or state.
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Who among the following was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?
Answer: B
G.V. Mavalankar was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
He held the office from 1952 to 1956, having earlier presided over the Constituent Assembly (Legislative), and is called the Father of the Lok Sabha for establishing its conventions. M.A. Ayyangar succeeded him.
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Shunglu Committee was appointed by the Prime Minister to
Answer: B
The Shunglu Committee was appointed to look into the corruption charges in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games.
Set up in 2010 under the former Comptroller and Auditor-General V.K. Shunglu, it examined the Delhi Games and reported inflated contracts and serious lapses in planning and award of work.
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