Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned player of
Answer: B
Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned flute player.
He plays the bansuri, the bamboo transverse flute, and is credited with bringing it to the front rank of Hindustani classical instruments. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2000.
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Who amongst the following is founder of Dropbox ?
Answer: C
It is Drew Houston.
He founded Dropbox with Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, after repeatedly forgetting his USB drive on the bus to college. Jack Dorsey founded Twitter, Evan Spiegel Snapchat and Brian Chesky Airbnb.
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Who wanted to build a temple for Bharat Mata?
Answer: C
Subramania Siva wanted to build a temple for Bharat Mata.
The freedom fighter from Tamil Nadu, associated with V.O. Chidambaram Pillai in the Tirunelveli agitation of 1908, conceived the idea while imprisoned. He spent his later years, disabled by leprosy, at Papparapatti, where a temple was eventually built.
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For which sport is Parimarjan Negi renowned?
Answer: C
Parimarjan Negi is renowned as a chess player.
He became a Grandmaster in 2006 at the age of thirteen, then the second youngest ever, and won the Asian Championship in 2012. He later moved to academic work at Stanford.
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Who among the following was an eminent painter?
Answer: A
Sarada Ukil was an eminent painter.
He belonged to the Bengal School and founded the Sarada Ukil School of Art in Delhi in 1926. Uday Shankar was a dancer and V. Shantaram a film director.
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Freud is associated with
Answer: C
Freud is associated with psychology.
The Viennese physician founded psychoanalysis, proposing the unconscious mind, the interpretation of dreams and the tripartite division of id, ego and superego. His The Interpretation of Dreams appeared in 1900.
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Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi is associated with which one of the following countries?
Answer: A
Muammar Gaddafi is associated with Libya.
He seized power in a coup in 1969 and ruled for forty-two years, styling himself Brother Leader rather than president. He was overthrown and killed in the uprising of 2011.
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Who was elected as the new Chief Minister in Meghalaya after the assembly election in 2013?
Answer: A
Mukul Sangma became Chief Minister of Meghalaya after the 2013 election.
He led the Congress to victory and served a second term, having first taken office in 2010. He remains the state's longest-serving Chief Minister.
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Ustad Nisar hussain Khan earned distinction in which of the following fields?
Answer: A
Ustad Nisar Hussain Khan was distinguished in vocal music.
He was a leading singer of the Rampur–Sahaswan gharana of Hindustani classical music, and taught Ustad Rashid Khan, his grandnephew.
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Who was affectionately Known as the " Grand Old Man Of India"
Answer: B
Dadabhai Naoroji was the Grand Old Man of India.
He was three times President of the Indian National Congress and the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons, in 1892. His Poverty and Un-British Rule in India set out the drain of wealth theory.
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