Who is called the Mozart of Madras?
Answer: C
A.R. Rahman is called the Mozart of Madras.
The name was given by Time magazine. He won two Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, for original score and for the song 'Jai Ho', and has scored some 150 films.
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Who among the following was the first Indian woman to scale the Mount Everest?
Answer: A
Bachendri Pal was the first Indian woman to scale Everest.
She reached the summit on 23 May 1984 as part of the fourth Indian expedition. Santosh Yadav followed in 1992, and became the first woman in the world to climb it twice.
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Salim Ali was an eminent-
Answer: B
Salim Ali was an eminent ornithologist.
Called the Birdman of India, he conducted the first systematic bird surveys across the subcontinent and wrote The Book of Indian Birds. His advocacy helped save the Bharatpur bird sanctuary and the Silent Valley.
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Former Central Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Mr. A. Raja belongs to which of the following parties?
Answer: D
A. Raja belongs to the DMK.
He was Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology from 2007 to 2010, and resigned over the 2G spectrum allocation case. He was acquitted by a special court in 2017.
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The meeting of Commonwealth Nations was held in Uganda on November 25, 2007. Who was elected its General Secretary?
Answer: B
Kamalesh Sharma was elected Commonwealth Secretary-General at Kampala in 2007.
He took office in April 2008, the first Indian to hold the post, and served two terms until 2016.
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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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Name of S. Chandrashekhar is associated with which of the following subjects?
Answer: D
S. Chandrasekhar's name is associated with astrophysics.
He calculated in 1930 that a white dwarf cannot exceed about 1.4 solar masses - the Chandrasekhar limit - beyond which it collapses into a neutron star or black hole. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983, and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is named after him.
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Who is called Netaji?
Answer: B
Subhas Chandra Bose is called Netaji.
The name, meaning respected leader, was first used by the Indian soldiers of the Indian Legion in Germany in 1942, and spread from there. He led the Indian National Army and gave it the slogan 'Jai Hind'.
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Vikram Pandit is associated with which of the following banks?
Answer: C
Vikram Pandit is associated with Citigroup.
Born in Nagpur, he was chief executive from December 2007 to October 2012, taking over as the financial crisis broke and leading the bank through its bailout and repayment.
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Who among the following was the first to land on moon?
Answer: A
Neil Armstrong was the first to land on the moon.
He stepped onto the surface on 20 July 1969 from Apollo 11's lunar module Eagle. Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin followed him about twenty minutes later, while Michael Collins stayed in orbit in the command module.
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