"Freedom From Fear" is a book written by-
Answer: C
Freedom from Fear was written by Aung San Suu Kyi, a collection of essays published in 1991.
She was then under house arrest in Burma, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that year. The title essay begins: it is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Who said these words: “When I wash a leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Touch a leper, touch him with love”?
Answer: A
Mother Teresa said it.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950 and worked among the destitute and the dying for nearly fifty years. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was canonised in 2016.
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"Alice in Wonderland" the famous TV Serial is based on a book written by
Answer: C
It was Lewis Carroll.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, was written by Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician, under a pen name, for Alice Liddell, the daughter of his college dean.
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"A secular agenda" is a book written by
Answer: C
A Secular Agenda was written by Arun Shourie, published in 1993.
He was a journalist, editor of the Indian Express and later a minister, and the book argues for a secularism founded on a uniform civil code rather than on group rights.
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Who is the author of the book "Naked Triangle"?
Answer: C
It is Balwant Gargi.
The Punjabi playwright and director published The Naked Triangle in 1979 - an autobiographical novel whose frankness about his marriage and his circle caused considerable offence.
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The most important divinity in the Rig Veda is:
Answer: D
Indra is the most important divinity in the Rig Veda.
About a quarter of its 1,028 hymns are addressed to him - some 250 - more than to any other god. Agni comes next with about 200, and Varuna, though morally the loftiest, has far fewer.
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Who is the author of "Unhappy India"?
Answer: B
It is Lala Lajpat Rai.
Unhappy India of 1928 answered Katherine Mayo's Mother India, which had used accounts of Indian social conditions to argue that Indians were unfit for self-government.
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What is the real name of Merilin Monro?
Answer: B
Marilyn Monroe's real name was Norma Jeane Baker, born in Los Angeles in 1926.
She was christened Norma Jeane Mortenson and baptised Baker, her mother's earlier married name, and adopted the stage name in 1946.
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Which one of the following four Vedas contains an account of magical charms and spells?
Answer: C
Indian medicine (Ayurveda) is traditionally traced to the Atharva Veda, the fourth Veda.
Unlike the Rig, Sama and Yajur Vedas, which centre on hymns, chants and sacrificial formulae, the Atharva Veda contains charms and remedies against disease. Ayurveda is therefore usually described as an upaveda (subsidiary Veda) of the Atharva Veda.
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Who directed the film "Sardar"?
Answer: D
Sardar (1993), the biographical film on Vallabhbhai Patel, was directed by Ketan Mehta.
Paresh Rawal played Patel. Mehta also directed Mirch Masala and Bhavni Bhavai.
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