Who said “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”?
Answer: C
Jawaharlal Nehru said it.
The words open his 'Tryst with Destiny' speech, delivered to the Constituent Assembly just before midnight on 14 August 1947 as India became independent.
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Who was the first Indian mathematician elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London?
Answer: C
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the first Indian mathematician elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was elected in 1918, aged thirty, one of the youngest Fellows in the Society's history, for his work on elliptic functions and the theory of numbers. C.V. Raman was elected in 1924 and Ardaseer Cursetjee, an engineer, had become the first Indian Fellow of any kind in 1841.
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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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What is common between Manjit bawa,Tyeb mehta and Satish Gujral ?
Answer: B
They were all painters.
Manjit Bawa, Tyeb Mehta and Satish Gujral are among the leading Indian modernists. Mehta's Celebration was the first Indian painting to fetch over a million dollars at auction.
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Stefan Edberg is famous in which sport/game ?
Answer: A
He is famous in tennis.
The Swede won six grand slam singles titles between 1985 and 1992 and was the last great exponent of serve and volley. The ATP sportsmanship award carries his name.
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Which former Indian cricketer is known as "Dada"?
Answer: C
It is Sourav Ganguly.
Dada is Bengali for elder brother. Ganguly captained India in 49 Tests, winning 21, and is credited with building the side that later won overseas. Vengsarkar was known as the Colonel.
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Norman Ernest Borlaug is called as ?
Answer: A
He is called the father of the green revolution.
Norman Borlaug bred the semi-dwarf, disease-resistant wheat that transformed yields in Mexico, India and Pakistan, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. He is often said to have saved a billion lives.
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Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?
Answer: D
It is Tim Berners-Lee.
He proposed the web at CERN in 1989 and wrote the first browser and server the following year, defining HTTP, HTML and the URL. He gave the whole thing away royalty-free in 1993, which is why it spread.
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Who is known as the ?saint of the gutters??
Answer: A
It is Mother Teresa.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity at Calcutta in 1950 and worked among the destitute and dying, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and canonisation in 2016.
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Elvis Presley was a famous _____
Answer: D
He was an American pop singer.
Elvis Presley sold more records than any other solo performer and brought rhythm and blues into the mainstream of American popular music in the 1950s.
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