Who is the author of "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind" ?
Answer: B
It is Deepak Chopra.
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, published in 1993, argues that ageing is influenced by consciousness and expectation. Its sales were driven by a television appearance, and it made him among the best-known writers on alternative medicine.
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Who is author of the book "Preparing for the Twenty First Century "
Answer: C
It is Paul Kennedy.
The Yale historian published Preparing for the Twenty-First Century in 1993, on population growth, environmental pressure and technological change - a sequel in argument to his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
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The quotation "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them" is attributed to
Answer: C
It is Shakespeare.
The line is from Twelfth Night, read out by Malvolio from the forged letter that persuades him Olivia loves him - so the grandest sentence in the play is a trap laid for a vain man.
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Who is the author of the book "The way of Knife: The CIA, A secret army and a war at the ends of the earth" ?
Answer: D
It is Mark Mazzetti.
The New York Times correspondent's The Way of the Knife, published in 2013, traces how the CIA turned from spying to killing after 2001, and how the military built an intelligence service of its own.
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Which Indian-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure and evolution of stars?
Answer: A
It was Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for the theoretical study of the structure and evolution of stars - work begun at nineteen on the voyage to England, showing that a white dwarf above about 1.44 solar masses cannot support itself. Eddington ridiculed it publicly, and it took decades to be accepted.
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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was instituted in
Answer: D
It was instituted in 1968.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was created by the Swedish central bank on its 300th anniversary and first awarded in 1969. It is not one of the five prizes in Nobel's will.
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What is the unique about the film " Adi Shankaracharya "
Answer: A
It is the first Sanskrit film.
G. V. Iyer's 1983 film was the first feature made in Sanskrit and won four National Awards, including Best Feature Film. It was not his first film, and it does have women in the cast.
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Who is the author of the book "Panditharadya Charitham" ?
Answer: D
It is Palkuriki Somanatha.
The thirteenth-century Telugu poet wrote Panditaradhya Charitamu on the Virashaiva teacher Mallikarjuna Panditaradhya, and also the Basava Puranamu. He wrote in the desi metres of ordinary speech rather than classical Sanskritised Telugu.
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Who is the author of the book "Chronicles of Corpse Bearer" ?
Answer: C
It is Cyrus Mistry.
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, published in 2012, follows a khandhia, one of the Parsi corpse bearers who live apart at the Towers of Silence. It won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2014.
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Which of the following is a film directed by Mr. Buddhadeb Das Gupta
Answer: A
It is Uttara.
Buddhadeb Dasgupta's 2000 film about two wrestlers in a Bengal railway village won him the Silver Lion for direction at Venice. Krantiveer, Mohra and 1942: A Love Story are Hindi commercial films by other directors.
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