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431.

Limba Ram is associated with which of the following fields

Answer: B

Limba Ram is associated with sports.

An archer from a tribal family in Rajasthan, he equalled the world record in 1992 and competed at three Olympic Games, and received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri.

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432.

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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433.

Who is called the father of genetics?

Answer: A

Gregor Mendel is the father of genetics.

The Austrian monk's experiments with some 28,000 pea plants, published in 1866, established the laws of segregation and independent assortment. His work was ignored until it was rediscovered in 1900, sixteen years after his death.

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435.

Who among the following was thrice elected President of the Indian National Congress?

Answer: A

Dadabhai Naoroji was three times President of the Indian National Congress.

He presided at Calcutta in 1886, Lahore in 1893 and Calcutta again in 1906, where he first used the word swaraj from the Congress platform. He was also the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons.

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436.

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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437.

Who among the following Indian Prime Ministers received "NISHAN-E-PAKISTAN" the highest civilian award in Pakistan?

Answer: A

Morarji Desai received the Nishan-e-Pakistan.

Pakistan's highest civilian award was conferred on him in 1990, some years after his term as Prime Minister, for his efforts to improve relations between the two countries. He also holds the Bharat Ratna.

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440.

Who Directed the film on the dacoit queen Phoolan Devi?

Answer: B

Shekhar Kapur directed the film on Phoolan Devi.

Bandit Queen (1994) was based on Mala Sen's book and starred Seema Biswas. Its frank treatment of caste violence and rape made it controversial, and Phoolan Devi herself objected to it.

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