Who was the longest-serving Chief Minister in India?
Answer: B
Pawan Chamling was India's longest-serving Chief Minister.
He led Sikkim continuously from December 1994 to May 2019, twenty-four years and five months, passing Jyoti Basu's record of twenty-three years in West Bengal.
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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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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 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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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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Who was Simon Bolivar ?
Answer: B
Simón Bolívar was a great liberator.
He is called El Libertador for leading Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to independence from Spain between 1819 and 1825. Bolivia is named after him.
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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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Who was the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal?
Answer: A
Jyoti Basu was the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal.
He led the Left Front government from June 1977 to November 2000, twenty-three years in all - then a national record, since surpassed by Pawan Chamling of Sikkim.
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R.K.Laxman excelled as
Answer: C
R.K. Laxman excelled as a cartoonist.
His pocket cartoon 'You Said It' ran in The Times of India for about fifty years, and its silent Common Man in a checked coat became the emblem of the ordinary Indian citizen. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2005.
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Miss Universe 1994, Ms. Sushmita Sen hails from which of the following cities?
Answer: C
Sushmita Sen hails from New Delhi.
She won Miss Universe in 1994 at Manila, becoming the first Indian to hold that title, in the same year that Aishwarya Rai won Miss World.
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