Famous Personalities Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The 'Father of Green Revolution' in India is M. S. Swaminathan.

The agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan led the introduction and adaptation of high-yielding dwarf wheat and rice varieties in India in the 1960s, which together with irrigation and fertilisers made the country self-sufficient in food grains.

C. Subramaniam was the Union Agriculture Minister who backed the policy, B.P. Pal was a wheat breeder and K.C. Mehta a plant pathologist known for his work on wheat rust, but the title belongs to Swaminathan. Norman Borlaug holds it worldwide.

Answer: C

The first woman Chief Minister was Sucheta Kripalani.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963, the first woman to head any Indian state government.

Sarojini Naidu was the first woman Governor of an Indian state (United Provinces, 1947). Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime Minister. Rajkumari Amrita Kaur was independent India's first Health Minister. None of them was a Chief Minister.

Answer: A

The father of modern architecture in Tripura is Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya.

Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya, who ruled from 1923 to 1947, planned much of modern Agartala and built landmarks such as Neermahal, the water palace in Rudrasagar lake, which is why he is remembered as the architect of modern Tripura.

Kirit Bikram Kishore was his son and successor at the time of the merger with India. Birendra Kishore and Ishan Chandra Manikya were earlier rulers who are not given this title.

Answer: B

Hitendra Desai was known in politics.

He was Chief Minister of Gujarat from 1965 to 1971, the state's third, and later a Union Minister.

Answer: B

Kim Campbell was the first woman Prime Minister of Canada.

She took office in June 1993 and served for about four months, losing the general election that October. She remains Canada's only woman Prime Minister.

Answer: A

Subhas Chandra Bose is credited with founding the Azad Hind Fauj.

Captain Mohan Singh raised the first Indian National Army in 1942 from prisoners taken at Singapore, but it was dissolved that December. Bose revived and reorganised it in 1943, added the Rani of Jhansi regiment, and led it to Imphal.

Answer: B

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first posthumous recipient of the Bharat Ratna.

It was conferred in 1966, the year he died at Tashkent, hours after signing the agreement ending the war with Pakistan. He had given the country the slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'.

Answer: A

It was Antonio Guterres.

The former Prime Minister of Portugal and UN High Commissioner for Refugees was recommended by the Security Council in October 2016 and took office on 1 January 2017, succeeding Ban Ki-moon.

Answer: D

Jaspal Rana is associated with shooting.

A pistol shooter, he won gold at the 1994 Asian Games at fifteen and took nine Asian Games medals in all, as well as multiple Commonwealth Games golds. He received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri, and later coached Manu Bhaker.

Answer: A

G.D. Naidu is called the Edison of India.

A self-taught inventor from Coimbatore, he built India's first indigenous motor and the first Indian-made electric razor, and held a large number of patents. He had barely any formal schooling.