Who said “Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India”?
Answer: A
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee gave that formulation.
It expresses the vision of his novel Anandamath (1882), where the motherland is worshipped as a goddess and service to her is a religious duty. The song Vande Mataram, which appears in that novel, gives the idea its most familiar form.
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From the following who is referred as ?Nightingale of india ? ?
Answer: B
It is Sarojini Naidu.
Gandhi gave her the name Bharat Kokila for her poetry. She was the first Indian woman to preside over the Congress, in 1925, and the first woman to be governor of an Indian state, at Uttar Pradesh.
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Ms Bachendri Pal undertook a unique expedition to focus attention on which of these?
Answer: D
The expedition was to focus attention on the spirit of adventure.
Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Everest in 1984, later led the Indian Women's Trans-Himalayan Expedition of 1997, which traversed some 4,500 km from Arunachal Pradesh to Siachen.
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Who among the following was the first lady Prime Minister in the World?
Answer: A
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the world's first woman Prime Minister.
She took office in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, in July 1960, after the assassination of her husband, and served three terms in all. Indira Gandhi became India's Prime Minister six years later.
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Hrithik Roshan has turned down an offer to act in the Warner Brothers film, .... due to unavailability of dates.
Answer: B
The film was Hamlet.
Hrithik Roshan was offered a role in the Warner Brothers project but had to decline for want of dates, a point that was widely reported at the time.
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Ashok Pandit is known for his outstanding performance in which field?
Answer: C
Ashok Pandit is known for shooting.
He won a gold medal in trap shooting at the 1986 Asian Games at Seoul, one of India's early successes in the sport.
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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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Who among the following was sworn in as Lokayukta of Rajasthan?
Answer: B
Sajjan Singh Kothari was sworn in as Lokayukta of Rajasthan.
A retired judge of the Rajasthan High Court, he took office in 2013. The Lokayukta is a state-level ombudsman who inquires into allegations against public functionaries.
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The country which has topped the Global Competitiveness Index, GCI 2016-17 released in September 2016.
Answer: A
It was Switzerland.
Switzerland topped the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index for 2016-17, as it had for eight successive years, ahead of Singapore and the United States. India stood 39th.
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Which one of the following films directed by Satyajit Ray is based on the story Nastaneer written by Rabindranath Tagore?
Answer: A
Charulata is based on Tagore's Nastanirh.
Ray's 1964 film adapts the novella 'The Broken Nest', about the lonely wife of a newspaper editor and her feeling for his cousin. Ray regarded it as the film he would change least, and it won him the Silver Bear for direction at Berlin.
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