Famous Personalities Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Laxmi Agarwal received the International Women of Courage Award in 2014.

She was attacked with acid in Delhi in 2005, aged fifteen, and campaigned through Stop Acid Attacks. Her petition led the Supreme Court in 2013 to restrict the over-the-counter sale of acid. The film Chhapaak is based on her life.

Answer: C

Dr Amiya Chakravarty is known for being literary secretary to Rabindranath Tagore.

He served in that role from 1926 to 1933, travelling with Tagore, and was himself a poet of the post-Tagore generation in Bengali as well as a professor of comparative religion.

Answer: B

Yisrael Kristal was certified as the world's oldest man.

Born in Poland in 1903, he survived Auschwitz and settled in Haifa. Guinness recognised him in 2016, and he died in August 2017, a month short of his 114th birthday.

Answer: B

Mohammad Azharuddin represented Moradabad.

He won the seat for the Congress in the 2009 general election, having captained India in 47 Tests. He lost the seat in 2014.

Answer: A

Pandit Jasraj established his reputation in music.

A Hindustani classical vocalist of the Mewati gharana, he was known for his command of the khayal and for the Jasrangi jugalbandi, a duet form he devised for a male and a female voice singing different ragas at once. He received the Padma Vibhushan in 2000.

Answer: D

Satyajit Ray was associated with the direction of films.

He began as a commercial artist at an advertising agency, and it was illustrating an edition of Pather Panchali that led him to film it. He directed some thirty-six films and won an honorary Academy Award in 1992.

Answer: B

Paul Krugman is the economist of international fame.

He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 2008 for his work on new trade theory and economic geography, explaining why similar countries trade with each other and why economic activity clusters. He also writes a column for The New York Times.

Answer: C

Mukul Roy succeeded Dinesh Trivedi as Railway Minister.

He took office in March 2012 after the Trinamool Congress withdrew support from Trivedi over the passenger fare increases in his railway budget.

Answer: D

Amjad Ali Khan is the famous sarod player.

He is the sixth generation of the Bangash lineage of sarod players and received the Padma Vibhushan in 2001. Zakir Hussain plays the tabla, Hari Prasad Chaurasia the flute and Shiv Kumar Sharma the santoor.

Answer: A

Dr Kamal Bawa received the MIDORI Prize in 2014.

The prize, given every two years for outstanding contributions to biodiversity, went to him for work on tropical forest ecology and for founding the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment at Bangalore.