Who was Charu Majumdhar ?
Answer: B
Charu Majumdar was the founder of the Naxalite movement.
With Kanu Sanyal he led the peasant uprising at Naxalbari in north Bengal in 1967, and founded the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) in 1969. He died in police custody in 1972.
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Who among the following has served as Secretary-General of the United Nations?
Answer: A
Kofi Annan served as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The Ghanaian diplomat held the office from 1997 to 2006, the first to rise to it from within the UN staff, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the organisation in 2001. Shashi Tharoor was an Under-Secretary-General and a candidate for the post in 2006.
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The newly launched toll-free helpline number for Unique Identification Authority of India is?
Answer: B
It is 1947.
UIDAI's toll-free Aadhaar helpline is 1947 - chosen so that it would be easy to remember. It operates in twelve languages.
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The birth place of an iconic personality, Amrita Sher Gil, is
Answer: A
Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Hungary.
She was born at Budapest in 1913 to a Sikh aristocrat father and a Hungarian-Jewish mother, trained in Paris, and returned to India in 1934. Her work fused post-impressionist technique with Indian subjects and colour, and she died at twenty-eight.
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Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, who has won the prestigious 'Grammy Awards' is an exponent in which of the following musical instruments?
Answer: A
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt plays a guitar.
He modified the Hawaiian slide guitar by adding sympathetic and drone strings, creating the instrument he named the Mohan Veena. He won the Grammy in 1994 for A Meeting by the River, recorded with Ry Cooder.
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Who has won 48th Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2016 ?
Answer: A
K. Vishwanath won the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2016.
The Telugu director made Sankarabharanam, Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam, films built around classical music and dance. The award was presented in 2017.
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Who was the chairman of 14th Finance Commission?
Answer: C
Y.V. Reddy chaired the Fourteenth Finance Commission.
A former Governor of the Reserve Bank, he headed the commission appointed in 2013, whose report raised the states' share of central taxes from 32 to 42 per cent - the largest such increase ever recommended.
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Who is the first women chief minister in India ?
Answer: D
Sucheta Kripalani was India's first woman Chief Minister.
She led Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967. She had earlier been a member of the Constituent Assembly and sang Vande Mataram in the House on the eve of independence.
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Vikram Seth is a/an famous ?
Answer: D
He is a writer.
Vikram Seth wrote A Suitable Boy, one of the longest novels in English in a single volume, and The Golden Gate, a novel written entirely in sonnets.
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Who among the following was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court?
Answer: D
Leila Seth was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court.
She headed the Himachal Pradesh High Court from 1991. She had earlier been the first woman to top the London bar examination, and served on the Justice Verma Committee on criminal law after 2012. M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court.
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