Who directed the film "Little Buddha"?
Answer: B
The Last Emperor (1987) was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
A biography of Puyi, the last emperor of China, it won nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Its score was co-written by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne.
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The serial "India"s Rajiv" was produced and directed by
Answer: A
The television talk show Rendezvous was hosted by Simi Garewal.
Formally titled Rendezvous with Simi Garewal, it ran from 1997 and was known for its white sets and intimate interviews. Garewal had earlier acted in Do Badan and Siddhartha.
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Who is the author of "Tom Sawyer"?
Answer: B
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was written by Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is often called the first great American novel.
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The author of controversial book "Lajja" is a citizen of
Answer: C
Lajja (Shame, 1993) is set in Bangladesh.
Taslima Nasrin's novel follows a Hindu family in Dhaka during the communal violence that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid. The book was banned in Bangladesh and the author forced into exile.
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Who directed the world famous film "The Gandhi"?
Answer: D
The film Gandhi (1982) was directed by Richard Attenborough.
It won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley. Attenborough spent nearly twenty years raising finance for the project.
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Who has won the Gyan Peeth Award for her book "Yama"?
Answer: D
Yama, the Hindi poetry collection that won the Jnanpith Award in 1982, was written by Mahadevi Verma.
She was a leading poet of the Chhayavaad (romantic) movement in Hindi and is often called the modern Meera.
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Who has written the famous book "Mankind and Mother Earth"?
Answer: A
Mankind and Mother Earth was written by Arnold J. Toynbee.
Published posthumously in 1976, it is a single-volume narrative history of the world. Toynbee is better known for the twelve-volume A Study of History.
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Which of the film is directed by Mr. Buddhadeb Gupta?
Answer: D
Charachar (1993) is the film by Buddhadeb Dasgupta.
Based on a story by Prafulla Roy, it follows a bird catcher who can no longer bring himself to cage birds. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.
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Who said "God helps those who help themselves"?
Answer: C
The line "Liars ought to have good memories" is attributed to Algernon Sidney, the English political theorist executed in 1683.
It appears in his Discourses Concerning Government, a defence of republican liberty published after his death.
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Who is the author of famous statement: "That Government is the best which governs least"?
Answer: D
Walden (1854) was written by Henry David Thoreau.
It records the two years he spent in a cabin beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts. His essay Civil Disobedience influenced both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
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