Who of the following has been inducted into National Academy of Engineering in the United States of America?
Answer: C
Ratan Tata was inducted into the US National Academy of Engineering.
He was elected a foreign associate in 2010, in recognition of the Tata group's engineering achievements - among them the Nano, the world's cheapest production car.
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Bulo C. Rani was associated with which of the following fields
Answer: D
Bulo C. Rani was associated with motion pictures.
He was a music director in Hindi cinema from the 1940s, best remembered for the score of Jogan (1950), whose songs Geeta Dutt sang.
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Who was sworn in as the 44th Chief Justice of India (CJI) recently ?
Answer: C
Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was sworn in as the 44th Chief Justice of India.
He took office in January 2017 and was the first Sikh to hold the post. His court delivered the judgments striking down instant triple talaq and recognising privacy as a fundamental right.
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Who had announced that democracy is a government " of the people, by the people and for the people " ?
Answer: A
Abraham Lincoln gave that definition of democracy.
The phrase closes the Gettysburg Address of 19 November 1863, delivered at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery there. The whole speech ran to under three minutes and some 270 words.
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Who was known as the 'Father of Lok Sabha' ?
Answer: A
G.V. Mavalankar was the Father of the Lok Sabha.
The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, from 1952 to 1956, he had earlier presided over the Constituent Assembly (Legislative). Nehru gave him the title for establishing the conventions of the House.
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Kuldip Nayarr, a journalist was appointed as a high commissioner in
Answer: A
Kuldip Nayar was appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
The journalist, who had edited The Statesman and been detained during the Emergency, served in London in 1990–91 and was later nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
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The most powerful woman in business in India as related by the "Fortune" for the year 2012 is:
Answer: A
Chanda Kochhar was named the most powerful woman in Indian business by Fortune for 2012.
She was then Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank, having joined it as a management trainee in 1984 and led its retail banking expansion.
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Who is considered as 'Trimurti' of Carnatic Music?
Answer: A
Muthuswami Dikshitar is one of the Trinity of Carnatic music.
The three - Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Syama Sastri - were born at Tiruvarur within a few years of each other in the late eighteenth century. Dikshitar composed largely in Sanskrit and is noted for his slow tempo and his use of rare ragas.
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The famous historian Bipin Chandra authored which book as his last work?
Answer: A
His last work was The Writings of Bipan Chandra: The Making of Modern India from Marx to Gandhi.
The collection was published in 2012, two years before his death. He was better known for India's Struggle for Independence and for the NCERT history textbooks he wrote.
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Jamini Roy is a famous
Answer: D
Jamini Roy was a famous painter.
He turned from the Western academic style he had been trained in to the folk idiom of Bengal, painting in flat colour and bold line with earth pigments on cloth, and made his work deliberately affordable.
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