With which of the following was satyajit Ray associated
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.
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Which among the famous danseuses is not an exponent of the Odissi dance style
Answer: D
Yamini Krishnamurthy is not an Odissi exponent.
She was a leading dancer of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi and was named the asthana nartaki of the Tirumala temple. Sanjukta Panigrahi, Sonal Mansingh and Madhavi Mudgal all belong to the Odissi tradition.
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Who amongst the following is a famous Sarod player
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 Ram Narayan the sarangi.
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Who among the following persons is called ' Desert Fox '
Answer: B
Erwin Rommel was called the Desert Fox.
He commanded the German Afrika Korps from 1941, and the name came from his British opponents, who admired the speed and deception of his armoured campaigns in North Africa. He was made to take his own life in 1944 after being linked to the July plot against Hitler.
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Who among the following was an aminent painter
Answer: A
Sarada Ukil was an eminent painter.
A Bengal School artist who trained under Abanindranath Tagore, he founded the Sarada Ukil School of Art in Delhi in 1926. Uday Shankar was a dancer, V. Shantaram a film director and Yusuf Meherally a socialist leader who coined the slogan 'Quit India'.
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Ms M. Fathima Beevi is distinguished as the first lady
Answer: C
M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court.
She was appointed in 1989 and later served as Governor of Tamil Nadu. Anna Chandy, appointed to the Kerala High Court in 1959, was the first woman High Court judge, and Sarojini Naidu the first woman Governor of a state.
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Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was a maestro of which of the following dance forms?
Answer: A
Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was a maestro of Odissi.
He was the central figure in the revival of Odissi from the 1950s, drawing on the gotipua tradition and on the temple sculpture of Konark and Puri. Sanjukta Panigrahi, Sonal Mansingh and Madhavi Mudgal were among his pupils.
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Prof. Amartya Sen has earned worldwide distinction in which of the following fields/areas
Answer: A
Professor Amartya Sen earned his distinction in economics.
He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1998 for contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for showing that famines arise from the loss of entitlement to food rather than from its absence.
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Name an eminent cartoonist who created the comic book character like Chacha Chaudary and Sabu who died in 2014 ?
Answer: B
Pran Kumar Sharma created Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu.
He began the strip in 1971 in the Hindi magazine Lotpot, and the character - whose brain 'works faster than a computer' - became the best-known Indian comic figure. Pran died in August 2014.
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Limba Ram is associated with which of the following fields
Answer: B
Limba Ram is associated with sports.
An archer from a tribal family in Rajasthan, he equalled the world record in 1992 and competed at three Olympic Games, and received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri.
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