Famous Personalities Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Charulata is based on Tagore's Nastanirh.

Ray's 1964 film adapts the novella 'The Broken Nest', about the lonely wife of a newspaper editor and her feeling for his cousin. Ray regarded it as the film he would change least, and it won him the Silver Bear for direction at Berlin.

Answer: C

The description fits G.D. Birla.

He began in the jute and cotton trade, built one of India's largest industrial houses, financed Congress activity and Harijan welfare, and was a close associate of Gandhi - who was staying at Birla House in Delhi when he was assassinated in 1948.

Answer: D

Janet Yellen became Chair of the Federal Reserve in February 2014.

She succeeded Ben Bernanke and was the first woman to hold the post, serving until 2018. She later became the first woman Secretary of the Treasury.

Answer: D

Robin Williams was known as an actor and comedian.

He began in stand-up and television with Mork & Mindy, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting in 1998. He also starred in Dead Poets Society and Mrs Doubtfire, and died in 2014.

Answer: D

V.R. Krishna Iyer was an eminent jurist.

A judge of the Supreme Court from 1973 to 1980, he did much to open up public interest litigation, relaxing the rule on who may approach the court, and wrote judgments in a highly individual prose. He died in December 2014, aged 100.

Answer: D

Ben Kingsley is associated with motion pictures.

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1983 for the title role in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. Born Krishna Pandit Bhanji to a Gujarati father and an English mother, he took the stage name early in his career.

Answer: C

Salar Jung was the celebrated collector of artefacts and curios.

Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III, Prime Minister of Hyderabad, spent a large part of his fortune assembling paintings, sculpture, textiles, arms and clocks from across the world. His collection is now the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, one of the three National Museums of India.

Answer: B

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was elected President unopposed.

He was chosen in 1977 without a contest, the only President so elected. He had earlier been the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and twice Speaker of the Lok Sabha, and had lost the presidential election of 1969 to V.V. Giri.

Answer: D

Muhammad Yunus belongs to Bangladesh.

He founded Grameen Bank and pioneered microcredit, lending small sums without collateral chiefly to rural women, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the bank in 2006.

Answer: B

Kamalesh Sharma was the first Indian chosen as Commonwealth Secretary-General.

A career diplomat who had been India's High Commissioner in London, he held the office from 2008 to 2016.