Famous Personalities Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Jaipur was designed by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya.

Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, a Bengali scholar and architect in the service of Sawai Jai Singh II, planned Jaipur in 1727. He laid it out on a grid of rectangular blocks, following the principles of the Shilpa Shastra and Vastu Shastra, with wide straight streets, which made it one of the earliest planned cities of India; its walled city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Frank Gehry, B.V. Doshi and Zaha Hadid are modern architects of the 20th and 21st centuries, centuries too late to have designed an 18th-century city.

Answer: A

The first curator was Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha.

The Rajputana Museum in Ajmer, housed in Akbar's palace, opened in 1908, and the historian Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha was appointed its first curator. He was a leading historian and epigraphist of Rajasthan, known for his histories of its princely states and for Bharatiya Prachin Lipimala on ancient Indian scripts.

Kaviraj Shyamaldas wrote Vir Vinod, the history of Mewar, Bavji Chatur Singh was a Mewari saint-poet, and Komal Kothari was a folklorist who founded Rupayan Sansthan; none of them was the museum's first curator.

Answer: B

Hitendra Desai was known in politics.

He was Chief Minister of Gujarat from 1965 to 1971, the state's third, and later a Union Minister.

Answer: B

Kim Campbell was the first woman Prime Minister of Canada.

She took office in June 1993 and served for about four months, losing the general election that October. She remains Canada's only woman Prime Minister.

Answer: A

Subhas Chandra Bose is credited with founding the Azad Hind Fauj.

Captain Mohan Singh raised the first Indian National Army in 1942 from prisoners taken at Singapore, but it was dissolved that December. Bose revived and reorganised it in 1943, added the Rani of Jhansi regiment, and led it to Imphal.

Answer: B

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first posthumous recipient of the Bharat Ratna.

It was conferred in 1966, the year he died at Tashkent, hours after signing the agreement ending the war with Pakistan. He had given the country the slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'.

Answer: A

It was Antonio Guterres.

The former Prime Minister of Portugal and UN High Commissioner for Refugees was recommended by the Security Council in October 2016 and took office on 1 January 2017, succeeding Ban Ki-moon.

Answer: D

Jaspal Rana is associated with shooting.

A pistol shooter, he won gold at the 1994 Asian Games at fifteen and took nine Asian Games medals in all, as well as multiple Commonwealth Games golds. He received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri, and later coached Manu Bhaker.

Answer: A

G.D. Naidu is called the Edison of India.

A self-taught inventor from Coimbatore, he built India's first indigenous motor and the first Indian-made electric razor, and held a large number of patents. He had barely any formal schooling.

Answer: C

Hitendra Desai was a figure in politics.

He was Chief Minister of Gujarat from 1965 to 1971, the state's third, and later served as a Union Minister.