To whom the line A thing of beauty is a joy forever is attributed?
Answer: A
The line is John Keats's.
It opens Endymion (1818), and the sentence continues: its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness. Keats died at twenty-five, three years after writing it.
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Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned player of
Answer: C
Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned flute player.
He plays the bansuri, the bamboo transverse flute, and is credited with raising it to the front rank of Hindustani classical instruments. He received the Padma Vibhushan in 2000.
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Who is the creator of the Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Answer: D
Nek Chand created the Rock Garden in Chandigarh.
A road inspector, he began it secretly in 1957 on government land, building sculptures from industrial and household waste - broken bangles, tiles, sockets. Discovered in 1975, it was preserved rather than demolished and now covers some forty acres.
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Who has been selected for the prestigious 2016 Jnanpith Award ?
Answer: B
Shankha Ghosh received the 2016 Jnanpith Award.
The Bengali poet and critic, a noted scholar of Tagore, was the sixth Bengali writer to be honoured. He died in April 2021.
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Who is the Flying Sikh of India?
Answer: D
Milkha Singh is the Flying Sikh.
He won gold in the 400 metres at the 1958 Commonwealth and Asian Games and finished fourth at the 1960 Rome Olympics in a time that stood as the national record for nearly forty years. President Ayub Khan of Pakistan gave him the name after a race in Lahore.
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Shovana Narayan is a reputed personality in which of following fields?
Answer: C
Shovana Narayan is reputed in classical dance.
A leading Kathak dancer and disciple of Birju Maharaj, she combined performance with a career in the Indian Audit and Accounts Service, and received the Padma Shri in 1992.
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Who among the following is the teen pop singer & musician, over 33 million followers on Twitter?
Answer: C
Justin Bieber is the teen pop singer with tens of millions of followers.
The Canadian singer was discovered on YouTube in 2008 and had one of the most followed accounts on Twitter for years. Halle Berry is an actor, Bernardo Bertolucci was a film director and William Blake a poet.
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Satyen Bose has shown his excellence in which of the following fields?
Answer: D
Satyen Bose excelled in motion pictures.
He directed in Bengali and Hindi, and is remembered for Jagriti (1954), which won the Filmfare Award for Best Film, and for Dosti (1964). He is not to be confused with the physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.
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Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which of the following fields?
Answer: B
Girilal Jain was a noted figure in journalism.
He edited The Times of India from 1978 to 1988 and received the Padma Bhushan in 1989.
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What is the sequence number of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of the Republic India?
Answer: D
Pranab Mukherjee was the 13th President of India.
He held office from 2012 to 2017, having served as Finance Minister, External Affairs Minister and Defence Minister over a career of more than fifty years. He received the Bharat Ratna in 2019.
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