Mani ratnam is a famous ?
Answer: A
He is a director.
Mani Ratnam made Nayakan, Roja, Bombay and Iruvar, and is credited with bringing a new visual language and political subject matter to mainstream Tamil cinema.
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With which field was the Late BKS Iyengar associated?
Answer: A
B.K.S. Iyengar was a yoga guru.
He founded the Iyengar school, which stresses precise alignment and the use of props such as belts and blocks, and wrote Light on Yoga in 1966, the book that did most to spread the practice in the West. He died in 2014, aged 95.
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Who is known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Answer: A
Florence Nightingale is the Lady with the Lamp.
The name comes from her rounds of the wards at night during the Crimean War, when she tended the wounded at Scutari and cut the death rate sharply by improving sanitation. She founded modern nursing and the first secular nursing school, at St Thomas's Hospital in 1860.
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Chandi Prasad Bhatt is a well known:
Answer: A
Chandi Prasad Bhatt is a well-known environmentalist and social activist.
He was a founder of the Chipko movement in Uttarakhand in 1973, in which villagers embraced trees to stop them being felled. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982 and the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2013.
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Dr. V.Kurien has distinguished himself in which of the following areas
Answer: C
Dr Verghese Kurien distinguished himself in dairy development.
He founded Amul at Anand and led Operation Flood, the world's largest dairy development programme, which made India the largest milk producer in the world. He is called the Father of the White Revolution.
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Which peak did Phu Dorjee, the first Indian to climb solo without oxygen, scale in 1984?
Answer: A
Phu Dorjee scaled Mount Everest.
In May 1984 he became the first Indian to reach the summit solo and without supplementary oxygen. He died the following year in an avalanche on Kanchenjunga.
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Name the person popularly known as Gurudev
Answer: B
Rabindranath Tagore is popularly known as Gurudev.
Gandhi is generally credited with addressing him so, and Tagore in turn called Gandhi Mahatma. Tagore founded Santiniketan and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.
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Indians who have been featured on Forbe's list of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds ?
Answer: D
All of the above - Ratan Tata, Lakshmi Mittal and Vinod Khosla.
All three appeared on the Forbes list of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds, published in 2017 for the magazine's centenary: Tata for the Tata group, Mittal for ArcelorMittal and Khosla for co-founding Sun Microsystems and for venture capital.
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Who of the following has called Subhash Chandra Bose as 'Desh Nayak'?
Answer: C
Rabindranath Tagore called Subhas Chandra Bose 'Deshnayak'.
He conferred the title in 1939, dedicating his book Taser Desh to him. Tagore, though committed to non-violence, admired Bose's leadership; Gandhi later called him the Prince among the Patriots.
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Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, this woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. In which Indian city did she do that work?
Answer: B
It was Kolkata.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, born in Skopje to Albanian parents, came to India in 1929 and founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950. She worked there until her death in 1997.
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