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. Sanjukta Panigrahi, Madhavi Mudgal and Sonal Mansingh are all associated with Odissi, which was revived in the 1950s largely under Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.
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Bismillah Khan was associated with?
Answer: B
Bismillah Khan was associated with the shehnai.
He raised what had been a temple and wedding instrument to the concert platform, and played at the Red Fort on the eve of independence in 1947. He received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
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Ben kingsley is associated with which of the following fields?
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.
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Graham Green was associated with which of the fields?
Answer: D
Graham Greene was associated with literature.
The English novelist wrote The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American and The Third Man, dividing his own work between serious novels and what he called entertainments.
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Who headed the committee on 'computerisation' in Indian Banks(1988)?
Answer: D
C. Rangarajan headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks in 1988.
Then a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, he chaired the committee that laid out the phased plan for bank automation - branch computerisation first, then regional and head-office networking. He later became Governor of the RBI. M. Narasimham chaired the banking-sector reform committees of 1991 and 1998.
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Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, who has won the prestigious 'Grammy Awards' is an exponent in which of the following musical instruments?
Answer: A
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt plays a guitar.
He modified the Hawaiian slide guitar by adding sympathetic and drone strings, creating the instrument he named the Mohan Veena. He won the Grammy in 1994 for A Meeting by the River, recorded with Ry Cooder.
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R. K. Laxman is a renowned
Answer: C
R.K. Laxman was a renowned cartoonist.
His pocket cartoon 'You Said It' ran in The Times of India for some fifty years, and its silent, bewildered Common Man became the emblem of the ordinary Indian citizen. He was the younger brother of the novelist R.K. Narayan.
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Dr. Joon Lew of korea, the recipient of international Gandhi Award is known for his service in the?
Answer: A
Dr Joon Lew is known for work on the eradication of leprosy.
The Korean physician devoted his career to leprosy research and to the rehabilitation of patients, and received the International Gandhi Award for it.
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Jude Felix is a famous Indian player in which of the fields?
Answer: D
Jude Felix is a famous Indian hockey player.
He captained the national team in the 1990s, played at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, and received the Arjuna Award in 1994. He later coached the junior national side.
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Who is the famous Sarod player?
Answer: D
Amjad Ali Khan is the famous sarod player.
He is the sixth generation of the Bangash family of sarod players and received the Padma Vibhushan in 2001. Hari Prasad Chaurasia plays the flute, Zakir Hussain the tabla and Ram Narayan the sarangi.
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