Ms Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime Minister of
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.
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Who is well known collector of artefacts and curios?
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.
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The first woman in space was
Answer: A
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.
She flew aboard Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963, orbiting the earth forty-eight times in nearly three days - more time in space than all the American astronauts put together up to that point. Sally Ride was the first American woman, in 1983.
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Who is Larry Pressler?
Answer: A
Larry Pressler is a politician.
He was a United States Senator from South Dakota, and gave his name to the Pressler Amendment of 1985, which barred American aid to Pakistan unless the President could certify that it possessed no nuclear explosive device.
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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 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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Dr. Amiya Chakravarthy is known for his
Answer: C
Dr Amiya Chakravarty is known for being literary secretary to Rabindranath Tagore.
He served in that role from 1926 to 1933, travelling with Tagore, and was himself a poet of the post-Tagore generation in Bengali as well as a professor of comparative religion.
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Which of the following was Satyajit Ray associated with?
Answer: C
Satyajit Ray was associated with film direction.
His first film, Pather Panchali (1955), opened the Apu Trilogy and brought Indian cinema international recognition. He also wrote the scripts, composed the music and designed the posters for most of his films, and received an honorary Oscar in 1992.
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Professor Amartya Sen is famous in which of the fields?
Answer: C
Professor Amartya Sen is famous in economics.
He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1998 for his work on welfare economics and social choice, and for showing that famines occur not because food is absent but because people lose the entitlement to obtain it.
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The first Indian to swim across English channel was
Answer: C
Mihir Sen was the first Indian to swim the English Channel, in 1958.
A lawyer from Calcutta, he went on in 1966 to swim the Palk Strait, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, the Bosphorus and the Panama Canal - five channels in one year. Arati Saha, in 1959, was the first Indian woman and the first Asian woman to cross the Channel.
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