Famous Personalities Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Charulata is based on Tagore's Nastanirh.

Ray's 1964 film adapts the novella 'The Broken Nest', about the lonely wife of a newspaper editor and her feeling for his cousin. Ray regarded it as the film he would change least, and it won him the Silver Bear for direction at Berlin.

Answer: B

Irom Chanu Sharmila belongs to Manipur.

She fasted from November 2000 to August 2016 - sixteen years, kept alive by nasal feeding in custody - demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, after security forces killed ten civilians at Malom.

Answer: B

Pran Kumar Sharma was famous as a cartoonist.

He created Chacha Chaudhary, Sabu, Billoo and Pinki, and is regarded as the father of the Indian comic strip. Chacha Chaudhary first appeared in Lotpot in 1971.

Answer: B

Sharad Yadav received the Best Parliamentarian Award for 2012.

The award, instituted in 1995, is given by the Indian Parliamentary Group on the recommendation of a committee headed by the Speaker. Yadav was then leader of the Janata Dal (United) in the Lok Sabha.

Answer: A

Sakari Momoi was from Japan.

Born in Fukushima in February 1903, he was recognised by Guinness World Records in 2014 as the world's oldest living man, and died in July 2015 at 112. Japan has long had among the highest numbers of centenarians in the world.

Answer: A

Tulsi Gabbard was the first Hindu-American elected to the US House of Representatives.

She won a Hawaii seat in 2012 and took her oath on the Bhagavad Gita. Ami Bera was elected to the House in the same year and is of Indian origin, but is not Hindu.

Answer: B

Barack Obama said it.

The words come from his farewell address at Chicago in January 2017, at the end of two terms as the 44th President of the United States.

Answer: A

Mahadevi Verma is called the modern Meera.

The name reflects the note of longing and mystical devotion in her Hindi verse. A leading poet of the Chhayavaad movement, she won the Jnanpith Award in 1982 for the collection Yama.

Answer: B

The Ahmadiyya movement was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

He began it at Qadian in Punjab in 1889, claiming to be the promised Messiah and Mahdi. The claim to prophethood put the movement outside mainstream Islam and led to its being declared non-Muslim in Pakistan in 1974.

Answer: A

Shah Rukh Khan was the brand ambassador for Interpol's Turn Back Crime campaign.

He joined the global awareness campaign in 2014. It sought to make the public aware of how ordinary choices - buying counterfeit goods, for instance - help fund organised crime.