Who was the first Hindu-American to be elected to the US House of Representatives?
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.
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Jamini Roy was a famous?
Answer: B
Jamini Roy was a famous painter.
Trained in the Western academic style, he turned away from it to the Kalighat pat and the folk traditions of Bengal, working in flat colour and bold line with earth pigments on cloth. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1955.
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Who said “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”?
Answer: C
Jawaharlal Nehru said it.
The words open his 'Tryst with Destiny' speech, delivered to the Constituent Assembly just before midnight on 14 August 1947 as India became independent.
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Which country has given asylum to Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder?
Answer: B
Ecuador gave asylum to Julian Assange.
He entered the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012 and was granted asylum that August, remaining inside for nearly seven years until Ecuador withdrew it in April 2019 and he was arrested.
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Vikram Pandit is associated with which of the following banks?
Answer: C
Vikram Pandit is associated with Citigroup.
Born in Nagpur, he was chief executive from December 2007 to October 2012, taking over as the financial crisis broke and leading the bank through its bailout and repayment.
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Shovna Narayan is a reputed personality in which of the following fields
Answer: C
Shovana Narayan is reputed in classical dance.
She is a leading Kathak dancer, a disciple of Birju Maharaj, who for many years combined performance with a career in the Indian Audit and Accounts Service. She received the Padma Shri in 1992.
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Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was a maestro of which of the following dance forms?
Answer: A
Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was a maestro of Odissi.
He was the central figure in the revival of Odissi from the 1950s, drawing on the gotipua tradition and on the temple sculpture of Konark and Puri. Sanjukta Panigrahi, Sonal Mansingh and Madhavi Mudgal were among his pupils.
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Who topped the Forbes list of the richest people in China in 2017?
Answer: D
Hui Ka Yan topped the Forbes list of China's richest in 2017.
The founder of the property developer Evergrande Group saw his fortune rise to about $43 billion that year as the company's share price climbed, overtaking Jack Ma and Wang Jianlin.
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Who gave the Slogan Inquilab Zindabadh ?
Answer: C
Hasrat Mohani coined the slogan Inquilab Zindabad.
The Urdu poet and freedom fighter used it in the 1920s, and Bhagat Singh and B.K. Dutt made it famous by shouting it in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929. Mohani was also the first to demand complete independence, at the Ahmedabad Congress of 1921.
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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 built the Amul cooperative at Anand and led Operation Flood from 1970, which made India the world's largest milk producer. He is called the Father of the White Revolution.
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