Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Answer: D
The mismatched pair is Vikram Pandit : IDBI.
Vikram Pandit headed Citigroup, not IDBI. The other three are correct: O.P. Bhatt chaired the State Bank of India, K.V. Kamath led ICICI, and Aditya Puri built HDFC Bank.
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Who among the following was thrice elected President of the Indian National Congress?
Answer: A
Dadabhai Naoroji was three times President of the Indian National Congress.
He presided at Calcutta in 1886, Lahore in 1893 and Calcutta again in 1906, where he first used the word swaraj from the Congress platform. He was also the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons.
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Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus belongs to which one of the following countries?
Answer: D
Muhammad Yunus belongs to Bangladesh.
He founded Grameen Bank and pioneered microcredit, lending small sums without collateral chiefly to rural women, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the bank in 2006.
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Who was the longest-serving Chief Minister in India?
Answer: B
Pawan Chamling was India's longest-serving Chief Minister.
He led Sikkim continuously from December 1994 to May 2019, twenty-four years and five months, passing Jyoti Basu's record of twenty-three years in West Bengal.
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Who among the following was the first lady Prime Minister in the World?
Answer: A
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the world's first woman Prime Minister.
She took office in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, in July 1960, after the assassination of her husband, and served three terms in all. Indira Gandhi became India's Prime Minister six years later.
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Who is called the father of genetics?
Answer: A
Gregor Mendel is the father of genetics.
The Austrian monk's experiments with some 28,000 pea plants, published in 1866, established the laws of segregation and independent assortment. His work was ignored until it was rediscovered in 1900, sixteen years after his death.
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Mulk Raj Anand was a famous writer in which language?
Answer: B
Mulk Raj Anand wrote in English.
With R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao he was one of the three founders of Indian fiction in English. His Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936) turned the novel into an instrument of social protest.
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Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?
Answer: B
Arati Saha was the first Indian woman to swim the English Channel.
She crossed from Cap Gris-Nez to Sandgate in September 1959, aged nineteen, in 16 hours 20 minutes, and was the first Asian woman to do so. She became the first sportswoman to receive the Padma Shri.
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Who is called the father of Ayurveda?
Answer: B
Charaka is called the father of Ayurveda.
The Charaka Samhita, the foundational text of Indian internal medicine, is attributed to him. He is thought to have lived around the first or second century AD and served in the court of Kanishka. Sushruta holds the corresponding place in surgery.
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Who among the following was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court?
Answer: D
Leila Seth was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court.
She headed the Himachal Pradesh High Court from 1991. She had earlier been the first woman to top the London bar examination, and served on the Justice Verma Committee on criminal law after 2012. M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court.
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