Who has been elected as US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) by US President-elect Donald Trump?
Answer: A
It was Nikki Haley.
The then Governor of South Carolina, born Nimrata Randhawa to Punjabi Sikh parents, was nominated US ambassador to the United Nations in 2016 and served until the end of 2018.
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Prof. Amartya Sen has earned worldwide distinction in which of the following fields/areas
Answer: A
Professor Amartya Sen earned his distinction in economics.
He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1998 for contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for showing that famines arise from the loss of entitlement to food rather than from its absence.
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To which country does Sakari Momoi, once the world’s oldest living man, belong?
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.
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Of the given options, who is often recognized as "Modern Meera" ?
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.
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Who succeeded General V.K. Singh as Chief of the Army Staff in 2012?
Answer: D
General Bikram Singh succeeded General V.K. Singh.
He took over as the 25th Chief of the Army Staff in May 2012 and served until July 2014, when General Dalbir Singh Suhag followed him.
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Who was the first Indian mathematician elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London?
Answer: C
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the first Indian mathematician elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was elected in 1918, aged thirty, one of the youngest Fellows in the Society's history, for his work on elliptic functions and the theory of numbers. C.V. Raman was elected in 1924 and Ardaseer Cursetjee, an engineer, had become the first Indian Fellow of any kind in 1841.
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Salim Ali was an eminent-
Answer: B
Salim Ali was an eminent ornithologist.
Called the Birdman of India, he conducted the first systematic bird surveys across the subcontinent and wrote The Book of Indian Birds. His advocacy helped save the Bharatpur bird sanctuary and the Silent Valley.
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Who was popularly known as 'Ike' ?
Answer: A
Dwight D. Eisenhower was popularly known as Ike.
He was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Second World War and the 34th President of the United States. His 1952 campaign slogan was 'I like Ike'.
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Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army ?
Answer: D
Hannibal was the first to cross the Alps with an army.
In 218 BC, at the start of the Second Punic War, he took about 40,000 men and a number of war elephants over the mountains into Italy. The march took roughly fifteen days and cost him nearly half his force.
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Who pioneered the modern nursing system ?
Answer: A
Florence Nightingale pioneered modern nursing.
Her sanitary reforms at Scutari during the Crimean War cut the death rate sharply, and she founded the first secular nursing school at St Thomas's Hospital in 1860. She was also a pioneer of medical statistics, inventing the polar-area diagram to argue her case.
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