Which of the following is not associated with vocal music?
Answer: D
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is not associated with vocal music.
He was the santoor player who brought that Kashmiri folk instrument onto the classical concert platform. Pandit Jasraj, Mallikarjun Mansur and Kishori Amonkar were all Hindustani vocalists.
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Pandit K. G. Ginde, was well known for his contribution in the field of?
Answer: A
Pandit K.G. Ginde is known for his contribution to music.
A Hindustani classical vocalist of the Agra gharana, he was a scholar of rare ragas and a noted teacher and composer, long associated with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Mumbai.
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In which creative field was Pran Kumar Sharma famous?
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.
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Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was
Answer: B
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was a minister in a state government.
She was Minister for Local Self-Government and Public Health in the United Provinces in 1937, the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post. She went on to be Ambassador to Moscow and Washington, Governor of Maharashtra, and in 1953 the first woman President of the UN General Assembly.
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Mohammed Azharuddin, former Indian Cricket Team Captain, represents ....................... constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha?
Answer: B
Mohammad Azharuddin represented Moradabad.
He won the seat for the Congress in the 2009 general election, having captained India in 47 Test matches, and lost it in 2014.
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Who got the Transformative Chief Minister Award at the USIBC summit in 2017?
Answer: C
N. Chandrababu Naidu received the Transformative Chief Minister Award.
The US–India Business Council gave it to him in 2017 for the ease-of-doing-business reforms and the building of the new Andhra Pradesh capital at Amaravati.
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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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Which music director had distinction of being the first Asian to Compose a symphony for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London
Answer: D
The answer is none of these.
The composer was Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra was written for the London Symphony Orchestra and who wrote further orchestral works for British orchestras. None of the three film music directors offered composed for a symphony orchestra of that kind.
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Michael Jackson was a distinguished personality in which of the following fields
Answer: C
Michael Jackson was distinguished in pop music.
He began with the Jackson 5 and went on to record Thriller in 1982, still the best-selling album ever made. He was called the King of Pop, and his dancing was as influential as his singing.
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Ms M. Fathima Beevi is distinguished as the first lady
Answer: C
M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court.
She was appointed in 1989 and later served as Governor of Tamil Nadu. Anna Chandy, appointed to the Kerala High Court in 1959, was the first woman High Court judge, and Sarojini Naidu the first woman Governor of a state.
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