Bismillah Khan was associated with?
Answer: B
Bismillah Khan was associated with the shehnai.
He raised what had been a temple and wedding instrument to the concert platform, and played at the Red Fort on the eve of independence in 1947. He received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
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The birthday of which of the following leaders is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India?
Answer: C
Teachers' Day marks the birthday of Dr S. Radhakrishnan.
It is observed on 5 September, his birthday. A philosopher who taught at Mysore, Calcutta and Oxford, he became the second President of India, and asked that the day be kept as Teachers' Day rather than as his birthday.
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Dr. V. Kurien is famous in the field of ?
Answer: C
Dr Verghese Kurien is famous for dairy development.
He built the Amul cooperative at Anand and led Operation Flood from 1970, which turned India from a milk-deficient country into the world's largest producer. He is called the Father of the White Revolution.
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Which one of the following has been appointed as the Secretary of State by Barack Obama, President of USA?
Answer: A
Hillary Clinton was appointed Secretary of State by Barack Obama.
She served from 2009 to 2013, having been a Senator from New York and Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination in 2008. Condoleezza Rice was her predecessor under George W. Bush.
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Emma Morano, the world’s oldest person, who died at the age of 117, was a citizen of which country?
Answer: C
Emma Morano was a citizen of Italy.
Born in November 1899, she was the last verified living person born in the nineteenth century, and died in April 2017 aged 117. She attributed her longevity to eating raw eggs and to having left her husband in 1938.
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Safdar Hashmi is a name associated with
Answer: D
The answer is none of these.
Safdar Hashmi was a street-theatre activist and playwright, a founder of Jana Natya Manch. He was fatally attacked in January 1989 while performing the play Halla Bol at Sahibabad, and 12 April is observed as National Street Theatre Day in his memory.
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Kelucharan Mohapatra is famous in Which Indian Classical dance form ?
Answer: A
It is Odissi.
Kelucharan Mohapatra began as a gotipua dancer and a pakhawaj player, and did more than anyone to reconstruct Odissi from temple sculpture and surviving practice into a classical form. He received the Padma Vibhushan in 2000.
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Michael Jackson is a distinguished person in the field of?
Answer: A
Michael Jackson was distinguished in pop music.
Called the King of Pop, he began with the Jackson 5 and went on to record Thriller (1982), still the best-selling album of all time. His dancing, and the moonwalk in particular, were as influential as his singing.
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Late Raja Ravi Verma, was an eminent figure in which of the following fields
Answer: D
Raja Ravi Varma was an eminent figure in painting.
He combined European academic technique with Indian subject matter, painting scenes from the Puranas and portraits of south Indian nobility. His oleograph press made cheap prints of the gods available across India, and shaped how they are pictured to this day.
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V.S. Ramadevi, who died in Bengaluru on 17 April 2013, was Governor of Karnataka and of Himachal Pradesh. What else was she?
Answer: B
V.S. Ramadevi was the only woman Chief Election Commissioner of India.
She held the office briefly in late 1990, between R.V.S. Peri Sastri and T.N. Seshan, having earlier been Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha. She remains the only woman to have held the post.
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