Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Quiz 2

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Quiz 2

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1. Who among the following was the co-author of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's book "Envisioning an Empowered Nation"?

Arun Tiwari
Arun Shourie
Y S Rajan
Sivathanu Pillai

2. Dr. Abdul Kalam was elected as the president of India during the rule of which prime minister?

Dr. Manmohan Singh
H. D. Deve Gauda
I K Gujral
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

3. In which year did Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam receive Padma Vibhushan?

1997
1990
1992
1993

4. Kalam succeeded ................... as President of India

K R Narayan
Prathibha Patil
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Pranab Mukherjee

5. Name Alexi Carrel's book that influenced Dr. Abdul Kalam

Man the Unknown
Arms and the Man
Light from Many Lamps
A Little Dream

6. Name the programme launched by Dr. Abdul Kalam for the youth of India

What Can I Give Movement
India Against Corruption
Vision 2020
Ignited Minds

7. The state which declared Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's birhtday as "Youth Renaissance Day"?

Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Karnataka
Meghalaya

8. Where did kalam born ?

Trichy
Rameswaram
Tiruchirappalli
Madras

9. Which one of the following about Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is NOT true?
A. Dr. Kalam's first major project SLV-3 experimental flight failed
B. He used to distribute newspapers after school hours
C. Dr. Kalam was a receipient of Veer Savarkar Award
D. Kalam started his work as Scientific Adviser to President of India

Only C
Only D
Both A and D
Both B and C

10. Which one of the following is NOT true about Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam?

He was a vegetarian
He was a non-vegetarian
He was a voracious reader
He was a bachelor

Personalities Quiz: Nelson Mandela Quiz 2 - True or False Quiz

Personalities Quiz: Nelson Mandela Quiz 2 - True or False Quiz

1. Mandela was a recipient of Pakistan's highest civilian award, Nishan-e-Pakistan. True or False

TRUE
FALSE

General Knowledge 52: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge 52: Personalities Quiz

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1. A senior officer of the British Army, he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres of 1915, losing his left eye and winning the Military Cross. He was a great lover of literature and has served as Viceroy of India. Who is he?

Archibald Wavell
Lord Irwin
Lord Chelmsford
The Earl of Willingdon

India Quiz 103: Personalities Quiz

India Quiz 103: Personalities Quiz

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1. Who was the Minister of Law in the first Nehru Cabinet?

Sardar Patel
Baldev Singh
B R Ambedkar
Syama Prasad Mookerjee

2. Who was the most searched personality on Google India in 2018?

Priyanka Chopra
Narendra Modi
Priya Varrier
Sapna Choudhary

3. Name the King mentioned in Markandeya Purana who gave away his kingdom, sold his family and agreed to be a slave to fulfill a promise he had made to the sage Vishwamitra.

Parikshit
Vikramaditya
Harishchandra
Jarasandha

4. Eustace Fernandes is known for the mascot of a young Indian girl used by a famous Indian brand. Do you know the brand?

Nirma
Amul
Parle-G
Onida

5. Who formed the council of eight ministers, called Ashta Pradhan, to administer his empire?

Vikramaditya
Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoka
Shivaji

6. Name the eminent Indian economist who developed Human Developmetn Index

Amartya Sen
Manmohan Singh
Bimal Jalan
Montek Singh Ahluwalia

7. Who made the India's first cell-phone call in 1995?

P V Narasimha Rao
Azim Premji
Jyoti Basu
Amitabh Bachan

8. With which one of the following will you associate Kavin Bharti Mittal?

Skype
Hike
Whatsapp
Twitter

9. In 1968, Mira Alfassa, a spiritual guru, established an experimental township Auroville with no barrier and as a universal town in Tamil Nadu. We know her by her popular name. Who are we referrring to?

Mother Teresa
Sister Niveditha
Anandamayi Ma
The Mother

10. Who was the first woman to receive Bharat Ratna?

Mother Teresa
Indira Gandhi
Aruna Asaf Ali
Sarojini Naidu

General Knowledge Quiz 45: Personalities Quzi

Personalities Quiz

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1. Who is known as the "Man of Peace" in India?

Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Lala Lajpat Rai
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri

2. Who mong the following won the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2017 in English Language?

Payal Kapadia
Ruskin Bond
Paro Anand
Roopa Pai

3. Name the only test cricketer in the history to score a century in all 11 countries that have hosted Test matches

Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Younis Khan
Virat Kohli

4. Recipient of 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, this famous writer modestly told that Carl Sandburg, Isak Dinesen and Bernard Berenson deserved the prize. Who is he?

George Bernard Shaw
Pablo Neruda
Samuel Beckett
Earnest Hemingway

5. Samuel Colt, American inventor, is associated with the invention of

Refrigerator
Revolver
Fountain pen
Air Conditioner

6. Which cricketer is a member of the Australian rock band "Six & Out"?

Shane Warne
Scott Muller
Brett Lee
Glenn McGrath

7. Who among the following is recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas?

Anaximander
Abraham Ortelius
Martin Behaim
Captain James Rennell

8. Who coined the terms "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages?

John Lubbock
Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel

9. Who contributed the terms scientist, physicist, linguist and many other scientific terms?

Michael Faraday
William King
Galileo Galilei
William Whewell

10. Who introduced PH Scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution?

John Dalton
SPL Sorensen
Humphry Davy
Robert Boyle

General Knowledge Quiz 42: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quoz 42: Personalities Quiz

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1. In honour of the prime minister of which country the Mahathir Award for Global Peace  instituted?

Kenya
Malaysia
Egypt
Sudan

2. John Pemberton is an American pharmacist best known for the invention of this popular brand. Can you name this brand?

Vicks
Coco-cola
Dettol
Halls

3. Mein Kampf is the autobiography of

Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Nabakov

4. Melba Hernandez was politician who played a vital role in the revolutionary war of her country. Name the country

France
Serbia
Russia
Cuba

5. The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza is a satirical play about several political philosophies. Who is the author?

William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Henrik Ibsen
Ben Jonson

6. The Laskar Awards named after American businessman Albert Lasker are given in the field of

Advertising
Management
Cinema
Medicine

7. Which fictional sports was devised by J K Rowling in her series Harry Potter?

Dragon Poker
Fizzbin
Quidditch
Hyperblade

8. Who has the distinction of being the youngest to win Man Booker Prize?

Arundhati Roy
Eleanor Catton
Jhumpa Lahiri
Martha Kearney

9. Who is considered as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?

Margaret Thatcher
David Lloyd George
Sir Henry Campbell
Robert Walpole

10. With which comic strip will you associate Charles M. Schulz?

Tintin
Garfield
Peanuts
Calvin and Hobbs