India Quiz 87: Personalities Quiz

India Quiz 87: Personalities Quiz

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1. Who recently became the youngest Indian woman to climb Mount Everest?

Shivangi Pathak
Santosh Yadav
Anshu Jamsenpa
Malavath Purna

2. Who built the Qila Rai Pithora in New Delhi?

Akbar
Prithviraj Chauhan
Aurangazeb
Chatrapati Shivaji

3. My Music, My Life is the autobiography of

Shankar Mahadevan
M S Subbulakshmi
A R Rahman
Pandit Ravi Shankar

4. Who introduced the Mansabdari system of administration of the Mughal Empire?

Jahangir
Aurangazeb
Shahjahan
Akbar

5. Name the Indian economist who coined the term "Hindu rate of growth"

Raj Krishna
Amartya Sen
Kaushik Basu
Montek Singh Ahluwalia

6. Who composed the the quick march song "Qadam Qadam Badaye Ja" for INA?

Rabindranath Tagore
Subash Chandra Bose
Ram Singh Thakuri
Pt. Vanshidhar Shukla

7. Who proposed the idea of Gram Swaraj?

Narendra Modi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Vinoba Bhave

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

Indira Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Aruna Asaf Ali
M S Subbalkshmi

9. Who was the author of the Bengali play Nil Darpan?

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Sharadchandra
Sharadindu Bandyopadhay
Dinabandhu Mitra

10. Which Indian chemist discovered the chemical compound Mercurous nitrate?

Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
P C Ray
Asima Chatterjee
C N R Rao

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