General Knowledge Quiz 90: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 90: Personalities Quiz

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1. In which category did Bhanu Athaiya share an Oscar for the film "Gandhi"?

Best Actress
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematographer
Best Costume Design

2. On which real-life hero is the film Shershaab based?

Captain Vikram Batra
Major Somnath Sarma
Captain Anuj Nayar
Major Shaitan Singh

3. Name the meteorologist who started the tradition of naming the hurricanes

John Dalton
William Ferrel
Clement Wragge
Cleveland Abbe

4. Which former Prime Minister of India was born on the same day as Mahatma Gandhi?

Lal Bahadur Shastri
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Rajiv Gandhi

5. Which character from Mahabharata gave away his thumb as 'Guru Dakshina' to Drona?

Arjuna
Karna
Ekalavya
Duryodhana

6. Who was honoured as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" by the United States Congress?

Dorothy Height
Diane Nash
Ella Baker
Rosa Parks

7. Who among the following is the scientist who came up with his most famous theory after he visited the Galapagos Islands?

Thomas Alva Edison
Charles Darwin
Issac Newton
Max Planck

8. Name the most decorated Olympian of all time, who also bears the nickname 'Baltimore Bullet'?

Usain Bolt
Michael Phelps
Jim Thorpe
Jesse Owens

9. Which American singer, who died in 1977, is popularly known as the "King of Rock and Roll"?

Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley
Johny Cash
Prince

10. Which US civil rights movement leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?

Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
John Lewis

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