General Knowledge Quiz: Personalities Quiz 95

General Knowledge Quiz: Personalities Quiz 95

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1. Which Malayalam poet has been selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2023 for his work 'Roudra Satvikam'?

Kamala Das
Prabha Varma
Rafeeq Ahamed
Kureepuzha Sreekumar

2. Who was the calligrapher of the original English version of the Indian Constitution?

Prem Behari Narain Raizada
Nandalal Bose
R. K. Joshi
Bishan Das

3. The "blur of his fingers rivals the beat of a hummingbird's wings" is what The New York Times wrote about this famous musician known for bringing Indian classical music to a global audience. He was a recipient of all three Padma Awards and four Grammy Awards. Who was this great musician who passed away in 2024?

Ravi Shankar
Zakir Hussain
Amjad Ali Khan
Shivkumar Sharma

4. Who made history by becoming the first woman elected as the President of Mexico in 2024, having previously served as the Mayor of Mexico City?

Angela Merkel
Kamala Harris
Michelle Bachelet
Claudia Sheinbaum

5. Who among the following recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize is known as the "Godfather of AI"?

Yann LeCun
John J. Hopfield
Geoffrey Hinton
Yoshua Bengio

6. Before being appointed as the latest governor of Kerala in December 2024 (assuming office on Jan 2, 2025), Rajendra Arlekar was serving as governor of which Indian state?

Goa
Maharashtra
Himachal Pradesh
Bihar

7. Who is the author of 'Brotherless Night', the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024?

Arundhati Roy
V. V. Ganeshananthan
Kamila Shamsie
Jhumpa Lahiri

8. Who regained the women's World rapid chess championship after a gap of five years?

Ju Wenjun
Koneru Humpy
Judit Polgár
Divya Deshmukh

9. Who became the first Korean writer and the first Asian female author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024?

Han Kang
Shin Kyung-sook
Kim Hyesoon
Yun Ko-eun

10. This Jnanpith Award winning Malayalam writer used the pen name VN Thekkepattu the first time he sent a story to a magazine. Who is he?

G Sankarakkuruppu
S K Pottekkad
M T Vasudevan Nair
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

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