41 | Who in the below list became the first Indian to sign up for Gates- Buffet Charity? |
A) Azim Premji | |
B) Ratan Tata | |
C) N R Narayana Murthy | |
D) Sunil Mittal | |
42 | Sundar Pichai has been appointed head Google-s Android, the most used mobile operating system in the world. He was an alumnus of _________. |
A) IIT Kharagpur | |
B) IIT Delhi | |
C) IIT Kanpur | |
D) IIT Bombay | |
43 | Babu Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and social reformer. His birth anniversary is celebrated as ____________. |
A) Shanti Diwas | |
B) Samta Diwas | |
C) Babuji Diwas | |
D) None of these | |
44 | Who from Indian Navy became the first Indian to circumnavigate the globe in a sail boat over a 150-day non-stop voyage? |
A) S. M. Nanda | |
B) Abhilash Tomy | |
C) Devendra Kumar Joshi | |
D) None of These | |
45 | Name the only women chief election commissioner of India, who passed away in April 2013. |
A) Rajani Rai | |
B) Sarojini Naidu | |
C) Rama Devi | |
D) Fathima Beevi | |
46 | Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1896 to carry on humanitarian relief and social work? |
A) Ramakrishna Paramahansa | |
B) Swami Dayananda Saraswati | |
C) Swami Vivekanda | |
D) Blavatsky and Olcott | |
47 | Which Indian has been chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year 2012, for economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families in Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts in Tamil Nadu? |
A) Dr.Shanta Sinha | |
B) Kulandei Francis | |
C) Sandeep Pandey | |
D) Arvind Kejriwal | |
48 | Fortune magazine has released the list of "12 Greatest Entrepre-neurs of our Time" in 2012. Who is the only Indian in this list? |
A) Ratan Tata | |
B) Dhirubhai Ambani | |
C) Azim Premji | |
D) N.R.Narayana Murthy | |
49 | The Pioneer of Communism in India was____. |
A) S.A. Dange | |
B) M.R. Jayakar | |
C) M.N. Roy | |
D) Nalin Gupta | |
50 | Who among the following was popularly known as the -Frontier Gandhi-? |
A) Hasrat Mohani | |
B) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad | |
C) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | |
D) Iqbal Khan | |
51 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a great 19th Century Reformer who waged a struggle for/against which of the following issue? |
A) Education of Women | |
B) Widow Remarriage | |
C) Abolition of Sati | |
D) None of these | |
52 | Who was the founder of Arya Samaj? |
A) Swami Vivekananda | |
B) Swami Dayanand | |
C) Raja Rammohan Roy | |
D) Ashutosh Mukherjee | |
53 | Dr. Verghese Kurien passed away on September 9, 2012. He is the father of India's? |
A) Green Revolution | |
B) Blue Revolution | |
C) Yellow Revolution | |
D) White Revolution | |
54 | A popular cricket commentator on All India Radio for four decades passed away in July 2012. Name him? |
A) Abid Hussain | |
B) Suresh Saraiya | |
C) Dara Singh | |
D) None of These | |
55 | Brajesh Mishra passed away on in September 2012. He was India's first? |
A) Foreign Secretary | |
B) National Security Adviser | |
C) Director of IB | |
D) Director General of NIA | |
56 | Who has become the first woman to command the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner which landed in New Delhi in September 2012? |
A) Alka Shukla | |
B) M.P. Shumathi | |
C) Nivedita Bhasin | |
D) Saudamini Deshmukh | |
57 | Who was nominated as a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Sep 2013? |
A) Azim Premji | |
B) N R Narayana Murthy | |
C) Ratan Tata | |
D) Deepak Parekh | |
58 | Who will be formally inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering in the US for his "outstanding contributions" to industrial development in India and the world over (announced in Oct 2013)? |
A) N R Narayana Mutrhy | |
B) Ratan Tata | |
C) Azim Premji | |
D) Adi Godrej | |
59 | Which famous bollywood actor has been appointed as the goodwill ambassador for South Korea in Oct 2013? |
A) Salman Khan | |
B) Shahrukh Khan | |
C) Ranbir Kapoor | |
D) Amitabh Bachchan | |
60 | Who has been named as the new head of Google's Android division in March 2013? |
A) Ram Shriram | |
B) Sunder Pichai | |
C) Nikesh Arora | |
D) Krishna Bharat |
Check below for Answers.........
Answers:
41 | Ans) Azim Premji |
42 | Ans) IIT Kharagpur |
43 | Ans) Samta Diwas |
44 | Ans) Abhilash Tomy |
45 | Ans) Rama Devi |
46 | Ans) Swami Vivekanda |
47 | Ans) Kulandei Francis |
48 | Ans) N.R.Narayana Murthy |
49 | Ans) M.N. Roy |
50 | Ans) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
51 | Ans) Widow Remarriage |
52 | Ans) Swami Dayanand |
53 | Ans) White Revolution |
54 | Ans) Suresh Saraiya |
55 | Ans) National Security Adviser |
56 | Ans) Nivedita Bhasin |
57 | Ans) Ratan Tata |
58 | Ans) Ratan Tata |
59 | Ans) ShahRukh Khan |
60 | Ans) Sunder Pichai |
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