1. Charles Correa has distinguished himself in which of the following fields
a) Painting
b) Ballet
c) Architecture
d) Western Music
2. Who declared that his ultimate aim was to wipe 'every tear from every eye'?
a) Rajendra Prasad
b) Sardar Patel
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Mahatma Gandhi
3. Ashok Pandit is known for his outstanding performance in which field?
a) Wrestling
b) Kabaddi
c) Shooting
d) Swimming
4.Who among the following is a social activist campaigning against child labour?
a) Baba Amte
b) Shabana Amzi
c) Mira Nair
d) Swami Agnivesh
5. Pandit K. G. Ginde, was well known for his contribution in the field of?
a) Music
b) Sanskrit
c) Dance
d) Ayurveda
6. Who is the father of Geometry?
a) Aristotle
b) Euclid
c) Pythagoras
d) Kepler
7. What is common between Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar?
a) Film Direction
b) Drawing Cartoons
c) Instrumental Music
d) Classical Dance
8. Who was known as Iron man of India?
a) Govind Ballabh Pant
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Subhash Chandra Bose
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
9. The Indian to beat the computers in mathematical wizardry is
a) Ramanujam
b) Rina Panigrahi
c) Raja Ramanna
d) Shakunthala Devi
10. Jude Felix is a famous Indian player in which of the fields?
a) Volleyball
b) Tennis
c) Football
d) Hockey
11. Naina Devi, was associated with field of?
a) Social Service
b) Stage acting
c) Classical dance
d) Vocal music
12. Who is known as 'Trimurthy of Carnatic Music'?
a) Muthuswami Dikshitar
b) Purandardasa
c) Swami Thirunal
d) None of these
13. Gangubai Hangal is the name associated with
a) Literature
b) Music
c) Journalism
d) Environment
14. Who is known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'?
a) Florence Nightingale
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Indira Gandhi
d) Joan of Arc
15. Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which of the following fields?
a) Social Service
b) Journalism
c) Literature
d) Politics
16. The name of Pierre Cardin is associated with which of the following fields?
a) Painting
b) Films
c) Pop Music
d) Fashion Designing
17. Who is well known collector of artefacts and curios?
a) Wadeyar
b) Salar Jung
c) Rabindra Nath Togore
d) Motilal Nehru
18. Ms. Vijaya Mehta has earned distinction in which of the field?
a) Theatre
b) Film Direction
c) Classical Dance
d) Journalism
19. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan has distinguished himself in which of the following fields?
a) Agriculture
b) Medicine
c) Astrophysics
d) Physics
20. Satyen Bose has shown his excellence in which of the following fields?
a) Stage Acting
b) Drawing and Painting
c) Classical Dance
d) Motion Picture
21. Who among the following is not a dramatist?
a) Girish R. Karnad
b) Badal Sircar
c) Jayanta Mahapatra
d) Vijay Tendulkar
22. Who headed the committee on 'computerisation' in Indian Banks(1988)?
a) C. Rangarajan
b) R. N. Malhotra
c) S. Venkitramanan
d) M. Narasimhan
23. Who is the famous Sarod player?
a) Hari Prasad
b) Zakir Hussain
c) Ram Narain
d) Amjad Ali Khan
24. Sanjay Dutt, a noted film actor was held under
a) TADA
b) Narcotics Act
c) Act 302
d) Anti - Defection Act
25.Shovana Narayan is a reputed personality in which of the following fields?
a) Classical dance
b) Literature
c) Journalism
d) Classical music
26. The first woman in space was -
a) Valentina Tereshkova
b) Sally Ride
c) Naidia Comenci
d) Tamara Press
27. Mr. Sham Lal has done commendable work in the field of?
a) Journalism
b) Politics
c) Socail Service
d) Trade Unionism
28. Ali Akbar plays which of the following musical instruments?
a) Flute
b) Tabla
c) Sitar
d) Sarod
29. Professor Malcolm Adiseshaih had earned worldwide distinction in which of the fields?.
a) Literature
b) Defence
c) Economics
d) Medicine
30. Samantha Fox is associated with
a) Politics
b) Pop music
c) Journalism
d) Sports
31. Who is Tania Sachdev?
a) Chess player
b) Cricketer
c) Actress
d) Dancer
32. Limba Ram is associated in which fields?
a) Sports
b) Politics
c) Social Service
d) Motion Picture
33. Ms. Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi is distinguished as the first lady
a) Prime minister of Bangladesh
b) Judge of Supreme Court
c) Judge of the High court
d) Governor of a state
34. Who is the creator of the Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
a) Pupal Jayakar
b) Le Corbousier
c) Glen
d) Nek Chand
35. Hitendra Desai was famous in the which field?
a) Social Service
b) Journalism
c) Politics
d) Literature
36. Guru Gopi Krishna was a maestro of which of the following dance format?
a) Kuchipudi
b) Kathak
c) Manipuri
d) Bahratanatyam
37. Ms. Bachendri Pal had undertaken a unique expedition for focusing attention on which of these?
a) One Nation one Family
b) The Girl Child
c) National Integration
d) Sprit of Adventure
38. Which of the following fields A. Nageshwara Rao is associated with?
a) Sports
b) Literature
c) Film Actor
d) Politics
39. Jamini Roy was a famous?
a) Producer
b) Painter
c) Dancer
d) Actor
40. In which field 'Achchan Maharaj' has distinguished himself?
a) Painting
b) Drama
c) Dance
d) Vocal Music
41. Who is Larry Pressler?
a) Politician
b) Painter
c) Actor
d) Tennis player
42. Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, who has won the prestigious 'Grammy Awards' is an exponent in which of the following musical instruments?
a) Guitar
b) Violin
c) sarod
d) Tabla
43. Raja Ravi Verma, was famous in which of the fields?
a) Painting
b) Politics
c) Dance
d) Music
44.Who is known as 'Desert Fox'?
a) Bismarck
b) Eisenhower
c) Gen. Rommel
d) Walter Scott
45. The title of 'sparrow' was given to -
a) Napoleon
b) Major General Rajinder Singh
c) T. T. Krishnamachari
d) Sardar Patel
46. Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned player of
a) Sitar
b) Flute
c) Sarod
d) Tabla
47. Graham Greene was associated with which of the fields?
a) Science
b) Music
c) Painting
d) Literature
48. Dr. V. Kurien is famous in the field of ?
a) Atomic Power
b) Poultry farms
c) Dairy development
d) Economic Reforms
49. Which of the following pairs of artists and their areas of specialization is not correct?
a) Pt. Ravi Shankar - Sitar
b) M. S. Subbulakshmi - Dance
c) Hari Prasad Chaurasia - Flute
d) Ustad Zakir Hussain Khan - Tabla
50. Miss Universe 1994, Ms. Sushmita Sen hails from which of the following cities?
a) Mumbai
b) Chandigarh
c) Hyderabad
d) Bangalore
51. Who among the following was the Chairman of the 14th finance commission?
a) Shanta Kumar
b) C. Rangarajan
c) Y. V. Reddy
d) None
52. M. Natrajan was
a) Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister
b) Chief Controller and Programme Director of Agni Missile System
c) Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister
d) None of the above
53. Ban Ki-Moon, former UNO Secretary-General belong to -
a) Saudi Arab
b) Egypt
c) South Korea
d) Brazil
54. Who among the following was sworn in as the Governor of Assam in October 2017?
a) Satya Pal Malik
b) Shakaranarayanan
c) P. Sathasivam
d) Jagdish Mukhi
55. Amjad Ali Khan is associated with -
a) Sarod
b) Veena
c) Sitar
d) Violin
56. Who invented the electric bulb?
a) Thomas More
b) Thomas Alva Edison
c) James Watt
d) None
57.Who is the first female pilot to be inducted into the Indian Navy in 2017?
a) Tessy Thomas
b) Zaira Wasim
c) Shubhangi Swaroop
d) Dipa Karmakar
58. Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned player of :
a) Tabla
b) Sarod
c) Flute
d) Shehnai
59. Who has been appointed as the first female chief justice of Pakistan?
a) Syeda Tahira Safdar
b) Fauziya Ahmed
c) Jameela Khan
d) Nabeela Hussain
60. Mary Kom has recently (September 2018) been made brand ambassador of which of the following?
a) Swachcha Bharat
b) BSNL
c) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
d) Project Khel
61. Who is the chairman of NABARD as of July 2018?
a) Raghuram Rajan
b) Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
c) Bibek Debroy
d) Subramanian Swamy
62. Where was the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Leader Kim Jong-Un was held in June 2018?
a) Pyongyang
b) Seoul
c) Singapore
d) Taipei
63. Who is Richard Halbrooke?
a) Producer and Director of Hollywood movies
b) US special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan
c) US ambassador to India
d) UN observer for overseeing the rehabilitation process of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka
64. Who among the following is the author of the book 'Indira Gandhi - A Life in Nature'?
a) Priyanka Vadra
b) Natwar Singh
c) Jairam Ramesh
d) Sonia Gandhi
65. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on 17 - 4 - 2014. He was
a) President of Columbia
b) Nobel Laureate
c) Soccer Player
d) Space Scientist
66. Name the American film cartoonist who created Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
a) Warner Brothers
b) Walt Disney
c) Steven Spielberg
d) Barbera
67. As many as 6,117 Kuchipudi dancers set a new Guiness World Record by performing together in a single event at
a) Vijayawada
b) Chennai
c) Hyderabad
d) Bengaluru
68. On 22nd March, 2018 who unveiled the book, Neel Ke Dhabbe on the occasion of 106th Bihar Day in Patna?
a) Vice President Shri Venkaiah Naidu
b) Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
c) Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh
d) Speaker Smt. Sumitra Mahajan
69. Who has inaugurated the first-ever Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in Delhi?
a) Venkaiah Naidu
b) Narendra Modi
c) Bharrat Jagdeo
d) Kamla Persad
70. Andrez Manuel Lopez Obrador is President elected in July 2018 of which of the following country?
a) Venezuela
b) Argentina
c) Mexico
d) Nicaragua
71. Name the British billionaire of Indian origin who is currently challenging market leader Tesla for making the world's largest lithium-ion battery.
a) Sanjeev Gupta
b) Gopichand Hinduja
c) Akshay Ruparelia
d) Prakash Lohia
72. Who among these union ministers in the PM Narendra Modi cabinet belongs to the Shiv Sena Party?
a) Sadanand Gowda
b) Nitin Gadkari
c) Anant Geete
d) Uma Bharti
73. Who is called Rawalpindi Express?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Shoaib Akhtar
c) Rahul Dravid
d) Imran Khan
74. Who discovered the X-rays?
a) Ross Ronald
b) H. C. Urey
c) W. K. Roentgen
d) G. Marconi
75. Castro Sibling is the new President of -
a) Romania
b) Cube
c) Israel
d) None of these
76. Who is known as 'Indian Bismarck'?
a) Kamaraj
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
c) Nehru
d) Rajaji
77. Vikram Pandit is associated with which of the following banks?
a) Yes Bank
b) ICICI Bank
c) Citigroup
d) HSBC
78. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of IIM Ahmedabad :
a) Y. C. Deveshwar
b) Kumar Mangalam Birla
c) M. Damodaran
d) Sanjiv Gupta
79. Which company has appointed Mr Thierry Delaporte as its Managing Director?
a) Wipro
b) HCL Infosystems Ltd.
c) Infosys
d) TCS
80. Jaspal Rana is the name associated with -
a) Weightlifting
b) Archery
c) Boxing
d) Shooting
81. Prof. Milton Friedman was the leader of
a) Ohio school
b) Chicago school
c) Cambridge school
d) London school
82. The first person out of Tata family who has been selected to head the Tata group after Ratan Tata is
a) O. P. Bhatt
b) Cyrus Mistry
c) Kumar Mangalam Birla
d) Noel Tata
83. Which of the following countries Prime Minister is Shinzo Abe, who visited India in the month of September 2017?
a) Nepal
b) china
c) Japan
d) india
84.Which Indian American is the chairman of the prestigious Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States as of March 2018?
a) Neomi Rao
b) Neil Chatterjee
c) Ajit Pai
d) Seema Verma
85. Who among the following was the first to land on moon?
a) Neil Armstrong
b) Tenzing Norgay
c) Rakesh Sharma
d) Edwin Aldrin
86. Where did Foreign Minister Smt. Sushma Swaraj inaugurate 'Panini Language Laboratory' in August 2018?
a) Sri Lanka
b) South Africa
c) Mauritius
d) Indonesia
87. Deepika Pallikal is related to which sports?
a) Squash
b) Handball
c) Badminton
d) Tennis
88. Ratan Thylam, the famous personality from Manipur, is known for his work in the field of :
a) Sports
b) Music
c) Theatre
d) Social reform
89. Who is the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog constituted in 2015?
a) Sindhu Sri Khullar
b) Rajiv Kumar
c) Bibek Debroy
d) V. S. Saraswat
90. Name the Chief Minister of Telangana who was honoured with the Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2017.
a) Siddaramaiah
b) K. T. Rama Rao
c) N. Chandrababu Naidu
d) K. Chandrashekhar Rao
91. The statue of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam that was unveiled at his Rameswaram memorial by Prime Minister Modi depict him playing which musical instrument?
a) Veena
b) Mridangam
c) Tabla
d) Violin
92. Kuldip Nayar, a journalist, was appointed as a High Commissioner in :
a) UK
b) Pakistan
c) Sri Lanka
d) Australia
93. Emmerson Mnangagwa was elected as the President of which country in presidential election held in November 2017?
a) Uganda
b) Kenya
c) Zimbabwe
d) Ghana
94. Who amidst the following is a distinguished painter?
a) Uday Shankar
b) Sonal Mansingh
c) Amrita Shergill
d) Yamini Kirshnamurthy
95. Yves Saint Laurent recently died. He was .
a) U. S. A. Film director
b) First man to go to Mars mission
c) Renowned fashion designer
d) An internationally renowned financial expert
96. Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy who was the chief guest during the Republic Day Function 2008 is the -
a) President of Brazil
b) Prime Minister of Brazil
c) President of France
d) Prime Minister of France
97. In which of the following field 'Godavari Gaurav' for excellence is presented?
a) Politics
b) Sports
c) Journalism
d) Cinema
98. Indra K. Nooyi who was elected as the Chairperson of the US-India Business Council is the CEO of which of the following Companies?
a) Pepsi Co.
b) Infosys
c) Tata Consultancy Services
d) NIIT
99. Who amongst the following is a renowned Indian classical dancer?
a) Palghat Mani Iyer
b) Siddheshwari Devi
c) Sonal Mansingh
d) Madhumati
100. Paul Allen, who died in October 2018, was the co-founder of
a) Oracle
b) IBM
c) Microsoft
d) SAP