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1.
Who among the following Union Ministers in the UPA-II Government resigned for reasons not connected with charges of corruption?

a
Raja
b
Dayanidhi Maran
c
Dinesh Trivedi
d
Virbhadra Singh

2.
Which one of the following Presidents of India served for two terms?

a
S. Radhakrishnan
b
Rajendra Prasad
c
Zakir Hussain
d
V.V Giri

3.
Graham Green was associated with which of the fields?

a
Science
b
Music
c
Painting
d
Literature

4.
Which one of the peaks did Phu Dorjee, the first Indian woman climb without oxygen?

a
Mt. Everest
b
Mt. Kanchenjunga
c
Mt. Anna Purna
d
Mt. Makalu

5.
Who is the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog constituted in 2015?

a
Sindhu Sri Khullar
b
Arvind Panagaria
c
Bibek Debroy
d
V.S. Saraswat

6.
Which American President was a famous film/T.V. star before he became the President?

a
J.F. Kennedy
b
Gerald R. Fond
c
Richard Nixon
d
Ronald Regan

7.
Which Indian former crickete is referred to 'Dada'?

a
Mohinder Amarnath
b
Sanjay Manjrekar
c
Dilip Vengsarkar
d
Sourav Ganguly

8.
Who is known as 'Desert Fox'?

a
Gen. Rommel
b
Walter Scott
c
Eisenhower
d
Bismarck

9.
Who is known as the 'saint of the gutters'?

a
Mother Teresa
b
Mahatma Gandhi
c
Asha Bhonsle
d
R. Ambedkar

10.
Who amongst the following is a famous Sarod player?

a
Zakir Hussain
b
Hari Prasad Chourasia
c
Shiv Kumar Sharma
d
Amjad Ali Khan

11.
Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?

a
Vinod Dham
b
Mother Teresa
c
Edward Kasner
d
Tim Berners-Lee

12.
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan has distinguished himself in which of the following fields?

a
Agriculture
b
Medicine
c
Astrophysics
d
Physics

13.
Late Raja Ravi Verma, was an eminent figure in which of the following fields?

a
Politics
b
Dance
c
History
d
Painting

14.
Who amongst the following has taken over as the President of Serbia after the General elections held there in February 2008?

a
Boris Tadic
b
Tomislav Nicolic
c
Samak Sundaravej
d
Novak Djokovic

15.
Who was the first Indian to reach Antarctica?

a
Rakesh Sharma
b
G.S. Sirohi
c
K Dutta
d
K. Karuna Nautial

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