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Question 1: Kaiane Aldorino who was crowned Miss World 2009 is from which of the following countries?

a) Germany

b) Russia

c) Austria

d) Belgium

e) Gibraltar

Question 2: Who amongst the following is the recipient of the “CNN-IBN Indian of the Year” Award for 2009?

a) Ratan Tata

b) A.R.Rahman

c) Manmohan Singh

d) Sachin Tendulkar

e) None of these

Question 3: Angela Merkel was recently in India to receive Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for the year 2009. What has been her contribution to international politics which made her the ‘Best Choice’ for the award? (A) She played a major role in restarting negotiations between Russia and USA on ‘START’. (B) She initiated ‘Health Care Reforms’ in Germany and solved problems related to ‘future energy development.’ (C) She played a crucial role in negotiation of the Treaty of Lisbon’ and Berlin declaration.

a) Only (B) and (C)

b) Only (A) and (B)

c) Only (C)

d) Only (A) and (C)

e) None of these

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Question 4: Who among the following is the winner of Man Booker Prize 2011?

a) Andrea Levy

b) Nicola Barker

c) Tom McCarthy

d) Linda Grant

e) Philip Roth

Question 5: Who among the following was the Chief Guest at the three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas function held in January 2012?

a) Kamla Persad-Bissessar

b) Ram Baran Yadav

c) Lakshmi Mittal

d) Salman Rushdie

e) Benjamin Netanyahu

Question 6: Which of the following awards was conferred upon Late Mario De Miranda (Posthumously) in January 2012?

a) Padma Vibhushan

b) Bharat Ratna

c) Kalidas Samman

d) Saraswati Samman

e) Padma Shri

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Question 7: Who, at present, is the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)?

a) N. K. Singh

b) Nandan Nilekani

c) R. S. Sharma

d) S. K. Swamy

e) Dinesh Aggarwal

Question 8: Who was the founder of the ‘Servants of India Society’?

a) G.K. Gokhale

b) M.G. Ranade

c) B.G. Tilak

d) Bipin Chandra Pal

Question 9: Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of

a) Bernard Shaw

b) Karl Marx

c) Lenin

d) Leo Tolstoy

Question 10: Who is rightly called the ‘Father of Local Self Government’ in India ?

a) Lord Mayo

b) Lord Ripon

c) Lord Curzon

d) Lord Clive

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Question 11: The monk who influenced Ashoka to embrace Buddhism was

a) Vishnu Gupta

b) Upa Gupta

c) Brahma Gupta

d) Brihadratha

Question 12: Who of the following attended all the Three Round Table Conferences?

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) M.M. Malavia

c) Vallabhbhai Patel

d) Gandhiji

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Question 13: Who is the following received Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva puraskar for 2009 in theatre?

a) Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar

b) Ragni Chander Sarkar

c) Abanti Chakravoty & Sukracharya Rabha

d) K. Nellai Manikandan

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Question 14: Who was the first Indian to become member of British Parliament?

a) Bankim Chander Chatterjee

b) W.C. Bannerjee,

c) Dadabhai Naroji

d) None of the above

Question 15: The original name of Nana Phadnavis was

a) Mahadaji Sindhia

b) Tukoji Holkar

c) Narayan Rao

d) Balaji Janardan Bhanu

Question 16: Who among the following first propounded the idea of Basic Education?

a) Jawahar Lal Nehru

b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Dayanand Saraswati

Question 17: One of the following Chief Ministers received the Highest Civilian Award ‘Bharat Ratna’

a) Lalu Prasad Yadav of Bihar

b) Late M. G. Ramachandran of Tamil Nadu

c) Jyothi Basu of West Bengal

d) Late N. T. Rama Rao of Andhra Pradesh

Question 18: Who among the following has won the Pantaloon’s Femina Miss India World, 2012 Award?

a) Prachi Misra

b) Vanya Misra

c) RocheIla Maria

d) Sandhya Agarwal

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Question 19: Who among the following Presidents of MCC was a non-professional cricketer?

a) Colin Cowdrey

b) Peter May

c) Christopher Martin Jenkin

d) Ted Dexter

Question 20: Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2012?

a) UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

b) International Atomic Energy Agency

c) Liu Xiaobo

d) European Union

Answers & Solutions:

1) Answer (E)

2) Answer (B)

3) Answer (B)

4) Answer (C)

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5) Answer (A)

6) Answer (A)

7) Answer (B)

8) Answer (A)

9) Answer (D)

10) Answer (B)

11) Answer (B)

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12) Answer (A)

13) Answer (C)

14) Answer (C)

15) Answer (D)

16) Answer (C)

17) Answer (B)

18) Answer (B)

19) Answer (C)

20) Answer (D)

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