G.K. Practice Test: Question Set - 08
1. Who is known as 'Trimurthy of Carnatic Music'?
- (A) Muthuswami
Dikshitar
- (B) Purandardasa
- (C) Swami
Thirunal
- (D) None of
these
2. Firdausi was
- (A) A poet
- (B) Well known
for his epic 'Shahnama'
- (C) Both options
A and B
- (D) None of the
above
3. Who own the Miss World beauty contest in the year 2000 A.D.?
- (A) Lara Dutta
- (B) Prianka
chopra
- (C) Diya Mirza
- (D) Yukta Mukhi
4. K.S. Ranjit Singhji was
- (A) First
Bar-at-law
- (B) First
Air Marshal
- (C) First Indian
test cricketer
- (D) First Field
Marshal
5. What is common between Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar?
- (A) Film
Direction
- (B) Drawing
Cartoons
- (C) Instrumental
Music
- (D) Classical
Dance
6. 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
7. Miss Universe 1994, Ms. Sushmita Sen hails from which of the following cities?
- (A) Mumbai
- (B) Chandigarh
- (C) New Delhi
- (D) Bangalore
8. The title of 'sparrow' given to
- (A) Napoleon
- (B) Major
General Rajinder Singh
- (C) T. T.
Krishnamachari
- (D) Sardar Patel
9. Lala Lajpat Rai is also known as
- (A) Sher-e-Punjab
- (B) Punjab
Kesari
- (C) Both (A) and
(B)
- (D) None of the
above
10. Who was the first woman to scale Mt. Everest twice?
- (A) Kiran Bedi
- (B) Medha Patkar
- (C) Santosh
Yadav
- (D) Bachendri
Pal