General Knowledge Quiz 34: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 34: Personalities Quiz

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1. Who introduced the concept of Ombudsman in India?

Mahatma Gandhi
L M Singhvi
Anna Hasare
Kiran Bedi

2. Who among the following holds the all time record for Olympic gold medals?

Michael Phelps
Larisa Latynina
Paavo Nurmi
Usain Bolt

3. The birthday of which statistician is celebrated as National Statistics Day in India?

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
C R Rao
Debabrata Basu
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

4. Who played the lead role in the movie "Mangal Pandey: The Rising"?

Shah Rukh Khan
Aamir Khan
Akshay Kumar
Ajay Devgan

5. Name the Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of many Latin American countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama?

Ali Lenin Aguilera
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Simon Bolivar
Fidel Castro

6. Name the Spanish explorer who led the expedition that conquered the Inca Empire?

Hernando de Soto
Panfilo de Narvaez
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortes

7. Who was the Spanish explorer to become the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River?

Hernando de Soto
Francisco de Orellana
Juan Pardo
Louis Jolliet

8. With which one of the following incidents will you associate Madan Lal Pahwa?

Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Indo-China War

9. Who has been chosen for Vyas Samman 2017?

Mamta Kalia
Surinder Verma
Sunita Jain
Kamal Kishore Goyenka

10. Who is the author of "When Breath Becomes Air"?

Suasn Faludi
Paul Kalanidhi
Arundhati Roy
Sidhartha Mukherjee

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