Famous Personalities MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The Uttar Pradesh government has recently launched a free household power connection scheme ‘Prakash hai to vikas hai’ for the poor in the state to mark former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday. Initially, the two village Lohban and Gausana of Mathura district have been covered for 100% electrification. Under this scheme, the state government has a target of covering 16 million by the end of 2018. Apart from this, the UP government has also introduced Kisan Uday Yojana, scheme for farmers in which existing 5 HP/7.5 HP submersible and coupling sets of farmers will be replaced free of cost. The scheme, which would cover 10 lakh farmers by 2022, would lead to 35% saving on power consumption.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
New director general of the Sports Authority of India is Sandip Pradhan.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Bihar has celebrated its 106th foundation day on 22 March, 2018. A number of programmes have been organized throughout the state on the occasion. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated a 3-day Bihar Diwas celebrations in Patna and also released 4 books- ‘Ek Tha Mohan’, ‘Bapu Ki Chiththi’, ‘Champaran Ki Kahani’ and ‘Neel Ke Dhabbe’ on this occasion. The 2018 theme for this year’s celebrations is “Centenary of Champaran Satyagraha and Elimination of Dowry and Child Marriage”. It was on this day when the British carved out the state from Bengal Presidency in 1912. Before that Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa were part of the Bengal province during the British rule.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Luisa Dias Diogo – MozambiqueMwai Kibaki – KenyaRupiah Banda – Zambia

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Jagdish Mukhi was sworn in as the Governor of Assam in October 2017.

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K. Sivan, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, is the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (born 6 March, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia – died 17 April, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico), Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude).

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
IPS officer Abhay took charge as the chief of the of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in 2018.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Shereen Bhan is an Indian journalist and news anchor. She is the Delhi Bureau Chief and Executive Editor of CNBC-TV18.