Famous Personalities MCQs

41. Which one among the following statements regarding Rabindranath Tagore’s concern for the natural world and environment is not correct?

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A. Caring for nature on aesthetic grounds, as Tagore did, has now become one of the major environmental concerns in the developed countries of the world.
B. Tagore’s short stories and novels exhibit his concern for nature.
C. Tagore’s vision of education emphasized the need to generate environmental awareness among the students.
D. Tagore’s concern about the environment was activated by pragmatic and utilitarian considerations.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Tagore’s vision of education emphasized the need to generate environmental awareness among the students is an incorrect statement.

42. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

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A. O. P. Bhatt – SBI
B. K. V. Kamath – ICICI
C. Aditya Puri – HDFC
D. Vikram Pandit – IDBI
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Vikram Shankar Pandit (born 14 January 1957) is an Indian-American banker and investor who was the chief executive officer of Citigroup from December 2007 to 16 October 2012.

45. Who amongst the following is an Economist of international fame and was in news recently?

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A. John Key
B. Paul Krugman
C. Nicolas Sarkozy
D. Mohamed Elbaradei
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor, and columnist. He is a professor of economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times.

46. Who amidst the following is a distinguished painter?

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A. Uday Shankar
B. Sonal Mansingh
C. Amrita Shergill
D. Yamini Kirshnamurthy
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called “one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century” and a “pioneer” in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started getting formal lessons in the art, at the age of eight.

50. Which Indian American is the chairman of the prestigious Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States as of March 2018?

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A. Neomi Rao
B. Neil Chatterjee
C. Ajit Pai
D. Seema Verma
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Ajit Varadaraj Pai is an American lawyer who served as chairman of the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He has been a partner at the private-equity firm Searchlight Capital since April 2021.