Famous Personalities MCQs

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

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?

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.

44. Pt. Bhimsen Joshi is associated with –

A. Literature
B. Social services
C. Classical music
D. Politics
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi is known for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs).

46. Who amidst the following is a distinguished painter?

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.