Famous Personalities MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first-ever Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra (PBK) in Delhi on 9 January, 2018. Approx 124 Members of Parliament (MP) and 17 mayors from 23 countries will participate in this conference. The conference is a way of reaching out to the Indian community overseas by the Central government. The event will have two thematic sessions, the first one will have as special guest senior Congress leader and chairman of the parliamentary committee on external affairs, Shashi Tharoor. The session will be presided over by Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. The second session will have Parliamentary Affairs minister Ananth Kumar as a special guest which will be chaired by Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Yamini Krishna Murthy – BharatnatyamM. S. Subbulakshmi – VocalistVishnu Digambar Paluskar – MusicianPt. Shivikumar Sharma – Santoor

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is called the “Spiritual Father of Pakistan.” He was invited to the Second and Third round table conference.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
As of August 2018, Deepak Mishra was the Chief Justice of India.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Dr. Rajiv Kumar is Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was the editor of Marathi newspaper, ‘Kesari’.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Sanjeev Gupta, a British billionaire of Indian origin, is currently challenging market leader Tesla for making the world’s largest lithium-ion battery.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Defence Minister, launched a new state-of-the-art incubation centre “Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning (CEOL)” at Mallikatta in Mangaluru, Karnataka on 29 December, 2017.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Anders Celsius, regarded as the founder of Swedish astronomy, is best remembered as the inventor of the Celsius temperature scale (often called the centigrade scale), in which 0°C is the freezing point of water and 100°C is the boiling point.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, in the Hindustani classical tradition.