Famous Personalities MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The appointed Chief of the Nepal Army (August – September 2009) belongs to Indigenous tribes.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Dadabhai Naoroji was thrice elected President of the Indian National Congress.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Giani Zail Singh is the President of India, who was also the Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement for some period. He was a politician with the Indian National Congress party and was the seventh President of India from 1982 to 1987.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
M. Natrajan was the Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar launches National Digital Library in New Delhi.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Lieutenant Ram Charan, an Indian Navy meteorologist, was the first Indian to visit Antarctica when he accompanied an Australian polar expedition in 1960. He died in a road accident in 1961.

✅ 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.
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