PERSONALITIES MCQS SET 10

PERSONALITIES MCQS SET 10

91) Professor Muhammad Yunus is renowned in which one of the following areas?
A) international Economics
B) Human Rights
C) Freedom of Press
D) Microcredit Concept
Answer: Microcredit Concept
   
92) How is Leila Seth known as?
A) First Woman Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission
B) First Woman Election Commissioner of India
C) First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India
D) First Woman Governor of a State in India
Answer: First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India
   
93) Who among the following was the first Chairman of the Planning Commission?
A) Dr Rajendra Prasad
B) Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) JB Kripalani
Answer: Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
   
94) Who is the 'Father of lmmunology'?
A) Robert Koch
B) Louis Pasteur
C) Edward Jenner
D) Landsteiner
Answer: Louis Pasteur
   
95) Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the Secretary Generals of the United Nations?
A) U Thant-K Waldheim-BB Ghali-K Annan
B) K Waldheim-U Thant-BB Ghali-K Annan
C) U Thant-K Waldheim-K Annan-BB Ghali
D) K Waldheim-BB Ghali-U Thant-K Annan
Answer: U Thant-K Waldheim-BB Ghali-K Annan

96) Marco Polo was
A) discovered greenland
B) travelled round the cape of good hope
C) discovered Canada
D) travelled through India, China and other parts of Asia
Answer: travelled through India, China and other parts of Asia
   
97) Who of the following published a famous pamphlet known as 'Right of Man' and urged the people in England, America and France to fight for their liberty?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Thomas Paine
C) John Locke
D) Jean Jacques Rousseau
Answer: Thomas Paine
   
98) Where was the 14th Asia Security Summit (Shangri-La-Dialogue) held in May 2015?
A) Beijing
B) Bangkok
C) Jakarta
D) Singapore
Answer: Singapore
   
99) 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
Answer: Tagore's concern about the environment was activated by pragmatic and utilitarian considerations
   
100) Which among the following leaders is not correctly matched with its authoritarian state/regime?
Authoritarian : Authoritarian leader state
1. Egypt : Hosni Mubarak
2. Libya : MuammarGaddafi
3. Sudan : Bashar AI-Asad
4. Tunisia : Zine el-Abidine Ben
A) 1 and 3
B) 2 and 3
C) Only 3
D) All of the above
Answer: Only 3