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Class 8 General Knowledge
Awards And Prizes Of India And World
Quiz 12
Who has been chosen for the $$2017$$ Saraswati Samman?
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Vijay Tendulkar
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Sitanshu Yashaschandra
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Ramakanta Rath
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Sri Ramayana Mahanveshanam
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Sitanshu Yashaschandra, the Gujarati poet, playwright and academic, has been selected for the $$2017$$ Saraswati Samman for his collection of verses titled 'Vakhar'. The award is presented by the KK Birla Foundation, a literary and cultural organisation that also gives the Vyas Samman for Hindi and Bihari Puraskar for Hindi and Rajasthani writers of Rajasthan. It is the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature in the country and carries a citation, a plaque and award money of Rs $$15$$ lakh.
Born as Abhas Kumar Ganguly, this Indian film musician, actor, producer, director, and screenwriter is considered one of the most successful playback singers of the Hindi film industry. The Madhya Pradesh government instituted an award in his name for contributions to Hindi cinema. What is he better known as?
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Kishore Kumar is considered to be a legend in Hindi film world, He excelled as a playback singer, actor, composer, lyrics writer, director, producer and script writer.
The songs of Kishore Kumar have an extraordinary blend of romance, emotions, naughtiness and melancholy.
Which one of the following is the theme of the Interternational Day for Monuments and sites (World Heritage Day) 2017?
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The Heritage of Sport
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Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
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Past and Present Heritage
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Heritage and Science
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Every year on 18 April, ICOMOS celebrates the International Day for Monuments and Sites. The theme for 2017 edition was 'Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism'.
Trained as an artist and a lawyer, he was a Russian who settled in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. He was a dedicated activist for the cause of preserving art and architecture during times of war. He earned several nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Who was he?
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Nicholas Roerich was a Russian painter, writer, and archaeologist. He was interested in hypnosis and other spiritual practices.
Born in Russia, he lived in other parts of Europe and then moved to the UK and the US, where he found recognition for his prolific work. On a spiritual quest, ultimately, he settled in Kullu along the Himalayas.
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on June $$5$$. Every event has a theme like slogans. What was the theme for WED $$2016$$?
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Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife Trade
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Seven Billion Dreams. One planet, Consume with Care
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Connecting People to Nature
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One earth one Family
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Every year World Environment Day (WED) is observed on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth.
The theme for 2016 was Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife Trade.
The theme seeks to encourage conservation of all those species under threat and calls for taking action to help safeguard them for future generations.
Thomas Keneally is an Australian novelist best known for writing a book that won the Booker Prize in $$1982$$. It was inspired by Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. It was later adapted to a movie by Steven Spielberg which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Name this classic movie.
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The Longest Day
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Schindler's List
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Patton
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Saving Private Ryan
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Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. It is based on Schindler's Ark, a 1982 book by Thomas Keneally.
The movie and the book owe their names to the list of over a thousand Jews who worked in the title character's factory.
The two highest gallantry awards in India are
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Param Vir Chakra & Ashok Chakra
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Param Vir Chakra & Vir Chakra
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Ashok Chakra & Maha Vir Chakra
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Param Vir Chakra & Maha Vir Chakra
Michael N Hall has been chosen for the 2018 Genome Valley Excellence Award of Telangana. He hails from which country?
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United States
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France
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Switzerland
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Japan
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Eminent molecular biologist Professor Michael N Hall of the Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland, has been chosen for the 2018 Genome Valley Excellence Award for his pioneering work in discovering the nutrient-activated TOR (Target of Rapamycin) proteins and their central role in the metabolic control of cell growth. The award will be presented to him during BioAsia 2018, an annual flagship event of the Telangana government. The award, instituted in 2004, was in recognition of the transformative advances toward biomedical research and facilitating improvement in human life and was chosen by an international advisory board consisting of eminent personalities of the life sciences industry.
'Lord of the Flies' is a Nobel prize winning English novel written by William Golding. What is the book Lord of the Flies about?
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School boys on the desert island
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A girl falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.
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A round trip around the world
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None of these
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Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. It was published in 1954.
Golding based this novel on two personal experiences, his time teaching at boys' public schools and his experiences in World War II.
What was the theme of the 2017 World Blood Donor Day?
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Thank you for saving my life
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Blood connects us all
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Every blood donor is a hero
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Give blood. Give Now. Give often
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The World Blood Donor Day is observed every year on June 14 to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood.
The 2017 theme “Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often” focus on blood donation in emergency situations.
The 2017 Nobel prize in Economics was won by _____.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kip Thorne
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Richard H Thaler
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Joachim Frank.
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Richard Thaler an American economist won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to behavioral economics. The co-author of the 2008 best seller Nudge has "built a bridge between economics and psychological analyses on individual decision making".
Which Indian-American student has won the 90$$^{th}$$ Scripps National Spelling Bee competition?
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Rohan Sachdev
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Shourav Dasari
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Ananya Vinay
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Sreeniketh Vogoti
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Ananya Vinay an Indian-American student from California won the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee with $40000 cash prize.
She correctly spelled the word “marocain” to win the spelling bee held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in suburban Washington.
Which Indian personality was honoured by US Embassy for Tuberculosis (TB) awareness on 8th January 2017?
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Amitabh Bachchan was honoured by the US Embassy for Tuberculosis to acknowledge his immense contribution to the India-US ties on Tuberculosis (TB).
The award was presented by US Ambassador to India Richard R Verma to Amitabh Bachchan, who himself is a TB survivor and brand ambassador for the cause.
This award presented to the outstanding player at each FIFA World Cup finals. Brazilian players have won it 7 times. What is the award called?
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Golden Glove Award
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Golden Ball Award
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Golden Shoe Award
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Nike Award
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The Golden Ball Award is presented to the outstanding player at each FIFA World Cup finals since 1982. It is sponsored by Adidas. The winner is elected by media from a list of shortlisted players by FIFA.
International Women's Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. On which date is International Women's Day celebrated?
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$$1$$st March
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$$8$$th March
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$$10$$th March
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$$25$$th March
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International Woman day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is celebrated on 8th March every year, in order to recognize the achievements of women in various spheres of life.
Who among the following has been conferred with the 2017 Life Time Achievement Award by Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF)?
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Bachendri Pal
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Santosh Yadav
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Manik Banerjee
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Arunima Sinha
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Manik Banerjee, who is a renowned mountaineer and a veteran journalist was conferred with the 2017 Life Time Achievement Award by Indian Mountaineering Foundation on November 19 for his great accomplishment over a period of four decades and also towards the promotion of mountaineering.
Indian actresses like Aishwarya Rai Bachan and Sonam Kapoor walked the Red Carpet in this annual film festival (2017). It gave award the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for best movie screened. Which film festival was this?
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Berlin International Film Festival
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Sundance Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival
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Warsaw Internal Film Festival
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The Palme d'Or (The Golden Palm) is regarded to be the most illustrious prize at Cannes. It is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. The award is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry.
Who has won the 2017 Little Miss Universe Internet beauty contest?
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Padmalaya Nanda won the title of Little Miss Universe Internet 2017.
She also won the Golden Crown Little Miss Universe Internet 2017, Little Miss Universe Grand Prix and Little Miss Actress.
It was the first time that a 12-year-old Indian teenager had won the title of this beauty contest.
Who won the best actor award at 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards?
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Rajkummar Rao
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Akshay Kumar
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Salman Khan
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Shahid Kapoor
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Rajkummar Rao won the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, in the best actor category for Newton. The movie was produced by Drishyam Films and directed by Masurkar.
In $$2001$$ this writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He/she is also the recipient of prestigious Man Booker Prize. His/her famous works are 'A House for Mr.Biswas'. 'In a Free State' and 'The Mimic Men'. Identify him/her.
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Sir Vidyadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a British novelist was born on August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago.
A recepient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He became the first person of Indian origin to win a Booker Prize in 1971.
Some of his famous works include The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, Guerillas, Miguel Street, A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men, In a Free State, Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, An Area of Darkness, A House for Mr Biswas.etc.
He was the first Black African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Nigeria, his writings focussed on Nigerian culture, dance, poetry, freedom, and protest. Identify him.
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Wole Soyinka
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Derek Walcott
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James Baldwin
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Richard Wright
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Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, essayist, poet, and novelist, known for making work about Africa from a distinctly African perspective. He is among contemporary Africa's greatest writers.
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He has also taught at a number of universities worldwide including Cambridge University and Yale University.
He was a Bengali poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer, whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate to win the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Who was he?
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Rabindranath Tagore, who composed the National Anthem of India and won the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a multitalented personality in every sense. He was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, painter and a composer.
Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.
Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award is given to individuals for excelling in adventure activities on sea, land and air. Who was awarded Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2014-15?
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Milka Singh
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Jot Singh
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Gurucharan Singh
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K P Thakkar
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The Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2014-15 was awarded by the then President Pranab Mukherjee to Jot Singh (Mountaineering)
. The award is given to the sportsperson for his or her outstanding achievement in the field of adventure activities.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award given to outstanding individuals/ organisations who manifest greatness of spirit in service to the Asian people. Who among the following is not a recipient of this award?
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The Ramon Magsaysay award celebrates the memory and leadership example of the former Philippine president and is given every year to individuals or organisations in Asia.
Vinoba Bhave and Chandni Prasad Bhatt were the recipients of the International Award for Community Leadership whereas Kiran Bedi was honoured for Government Service.
Out of the given options, the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee has never won the award.
Match column I with column II and select the correct option from the given codes.
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Earth day
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29 July
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International Tiger Day
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16 September
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World Wetlands Day
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22 April
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World Ozone Day
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2 February
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1-(c), 2-(a), 3-(d), 4-(b)
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1-(a), 2-(c), 3-(b), 4-(d)
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1-(b), 2-(a), 3-(c), 4-(d)
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1-(c), 2-(b), 3-(d), 4-(a)
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Earth Day is an annual event, observed on April 22, that celebrates the planet's environment and raises public awareness about pollution.
Every year 29 July is celebrated across the world as Global Tiger Day to create awareness about tiger conservation and protection of the natural habitat of tigers.
World Wetlands Day is held on February 2nd annually to celebrate the 1971 adoption of the International Convention on Wetlands in the Iranian city of Ramsar.
World Ozone Day is observed every year on September 16 for the preservation of the Ozone Layer.
Nobel prize in Literature in 2017 was awarded to ____.
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Girish Karnad
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Ruskin Bond
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Adam Zagajewski.
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The Swedish Academy has selected Japanese-born English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro for the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature. The award was given for his works that are of great emotional force.
World Water Day focuses on water conservation and critical water issues. On which date is it celebrated?
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11 December
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22 April
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22 March
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21 November
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World Water Day is celebrated on 22 March every year to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
The United Nations General Assembly initiated this response on 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.
Who was the first Asian woman to win Miss World Title in 1966?
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Reita Faria won the Miss World crown in 1966. An Indian model, doctor and the winner of the Miss World 1966 pageant, she became the first Asian woman to win the event. She went on to become the first Miss World winner to qualify as a Doctor.
Rabindranath Tagore was an eminent poet and writer of India, who won Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was his English poet-friend who introduced him to the West?
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Oscar Wilde
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W.B. Yeats
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Oliver Twist
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William Wordsworth
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore have a very strong historical and biographical relationship revolving around the fact that Tagore's first champion in the west, the person most responsible for his initial success outside of India, was Yeats.
After reading some of Tagore's self-translated poems, Yeats was impressed and got Tagore's collections published and spread the word about him in the literary circles in London.
Most importantly, Yeats wrote the introduction to Tagore's Gitanjali, which first appeared in 1913.
This actor was posthumously awarded a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic clown prince of crime in the movie. 'The Dark Knight'. He died in $$2008$$. Name him.
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Billy Mays
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Patrick Swayze
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Karl Malden
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Heath Ledger
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Heath Ledger was a bold, imaginative actor who continuously defied expectations through the relatively small number of movies he got to make in his 28 years.
The Australian secured his legendary status by playing the Joker in Batman movie The Dark Knight, for which he won a posthumous Oscar following his tragic death in 2008.
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