CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 11 - MCQExams.com

Who has been appointed as the deputy chief of Integrated Defence Staff (IDS)?
  • Air Marshal Anil Tipnis
  • Lt Gen Rajiv Mohan Gupta
  • Air Marshal Swaroop Kaul
  • Air Marshal Dilbagh Singh
Which of the following person has been appointed as the Executive Director of World Bank recently?
  • Rajesh Khullar
  • A Sushmitha
  • Rahul Preet
  • Harman Kaur
Which of the following people is credited as being the father of mass production?
  • Thomas Edison
  • Otto Graham
  • Henry Ford
  • Eli Whitney
Hassan Rouhani has won the Presidential election in which country?
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Iran
The book' My Nation My Life' was written by
  • L.K Advani
  • Manmohan Singh
  • T.N. Seshan
  • Fervez Musharaf
Which of the following person has been appointed as Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) ?
  • Narendra Kohli
  • Prasoon Joshi
  • Naresh Chandra Lal
  • Vivek Agnihotri
Who has been appointed as the new Secretary of Department of Telecommunications (DoT)?
  • P.K. Pujari
  • Kalyanaraman Rajaraman
  • Manu Jha
  • J.S. Deepak
Which Indian personality has been appointed as new UNFCCC deputy executive secretary?
  • Ovais Sarmad
  • Natasha Singh
  • Amit Sangwan
  • Arvind Mehta
Which of the following person has been appointed as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Physical Activity in South-East Asia Region recently?
  • Harmanpreet Singh
  • Abinav Bindra
  • P V Sindhu
  • Milkha Singh
Name the Union Minister of Environmental Forest and Climate Change, who passed away recently?
  • Harsh Vardhan
  • Anil Madhav Dave
  • Anant Geete
  • Jual Oram
The book "Mann ki baat: A social evolution on radio" has been authored by whom ?
  • Rajesh Jain
  • Jitendra Singh
  • Pankaj Kumar
  • None of the above
Who has been conferred with the first-ever Bhairon Singh Shekhawat lifetime achievement honour in public service?
  • Pawan Chamling
  • Manik Sarkar
  • Mukul Sangma
  • None of the above
Who has been appointed as the new vice-chairperson of National Commission for Minorities (NCM)?
  • Atif Rasheed
  • Sunil Singhi
  • Sulekha Kumbhare
  • Gayarul Hasan
Which of the following program has been launched by Odisha Government and Facebook for women entrepreneurs in Odisha recently?
  • She Means Business
  • Business for women
  • Business women
  • (B) and (C)
Peter O'Neill has been reappointed as Prime Minister of which of the following country?
  • Cuba
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • French Guiana
Which of the following person has been appointed as the new Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog?
  • Suman K Bery
  • Rajiv Pratap
  • Sumanth Sharma
  • Vijay Sekar
Which of the following person has been appointed as Director General of the Railway Protection Force recently?
  • B.N.Lahri
  • Dharmendra Kumar
  • Vijay Singh
  • Asish Gupta
Who has been appointed as the new Union Minister of Skill Development?
  • Alphons Kannanthanam
  • Anant Kumar Hegde
  • Ashwini Kumar Choubey
  • Dharmendra Pradhan
Who is the Prime Minister of Nepal ?
  • Sher Bahadur Deuba
  • Sushil Koirala
  • Girija Prasad Koirala
  • Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Which of the following person has been appointed as the new Railway Board Chairman?
  • Vinay Kumar Tripathi 
  • Asish Arora
  • Mayank Behra
  • Aditya Behra
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Dhola-Sadia Bridge - India's longest River Bridge in which State ?
  • Tamil Nadu
  • Assam
  • Uttar Pradesh
  • Gujarat
Who is the newly appointed Chairperson of National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention (NACWC)?
  • P S Chaku
  • Ms.Neel Kamal Darbari
  • Abdul Rashid
  • Dharmendra Singh
A book titled I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric & Resolve has been authored by which of the following person?
  • Arun Jaitley
  • Raghuram Rajan
  • Narendra Medi
  • Pranab Mukerjee
India's first Hyperloop pthject will come in which state?
  • Karnataka
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Tamil Nadu
  • Kerala
Who has been appointed as a new chairman of International Fertilizer Association (IFA) ?
  • Kaustubh Shah
  • Naoki Tajima
  • Svein Tore Holsether
  • Vinodh Bhat
Who among the following has been announced as one of the six winners of 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize?
  • Madhukar Gupta
  • Prafulla Samantra
  • Vivekanand Panda
  • Trinath Behra
Who has won the Man Booker International prize 2016?
  • Jack Collins
  • Han Kang
  • William Munro
  • Maithili Saran Gupta
Who among the following has been presented the prestigious Kusumagraja Rashtriya Puraskar of this year for his outstanding contribution to social and educational fields?
  • S S Rajaram
  • L V Laxman
  • H S Shivaprakash
  • P L Laxminath
Israeli author David Grossman has won the Man Booker International Prize for his novel:
  • 'A Tiger Walks Into a Bar'
  • 'A Lion Walks Into a Bar'
  • 'A Horse Walks Into a Bar'
  • 'A Bear Walks Into a Bar'
Which of the following cities has been declared as a Smoke-Free City in India recently?
  • Gangtok
  • Kohima
  • Idukki
  • Mysuru
Who among the following has been awarded the MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her work and service to the under privileged?
  • Nicole Joshi
  • Laura Pathak
  • Laura Parikh
  • Annabel Mehta
Which Indian state received the award of excellence at the $$2^{nd}$$ Global Skill Development Summit held in Paris on June 23, 2017?
  • Madhya Pradesh
  • Odisha
  • Jharkhand
  • Uttarakhand
On June 22, 2017, who among the following was conferred Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence for outstanding contribution to science and research?
  • Vishal Panda
  • Rakesh Mohapatra
  • Shivam Lenka
  • Lalit Mohan Das
Who is the new President of international economic association appointed on June 2017?
  • George Akerlof
  • Kaushik Basu
  • Eliana Ferrara
  • Bimal Jalan
Which of the following is true about C. Rajagopalachari?
  • He was the first Speaker of Lok Sabha after independence
  • He was the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Body of India
  • He was the first and last Indian Governor General of India after independence
  • He was the Governor of Tamil Nadu
The Theory of Laissez Faire was invented by
  • Marques
  • Adam Smith
  • Marshall
  • Laski
Which one of the following writs is considered a bulwark of individual freedom?
  • Certiorari
  • Quo Warranto
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Mandamus
The song 'Jana-Gana-Mana' composed to Rabindra Nath Tagore was first published in January $$1912$$ under the title of.
  • Jay He
  • Rashtra Jagriti
  • Bharat Bhagya Bidhata
  • Matribhoomi
Who among the following articulated his demand in 1938, for a Constituent Assembly on the basis of adult franchise?
  • C Rajagopalachari
  • Purushottam Das Tandon
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • JB Kripalani
The Swatantra Party was formed by
  • Morarji Desai
  • Piloo Mody
  • Minoo Masani
  • C Rajagopalachari
Which of the following is correctly matched?
  • $$1960$$-Third general elections in India
  • $$1958$$- Bombay bifurcated into Maharashtra and Gujarat
  • $$1966$$-Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister
  • $$1970$$-Nationalisation of banks
Who among the following had the distinction of having the longest tenure as a Union Cabinet Minister? 
  • HR Khanna
  • Jagjivan Ram
  • C Rajagopalachari
  • Morarji Desai
'In this country the sovereign reigns but does not govern'. These were the words of
  • Clement Attlee
  • Winston Churchill
  • Anthony Eden
  • Harold McMillan
The Union Food Minister who had earned the sobriquet "Famine Minister" was
  • KM Munshi
  • Rafi Abmed Kidwai
  • NG Ayyangar
  • Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
______ was responsible for the unification of India after Independence.
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • GB Pant
  • Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
  • C Rajagopalachari
Choose the most appropriate option.
Name the President elect of France who is likely to take the oath on $$14$$ May $$2017$$.
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • Marine Le pen
  • Fracois Holland
  • Francois Fillon.
Who among the following propounded the "theory of natural rights"?
  • Aristotle
  • Hobbes
  • Locke
  • Socrates
Zaira Wasim, who was in limelight recently, is ___.
  • A close associate of Malala Yousafzai
  • A renowned human rights activist
  • An Actress in Hindi Movie Dangal
  • A Brand Ambassador of Beti Bachoo Beti Padhao programme
Recently, who amongst the following has taken over as the Chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors?
  • Vinod Rai
  • Raghuram Rajan
  • Anthony Lake
  • Girish Murmu 
Choose the most appropriate option.
Which of the following individuals was called a 'deceptive actor' by China's Foreign ministry during March $$2017$$
  • Narendra Modi
  • Dalai Lama
  • Donald Trump
  • Sirisena
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