CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 4 - MCQExams.com

Dr.S. Radhakrishnan wrote
  • Sanctuary
  • Invisible Man
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Butterfield
Who wrote the historical novel "Bring Up the Bodies" which won Man Booker Prize in 2012?
  • Mathew Arnold
  • Leonid Brezhev
  • Philip Roth
  • Hilary Mantel
'Power tempts to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely' - Who said?
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Shakespeare
  • Lord Acton
  • Mao
'One World and India' was written by 
  • Arnold Toynbe
  • Charles Darwin
  • Erich Segal
  • K.A. Abbas
Who wrote the book 'My Girlhood'? 
  • John Ruskin
  • Winston Churchill
  • Taslima Nasreen
  • H.G. Wells
'Impossible is a word in the vocabulary of fools' -  Who said?
  • Winston Churchill
  • Napoleon
  • Eisenhover
  • Mahatma Gandhi
'An Invitation to the White House'- Who wrote this Book?
  • V.V. Giri
  • Ms. HillaryClinton
  • Jefferson
  • R.K. Narayan
'Economics of the Third World' was written by
  • Dr. Karan Singh
  • Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
  • S.K. Ray
  • S.P. Dalvi
Who created the comic character 'Barbarella'?
  • Jagues Claude Hirag
  • Jean Claude Forest
  • Roger Claude Mitterand
  • Jagus Claude Forest
'Hinduism' was written by
  • K. M. Munshi
  • R. N. Tagore
  • Nirad C. Chaudhuri
  • Dr. Karan Singh
Who wrote "The Luminaries" which won the 'Man Booker Prize' for 2013?
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Julian Barnes
  • Eleanor Catton
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' - Who said this?
  • Wordsworth
  • John Keats
  • Shelley
  • Byron
Hindu youth from Pakistan named ________ has been selected for the prestigious 'Emerging Young Leaders Award' given by the US State Department
  • Mukesh Joshi
  • Sanjeev Gupta
  • Rohit Dubey
  • Raj Kumar
Who received the 75th Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Award on April 24, 2017?
  • Actor Aamir Khan and Former Cricketer Kapil Dev
  • Actor Shahrukh Khan and Former Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar
  • Actor Salman Khan and Former Cricketer Rahul Dravid
  • Actor Ranbir Kapoor and Former Cricketer Sourav Ganguly
'In Search of Gandhi' was written by 
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Taya Zinkin
  • Dr. S. Radhakrishan
'Osama Bin Laden: America's Enemy In His Own Words' was written by 
  • Randall B. Hamud
  • Garth King
  • Usha Bhagat
  • Ali Smith
UNESCO has awarded Peace Prize to Giuseppina (Giusi) Nicolini, the mayor of the ___________ island of Lampedusa
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • German
"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" which won Man Booker Prize 2014 was written by
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Aravind Adiga
  • Richard Flanagan
  • Salman Rushdie
Who among the following has been conferred with Japan's highest award Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Revit Society?
  • Vikram Seth
  • Khushwant Singh
  • Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • T.N. Seshan
Who among the following has been announced as the recipient of the $$2017$$ PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story?
  • Chetan Bhagat
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
Shabana Azmi was awarded the honour of best actress and President's Medal for her acting in the film
  • Godmother
  • Fire
  • Sarfarosh
  • Water
Which of the following states have won the eGovernance awards for Excellence under the state category at the CSI-Nihilent eGovernance Awards held in Coimbatore on January $$31, 2017$$?
  • Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
  • Haryana and Nagaland
  • Rajasthan and Telangana
  • Haryana and Rajasthan
Name the book by debutante Rajkamal Jha, which has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best First Book.
  • The Ground Beneath Her feet
  • Development as Freedom
  • Difficult Daughters
  • The Blue Bedspread
Which Indian beach has been ranked among the top $$10$$ in the World's Traveler's Choice Award-Winning Beaches by TripAdvisor?
  • Lalaji Bay Beach
  • Radhanagar Beach
  • Guitar Island Beach
  • Ross and Smith Island Beach
Who received Award for Best Pop Solo performance for $$2016$$?
  • Beyonce
  • Lady gaga
  • Amy Wine house
  • Ed Sheeran
Who among the following persons has been declared Mr.World, $$2016$$?
  • Juan Garcia Postigo
  • Kamal Ibrahim
  • Ignacia Kliche
  • Rohit Khandelwal
Who was given Sahitya Academy Puraskar for his works on Swami Vivekananda?
  • Tarasankar Bandopadhyay
  • Ananda Sankar Roy
  • Achintya Kumar Sengupta
  • Sankari Prasad Basu
Who won the $$2016$$ John.F.Richards Prize?
  • Sugatha Kumari
  • Nayanjot Lahiri
  • A.A. Manavalan
  • S.L. Bhyrappa
The two day UNESCO Natural Heritage Festival $$2017$$ was held in which state?
  • Assam
  • Goa
  • Himachal Pradesh
  • Uttarakhand
Which movie has won the Best Film award at the $$2017$$ BAFTA awards?
  • Fences
  • Lion
  • La La Land
  • Manchester by the Sea
Who received Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavan Award $$2016$$?
  • Goutam Bai
  • Hem Dutta
  • N. Radhakrishnan
  • Dr. Shubha Mudgal
Who among the following received Bharat Gaurav Award by the Non Residential Indian (NRI) community of USA on Juno 9, 2017, at the United Nations Hall, New York?
  • Karan Johar
  • Anurag Basu
  • Anurag Kashyap
  • Madhur Bhandarkar
Who has won the prestigious Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award 2016?
  • Aniket Patel
  • John Sharma
  • Ajay Batra
  • Syamantak Payra
Who among the following has been crowned Miss Teen Universe 2017?
  • Aayushi Mehta
  • Sriti Kumar
  • Neha Burman
  • Srishti Kaur
Which state has been selected for Krishi Karman Award 2015-16 for highest production of wheat?
  • Uttar Pradesh
  • Madhya Pradesh
  • Punjab
  • Haryana
Who has been conferred with the Dr.B.C Roy National Award $$2016$$ for outstanding service in the field of socio medical relief?
  • Dr Rakesh Khazanchi
  • Dr Ramesh Kumar Sharma
  • Dr P Raghu Ram
  • Dr. M.S. Venkatesh
The annual Desert Festival is a popular art and cultural festival celebrated in which part of Rajasthan?
  • Jaipur
  • Jodhpur
  • Ajmer
  • Jaisalmer
Who among the following has won the Little Miss Universe 2017 beauty pageant?
  • Padmalaya Nanda
  • Manisha Bhatti
  • Vaneeta Deshmukh
  • Renisha Fernandes
Indian-born scientist, Subramaniam Chandrasekhar (who died in 1995) had won the Nobel Prize for his work in the area of
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Biochemistry
  • Astrophysics
  • Molecular Biology
Who has been honored with the first prize for Regeneron Science Talent Search Award by United States on March 16, 2017?
  • Vrinda Madan
  • Arjun Ramani
  • Archana Verma
  • Indrani Das
Who among the following is the recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Sadhbhavana Award 2016?
  • Lata Mangeshkar
  • Amjad Ali Khan
  • Pt. Ravi Shankar
  • Shubha Mugdal
Who among the following has been awarded the Global Leadership Awards of the US-India Business Council for his role in integrating India in the global supply chain?
  • Kishore Biyani
  • Harish Manwani
  • Adi Godrej
  • Prakash Chauhan
Who has been crowned Miss International Queen 2016 on March 10, 2017 in the beauty pageant event in Thailand?
  • Athalie Oliveira
  • Tanyarat Jirapatpakon
  • Jiratchaya Sirimongkolnawin
  • Andrea Collazo
According to the Quality of Living Survey 2017 by Mercer, which Indian city has been ranked as the best city in terms of living standards?
  • Pune
  • Mumbai
  • Chennai
  • Hyderabad
Which among the following has become first Indian building to get itself trade marked?
  • Fatehpur Sikri
  • Taj Mahal Palace
  • India Gate
  • Red Fort
Who among the following has won Femina Miss India 2017 title?
  • Priyanka Kumari
  • Manushi Chhillar
  • Sana Dua
  • Avni Kothari
Who has won the 2017 Global Teacher Prize?
  • Ben Glickman
  • Eoin Bolger
  • Maggie MacDonell
  • Amy Woodbridge
Who has been conferred with the 2016 Saraswati Samman?
  • Iiyappa
  • Panickar
  • Padma Sachdev
  • Mahabaleshwar Sail
Name the Indian journalist who has been conferred with the inaugural Kuldip Nayar Journalism Award on March 19, 2017?
  • Sudhir Choudhary
  • Ravish Kumar
  • Barkha Dutt
  • Rohit Sardana
New Indian president Shri. Ramnath Kovind belongs to which city of Uttarpradesh?
  • Kanpur
  • Lucknow
  • Varanasi
  • Meerut
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