Famous Personalities — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

Jayanta Mahapatra is an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He is the author of poems such as Indian Summer and Hunger, which are regarded as classics in modern Indian English literature.

The first blueprint for computerization in the Banking Industry was drawn up in 1983-84. A Committee was set up in 1983 under the chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan , the then Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, to look into the modalities of drawing a phased plan of mechanization in the Banking Industry, covering the period 1985-89. The Committee submitted its report in 1984 and recommended the introduction of computerization at Branch, Regional, and Head Office levels of banks. The banking industry has since come a long way in computerizing their front and back-office operations as per the guidelines of Rangarajan Committee. Against this background and the experience gained in the eighties, RBI set up in September 1988, another Committee, again the chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan, Deputy Governer, to draw up a perspective plan of computerization for the banking industry for the five year’s period 1990-94 and also to consider other allied issues. Source : inflibnet.ac.in

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s.

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, commonly known as TADA, was an Indian anti-terrorism law which was in force between 1985 and 1995 under the background of the Punjab insurgency and was applied to whole of India. Sanjay Dutt, a noted film actor was held under TADA.

Shovana Narayan is a famous and recognized Indian Kathak dancer. She had dual career, in parallel, as a Kathak artist and a career officer with Indian Audit and Accounts Service. She performs in India and around the world, and has been awarded the Padma Shri. Her guru is Birju Maharaj.

Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, in the Hindustani classical tradition.

Henry Graham Greene OM CH was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers.

Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 - 9 September 2012), known as the "Father of the White Revolution" in India, was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry and the largest rural employment sector providing a third of all rural income.

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 - 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Sushmita Sen was born into a Bengali Baidya Brahmin family in Hyderabad to Shubeer Sen, a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander, and Subhra Sen, a jewelry designer and owner of a Dubai-based store. She has two siblings, a sister named Neelam and a brother named Rajeev.

Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is also a chess presenter and commentator.

Limba Ram is an Indian archer who represented India in international competitions, including three Olympics. He equalled an archery world record in 1992 at the Asian Archery Championships in Beijing. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award in 2012.

Ms. Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi (born 30 April 1927) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Appointed to the apex Court in 1989, she became the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme court of India, and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any of the higher judiciaries in country.

The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden for rock enthusiasts in Chandigarh, India. It is also known as Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957.

Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai was the Chief Minister of Gujarat and a leader of Indian National Congress.

Naina Devi also known as Naina Ripjit Singh, was Indian vocalist of Hindustani classical music, most known for her thumri renditions, though she also sang dadra and ghazals. She was a music producer at All India Radio and later with Doordarshan.

Three great saint composers - Thyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri are known as the 'Trimurti' of Carnatic music. They were not only contemporaries during the later half of the 18 th century and the beginning of the 19 th century, but were also, incredibly, born in the same town of Thiruvarur in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu.

Gangubai Hangal (5 March 1913 - 21 July 2009) was an Indian singer of the khayal genre of Hindustani classical music from Karnataka, who was known for her deep and powerful voice. Hangal belonged to the Kirana gharana.

Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) was a legend in her own lifetime and one of the most famous women in British history. Her work in the Crimea set the standards for modern nursing. For the rest of her life, she continued to campaign for improved sanitary conditions in both military and civilian hospitals.

Girilal Jain, was an Indian journalist. He served as the editor of The Times of India from 1978 till 1988. He was sympathetic to Hindu nationalism and authored books on the subject, the best known of which, The Hindu Phenomenon, was published posthumously.

Larry Lee Pressler (born 29 March, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from South Dakota who served in the United States House of Representatives (1975 – 1979) and United States Senate (1979 – 1997) as a Republican.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, also known as V. M. Bhatt (born 27 July 1950), is a Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan veena (slide guitar).

Raja Ravi Verma (29 April 1848 - 2 October 1906) was a celebrated Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art.

Erwin Rommel, in full Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, byname the Desert Fox, German der Wüstenfuchs, (born 15 November 1891, Heidenheim, Germany -died 14 October 1944, Herrlingen, near Ulm), German field marshal who became the most popular general at home and gained the open respect of his enemies with his spectacular victories as commander of the Afrika Korps in World War II.

Major General Rajinder Singh, MVC & bar (3 October 1911 – May 1994) was an Indian Army officer and a two time member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament. He was nicknamed 'Sparrow'.

S. Z. Kasim headed the first scientific group to leave for Antarctica 1982.

Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy is an Indian dancer of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi styles of dancing.

Michael Joseph Jackson (29 August, 1958 – 25 June, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20 th century.

Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born 10 March, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer who served as the 19 th prime minister of Canada from 25 June to 4 November, 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada.

Mihir Sen (16 November 1930 - 11 June 1997) was a famous Indian long distance swimmer and businessman. He was the first Indian to conquer the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958, and did so in the fourth fastest time (14 hrs & 45 mins). He was the only man to swim the oceans of the five continents in one calendar year (1966). These included the Palk Strait, Dardanelles, Bosphorus, Gibraltar, and the entire length of the Panama Canal.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is known as the 'Bismarck of India' due to his efforts of consolidating the fragmented parts of a divided India i.e. Princely states and British India into a nation and prevented balkanization of India. Sardar was also known as the Iron man of India. A 182 metres high statue has been recently built as his memorial in state of Gujarat.

Vikram Shankar Pandit (born 14 January 1957) is an Indian-American banker and investor who was the chief executive officer of Citigroup from December 2007 to 16 October 2012 and is the current chairman and chief executive officer of The Orogen Group.

Kumar Mangalam Birla is the chairman of IIM Ahmedabad.

Thierry Delaporte is a French businessman and executive who currently serves as the CEO and managing director of the Indian IT services company Wipro.

Jaspal Rana is associated with Shooting. Jaspal Rana (born 28 June 1976) is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category.

Walt Disney (1901 - 1966), the co-creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of The Walt Disney Company, was the original voice of Mickey.

6,117 Kuchipudi dancers set a new Guinness World Record by performing together in a single event at the Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh.

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first-ever Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra (PBK) in Delhi on 9 January, 2018. Approx 124 Members of Parliament (MP) and 17 mayors from 23 countries will participate in this conference. The conference is a way of reaching out to the Indian community overseas by the Central government. The event will have two thematic sessions, the first one will have as special guest senior Congress leader and chairman of the parliamentary committee on external affairs, Shashi Tharoor. The session will be presided over by Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. The second session will have Parliamentary Affairs minister Ananth Kumar as a special guest which will be chaired by Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician serving as the current president of Mexico since 1 December 2018.