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(a) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Mahatama Gandhi
(d) APJ Abdul Kalam
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra. The book is widely considered one of the finest modern works on Indian history.
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Question : 1
Which one of the following is correctly matched?
a) Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq - Sir Syed Ahmad
b) Ailan-i-Haq - Bipin Chandra Pal
c) Yugantar - Aurobindo Ghosh
d) Al-Helal - Dr. Zaqir Hussain
Answer »Answer: (a)
Question : 2
The author of the book ‘Cosmos’ is —
a) Issaq Asimov
b) Michael Christian
c) Carl Sagan
d) Arthur C. Clarke
Answer »Answer: (c)
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.
He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was the author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He advocated scientifically sceptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.
Question : 3
Which of the following mythological epic was re-written by Guru Gobind Singh ?
a) Mahabharata
b) Samrat Ashoka’s Journey
c) Buddha’s Journey
d) Ramayana
Answer »Answer: (d)
Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh guru, rewrote a new version of the Hindu mythological epic Ramayana which formed part of the Dasam Granth, a Sikh religious text.
This version was known as ‘Govind Ramayana.’ In this version of Ramayana, Guru Gobind Singh did not treat Lord Rama as a god. He equated Ramachandra with a common man by calling him the insect, though he called himself insect, too.
Question : 4
Which of the following is correctly matched ?
a) “Dilli Chalo” — Mahatma Gandhi
b) “Swaraj is my birthright” — Swami Dayanand
c) “Do or die” — Jawahar Lal Nehru
d) “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” —Lal Bahadur Shastri
Answer »Answer: (d)
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was a slogan given to India by the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965. It means hail the soldier and hail the farmer.
Soon after Shastri took over the prime ministership of India after Nehru’s death. India was attacked by Pakistan. At the same time, there was a scarcity of foodgrains in the country.
Shastri gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan to enthuse the soldiers to defend India and simultaneously cheering farmers to do their best to increase the production of food grains to reduce dependence on imports.
It became a very popular slogan. After Pokaran tests in 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee added Jai Vigyan (Hail knowledge) to the slogan to underline the importance of knowledge in India’ progress.
Question : 5
Who wrote the book ‘A Passage to India’?
a) E.M. Forster
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) None of the above
d) Minoo Masani
Answer »Answer: (a)
Question : 6
The author of the book ‘World of All Human Rights : Soli J. Sorabjee A Festschriff’ is
a) R.N. Trivedi
b) Chetan Bhagat
c) Arun Jaitely
d) Vishnu Sahai
Answer »Answer: (a)
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