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Important GK Test 22
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  • Question 1/10
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    Araku Valley is situated in which state?
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    • Araku Valley is a hill station in Visakhapatnam district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, lying 111 km west of Visakhapatnam city.
    • This place is often referred to as Ooty of Andhra. It is a valley in the Eastern Ghats inhabited by different tribes.
  • Question 2/10
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    The "One Straw Revolution" was written by :
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    Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was a farmer and philosopher who was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He studied plant pathology and spent several years working as a customs inspector in Yokohama. While working there, at the age of 25, he had an inspiration that changed his life. He decided to quit his job, return to his village and put his ideas into practice by applying them to agriculture.
    In 1975 he wrote The One-Straw Revolution, a best-selling book that described his life’s journey, his philosophy, and farming techniques.
  • Question 3/10
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    Non Resident Indians (NRI) day is marked on :
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    Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (English: Non-resident Indian Day), is celebrated in India on 9 January each year to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the development of India.
  • Question 4/10
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    First Nobel Prize to India was given for which of the following fields?

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    Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. He received the prize for Literature in 1913.

  • Question 5/10
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    ‘War and Peace’ was written by_________ .
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    • War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published serially, then in its entirety in 1869.
    • It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements.
  • Question 6/10
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    Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was conferred “Bharat Ratna” during the regime of;
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    Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was conferred “Bharat Ratna” during the regime of Janata Dal (JD).
  • Question 7/10
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    Name of the person popularly known as Gurudev.
    Solutions
    'Rabindranath Tagore' popularly known as gurudev.
    More about rabindranath tagore
    * Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj.
    * He was a Bengali Polymath who reshaped Bengali literature  and music , as well as Indian    art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    * Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
    Hence option B is the right answer.
  • Question 8/10
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    The creator of 'Sherlock Holmes' was
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    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
  • Question 9/10
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    Who said that "Man is a political animal"?
    Solutions
    Aristotle believed man was a "political animal" because he is a social creature with the power of speech and moral reasoning Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
  • Question 10/10
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    Who was the first woman to be chief minister of any state?
    Solutions

    • Sucheta Kriplani was an Indian freedom fighter. 

    • She was India's first woman Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967.

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