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- Question
First Indian woman to win Man Booker Prize?
Options- A. Kiran Desai
- B. V.S. Naipaul
- C. Salman Rushdie
- D. Arundhati Roy
- Correct Answer
- Arundhati Roy
ExplanationArundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.
An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.
Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.
- 1. Which is the first country in the world to use drones for national mail service?
Options- A. Russia
- B. France
- C. Sweden
- D. China Discuss
- 2. Who set up the world's first floating ATM ?
Options- A. Bank of America
- B. Barclays Bank
- C. Axis Bank
- D. State Bank of India Discuss
- 3. What did the Bhore committee deal with ?
Options- A. Economic development in India
- B. Health development in India
- C. Development of airports in India
- D. Rural development in India Discuss
- 4. The First modern warship built in India in 1952 was
Options- A. INS Goa
- B. INS Nilgiri
- C. INS Kailash
- D. Ins Vikram Discuss
- 5. What does the acronym CTBT stand for?
Options- A. Continued Test Ban Treaty
- B. Commercial Test Based Traiff
- C. Continue Test Based Treatment
- D. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Discuss
- 6. In which of the following fields Prof. Malcolm Adiseshiah earned worldwide distinction?
Options- A. Literature
- B. Medicine
- C. Economics
- D. Nuclear physics Discuss
- 7. ESCAP stands for
Options- A. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific
- B. European Society Council for Africa and Pacific
- C. Economic and Social Commission for Africa and Pacific
- D. None of the above Discuss
- 8. Which musician composed the raga Priyadarshini on Mrs. Indira Gndhi's death? Discuss
- 9. The Trans-Siberian Railway(8960 km) connects ____ in the west to ____ in the East.
Options- A. Moscow, Tashkent
- B. St. Petersburg, Omsk
- C. Moscow, Irkutsk
- D. St. Petersburg, Vladivostok Discuss
- 10. What is the currency of Indonesia?
Options- A. rupiah
- B. dinar
- C. rangit
- D. riyal Discuss
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Correct Answer: France
Explanation:
France became the first country in the world to use drones for national mail service.
Correct Answer: State Bank of India
Explanation:
India's banking behemoth -- the State Bank of India -- has set up the world's first-ever floating ATM on a boat in Kerala. The boat with the ATM on board will berth at jetties in Kerala's huge backwaters through which thousands of people travel daily.
Correct Answer: Health development in India
Correct Answer: INS Nilgiri
Correct Answer: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Correct Answer: Economics
Correct Answer: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific
Correct Answer: Amjad Ali Khan
Correct Answer: St. Petersburg, Vladivostok
Correct Answer: rupiah
Explanation:
Currency of Indonesia is rupiah
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