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  • 1. What is the nickname of Adolf Hitler?

    (A) Yankee

    (B) Mark Twain

    (C) Fuhrer

    (D) Man of Peace

    Answer: Fuhrer

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  • 2. What is the nickname of Geoffrey Chaucer?

    (A) Wizard of the North

    (B) Father of English Literature

    (C) Otto von

    (D) Tiger of Snow

    Answer: Father of English Literature

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  • 3. What is the nickname of Florence Nightingale?

    (A) Lady with the Lamp

    (B) Nightingale of India

    (C) The Angel of the Battlefield

    (D) The Maid of Orléans

    Answer: Lady with the Lamp

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  • 4. What is the nickname of Joan of Arc?

    (A) Mark Twain

    (B) Doozer

    (C) The maid of orléans

    (D) Charles

    Answer: The maid of orléans

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  • 5. What is the nickname of Lal Bahadur Shastri?

    (A) Bismarck of India

    (B) Man of Peace

    (C) Punjab Kesari

    (D) Baba Saheb

    Answer: Man of Peace

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  • 6. What is the nickname of Napolean Bonaparte?

    (A) The Bard of Avon

    (B) The Little Corporal

    (C) Light of Asia

    (D) Patriot of Patriots

    Answer: The Little Corporal

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  • 7. What is the nickname of Otto von Bismarck?

    (A) Iron Chancellor

    (B) Little Master

    (C) Bard of Avon

    (D) Grand Old man of Britain

    Answer: Iron Chancellor

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  • 8. What is the nickname of Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

    (A) Prince of Builders

    (B) Maid of Orleans

    (C) Prince of Pilgrims

    (D) Mark Twain

    Answer: Mark Twain

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  • 9. What is the nickname of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah?

    (A) Father of Medicine

    (B) Father of English Poetry

    (C) Lion of Kashmir

    (D) Bihar Kesari

    Answer: Lion of Kashmir

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  • 10. What is the nickname of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman?

    (A) Bangabandhu

    (B) Desh Ratna

    (C) Grand Old man of India

    (D) Deenbandhu

    Answer: Bangabandhu

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  • 11. What is the nickname of Tenzing Norgay?

    (A) The Divine One

    (B) The Greatest

    (C) Tiger of the Snows

    (D) The Little Tramp

    Answer: Tiger of the Snows

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  • 12. What is the nickname of Madan Mohan Malviya?

    (A) Tau

    (B) Sahid-e-Azam

    (C) Mahamana

    (D) Anna

    Answer: Mahamana

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  • 13. What is the nickname of Lala Lajpat Rai?

    (A) The Scourge of God

    (B) Punjab Kesari

    (C) Machiavelli of India

    (D) The Little General

    Answer: Punjab Kesari

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  • 14. What is the nickname of Kapil Dev?

    (A) The People's Champion

    (B) The Wiz

    (C) The Haryana Hurricane

    (D) Prince of Autobiography

    Answer: The Haryana Hurricane

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  • 15. What is the nickname of Sarojini Naidu?

    (A) The Blessed Virgin

    (B) Furry

    (C) The King of Spades

    (D) Nightingale of India

    Answer: Nightingale of India

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  • 16. What is the nickname of Sardar Vallabhai Patel?

    (A) Parrot of India

    (B) Martin Luther of India

    (C) Man of Iron or Bismarck of India

    (D) Machiavelli of India

    Answer: Man of Iron or Bismarck of India

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  • 17. What is the nickname of Sunil Gavaskar?

    (A) Little Master or Sunny

    (B) The Son of God

    (C) The Lion of Judah

    (D) The Prince of Peace

    Answer: Little Master or Sunny

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  • 18. What is the nickname of Walter Scott?

    (A) Little Man

    (B) Tiger Woods

    (C) Bluebeard

    (D) The Wizard of the North

    Answer: The Wizard of the North

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  • 19. What is the nickname of Dadabhai Naoroji?

    (A) Martin Luther of India

    (B) Grand Old Man of India

    (C) The Velvet Fog

    (D) Bengali Tiger

    Answer: Grand Old Man of India

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  • 20. What is the nickname of Chittaranjan Das?

    (A) Deshbandhu

    (B) Anna

    (C) Lokmanya

    (D) Desh Ratna

    Answer: Deshbandhu

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  • 21. What is the nickname of Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

    (A) Bihar Vibhuti

    (B) Lokmanya Tilak

    (C) Bihar Kesari

    (D) Ajatshatru

    Answer: Lokmanya Tilak

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  • 22. What is the nickname of William Shakespeare?

    (A) The Legend

    (B) Bard of Avon

    (C) Poet’s Poet

    (D) Bluebeard

    Answer: Bard of Avon

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  • 23. What is the nickname of Rabindra Nath Tagore?

    (A) Gurudev

    (B) Shakespeare of India

    (C) Parrot of India

    (D) Prince of Autobiography

    Answer: Gurudev

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  • 24. What is the nickname of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?

    (A) Deshpriya

    (B) Tiger of Mysore

    (C) Father of the Nation

    (D) Light of Asia

    Answer: Father of the Nation

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  • 25. What is the nickname of Subhas Chandra Bose?

    (A) Bangabandhu

    (B) Little Master

    (C) Lion of Kashmir

    (D) Netaji

    Answer: Netaji

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  • 26. What is the nickname of Jawahar Lal Nehru?

    (A) Napoleon of India

    (B) Panditji or Chacha Nehru

    (C) Prince of Kolkata

    (D) Light of Asia

    Answer: Panditji or Chacha Nehru

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  • 27. What is the nickname of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi?

    (A) Ajatshatru

    (B) Sparrow Major

    (C) Tiger

    (D) Father of Gujarat

    Answer: Tiger

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  • 28. What is the nickname of Sachin Tendulkar?

    (A) Parrot of India

    (B) Master Blaster

    (C) Desh Ratna

    (D) King Maker of Indian History

    Answer: Master Blaster

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  • 29. What is the nickname of Rahul Dravid?

    (A) The Rollover

    (B) Golden Wrecking Ball

    (C) The Boneless

    (D) The Wall

    Answer: The Wall

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  • 30. What is the nickname of Jayaprakash Narayan?

    (A) Tota-e-Hind

    (B) Loknayak

    (C) Fuehrer

    (D) Tau

    Answer: Loknayak

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  • 31. Who is known as “Missile man of India”

    (A) C.V Raman

    (B) Homi Jehangir Bhabha

    (C) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

    (D) Vikram Sarabhai

    Answer: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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  • 32. In which field of art Jamini Roy is associated?

    (A) Drama

    (B) Sculpture

    (C) Painting

    (D) Music

    Answer: Painting

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    He was an Indian painter. He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1954 . He was one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, whose artistic originality and contribution to the emergence of modern art in India remains unquestionable.

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  • 33. Who won the best editing award at the 25th National Film award for “Inkaar”?

    (A) Waman Bhonsle

    (B) Arghyakamal Mitra

    (C) Mrinmoy Chakraborty

    (D) Sanjiv Shah

    Answer: Waman Bhonsle

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    Waman Bhonsle passed away on Monday morning at his residence in Mumbai due to age-related issues. He was the man at the editing table for more 230 films including “Mera Gaon Mera Desh”, “Do Raaste”, “Inkaar”, “Dostana”, “Agneepath”, “Parichay”, “Hero”, “Kalicharan”, “Karz”, “Ram Lakhan”, “Saudagar”, “Ghulam”, among others.

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