Important personalities

Pandit Ram Narayan

 

Ram Narayan  born 25 December 1927, often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.

 

"My mission was to obliterate the blemish which the sarangi carried due to its social origins. I hope I have succeeded in this."

Ram Narayan, quoted in The Indian Express

Which Musical instrument is handled by pandit ram narayanan?

(ldc 2011 alappuzha Question)

ans:sarangi

 

IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES MOCK EXAM

KERALA PSC MOCK EXAM

1.Who is the father of Geometry?

• [A]Aristotle
• [B]Euclid
• [C]Pythagoras
• [D]Kepler

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Euclid

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2.What is common between Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar?

• [A]Film Direction
• [B]Drawing Cartoons
• [C]Instrumental Music
• [D]Classical Dance

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Drawing Cartoons

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3.Who was known as Iron man of India?

• [A]Govind Ballabh Pant
• [B]Jawaharlal Nehru
• [C]Subhas Chandra Bose
• [D]Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Pate

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4.The Indian to beat the computers in mathematical wizardry is

• [A]Ramanujam
• [B]Rina Panigrahi
• [C]Raja Ramanna
• [D]Shakunthala Devi

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Shakunthala Devi

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5.Jude Felix is a famous Indian player in which of the fields?

• [A]Volleyball
• [B]Tennis
• [C]Football
• [D]Hockey

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Hockey

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6.Professor Amartya Sen is famous in which of the fields? .

• [A]Biochemistry
• [B]Electronics
• [C]Economics
• [D]Geology

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Economics

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7.Amjad Ali Khan is associated with which of the following musical instruments? 

• [A]Sarod
• [B]Veena
• [C]Violin
• [D]Sitar

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Sarod

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8.Ms. Bachendri Pal had undertaken a unique expedition for focusing attention on which of these? 

• [A]One Nation one Family
• [B]The Girl Child
• [C]National Integration
• [D]Sprit of Adventure

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Sprit of Adventure

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9.Which of the following fields A. Nageshwara Rao is associated with?

• [A]Sports
• [B]Literature
• [C]Motion Pictures
• [D]Politics

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Motion Pictures

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10. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan has distinguished himself in which of the following fields?

• [A]Agriculture
• [B]Medicine
• [C]Astrophysics
• [D]Physics

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Agriculture

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Dmitri Mendeleev

• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev( 8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907  was a Russian chemist and inventor. 

• He created the first version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered.

   

   

   

   Kerala psc question and answer

  Qn .Who invented Periodic table?

  Ans:

  Mendeleev

Agatha Christie

(kerala psc question)

 

• Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, ( 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays .

  She also wrote the world's longest-running play The Mousetrap.

  Popular novels 

   Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

   Appointment with Death (1938)

   Death on the Nile (1937)

   They Came to Baghdad (1951)

   

Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary year will be observed in the state from January 12, 2013 to January 12, 2014.

(keralapsc question)

• His birthday(jan 12) is celebrated as the National Youth Day.
• Swami Vivekananda in Chicago, September, 1893

Born	Narendra Nath Datta 12 January 1863 Calcutta, India
Died	4 July 1902 (aged 39) Belur Math near Calcutta
Nationality	Indian
Founder of	Belur Math, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
Guru	Ramakrishna
Philosophy	Vedanta
Literary works	Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga
Prominent Disciple(s)	Alasinga Perumal, Swami Abhayananda, Sister Nivedita, Swami Sadananda

Important Personalities

Rabindranath Tagore(May 7 1861-7 Aug 1941)

 

• Author of Gitanjali

• The first non-European(Asian) to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913

•   Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works

•  His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: the India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. 

• The composer of Sri Lanka's national anthem: Sri Lanka Matha was a student( Ananda Samarakoon) of Tagore, and the song is inspired by Tagore's style.

 

^{Ananda Samarakoon}

 

 

• His Brother Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service.

•  In 1901 Tagore moved to Santiniketan

•   In 1915, the British Crown granted Tagore a knighthood. He renounced it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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