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Daily GK Challenge
Thursday, 18 June
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called 'Asia's Nobel Prize', is named after a former President of which country?
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5 more SSC / Banking questions from the same chapter, with step-by-step solutions. Try each one, then reveal the answer.
- Q1easy
The Nobel Prize is NOT awarded in which of the following fields?
- APhysics
- BLiterature
- CMathematics
- DPeace
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Correct answer: (C) Mathematics
There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics; the highest honour in mathematics is the Fields Medal.
- Q2medium
The epic novel 'War and Peace' was written by:
- ALeo Tolstoy
- BFyodor Dostoevsky
- CAnton Chekhov
- DMaxim Gorky
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Correct answer: (A) Leo Tolstoy
'War and Peace' was written by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
- Q3hard
The Sanskrit works 'Abhijnanasakuntalam' and 'Meghaduta' were composed by:
- AJayadeva
- BKalidasa
- CBanabhatta
- DBhasa
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Correct answer: (B) Kalidasa
Both 'Abhijnanasakuntalam' and 'Meghaduta' were composed by the classical Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.
- Q4medium
'A Brief History of Time' was authored by:
- ACarl Sagan
- BIsaac Newton
- CAlbert Einstein
- DStephen Hawking
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Correct answer: (D) Stephen Hawking
'A Brief History of Time', a popular book on cosmology, was written by physicist Stephen Hawking.
- Q5hard
The book 'Das Kapital', a foundational text of communism, was written by:
- AFriedrich Engels
- BVladimir Lenin
- CAdam Smith
- DKarl Marx
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Correct answer: (D) Karl Marx
'Das Kapital' was written by Karl Marx, with later volumes edited by Friedrich Engels.