QuestionWho was the first person from West Bengal to win the Bharat Ratna AwardTypemultiple_choiceOptionAruna Asaf AliincorrectOptionRavi ShankarincorrectOptionSatyajit RayincorrectOptionBidhan Chandra RoycorrectSolutionBidhan Chandra Roy, a distinguished Indian physician, educationist, ...

QuestionSatyajit Ray’s first film, Pather Panchali was released in the yearTypemultiple_choiceOption1951incorrectOption1955correctOption1958incorrectOption1962incorrectSolutionPather Panchali (pronounced transl. Song of the Little Road) is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and ...

QuestionIn which year, the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to Rabindranath TagoreTypemultiple_choiceOption1903incorrectOption1913correctOption1915incorrectOption1917incorrectSolutionPoet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in ...

QuestionWho is known as the founder of the Indian Statistical InstituteTypemultiple_choiceOptionPrasanta Chandra MahalanobiscorrectOptionBidhan Chandra RoyincorrectOptionMeghnad SahaincorrectOptionJagdish Chandra BoseincorrectSolutionFounded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th ...

QuestionIndia’s first pharmaceutical company Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals was established byTypemultiple_choiceOptionSurendranath BoseincorrectOptionMeghnad SahaincorrectOptionSatyendra Nath BoseincorrectOptionPrafulla Chandra RoycorrectSolutionBengal Chemicals & Pharmaceutical Works ...

QuestionWho is the first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twiceTypemultiple_choiceOptionBula ChoudhurycorrectOptionArati SahaincorrectOptionPoulomi GhatakincorrectOptionAnkita DasincorrectSolutionBula Choudhury (born 2 January 1970, Hugli, India) is an Indian former swimmer. She is an ...

QuestionThe University of Calcutta was founded inTypemultiple_choiceOption1850incorrectOption1857correctOption1890incorrectOption1901incorrectSolutionThe University of is a public collegiate state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the ...

QuestionWho is the first Chancellor of Calcutta UniversityTypemultiple_choiceOptionSir James William ColvileincorrectOptionJoddu Nath BoseincorrectOptionLord CanningcorrectOptionBankim Chandra ChattopadhyayincorrectSolutionThe first Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University were ...

QuestionWho is known as the last independent Nawab of BengalTypemultiple_choiceOptionMir JafarincorrectOptionSiraj ud-DaulahcorrectOptionSarfaraz KhanincorrectOptionNone of the aboveincorrectSolutionSiraj-ud-Daulah (born Mirza Muhammad Siraj ud-Daulah) was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, ...

QuestionIn which year, Jyoti Basu became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first timeTypemultiple_choiceOption1971incorrectOption1975incorrectOption1977correctOption1980incorrectSolutionJyoti Basu, renowned as an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician, emerged as a ...