Deck 6: Martin Luther King Jr, John Nash, and Omprakash Valmiki

Question 1

Grain dealers have reduced their precautionary stocks as they depend on ---------

A)food imports
B)food exports
C)biofuel import
D)food substitutes.

Answer 1

food imports

Question 2

Which of the following has been a big mistake according to Krugman ?

A)growth of Chinese economy
B)financial aid to poor countries
C)subsidies to biofuels
D)none of these

Answer 2

subsidies to biofuels

Question 3

Martin Luther King accepts the Nobel Prize on behalf of -------

A)His family
B)American Civil Rights Movement
C)Indian freedom fighters
D)none of the above

Answer 3

American Civil Rights Movement

Question 4

The Negroes in America were chained down by -----

A)poverty
B)injustice
C)discrimination
D)all of the above

Question 5

According to Martin Luther King -----is the answer to the political and moral problems of our time.

A)Non violence
B)money power
C)Government policies
D)diplomacy.

Question 6

------and violence are antithetical concepts

A)agitation
B)Government
C)civilization
D)power

Question 7

The road of love and progress taken by the nonviolence activists has lead to -------

A)The Civil Rights bill
B)right to vote
C)election victory
D)new government

Question 8

King refuses to accept -------as the future reality of the nations of the world.

A)Global warning
B)political conflict
C)Thermo Nuclear destruction
D)Race-war.

Question 9

The promise of the ideal world of peace, referred to in King's speech is found in --------

A)Shakespeare's play
B)Bible
C)Greek Poetry
D)all of the above.

Question 10

King recalls the services of ---------to the struggle for freedom and justice.

A)Nelson Mandela
B)Chief Lutili
C)Gandhi
D)all of them

Question 11

Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Prize in the year ------

A)1960
B)1962
C)1966
D)1964

Question 12

Martin Luther King Jr. was involved in the -------

A)American Civil War
B)African war
C)American Civil Rights Movement
D)Indian freedom struggle

Question 13

A beautiful mind is a biography of --------

A)Sylvia Nasar
B)Alicia Larde
C)John Nash
D)None of the above

Question 14

Nash won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in-------

A)unified field theory
B)Game theory
C)evolutionary theory
D)none of the above

Question 15

The academy award-winning movie directed by Ron Howard in 2001 was-------

A)Beautiful mind
B)Brilliant mind
C)the essential John Nash
D)none of the above

Question 16

Nash came to live with ----- of Princeton in 1970

A)Martha
B)Alicia
C)Sylvia
D)Eleanor

Question 17

Who co-edited the work The Essential John Nash?

A)John Nash Jr.
B)Ron Howard
C)Alicia Larde
D)Sylvia Nasar

Question 18

The Professor of Mathematics who became a close friend of Alicia after her divorce was--------

A)John David Stier
B)Coleman- Moore
C)Ron Howard
D)Nash

Question 19

John David Stier was the ------of John Nash

A)son
B)nephew
C)half brother
D)friend

Question 20

Johny solved many unsolved classical problems in the -----

A)Game theory
B)Number theory
C)New theory
D)none of the above

Question 21

John Nash Jr. won his Ph.D from ----

A)Princeton
B)Rider
C)Rutger
D)Fnehall.

Question 22

Sylvia Nazar is the -----of John Nash

A)friend
B)wife
C)biographer
D)sister

Question 23

Joothan : A Dalit's life by Omprakash Valmiki is a ---------

A)Novel
B)short story
C)biography
D)Autobiography

Question 24

Omprakash Valmiki belonged to the community of--------

A)weavers
B)potters
C)sweepers
D)builders

Question 25

The word "Joothan" means -------

A)scraps of food
B)untouchable
C)disgraced
D)falsehood.