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First Indian woman to win Man Booker Prize?

A) Kiran Desai B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Salman Rushdie D) Arundhati Roy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Arundhati Roy

Explanation:

Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.

An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.

 

Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.

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Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of 

A) Science and Technology B) Literature and Journalism
C) International Understanding D) Environmental Studies
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Literature and Journalism

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The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

Pulitzer Prize Winners List Year By Year 

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The approximate length of the coast line of India is

A) 5,500km B) 6,000km
C) 6,500km D) 7,000km
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 7,000km

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

It is hard to

P-­of some
Q­-miss the political significance
R­-of these beneficiaries

 

A) PQR B) RQP
C) QPR D) RPQ
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) QPR

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

 

Whatever said and done, (not less vital) is the future of the border separating Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic.

 

A) any less vital B) more less vital
C) no less vital D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) no less vital

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Which one of the following substances does not have a melting point

A) bromine B) sodium chloride
C) mercury D) glass
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) glass

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Number of eyes found in Earthworm..........

A) One B) Many
C) No eye D) Two
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) No eye

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The electronic dot and cross structure of ethene is ............

 

A) B)
C) D)
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C)

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