Ambassador Quiz

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Blanka Vlašić has been appointed International Event Ambassador for the World 10K Bengaluru 2026, scheduled on April 26. The event is a World Athletics Gold Label Race, attracting elite runners and mass participation. Blanka Vlašić is a double Olympic medallist (silver at Beijing 2008 Olympics and bronze at Rio 2016 Olympics) and a two-time World Champion in high jump. She holds a personal best of 2.08 m (2009), which is the Croatian national record and among the highest jumps in women’s history.

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Abdur Razzak visited the Vijayanagara Empire in 1443 CE during Devaraya II’s reign. He was sent by Shah Rukh, the Timurid ruler of Persia. Razzak described Hampi’s seven fortifications, markets, and the king’s lifestyle, providing significant foreign accounts of the empire’s zenith under Devaraya II.

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Lallan Prasad Singh served as Governor of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura from 1973 to 1981. He was also the Indian Ambassador to Nepal. He was an Indian Civil Service officer and held key positions such as Chief Secretary of Bihar and Home Secretary of India.

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A value-education initiative titled “Young Ambassadors of Change: Values for a Caring Community” was launched at a Government Adi Dravidar Primary School in Kattur, Tamil Nadu. The programme promotes values like honesty, kindness, respect, responsibility, discipline, patience, and gratitude. Teachers use value-based stories, prayers, and reflections during morning assemblies. Students practice values at school and home with parental support through WhatsApp communication. Children are rotated in batches every 15 days for equal participation. Assessment is done through observation, encouragement, badges, and quote walls instead of marks.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the Chief Ambassador of the Momentum Jharkhand Bhumandal Investment Summit held on February 16-17, 2017, in Ranchi. The summit was organized by the Jharkhand government together with CII. It was inaugurated by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the event via video conference. The summit secured 210 Memorandums of Understanding worth over Rs 3 lakh crore.

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Tenkasi District Forest Division, Tamil Nadu launches the ‘Golden Jackal Ambassadors’ scheme in schools and colleges to conserve dwindling golden jackal populations. Students will become Golden Jackal Ambassadors after training and awareness sessions on wildlife conservation. Ambassadors will disseminate messages on conserving golden jackals, rescuing injured animals, and releasing them back into forests. Lack of public awareness on small animals like golden jackal, mongoose, ant-eater, tortoise, snakes, monitor lizard has caused population decline. The scheme is modeled on the ‘Friends of Elephants’ program, which successfully reduces human-elephant conflict through public cooperation.

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Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah, educated at La Martinière and AMU, was honored with Yash Bharati in 2016 for promoting Awadh’s heritage.

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All four pairs are correctly matched:

1. Mangal Pandey is known for refusing to use greased cartridges, sparking the 1857 Revolt.
2. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of Independent India.
3. Ram Prasad Bismil led the Kakori Conspiracy against the British.
4. Asaf Ali was India's first Ambassador to the USA.

Thus, option 2 is correct.

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Asaf Ali, from Uttar Pradesh, was appointed as India’s first ambassador to the USA in 1947 and was a renowned freedom fighter and lawyer associated with the Indian National Congress.

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Asaf Ali was appointed as the first Indian Ambassador to the US after Independence in 1947.