with which field of activity do you associate the following persons?

Question

1)monika raut 2)B.N.sirkar 3)prof.u.r rao 4)V.S Naipul 5)geet sethi

Answer 1

1. Monika Raut: Cross Country Runner. She clocked 23 minutes 24 seconds, as released by the Asian Athletics Association (AAA), while winning the junior women's 8-km race in the Asian cross-country championships at Amman, Jordan.

2. B.N. Sirkar: An eminent Bengali film producer of yesteryears. He was approached by the renowned Satyajit Ray to produce Pather Panchali, which was ultimately produced by the Government of West Bengal.
I'm sorry to state that I could glean no further information about B.N. Sirkar from the internet.

3. Prof. U.R. Rao: Space research scientist. Space News, the popular space weekly published from the US, in its August 23, 2004 issue, ranked Prof U R Rao among the top ten international personalities who have made a difference in civil, commercial and military space in the world since 1989. Prof Rao, former Chairman of ISRO and presently Chairman of the Council of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, is widely regarded as the man who guided India to the status of a major space power, the weekly said. During his tenure, India developed its own communication satellites, weather satellites, high resolution imaging satellites and the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

4. V.S. Naipaul: Writer. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity and Hindu ancestory from Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Naipaul lives now in Wiltshire, England.
Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Sir Vidia is the son, older brother, uncle, and cousin of published authors Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Neil Bissoondath, and Vahni Capildeo, respectively. His current wife is Nadira Naipaul, a former journalist.

5. Geet Sethi: Billiards player. Sethi, born on April 17, 1961, is an Indian billiards player who dominated the sport of billiards throughout much of the 1990s.
Born in New Delhi, India, he rose to prominence by winning the World Amateur Billiards Championships in 1985 and 1987. In the National Snooker Championships in 1989 held at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh he compiled a 147 break in snooker, the first amateur to complete an official maximum.
In the 1992 World Professional Billiards Championship, he constructed a world record break of 1276 under the two-pot rule. He won the title in this year and would go on to win it again in 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2006. Along with this, he has won 3 world amateur billiard titles in 1985, 1987 and 2001.
He is a recipient of India's highest sporting award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in the year 1992-1993 and the Padmashri award in 1986.

Answer 2

1. Which Monika Raut do you want? The one who works for Johnson & Johnson or the one who ran cross-country in India? You probably want the latter

2. BN Dircar is head of a Calcutta based film studio

3. U R Rao is a space scientist from India

4. VS Naipul is the only name I recognized without looking him up. He is from Trinidad and Tobago. He is ethinicallia an Indian (East -- not Native American). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature

5. Geet Sethi is a billiards player. Like the others -- he is ethnically an Indian.

You could have found all of this out by using Yahoo! or Google searches.

Answer 3

gulp... am I not smarter than a fifth grader?
I don't know.