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Hiran Cooray was indeed the Chairman of PATA in 2011. This is a factual question about the leadership of a specific tourism organization during a particular year. The answer can be verified through official PATA records.

Kumar Mangalam Birla is the Chancellor of BITS Pilani. This is a factual question about the leadership of a prominent Indian educational institution. The Birla family has a long-standing association with BITS Pilani.

Somchai Wongsawat succeeded Samak Sundaravej as Prime Minister of Thailand in September 2008 after Samak was removed from office by a Constitutional Court ruling. Somchai served as PM from September to December 2008.

Avigdor Lieberman served as Israel's Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2013, making him the Foreign Minister in 2011. Tzipi Livni held this position before him (2006-2009). The name in option C has some HTML corruption but clearly refers to Lieberman.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn succeeded Pascal Lamy as Managing Director of the IMF in 2007. Pascal Lamy left the IMF to become Director-General of the WTO. The answer C 'D. Kahn' refers to Strauss-Kahn.

Juan Somavia served as Director-General of the International Labour Organization from 1999 to 2012, which includes 2011. He was a Chilean diplomat who led this UN agency for over a decade.

Amar Pratap Singh served as Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from 2010 to 2012. He was appointed in 2010 after the previous director Ashwani Kumar's term ended.

Medha Patkar initiated the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in 1985 to protest the construction of large dams on the Narmada River, particularly the Sardar Sarovar Dam. She became the most prominent face of this environmental and social justice movement.

Florence Nightingale was known as 'The Lady with the Lamp' for her night rounds during the Crimean War (1853-1856). She would check on wounded soldiers by lamplight, establishing modern nursing practices and becoming a symbol of compassionate care.

The Burdwan Trophy is associated with weightlifting in India. It is awarded annually to the best weightlifter in the country and has been a prestigious award in Indian weightlifting circles since 1960.

Goiter is caused by iodine deficiency in the diet. The thyroid gland requires iodine to produce hormones, and when iodine is insufficient, the gland enlarges (goiter) as it tries to compensate. Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of preventable brain damage worldwide.

Salt Lake Stadium (officially Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan) is located in Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal. It is the largest stadium in India by seating capacity and hosts football matches and athletic events.

The question asks for the wrongly matched book-author pair. Jonathan Swift, who died in 1745, did not write 'Run in Ruins' - his famous work is 'Gulliver's Travels'. The other pairs are correctly matched: Wendell Willkie wrote 'One World', Leo Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace', and Salim Ali wrote 'Fall of a Sparrow' (his autobiography).

Rickets is a bone disease caused by vitamin D deficiency, leading to soft and weak bones in children. Scurvy results from vitamin C deficiency, beriberi from thiamine (B1) deficiency, and rhinorrhea is a medical term for runny nose, not a deficiency disease.

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was India's first Health Minister, serving from 1947 to 1957. She was a key figure in establishing the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Vallabhbhai Patel was Home Minister, Baldev Singh was Defence Minister, and Lakshmi Menon was a diplomat but not the first Health Minister.

Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first female physicians of India and the first Indian lady doctor. She graduated in 1886. Anandi Gopal Joshi was the first Indian female to study western medicine but graduated earlier. Lalitha was the first female engineer in India.

The Kargil War was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999. The conflict occurred in the Kargil district of Kashmir and along the Line of Control (LOC). It was a major military conflict in the mountainous terrain of Kashmir.

Japan is called the 'Land of the Rising Sun' because it is the first country to see the sunrise each day due to its location in the far east of Asia. The name 'Nihon' or 'Nippon' in Japanese literally means 'origin of the sun'. Norway is known for fjords, Ireland as the Emerald Isle, and Zimbabwe has no such epithet.