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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was declared as the winner of TIME Magazine’s Person Of The Year 2016
A
Hillary Clinton
B
Barack Obama
C
Wikileaks Julian Assange
D
Narendra Modi
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -On November 24, 2017, U.S. president Donald Trump, who had been Person of the Year in 2016, posted on the social media network Twitter that Time editors had told him he would “probably” be named Person of the Year for a second time, conditional on an interview and photo shoot which he had refused.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mahatma Gandhi is the only Indian to be named TIME Person of the Year, having been given the honour in 1930. The magazine described him as ‘Saint Gandhi’ and later named him as one of the 25 Political Icons of all time.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first Person of the Year was aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1927.

Detailed explanation-4: -Time magazine has declared 2011 the year of the protester. In the year that gave the world the Arab Spring, austerity-related uprisings throughout Europe, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, it is no surprise the newsweekly chose “The Protester” as its iconic 2011 Person of the Year.

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