GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer. She went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loretto at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and sailed six weeks later to India, where she taught for 17 years at the order’s school in Calcutta (Kolkata).

Detailed explanation-2: -On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, “The Missionaries of Charity”, whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mother Teresa was the only Indian female awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was called the “mother of the poor.” She was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1980.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marie Skłodowska Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only woman to receive two Nobel prizes.