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GK (Honours and Awards)

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Which of the following is India’s highest honour in the field of literature?

  1. Vyas Samman

  2. Kalidas Samman

  3. Jnanpith Award

  4. Saraswathi Samman


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (3). Jnanpith Award is India’s highest honour in the field of literature

Which one of the following awards instituted by the KK Birla Foundation is given to an individual for outstanding work on Indian philosophy, culture and art?

  1. Saraswathy Samman

  2. Vyas Samman

  3. Shankar Puraskar

  4. Kalidas Samman


Correct Option: C

Contribution in which field is honoured by the Dhanvantari Award?

  1. Physics

  2. Space research

  3. Literature

  4. Medicine


Correct Option: D

Amnesty International won the Nobel Peace Prize in

  1. 1917

  2. 1949

  3. 1977

  4. 1982


Correct Option: C

Contribution in which field is honoured by the Chameli Devi Award?

  1. Journalism

  2. Literature

  3. Medicine

  4. Cinema


Correct Option: A

In terms of prize money which of the following is the highest literary prize in India?

  1. Vyas Samman

  2. Saraswathy Samman

  3. Jnanpith Award

  4. Kalidas Samman


Correct Option: B

Who among the following was the first to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  1. Albert Camus

  2. Ernest Hemingway

  3. Knut Hanson

  4. Rene Sully Prudhomme


Correct Option: D

Who was the first woman to win the Jnanpith Award?

  1. Ashapurna Devi

  2. Mahasweta Devi

  3. Amrita Pritam

  4. Sarojini Naidu


Correct Option: A

The Nobel Prize for Literature was instituted in

  1. 1956

  2. 1901

  3. 1972

  4. 1975


Correct Option: B

Who was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore

  2. Yasunari Kawabata

  3. C. V. Raman

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer is (1).

Which of the following scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Peace?

  1. Niels Bohr

  2. Linus C. Pauling

  3. Madam Curie

  4. De Broglie


Correct Option: B

Who among the following Presidents of America has won the Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. John F. Kennedy

  2. George Washington

  3. Abraham Lincoln

  4. Theodore Roosevelt


Correct Option: D

Who won the first Dada Saheb Phalke Award?

  1. Dilip Kumar

  2. Devika Rani

  3. Pradip

  4. Nargis Dutt


Correct Option: B

Besides Roosevelt, who among the following American Presidents has won the Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. Thomas Jefferson

  2. Bill Clinton

  3. Woodrow Wilson

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is India’s highest civilian honour?

  1. Bharat Ratna

  2. Padma Bhushan

  3. Padma Vibhushan

  4. Padma Shri


Correct Option: A

Which of the following awards is given to the best parliamentarian?

  1. Gujar Lal Modi Award

  2. G. B. Pant Award

  3. Nehru Award

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Who was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  1. Edma Lager

  2. Tonny Morrison

  3. Margaret Atwood

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. 1979

  2. 1975

  3. 1981

  4. 1982


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer is (1).

Who among the following has won the Nobel Prize for Economics?

  1. C. V. Raman

  2. Amartya Sen

  3. M. S. Swaminathan

  4. Har Gobind Khorana


Correct Option: B

When did Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time?

  1. 1917

  2. 1977

  3. 1949

  4. 1956


Correct Option: A

Who among the following was the first to win the Booker Prize?

  1. William Golding

  2. P. H. Newby

  3. J. M. Coetzee

  4. Peter Carey


Correct Option: B

Which of the following awards was instituted by the Indian National Congress in its centenary year?

  1. Gandhi Peace Prize

  2. Nehru Award

  3. Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration

  4. Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (3). 

Which of the following awards was instituted by Shanti Prasad Jain?

  1. Vyas Samman

  2. Shankar Samman

  3. Jnanpith Award

  4. Kabir Samman


Correct Option: C

Who among the following writers refused the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  1. Winston Churchill

  2. Tony Morisson

  3. Jean Paul Sartre

  4. Rene Sully Prudhome


Correct Option: C

Which of the following awards is instituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation?

  1. Saraswathi Samman

  2. Kabir Award

  3. Kalidas Samman

  4. Jnanpith Award


Correct Option: A
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