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Honours and Awards

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Who was the first Indian to win the Man Booker Prize?

  1. Arundhati Roy

  2. Salman Rushdie

  3. V. S. Naipaul

  4. Jhumpa Lahiri


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer is (1).

______ was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize.

  1. A. T. Aryaratne

  2. Julius Nerera

  3. Nelson Mandela

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Who among the following national leaders has won the highest civilian honour of Pakistan?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru

  2. Morarji Desai

  3. Lal Bahadur Shastri

  4. Indira Gandhi


Correct Option: B

Who among the following actors has won the Chevalier Award, instituted by the French Government?

  1. MG Ramakrishnan

  2. Raj Kumar

  3. Shivaji Ganeshan

  4. Kamal Hasan


Correct Option: C

Who was the first winner of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding?

  1. U Thant

  2. Martin Luther King

  3. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  4. Yehudi Menuhin


Correct Option: A

The Kalinga Award is given for contribution in the field of

  1. science and technology

  2. literature

  3. peace

  4. environmental protection


Correct Option: A

Who among the following has won the Polar Music Award instituted by the Royal Music Academy, Sweden?

  1. Zakir Hussain

  2. Pandit Ravi Shankar

  3. Bismillah Khan

  4. Allah Rakha Khan


Correct Option: B

The Arjuna Award was instituted in

  1. 1960

  2. 1961

  3. 1965

  4. 1969


Correct Option: B

Contribution in which field is honoured by the BD Goenka Award?

  1. Literature

  2. Journalism

  3. Culture

  4. Science


Correct Option: B

Who was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award?

  1. G. Sankara Kurup

  2. Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

  3. Sumitranandan Pant

  4. P. V. Akilandum


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is India’s highest decoration for valour?

  1. Param Vir Chakra

  2. Mahavir Chakra

  3. Vir Chakra

  4. Asoka Chakra


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?

  1. Aryabhatta Award

  2. Kalinga Prize

  3. Abdus Salam Prize

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is India’s highest Peacetime Gallantry Award?

  1. Mahavir Chakra

  2. Ashoka Chakra

  3. Vir Chakra

  4. Param Vir Chakra


Correct Option: B

Who was the first winner of the Saraswati Samman?

  1. Ramakant Rath

  2. Ismat Chughtai

  3. Harivanshrai Bachchan

  4. Vijay Tendulkar


Correct Option: C

Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award?

  1. S Chandra Sekhar

  2. CV Raman

  3. JC Bose

  4. Hargobind Khorana


Correct Option: B

Which of the following awards was instituted in 1992 to mark the golden jubilee of the Quit India Movement?

  1. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

  2. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award

  3. Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award

  4. Rajiv Smriti Puraskar


Correct Option: B

Which of the following awards is the world’s top Environmental Conservation Award?

  1. Golden Bear Award

  2. Golden Panda Award

  3. Golden Globe Award

  4. Golden Palms Award


Correct Option: B

Who was the first Indian to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award?

  1. Vinobha Bhave

  2. Lal Bahadur Shastri

  3. Jayaprakash Narayan

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A

Contribution in which field is honoured by the Global 500 Award?

  1. Cinema

  2. Environmental conservation

  3. Sports

  4. Literature


Correct Option: B

Which of the following awards are instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government?

  1. Dhanvantari Award

  2. Kabir Award

  3. Saraswati Samman

  4. Arjuna Awards


Correct Option: B

In terms of prize money, which of the following is the highest award given by the Government of India in any field?

  1. Bharat Ratna

  2. Gandhi Peace Prize

  3. Arjuna Award

  4. Jnanpith Award


Correct Option: B

Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna Award?

  1. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

  2. Winston Churchill

  3. Nelson Mandela

  4. Benazir Bhutto


Correct Option: A

Besides Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, which of the following foreigners has won the Bharat Ratna Award?

  1. Nelson Mandela

  2. Bernard Shaw

  3. Kofi Annan

  4. Mujib-ur-Rahman


Correct Option: A

The Annual Academy Awards are better known as

  1. Nobel Prizes

  2. Magsaysay Awards

  3. Oscars

  4. Grammy Awards


Correct Option: C

Which of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?

  1. Kabir Award

  2. Kalidas Samman

  3. Saraswati Samman

  4. Vyas Samman


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (3). 

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