Practice Honours and awards - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Q-1)   How many Nobel Prize awards are awarded each year?

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Explanation:

The Nobel Prize is given every year in the six fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics. The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in five fields except economics were first awarded in 1901. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden’s central bank in 1968.


Q-2)   ‘Kalidas Samman’ is given for the contribution in which of the following fields?

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Q-3)   How many person distinguished in the field of music has so far been awarded ‘‘Bharat Ratna’’?

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Explanation:

  1. M. S. Subbulakshmi (1998): Carnatic classical singer;
  2. Ravi Shankar (1999): Sitar player;
  3. Lata Mangeshkar (2001): playback singer;
  4. Bismillah Khan (2001): Hindustani classical shehnai player; and
  5. Bhimsen Joshi (2008): Hindustani classical singer.

Note: so far 6 people got the Baharat Ratna award in the field of music 6th one was Pandit Bhim sen Joshi (2008).

The last time Madan Mohan Malaviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee got this award was in 2015.


Q-4)   How many Nobel Prize Awards are awarded each year?

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Explanation:

The Nobel Prizes are given every year for outstanding contributions in six fields of chemistry, economics, literature, peace, physics, or physiology or medicine.

The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1968.


Q-5)   For how many categories have A.R. Rehman, the Golden Globe Award Winner for the original soundtrack in the film“Slum Dog Millionaire” been nominated at the Oscars?

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Explanation:

Allahrakka Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multiinstrumentalist and philanthropist. Described as the world’s most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating Eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and traditional orchestral arrangements.

He has won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards and thirteen Filmfare Awards South, in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.

In the academy, he was nominated for Best Original Score, and Best Original Song (Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire – Music by A. R. Rahman; Lyrics by Gulzar AND “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire – Music and Lyric by A. R. Rahman and M.I.A.


Q-6)   Aegis Graham Bell Award is intended to promote innovation in the field of
  1. Telecom
  2. Internet
  3. Media
  4. Education

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Explanation:

Graham Bell award is intended to promote innovation in the field of Telecom, Media, Internet and Education.


Q-7)   Confucius peace prize is given by

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Explanation:

The Confucius Peace Prize is a prize established in 2010 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The Confucius Peace Prize’s first winner was former Vice President of the Republic of China and Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan, for his contribution to developing positive ties between Taiwan and mainland China.


Q-8)   What is the correct chronological order of conferring Bharat Ratna for the following persons?
  1. MS Subbulakshmi
  2. Amartya Sen
  3. APJ Abdul Kalam
  4. Lata Mangeshkar
Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes:

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Q-9)   Who was the first Indian woman winner of ‘Miss Universe’ award?

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Explanation:

In 1994, Sushmita Sen won the Miss Universe title after winning the Miss India crown and became the first Indian woman ever to win the Miss Universe crown. The same year the runner-up of Miss India, Aishwariya Rai, won the Miss World title.


Q-10)   Which of the following award is given by World Economic Forum?

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Explanation:

The World Economic Forum gives Crystal award to those artists who have improved the state of the world through their art.


Q-11)   Consider the following statements.
  1. Punjab National Bank (PNB) has won the 2015 Beighton Cup hockey tournament.
  2. Beighton Cup of Hockey Instituted in 1859 and is one of the oldest field hockey tournaments running till date.
  3. It is organised by Punjab Hockey Association (PHA).
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?Codes:

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Explanation:

Beighton Cup of Hockey Instituted in 1895 and is one of the oldest field hockey tournaments running till date. It is organised by Bengal Hockey Association (BHA).


Q-12)   Consider the following statements
  1. Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest award in cinema given annually by the government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
  2. Prithviraj Kapoor was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Q-13)   Which of the following statements is /are correct?
  1. Mathematician Dr. Amalendu Krishna is the recipient of Ramanujan Prize for year 2015.
  2. Sania Mirza has been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award 2015.
  3. Uttarakhand Tourism has won 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award.
Codes:

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Explanation:

Kerala Tourism has won 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award.


Q-14)   Consider the following statements :
  1. Sahitya Akademi Award, the highest literary prize given by the government of India.
  2. Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar is an environmental prize.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Explanation:

Only statement 2 is correct. Sahitya Akademy Award is the second-best award in literature.


Q-15)   Who was the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay award?

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Q-16)   Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded Nobel Prize for his contribution to the field of

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Explanation:

Amartya Sen, is an Indian Bengali economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. He helped to create the United Nations Human Development Index.

In 2012, he became the first non-American recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.

He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, a distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as a Master from 1998 to 2004.

He is the first Indian and the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He also serves as the first Chancellor of the proposed Nalanda International University.


Q-17)   Who was the recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 ?

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Explanation:

Legendary Cinematographer V K Murthy has been conferred the 2008 Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Veteran producer and Guinness record holder Daggubati Ramanaidu has conferred the 2009 Dada Saheb Phalke Award on October 22, 2010.

Director K Balachander has conferred the 2010 Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Soumitra Chatterjee has conferred the 2011 Dada Saheb Phalke Award on May 3, 2012.

Note: 2016 Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.


Q-18)   Golden Globe Awards are associated with

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Explanation:

The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. It was first awarded in 1944.


Q-19)   Who of the following was honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award ?

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Explanation:

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the Yash Chopra Memorial Award. Amitabh Bachchan is the second recipient of the award. The award was first conferred to melody queen Lata Mangeshkar in 2013.


Q-20)   Governor of the Year Award received by-

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Explanation:

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan received the Governor of the year Award for 2015. The award recognises the Governor of a Central Bank who has demonstrated strong leadership during the period under review.

He was awarded for his disciplined and focused approach to tackling macroeconomic instability.