Practice Honours and awards - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-2) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) BAFTA prize is distributed by
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The British Academy Film awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given by UK and is considered to be the counter awards for Oscars.
Q-2) In which year did Dada Saheb Phalke produce the first feature film ?
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Dada Saheb Phalke produce Raja Harishchandra in 1913, now known as India’s first full-length feature. It was his debut film. He was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema. He made 95 movies and 26 short films in his career spanning 19 years, till 1937.
Q-3) Pulitzer prize was established in
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The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 and administered by Columbia University in New York City by provisions in the will of American publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
Q-4) The Sahitya Akademi Awards are given for best writings in how many Indian languages ?
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Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major Indian languages recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 100,000.
Q-5) International Gandhi Peace prize is instituted in
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International Gandhi Peace prize is given annually by Government of India to those individuals and organizations which contribute towards changes in the political, social or economic reforms via non-violence. It was instituted in 1995.
Q-6) Which of the following is not correct about the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Arjuna Award for the year 2015? - The selection of awardees was based on the recommendations of the Sports ministry.
- Arjuna Awardees will receive statuettes, certificates and award money of 5 lakh rupees each.
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee will receive medal, certificate and award money of 7.5 lakh rupees.
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ranta 2015 was conferred on Saina Nehwal.
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The selection of awardees was based on the recommendations of the Selection Committee headed by Justice VK Bali, former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court which consisted eminent sportspersons and sports administrators. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ranta 2015 was conferred on Sania Mirza.
Q-7) The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna Award was
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Though usually conferred on Indian citizens, the Bharat Ratna has been awarded to one naturalised citizen, Mother Teresa in 1980, and to two non-Indians, Pakistan national Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in 1987 and former South African President Nelson Mandela in 1990.
Q-8) Who was selected for Jnanpith Award 2014?
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Eminent Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade on 6 February 2015 was chosen for the Jnanpith Award 2014. He will be the 50th recipient of the Jnanpith award.
His novel Kosala (Cocoon) published in 1963 was not only instrumental in changing the dimensions of the Marathi novel but also the world of Marathi friction was transformed with its advent.
With this award, he will join the league of three noted Marathi writers who have won the Jnanpith award. Nemade’s novels among others include Bidhar, Hool, Jarila, Jhool, etc.
Q-9) FiFi awards are given in_____industry:
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Q-10) Who was the first actress to be conferred the honour of Padmashree ?
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Nargis Dutt was the first film actress to be conferred by the Government of India with the Padma Shri title, the fourth highest civilian award in 1958.
In the early 1970s, she became the first patron of the Spastics Society of India, and her subsequent work with the organization brought her recognition as a social worker, and later a Rajya Sabha nomination in 1980.
Q-11) Consider the following statements- The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is an annual prestigious award instituted by Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi.
- It is awarded to a business leader, management practitioner, public administrator, educator or institution builder for his/her sustained individual contributions for achievements of high professional order and excellence.
- The award was started in 2000.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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He award was started in 1999.
Q-12) The first Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to:
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The first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was given in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch (Norway) and Jan Tinbergen (The Netherlands) for “having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.”
The award, officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Q-13) Who was the first recipient woman of Vyas Samman?
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Q-14) Which of the following famous financial journals of international repute confers ‘Finance minister of the year’Award?
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Q-15) Which of the following awards was conferred upon Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali for her role in the welfare of adult and women?
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Q-16) The first lady to receive ‘Gyanpeeth’ Award is
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Q-17) Who among the following was the first recipient of Bharat Ratna?
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Q-18) Novelist, Mr. Salman Rushdie was awarded “Knighthood” by
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Queen Elizabeth II
Q-19) Who amongst the following facilitated the development of MRI as an important diagnostic tool and for that won a Nobel Prize?
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Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.
Lauterbur credits the idea of the MRI to a brainstorm one day at a suburban Pittsburgh Big Boy, with the MRI’s first model scribbled on a table napkin. The further research that led to the Nobel Prize was performed at Stony Brook University in the 1970s.
Lauterbur is credited for the idea of introducing gradients in the magnetic field which allows for determining the origin of the radio waves emitted from the nuclei of the object of study. This spatial information allows two-dimensional pictures to be produced.
Q-20) Which of the Gallantry award is exactly like Ashok Chakra?
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The Shaurya Chakra is an Indian military decoration after the Ashoka Chakra and the Kirti Chakra and is awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice while not engaged in direct action with the enemy.
It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, sometimes posthumously. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Vir Chakra.