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Question : 1 [SSC GL 2013]
Among the following Nobel laureates, who was not a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) Linus C. Pauling
b) Woodrow Wilson
c) Sir Winston Churchill
d) Norman Ernest Borlaug
Answer »Answer: (c)
Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, especially his six-volume set The Second World War.
Linus Carl Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, making him the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes.
Question : 2 [SSC CHSL 2014]
The Oscar Award was won 36 times by
a) Walt Disney
b) Alfred Hitchcock
c) Charlie Chaplin
d) Akiro Kurosawa
Answer »Answer: (a)
The question is wrong. No one has ever won 36 Oscar Awards. Walt Disney (1901–66) won or received a total of twenty-six Academy Awards, and holds the record for most Academy Awards in history.
He won a total of twenty-two competitive Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations. He holds the records for most wins and most nominations for an individual in history.
Question : 4
Who was honoured with Doctorate of Automotive Engineering by the Clemson University ?
a) Sunil Mittal
b) Mukesh Ambani
c) Ratan Tata
d) Narayan Murti
Answer »Answer: (c)
Ratan Tata was honoured on 26 February 2015 with an honorary Doctorate of Automotive Engineering by the Clemson University at the South Carolina Automotive summit. He was awarded for his contribution to the global automotive industry
Question : 5 [FCI Asst Grade-II 2012]
The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2011 has been awarded to
a) Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent
b) Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman
c) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess
d) Dan Schechtman
Answer »Answer: (c)
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.
He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Note: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to David J. Thouless (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, NJ, US) and J. Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
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