honours & awards section 10 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

Chandraprabha Bokey of Maharashtra won the Mata Jijabai award. She is a social worker and is working in rural areas since 1960.

The field of work includes empowerment and rehabilitation of destitute, divorced, disabled women and rehabilitation of Orphan children.

Answer: (a)

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. It is one of the awards given in the field of fiction writing.

Note: The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK.

Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($ 61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.

Answer: (d)

Devesh Kumar was conferred with Sanjay Chopra Award on 24 January 2015 for his bravery.

Answer: (b)

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Nobel Prize is not given in Mathematics.

Answer: (a)

Miss Colombia Paulina Vega was crowned Miss Universe 2014. She was a 22 year old students of business, administration from Barranquilla, Colombia. With this Vega became the second beauty queen from Colombia to win the title. Luz Marina Zuluaga was the first Colombian to win the crown in 1956. The first runner-up was Miss USA Nia Sanchez and the second runner-up was Miss Ukraine Diana Harkusha.