honours & awards section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 46

Consider the following statements.

1. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was awarded the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China.
2. The prize was established in 2009 by China’s Communist Government after it was angered by Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
3. Some of the previous recipients of the award are Vladimir Putin (2011), Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping (2012) and Fidel Castro (2014).

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 1 and 2 only

c) 2 and 3 only

d) None of these

Question : 47 [SSC CML 2002]

Who received the Booker prize for the Book “Half a Life”?

a) V.S. Naipaul

b) Anita Desai

c) Arundhati Roy

d) Kiran Bedi

Question : 48 [UPPCS (Pre) 1992]

Match the following.

a) 3 2 1 4

b) 3 2 4 1

c) 3 4 2 1

d) 4 3 1 2

Question : 49

Vyas Samman is awarded annually by

a) Ministry of Culture

b) Times Group

c) KK Birla Foundation

d) Azim Premji Foundation

Question : 50 [Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007]

Who is the first Indian actress to receive the ‘Padma Shree’ Award?

a) Smita Patil

b) Meena Kumari

c) Nargis Dutt

d) Madhubala