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

Question : 36

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka has been conferred with the prestigious 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014.
2. The award was instituted by Sahitya Akademy.
3. It is awarded annually to Hindi writers for his work published in past 10 years.

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 1 only

c) 1 and 2 only

d) None

Question : 37

Consider the following statements

1. The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.
2. The inaugural winner was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.

a) 1 and 2 only

b) 1 only

c) 2 only

d) Neither of these

Question : 38

Who among the following has received both Bharat Ratna and Nishan -e -Pakistan?

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

b) Moraji Desai

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Ayub Khan

Question : 39

Neel Mukherjee has been shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for which of the following book?

a) A Life Apart

b) The Lives of Others

c) Past Continuous

d) None of these

Question : 40 [SSC CML 2002]

Nobel Prize in which field is not paid out of the endowment set up by Dr. Alfred Nobel ?

a) Economics

b) Medicine

c) Peace

d) Chemistry