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Question : 46

Who awarded with Ashok Chakra ?

a) R.S. Arora

b) Chauthiram Yadav

c) Narindar Singh Saini

d) Mukund Varadarajan

Answer: (d)

Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh were posthumously awarded on 26 January 2015 with the highest peacetime military honour the Ashok Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Both the army men sacrificed their lives while battling groups of militants in separate operations in the Shopian and Kupwara districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

Question : 47

Who among the following is not a recipient of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award?

a) V. K. Gokak

b) Ashaparna Devi

c) Raghupathi Sahai

d) M. F. Hussain

Answer: (d)

Question : 48

Who of the following was awarded with Yash Bharti Samman 2015 ?

a) Vinod Mehta

b) Vijay Yadav

c) D.R. Mehta

d) Zubin Mehta

Answer: (a)

Journalist Vinod Mehta was awarded with the Yash Bharti Samman 2015 by Uttar Pradesh Government. Vinod Mehta has launched a number of successful publications such as the Sunday observer, Indian post, The Independent, The Pioneer and Outlook. He has authored a biography of Meena Kumari (actress) and Sanjay Gandhi.

Question : 49

The Nobel prizes except Economics were first awarded in

a) 1904

b) 1902

c) 1903

d) 1901

Answer: (d)

Nobel prize was first given in 1901. From 1901 to 2012 the Nobel prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 555 times to 856 people and organizations. With some receiving the Nobel prize more than once, this makes a total of 835 individuals and 21 organizations.

Question : 50 [MPPCS (Pre) 1999]

The ‘Chakradhar Fellowship’ is given in the field of

a) Folk dance

b) Classical dance

c) Classical music

d) Literary criticism

Answer: (c)

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