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Question : 11 [SSC GL 2013]

Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2012 ?

a) International Atomic Energy Agency

b) U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

c) European Union

d) Liu Xiaobo

Answer: (c)

The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.

Note: The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.

Question : 12 [SSC GL 2013]

Who was the first posthumous recipient of Bharat Ratna ?

a) Lal Bahadur Shastri

b) K. Kamraj

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) M.G. Ramachandran

Answer: (a)

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first person to have received the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1966. Other posthumous recipients of the Bharat Ratna include: K. Kamaraj: 1976, M. G. Ramachandran: 1988, and B.R. Ambedkar: 1990.

Question : 13 [Meghalaya PSC (Pre) 2017]

Who among the following is not the recipient of the Bharat Ratna Award?

a) Ustad Bismillah Khan

b) Lata Mangeshkar

c) Satyajit Ray

d) Raj Kapoor

Answer: (d)

Question : 14 [SSC MTS 2013]

In which year did Amartya Kumar Sen receive the Nobel Prize in Economics ?

a) 2000

b) I995

c) 1998

d) 1990

Answer: (c)

Prof. Amartya Sen was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 1998, becoming the first Asian to receive this award. The Shantiniketan born economist is a pioneer in Welfare Economics.

Question : 15

The first Indira Gandhi Award for International Justice and Harmony has been given to

a) Hussain Ibrahim Zaki

b) Larry Pressler

c) Amnesty International

d) Yasser Arafat

Answer: (d)

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