honours & awards section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (a)

Neha Gupta was awarded with the prestigious international children’s peace prize 2014. Neha an 18 year old Indian American from Philadelphia was awarded for her work to help orphans in India and other vulnerable children.

Answer: (a)

Nelson Mandela, a South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first-ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, became the second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient of the Bharat Ratna in 1990.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the first nonIndian recipient of this honour in 1987.

Answer: (d)

I.V. Sasi was awarded the prestigious J.C. Daniel Award for the year 2014 for his contributions towards the Malayalam entertainment industry on 12th October 2015.

Angus Deaton was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics on 12th October 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

Answer: (b)

Bezwada Wilson, a renowned campaigner against manual scavenging, and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna from Chennai were, in July 2016, named for the prestigious Magsaysay Award.

Wilson received the award for “asserting the inalienable right to a life of human dignity.” He is the national convener of the Safai Karmachari Andolan.

Answer: (b)

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, on July 14, 2010, announced the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for 2009.

Recipients of the award in different fields are as follows:

Music:

• Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar – Hindustani vocal;
• Murad Ali – Hindustani instrumental – sarangi;
• Sanjeev Shankar and Ashwani Shankar (joint award) – Hindustani instrumental – shehnai;
• C.S. Sajeev – Carnatic vocal;
• Mysore A. Chandan Kumar – Carnatic instrumental – flute;
• V. Balaji - Carnatic instrumental – mridangam;
• Anil Srinivasan – creative and experimental music; and
• Moirangthem Meina Singh other major tradition of music – Nata Sankirtana of Manipur.

In Dance the awardees were:

• Ragini Chander Shekar – Bharatanatyam;
• Monisa Nayak – Kathak;
• Hanglem Indu Devi – Manipuri;
• Chinta Ravi Balakrishna – Kuchipudi;
• Lingaraj Pradhan – Odissi;
• Menaka P.P. Bora – Sattriya;
• Manjula B. Murthy – Mohiniattam;
• Swamimalai K. Suresh (music for dance) – Bharatanatyam nattuvangam and vocal.