Honours & Awards Section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

Nikhil Srivastava has been declared as the joint winner of the George Polya Award for solving the Kadison Singer problem.

Answer: (c)

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan was chosen for the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award (2013) for his contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony and peace.

The award was conferred on him on 20 August 2013, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Note: In 2016 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is presented to Shobha Mudgal (singer).

Answer: (d)

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

Note: Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.

Answer: (d)

Balbir Singh Senior was a member of three Olympic gold medal-winning Indian teams, viz.,

1. London Olympics (1948),
2. Helsinki Olympics (1952) and
3. Melbourne Olympics (1956).

He was the Vice-Captain of the Indian Hockey team during Helsinki Olympics and Captain during Melbourne Olympics.

Answer: (c)

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for

1. notable and outstanding research,
2. applied or fundamental in biology,
3. chemistry,
4. environmental science,
5. engineering,
6. mathematics,
7. medicine and
8. Physics.