honours & awards section 4 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (a)

The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (RGKR) is India’s highest honour given for achievement in sports. The words “Khel Ratna” literally mean “sports gem” in Hindi.

The award is named after the late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India. It carries a medal, a scroll of honour and a substantial cash component. Up to 2004–05, the cash component was Rs. 500,000/.

The money has been increased from Rs. 500,000 to Rs. 750,000. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team and the Chennai Super Kings cricket team.

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.

Answer: (d)

The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger. It was instituted in 1997.

Answer: (b)

Modiano was born on July 30, 1945 in a suburb of Paris. He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.

Answer: (c)

The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961.

Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour.

Note: The most recent Jnanpith award recipient is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.

Answer: (d)