honours & awards section 5 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 16 [SSC CGL (PRE) 2000]

Girish Karnad is :

a) The President of the Film and Television Institute of Indian Society.

b) A recipient of Gnanpith Award

c) A well known playwright and actor.

d) All the above.

Question : 17

Consider the following statements :

1. The Saraswati Samman is the most prestigious award of the KK Birla Foundation.
2. The Samman is given annually to an outstanding literary work published in Hindi only during the last 10 years.
3. It was initiated in 1991.

a) 1 and 3

b) 1, 2 and 3

c) 1 and 2

d) 2 only

Question : 18

Consider the following fields

1. Biology
2. Physics
3. Medicine
4. Mathematics

a) 2 and 3 only

b) 1, 2, 3 and 4

c) 1, 2 and 3 only

d) 3 and 4 only

Question : 19 [SSC GL 2013]

Who was the first Indian woman winner of ‘Miss Universe’ award?

a) Lara Datta

b) Aishwarya Rai

c) Reeta Faria

d) Sushmita Sen

Question : 20

Consider the following statements

1. Bollywood actress Rekha was honoured with the third Yash Chopra Memorial Award on 26th January 2016.
2. The Foundation annually honours a distinguished senior film personality for outstanding contribution to film industry with a Gold Medal and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh.
3. The award has been instituted by the Times group in the memory of the late producer-director Yash Chopra.

a) 1 and 3

b) 1 and 2

c) 2 and 3

d) None of them