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

Answer: (a)

The Global 500 Roll of Honour was launched in 1987 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to recognize and honour environmental achievement.

This award is a tribute to success on the front lines of environmental action. It honours individuals and organizations that combat environmental issues despite immense social, political and logistical obstacles.

Answer: (a)

Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. In 1954 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.

Answer: (d)

The Kalinga Prize for popularization of Science is an international distinction instituted by UNESCO. It was started in 1951 by donation from Mr Bijoyanand Patnaik, founder and president of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.

Answer: (c)

The Mars Orbiter Mission Team of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category.

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on 5 November 2013 and it reached the Mars orbit on 24 September 2014.

The Indian spacecraft has gone into orbit around Mars on the very first attempt and no other country has been able to do this till now.

Answer: (b)

The first Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna award was conferred on Mother Teresa in 1992.

The award was instituted by the All India Congress Committee of the Indian National Congress Party in 1992 to commemorate the lasting contribution made by the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It is given on August 20, the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi.