honours & awards section 7 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

The Param Vir Chakra is India’s highest military decoration awarded forthe highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy. It can be awarded to officers or enlisted personnel from all branches of the Indian military and can be, and often has been, awarded posthumously.

Answer: (c)

Dilip Vengsarkar has been honoured with the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013-14.

Answer: (d)

Nargis Dutt was the first film actress to be conferred by the Government of India with the Padma Shri title, the fourth highest civilian award in 1958.

In the early 1970s, she became the first patron of the Spastics Society of India, and her subsequent work with the organization brought her recognition as a social worker, and later a Rajya Sabha nomination in 1980.

Answer: (c)

Bezwada Wilson, a renowned campaigner against manual scavenging, and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna from Chennai were, on 27 July 2016, named for the prestigious Magsaysay Award.

Other winners are Conchita Carpio-Morales from the Philippines, Dompet Dhuafa from Indonesia, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and Vientiane Rescue from Laos.

Answer: (c)

South Korean author, Han Kang, on 16 May 2016 won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’’.

It is a novel about a woman who “wants to reject human brutality” and gives up eating meat. The novel was translated by Deborah Smith and was published by Portobello Books.