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

Answer: (a)

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the Yash Chopra Memorial Award. Amitabh Bachchan is the second recipient of the award. The award was first conferred to melody queen Lata Mangeshkar in 2013.

Answer: (b)

Indira Gandhi became the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1971. She served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. Instituted in 1954, the Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of India.

Answer: (d)

Indian shooter Jitu Rai has won silver medal in 50 metre pistol event category. Heena Sidhu has won Gold medal in 10 metre Air Pistol event in women’s category.

Answer: (d)

In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement Parivartan using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption.

The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

Answer: (b)

Chameli Devi Jain puraskar is conferred to the journalists. The award, instituted by the Media Foundation has been conferred to Tusha Mittal of Tehelka’s Kolkata News Bureau in 2012.