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

Answer: (c)

Bangladesh has won the award for reducing the gender gap in political sphere. The Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Parliament and the leader of the opposition are all women.

Answer: (c)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an IndianAmerican astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries in astrophysics that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.

Answer: (a)

The first ever Dadabhai Naoroji Award for culture has been given to Madhav Sharma by the UK government.

Answer: (d)

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 and administered by Columbia University in New York City by provisions in the will of American publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

Answer: (b)

Only statement 1 is correct.

The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in the Republic of India and is instituted by Samsung Electronics and the Sahitya Akademi and not by UNESCO.