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

Answer: (a)

• Lal Krishna Advani- Padma Vibhushan
• Harish Salve - Padma Bhushan
• Bimal Roy- Padma Shri.

Answer: (c)

The Nobel awards in literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics are given in Stockholm, Sweden. The Peace prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

Answer: (c)

Eminet Sanskrit Scholar Prabhu Nath Dwivedi was on 14 January 2015 named as the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit language. He was awarded for his work Kanakalochanaha, a collection of 16 short stories based on various social issues.

Answer: (e)

Though Ronal Ross received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902, he was a foreign citizen born in India. Har Gobind Khurana won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968.

He was a foreign citizen of Indian origin. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but he is an Indian born American Citizen

Answer: (a)

Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council’s 2009 “Cricketer of the Year” award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. When attending a fast-bowling clinic in Brisbane at age 17, former Test fast-bowler Dennis Lillee identified him as a “once-in-a-lifetime prospect”.

Lillee contacted former teammate Rod Marsh and arranged for Johnson to join the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide. Johnson fields in a tour match against Northamptonshire during the 2009 Ashes.

Johnson subsequently played for the Australian Under-19 side that toured England in 1999, however recurrent back injuries hampered his prospects. He recovered to start his first-class career two years later when he was selected to play state cricket for his native Queensland.

Playing for Queensland against New Zealand, Johnson hit a six off the first ball he faced in first-class cricket. In September 2005, he was in Australia A cricket team that toured Pakistan. Johnson switched from the Queensland Bulls to the Western Warriors on 25 July 2008.

Note: In 2016 Ashwin was named Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year. He is also the sole Indian to feature in ICC’s Test Team of the Year.