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

Answer: (a)

The Jnanpith award is a literary award which along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour.

Answer: (a)

Miss China, Wenxia Yu won the title of Miss World 2012 while Miss Wales Sophie Elizabeth Moulds and Miss Australia Jessica Michelle Kahawaty came second and third respectively. Miss China had to compete with 116 candidates to win the crown.

Note : Miss World 2016- Puerto Rico’s Stephanie Del Valle.

Answer: (c)

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared between Kailash Satyarthi of India and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan. They were awarded “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

Answer: (b)

Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.

Lauterbur credits the idea of the MRI to a brainstorm one day at a suburban Pittsburgh Big Boy, with the MRI’s first model scribbled on a table napkin. The further research that led to the Nobel Prize was performed at Stony Brook University in the 1970s.

Lauterbur is credited for the idea of introducing gradients in the magnetic field which allows for determining the origin of the radio waves emitted from the nuclei of the object of study. This spatial information allows two-dimensional pictures to be produced.

Answer: (d)

Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award. The official criteria for awarding the Bharat Ratna stipulated it is to be conferred “for the highest degrees of national service which includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as “recognition of public service of the highest order”.

The last recipient of the award is the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for the year 2014.