honours & awards section 8 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

The actual award is designed in the shape of a peepul leaf and carries with the words "Bharat Ratna", inscribed in Devanagari script. The reverse side of the medal carries the state emblem and motto.

Answer: (d)

The Jnanpith Award is India’s highest honour in the field of literature. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961.

Answer: (c)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is set in the background of World War II and give details about life of Prisoners of War.

Answer: (c)

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University has been chosen for the award for its contribution in agricultural development and productivity through Research and Development.

Answer: (d)

Australian author Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North.’

The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a wartime love affair with his uncle’s wife. Post-war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt.

Note: The Sellout by Paul Beatty is named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.