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

Answer: (a)

Dada Saheb Phalke Award was established in 1969 to commemorate the birth centenary year of father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb Phalke.

Answer: (a)

James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office.

In 2002, President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work “to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development” through The Carter Center.

Three sitting presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama, have received the prize.

Note: The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

It has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses” the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway.

Since 1990, the prize is awarded on 10 December in Oslo City Hall each year. Most awards-International Committee of the Red Cross (3 times) In 2002 EX-American president JIMMY CARTER got a Nobel peace prize and In 2009 American president Barak Obama got this prize.

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-yearlong civil war to an end.

1. Answer: (d)
2. The Param Vir Chakra is India’s highest military decoration award.
3. The Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest military decoration. 
4. Vir Chakra is third in precedence in the war time gallantry awards.

Answer: (d)

The Palme d’Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It is presented by Festival International du film de, France.

Answer: (d)

International Children's - Kids Rights Foundation - peace prize. The Kids Rights Foundation is an international children’s aid and advocacy organisation based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 2003, Kids Rights raises funds for independent local aid projects in a number of countries around the world, including Zimbabwe, Ukraine and Haiti. The organisation’s mission is to support and empower vulnerable children around the world, by raising funds for small-scale local projects, and by raising awareness for children’s rights through the international media.

Man Booker International Prize — Authors. The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. The introduction of the International Prize was announced in June 2004. The award, sponsored by the Man Group, complements the Man Booker Prize and rewards an author’s “continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.”

Pritzker Award — Architecture. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to “honour a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.”

Abel prize — Mathematics. The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), the award was established in 2001 by the Government of Norway and complements the Holberg Prize in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Abel Prize has often been described as the “mathematician’s Nobel prize”. It comes with a monetary award of 6 million Norwegian kroner (NOK) (approximately US $1 million), to be used to fund future research.