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Question : 41
Which of the following received the Field’s medal (Nobel Prize of Mathematics) 2014?
a) Sanjay Barua
b) Manjul Bhargava
c) Mukul Pathak
d) Srikant Kheda
Answer »Answer: (b)
Manjul Bhargava has been awarded Field’s medal 2014 for his work in developing powerful new methods in the Geometry of numbers.
Question : 42 [SSC GL 2013]
Who won the Jnanpith Award for 2011?
a) Sachidananda Routray
b) Sitakant Mahapatra
c) Gopinath Mohanty
d) Pratibha Ray
Answer »Answer: (d)
Pratibha Ray is an Indian academic and writer who won the Jnanpith Award in 2011. She was the first woman to win the Moortidevi Award in 1991. ,
Note : The most recent 52nd Jnanpith Award recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.
Question : 43 [SSC MTS 2014]
The film which won the Audience Award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland is
a) Yaadein
b) Lagaan
c) Nayak
d) Dil Chahta Hai
Answer »Answer: (b)
Lagaan won the Audience Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards also. This film was directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar.
Question : 44 [SSC CPO 2006]
The Nobel Prize, 2005 for Literature has been awarded to
a) Harold Pinter
b) Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock
c) Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling
d) Barry J. Marshall and J Robin Warren
Answer »Answer: (a)
Harold Pinter, was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include,
- The Birthday Party (1957),
- The Homecoming (1964), and
- Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film.
His screenplay adaptations of others’ works include,
- The Servant (1963),
- The GoBetween (1970),
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981),
- The Trial (1993), and
- Sleuth (2007).
He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others’ works. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.
Note: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” The Nobel Prize in Literature for2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan.
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