honours & awards section 9 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

Dr Kamal Kishore Goyanka was awarded with Vyas Samman.

Answer: (d)

Eminent Indian Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has won the newly instituted Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize. He was awarded in recognition of his work on welfare economics.

Answer: (a)

Tagore Literature Awards have been instituted as part of Samsung Hope Project and recognize the best literary contributions in 24 Indian languages.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (c)

Grammy Award — Music.

• A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) – or Grammy – is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honour the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 56th Grammy Awards were held on January 26, 2014, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Ramon Magsaysay Award — International understanding.

• The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered to be Asia’s Nobel Prize. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.

Pulitzer Award — Journalism.

Borlaug Award — Agriculture.