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Questions : Who won the Top Ranker’s Entrepreneurial Path Breaker Award 2013?

(a) B Prasada Rao

(b) Ajay Shankar

(c) Prof D K Bandyopadhyay

(d) Pratip Chaudhuri

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

B. Prasada Rao, CMD, BHEL was conferred the Top Rankers Entrepreneurial Path Breaker Award 2013.

He received an award from the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council.

Note: Michelle Guymon and Margie Quin got the 2016 Pathbreaker Award.

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Question : 1

Orange prize is given in the field of

a) Film

b) Literature

c) Medicine

d) Sports

Answer: (b)

Orange prize is now known as Women’s prize for Fiction which is given to those women writers who have written full novel in English. The Orange Prize was established in 1996 by Orange PLC, a UK telecommunications corporation.

Question : 2

Who was (is) the first lady recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award?

a) Devika Rani

b) Uma Devi

c) Nargis Dutt

d) Sulochana

Answer: (a)

Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich was an early Indian movie star who won the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969. Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969. In 1958, the President of India honoured Devika Rani with a Padma Shri.

Note: 2016 Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient of the award is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.

Question : 3

To which foreigner was ‘Bharat Ratna’ awarded in 1990?

a) Nelson Mandela

b) Abdul Ghaffar

c) Mikhail Gorbachov

d) Yasir Arafat

Answer: (a)

Question : 4

Consider the following Statements:

  1. Gopaldas Neeraj was awarded with National Kavi Pradeep Samman on 24 March 2015.
  2. This award was instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government.
  3. He is the 3rd recipient of this prize.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 2 and 3 only

c) 1 and 2 only

d) All of the above

Answer: (c)

He is the first recipient of this prize.

Question : 5

BAFTA prize is distributed by

a) USA

b) Russia

c) India

d) UK

Answer: (d)

The British Academy Film awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given by UK and is considered to be the counter awards for Oscars.

Question : 6

Consider the following statements :

  1. The Times of India Group founded the Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust.
  2. ICAR gives the Swamy Sahajanand Saraswati Award.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 2 only

b) 1 and 2

c) 1 only

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (b)

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