honours & awards section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Ustad Bismillah Khan was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (in 2001), the highest civilian honour in India and gained worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades.

Khan had the rare honour of performing at Delhi’s Red Fort on the eve of India’s Independence in 1947.

He also performed raga Kafi from the Red Fort on the eve of India’s first Republic Day ceremony, on January 26, 1950. His recital had become a cultural part of India’s Independence Day celebrations, telecast on Doordarshan every year on August 15.

Answer: (d)

Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela broke the world record on way to winning gold in the women’s 10-metre air rifle event at the Swedish Cup Grand Prix.

Chandela shot 211.2 in the event held to surpass the feat of Chinese Olympic gold medalist Yi Siling, who held the record with 211.

Swedish shooters Astrid Steffensen (207.6) and World No.11 Stine Nielsen (185.0) won silver and bronze respectively.

Answer: (a)

Har Gobind Khorana also known as Hargobind Khorana (January 9, 1922 – November 9, 2011) was a biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.

Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.

Answer: (a)

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.

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.