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The following question based on honours & awards topic of general awareness mcq
(a) Pt. Ravishankar
(b) Ustad Bismillah Khan
(c) M.S. Subbalakshmi
(d) Lata Mangeshkar
The correct answers to the above question in:
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.
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Question : 1
Consider the following statements.
- Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela broke the world record on way to winning gold in the women’s 10-metre air rifle event at the English Cup Grand Prix.
- Chandela shot 211.4 in the event held to surpass the feat of Chinese Olympic gold medalist Yi Siling, who held the record with 211.
- Swedish shooters World No.11 Stine Nielsen (207.6) and Astrid Steffensen (185.0) won silver and bronze respectively.
a) 1 and 3
b) 1 and 2
c) 2 and 3
d) None of them
Answer »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.
Question : 2
Biologist of Indian origin who received the Nobel Prize was
a) Hargovind Khorana
b) C.V. Raman
c) Raja Ramanna
d) Jagadish Chandra Bose
Answer »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.
Question : 3
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 2011 has been awarded to
a) Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent
b) Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman
c) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess
d) Dan Schechtman
Answer »Answer: (d)
Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.
He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery of quasi-crystals”. Shechtman is the fourth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in under a decade.
Note: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa ”for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.
Question : 4
Who conferred with Geeta Chopra Award ?
a) Gunjan Sharma
b) Manjula Bansal
c) Resham Fatma
d) Ripa Das
Answer »Answer: (a)
Gunjan Sharma was conferred with Geeta Chopra Award on 24 January 2015.
Question : 5
To which foreigner was ‘Bharat Ratna’ awarded in 1990?
a) Nelson Mandela
b) Abdul Ghaffar
c) Mikhail Gorbachov
d) Yasir Arafat
Answer »Answer: (a)
Question : 6
Who was (is) the first lady recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award?
a) Devika Rani
b) Uma Devi
c) Nargis Dutt
d) Sulochana
Answer »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.
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