honours & awards section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Dhanak which was directed by Nagesh Kukunoor revolves around the story of brothersister living in a village.

Answer: (d)

Double trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi was conferred India’s highest sporting honour - the 2012-13 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna—in September 2013. Sodhi became the seventh shooter to get the top sports award instituted in 1991.

Note: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2016 awarded to Olympic medalists P.V. Sindhu and Sakshi Malik; ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who lost a medal by a whisker, and shooter Jitu Rai. This is for the first time the nation’s highest sporting award has been conferred on four athletes.

Answer: (a)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-born Indian Roman Catholic nun. “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, she was an Indian. She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

Mother Teresa had first been recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier when she was awarded the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969.

She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in both 1972 and 1980.

Answer: (b)

India avenged their 3-1 defeat to the Netherlands in pool games to come out victorious in the third-place playoff in the FIH Hockey World League Finals played at Raipur.

Answer: (d)

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream is the second book written by Barack Obama. In the book, Obama expounds on many of the subjects that became part of his 2008 campaign for the presidency.

Answer: (c)

Women Scientists Dr. Tessy Thomas and Geeta Varadan on 15 February 2015 were jointly named for Dr. Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award 2014. They have been chosen for the award for their outstanding performance in the field of Science and Technology.

This is the first time in the history of the trust that two eminent women scientists are being concurrently honoured.