honours & awards section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

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 annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for stage performances, and the Academy Awards for motion pictures.

The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, and it was set up to honour musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958. Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012.

The 54th Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Answer: (d)

Rani Mukherji is the first ever film personality to be felicilated with this prestigious award. She was awarded for creating awareness about child trafficking in New Delhi.

Answer: (a)

The Pulitzer Prizeis an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer. The award is administered by Columbia University, New York.

Answer: (c)

Only statement 2 is correct. Sahitya Akademy Award is the second-best award in literature.

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: (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.