honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Best Film - Agneepath, Barfi!, directed by Anurag Basu, won the award of Best Film at the 14th IIFA Awards. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Ileana D’Cruz in the lead roles, Ranbir Kapoor won the award of Best Actor for this very film.

Answer: (b)

The Param Vir Chakra is India’s highest military decoration awarded forthe highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy. It can be awarded to officers or enlisted personnel from all branches of the Indian military and can be, and often has been, awarded posthumously.

Answer: (c)

Dilip Vengsarkar has been honoured with the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013-14.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)

Hindi novelish Mithileshwar was awarded on 31 January 2015 with Shrilal Shukla Sahitya IFFCO Award 2014. He is the fourth recipient of this literary award. Mithileshwar belongs to Bhojpur district and is known for his insight into the rural heartland of India.

Answer: (d)

Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics for “groundbreaking experiments” with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in electronics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Geim and Novoselov, who are both linked to universities in Britain, for experiments with graphene, a flake of carbon that is only one atom thick.

Experiments with graphene could lead to the development of new material and “the manufacture of innovative electronics,” including faster computers, the citation said. Geim, 51, is a Dutch national while Novoselov, 36, holds British and Russian citizenship. Both are natives of Russia and started their careers in physics there.

Note: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with

1. one half to David J. Thouless(University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) and
2. the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane(Princeton University, NJ, US) and
3. J. Michael Kosterlitz(Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)

“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.