honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Indira Gandhi became the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1971. She served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. Instituted in 1954, the Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of India.

Answer: (d)

Indian shooter Jitu Rai has won silver medal in 50 metre pistol event category. Heena Sidhu has won Gold medal in 10 metre Air Pistol event in women’s category.

Answer: (d)

In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement Parivartan using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption.

The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

Answer: (c)

South Korean author, Han Kang, on 16 May 2016 won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’’.

It is a novel about a woman who “wants to reject human brutality” and gives up eating meat. The novel was translated by Deborah Smith and was published by Portobello Books.

Answer: (c)

Bezwada Wilson, a renowned campaigner against manual scavenging, and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna from Chennai were, on 27 July 2016, named for the prestigious Magsaysay Award.

Other winners are Conchita Carpio-Morales from the Philippines, Dompet Dhuafa from Indonesia, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and Vientiane Rescue from Laos.

Answer: (d)

Nargis Dutt was the first film actress to be conferred by the Government of India with the Padma Shri title, the fourth highest civilian award in 1958.

In the early 1970s, she became the first patron of the Spastics Society of India, and her subsequent work with the organization brought her recognition as a social worker, and later a Rajya Sabha nomination in 1980.