honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Bangladesh has won the award for reducing the gender gap in political sphere. The Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Parliament and the leader of the opposition are all women.

Answer: (c)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an IndianAmerican astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries in astrophysics that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.

Answer: (a)

The first ever Dadabhai Naoroji Award for culture has been given to Madhav Sharma by the UK government.

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: (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: (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.