honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

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

Answer: (d)

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 and administered by Columbia University in New York City by provisions in the will of American publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

Answer: (b)

Only statement 1 is correct.

The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in the Republic of India and is instituted by Samsung Electronics and the Sahitya Akademi and not by UNESCO.

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: (b)

Chameli Devi Jain puraskar is conferred to the journalists. The award, instituted by the Media Foundation has been conferred to Tusha Mittal of Tehelka’s Kolkata News Bureau in 2012.

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).