honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

G. Sankara Kurup was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam Odakkuzhal (The bamboo flute, 1950).

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

President Pranab Mukherjee, in July 2016, conferred the 51st Jnanpith Award on renowned Gujarati writer and litterateur Dr Raghuveer Chaudhari at a function in New Delhi.

Chaudhary is the fourth Gujarati litterateur to bag this prestigious award after Uma Shankar Joshi (1967), Pannalal Patel (1985) and Rajendra Shah (2001).

Note: The most recent recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.

Answer: (b)

Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.

Lauterbur credits the idea of the MRI to a brainstorm one day at a suburban Pittsburgh Big Boy, with the MRI’s first model scribbled on a table napkin. The further research that led to the Nobel Prize was performed at Stony Brook University in the 1970s.

Lauterbur is credited for the idea of introducing gradients in the magnetic field which allows for determining the origin of the radio waves emitted from the nuclei of the object of study. This spatial information allows two-dimensional pictures to be produced.

Answer: (c)

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared between Kailash Satyarthi of India and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan. They were awarded “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

Answer: (a)

Miss China, Wenxia Yu won the title of Miss World 2012 while Miss Wales Sophie Elizabeth Moulds and Miss Australia Jessica Michelle Kahawaty came second and third respectively. Miss China had to compete with 116 candidates to win the crown.

Note : Miss World 2016- Puerto Rico’s Stephanie Del Valle.