honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (a)

Both the given statements are correct.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honour a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” Founded in 1979 by Jay A.

Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation and is considered to be one of the world’s premier architecture prizes; it is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. The prize is said to be awarded “irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology.”

The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and a bronze medallion. The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to “the architect of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.”

The architects must be RIBA members, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union. Stirling Prize laureates receive a stipend of GB £20,000.

Answer: (c)

The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any Indian language. It was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.

The award contains 10 lakh, a citation and a plaque. Candidates are selected from literary works published in the previous ten years by a panel that includes scholars and former award winners.

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)

Bharat Ratna is India’s highest civilian award. The official criteria for awarding the Bharat Ratna stipulated it is to be conferred “for the highest degrees of national service which includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as “recognition of public service of the highest order”.

The last recipient of the award is the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for the year 2014.

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.