honours & awards section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Dr. Aparajita Datta was honoured with the Whitley award, also known as Green Oscar, in London on 2 May 2013. She is the head of the program for conservation of the hornbills in dense tropical forests of Arunachal Pradesh.

Answer: (a)

The Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) is the second-highest military decoration in India and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air. It may be awarded posthumously. Literally, Maha Veer means great warrior.

General Arun Shridhar Vaidya was the 13th Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) of the Indian Army. he was awarded Mahavir Chakra twice.

Answer: (a)

Vidya Balan

Note: At the 62nd Jio Filmfare Awards 2017, Aamir Khan bagged the Best Actor Award for his performance in ‘Dangal’.

Alia Bhatt was honoured with the Best Actress Award for her gritty portrayal of a Bihari migrant in ‘Udta Punjab’.

In 2016 Dipika padukon got film fair award for piku.

Answer: (d)

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: (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.