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(a) Hariharan
(b) Kailash Kher
(c) Sonu Nigam
(d) A.R. Rahman
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
The Madhya Pradesh government, in May 2013, conferred the 28th Annual Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 2013 on famous playback singer Hariharan. Instituted in 1984, the award is conferred upon to a music composer and singer alternately.
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Question : 1
Kailash Satyarthi, who has been selected for Nobel Peace Prize recently is associated with
a) Beej Bachao Andolan
b) Bachpan Bachao Andolan
c) Narmada Bachao Andolan
d) Save Democracy
Answer »Answer: (b)
Kailash Satyarthi, through Bachpan Bachao Andolan campaigns for protection of child rights and to abolish illegal human trafficking.
Question : 2
Who is the scientist who was associated with food grain revolution and who also won the Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) Dr.Subramaniam Chandra Sekhar
b) Dr. N.E. Borlaug
c) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
d) Willy Brandt
Answer »Answer: (b)
Norman Ernest Borlaug, “The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives”, was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called “the father of the Green Revolution”.
For his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
He is one of six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
Question : 3
Sri Arvind Kejriwal has been selected for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2006 for his important contribution in the field.
a) ‘Right to Information’ movement and empow7ering citizens to fight corruption.
b) Effective implementation of the “National Minimum Employment Guarantee Scheme” in rural areas.
c) Formation of Pani (water Panchayats in Rajasthan helping rural people in facing their acute water problem
d) Extending education to children of slum dwellers in Delhi
Answer »Answer: (a)
Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian social activist. He was an Indian Revenue Service official before joining social and political activities.
He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India’s Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people.
Kejriwal is also a Saathi (fellow) of the Association for India’s Development, a Global Impact award-winning NGO.
In 2006 after resigning from IRS, he founded an NGO Public Cause Research Foundation by donating his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund. In November 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, claiming that the party’s vision was Swaraj.
Note: Human rights activist Bezwada Wilson and Carnatic musician Thodur Madabusi Krishna are winners of the Magsaysay Award from India in 2016.
Question : 4
Consider the following statements:
- The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom.
- Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe organization. The contest was founded in 1953 by California.
a) Both 1 and 2
b) 1 only
c) 2 only
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer »Answer: (d)
None of the given statements is correct.
The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951.
Since his death in 2000, Morley’s wife, Julia Morley, co-chairs the pageant. Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization.
The contest was founded in 1952 by the California clothing company Pacific Mills. The pageant became part of Kayser-Roth, and then Gulf Western Industries, before being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996.
Question : 5
Consider the following statements:
- Veerappa Moily has been selected for the Saraswati Samman 2014.
- He is the second Kannada author to receive the honour after S. L. Bhyrappa (2010).
- Saraswati Samman was established by the Sir Ratan Tata foundation in 1991.
a) 1 and 3 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 2 only
d) All of the above
Answer »Answer: (c)
Saraswati Samman was established by the K. K. Birla Foundation in 1991.
Question : 6
man Booker Prize for 2014 is awarded to :
a) Lech Walesa
b) Shashi Tharoor
c) Amrita Pritam
d) Richard Flanagan
Answer »Answer: (d)
Australian author Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North.’
The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a wartime love affair with his uncle’s wife. Post-war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt.
Note: The Sellout by Paul Beatty is named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
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