honours & awards section 8 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.

The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of The Times of India newspaper.

Rajendra Shah won the Jnanpith — the Indian government’s most prestigious literary prize — for the year 2001. was a lyrical poet who wrote in Gujarati.

Indira Goswami won this award in 2000.

Note: The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”.

Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English. As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to 11 lakh (equivalent to 12 lakh or US$18,000 in 2016).

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

Answer: (b)

Kailash Satyarthi, through Bachpan Bachao Andolan campaigns for protection of child rights and to abolish illegal human trafficking.

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.

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.