honours & awards section 8 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

The Noble Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Economics) are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

Answer: (c)

Electrical engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit aka the microchip.

By definition, the integrated circuit or microchip is a set of interconnected electronic components such as transistors and resistors, that are etched or imprinted onto a tiny chip of semiconducting material, such as silicon or germanium.

The microchip shrunk the size and cost of making electronics and impacted the future designs of all computers and other electronics. The first successful demonstration of the microchip was on September 12, 1958.

Answer: (b)

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statue of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs. 500,000. The award was instituted in 1985. The last recipient of the award is Raj Singh for wrestling in the year 2014.

Answer: (d)

The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, presented Krishi Karman Awards for the year 2012-13 on 10 February 2014. Odisha got the award for all time Record in Foodgrain production. Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura got commendation prizes for total food grain production.

Note: Recently, The Central government has chosen Tamil Nadu for the Krishi Karman award for the State’s record performance in the production of food grains during 2015-16. Tamil Nadu had produced 130 lakh tonnes that year, which was the highest in the last five years.

Answer: (b)

Madame Curie shared her 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.

Under her direction, the world’s first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes.

Answer: (a)

Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule. He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in Jinzhou, Liaoning.

Liu has served from 2003 to 2007 as President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, an organization funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, which in turn is almost entirely funded by the US Congress.

He was also the President of NED-funded Min Zhu Zhong Guo (Democratic China) magazine since the mid-1990s.

On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained because of his participation in the Charter 08 manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009 and sentenced to eleven years’ imprisonment and two years’ deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.

Note: The Prize in Economics is not one of the original Nobel Prizes created by Alfred Nobel’s.

The prize was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden’s central bank, the Swedish National Bank. The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded jointly to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for the year 2016.