honours & awards section 8 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (b)

The Tansen Samman is given by the government of Madhya Pradesh. This prestigious award was instituted in the year 1980-1981 and is given in the field of classical music. It carries Rs. 2 lakh in cash, citation, shawl and Shrifal.

Answer: (b)

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been selected for the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2014. Julius Nyerere (the first President of Tanzania) was the first recipient of the prize (1995).

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.