honours & awards section 8 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Pratibha Ray is an Indian academic and writer who won the Jnanpith Award in 2011. She was the first woman to win the Moortidevi Award in 1991. ,

Note : The most recent 52nd Jnanpith Award recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.

Answer: (b)

Lagaan won the Audience Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards also. This film was directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar.

Answer: (a)

Harold Pinter, was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include,

• The Birthday Party (1957),
• The Homecoming (1964), and
• Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film.

His screenplay adaptations of others’ works include,

• The Servant (1963),
• The GoBetween (1970),
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981),
• The Trial (1993), and
• Sleuth (2007).

He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others’ works. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

Note: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” The Nobel Prize in Literature for2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan.

Answer: (c)

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, an outspoken proponent of girls’ education who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, was presented with the International Children’s Peace Prize in The Hague, Netherlands.

Note: The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded annually to a child who has made a significant contribution to advocating children’s rights and improving the situation of vulnerable children such as orphans, child labourers and children with HIV/ AIDS.

Kehkashan Basu, the UAE-based Indian teen, wins the Children’s Peace Prize in 2016.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)