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- Tagore Literature Awards are jointly instituted by the Sahitya Akademi and Nokia.
- The Awards are given to the best of literary contributions by writers in 8 Indian languages.
- Literary works in 24 Indian languages are eligible for consideration under the Scheme.
- Awards have been instituted as part of Hope Project, a corporate social responsibility initiative.
(a) 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
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Question : 1
Ricky Keg won Grammy Award under the category of Best New Age Album for which of his album?
a) Urban Grooves South India
b) Winds of Samsara
c) Ballad of Maya
d) Punjabi in the Club
Answer »Answer: (b)
Winds of Samsara of Ricky Keg was awarded Grammy Award under the category of Best New Age Album.
Question : 2
Sugathakumari chosen for the award of the Saraswati Samman 2012 is an eminent poetess in _____ .
a) Telugu
b) Tamil
c) Kannada
d) Malayalam
Answer »Answer: (d)
Sugathakumari is an established writer in Malayalam. She won the prestigious Saraswati Samman in 2012 for Manalezhuthu, being only the third Malayalam writer to do so.
Note: The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any 22 Indian languages listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India.
Eminent Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail has been honoured with the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel Hawthorn.
Question : 3
Consider the following statements:
- Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was founded in 1965.
- Mother Teresa was the first person to get the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
a) Both 1 and 2
b) 1 only
c) 2 only
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer »Answer: (b)
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was founded in 1965.
It is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people “for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world”. The money constituent of this award is 2.5 million rupees.
Question : 4
Who amongst the following was awarded Nobel Prize for developing the technology used in integrated circuits used in PCs?
a) Jack Kilby
b) Horst L. Stormer
c) Robert F. Furchgott
d) John a. Pople
Answer »Answer: (a)
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000. He worked on the problem in circuit design that was commonly called the “tyranny of numbers” and finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution.
He showed that a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached, pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave, proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus solved the problem.
Question : 5
Which one of the following was crowned Pantaloon’s Femina Miss India World, 2012?
a) Rochello Maria Rao
b) Prachee Meera
c) Vanya Mishra
d) Shakshee Hariharan
Answer »Answer: (c)
Vanya Mishra was crowned the winner of Femina Miss India on March 30, 2012. Note : Delhi girl Priyadarshini Chatterjee crowned Miss India World 2016.
Question : 6
Sabin Award is given for the conservation of
a) Amphibians
b) Birds
c) Corals
d) Reptiles
Answer »Answer: (a)
Sabin award is given to the Amphibian conservationists. In 2008 the IUCN recognized Satyabhama Das Biju of Department of Environmental biology, University of Delhi for his dedication for his research and conservation of Frogs and had awarded the Sabin award.
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