honours & awards section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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.

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.

Answer: (c)

The Noble prize 2014 for Economics was awarded to French economist Jean Tirole for his analysis of market power and regulation.

Answer: (a)

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.

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.