honours & awards section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Salman Rushdie has been awarded with prestigious Pen Pinter Prize named after Harold Pinter.

Answer: (c)

Dr Kamal Kishore Goyanka was awarded with Vyas Samman.

Answer: (d)

Eminent Indian Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has won the newly instituted Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize. He was awarded in recognition of his work on welfare economics.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway on 10 December each year (the anniversary of Nobel’s death).

The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. The Nobel laureate receives a diploma, a medal and a document confirming the prize amount. As of 2009, the prize was worth 10 million SEK (about US$ 1.4 million).

Since 1990, the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony is held at Oslo City Hall.

Answer: (c)

He has won gold medal in Commonwealth Games 2010. The award was instituted in 1961. It carries a monetary prize of Rs. 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.