honours & awards section 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

The Kalidas Samman is a prestigious arts award presented annually by the government of Madhya Pradesh. The award is named after Kalidas, a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer.

The Kalidas Samman was first awarded in 1980 and was initially conferred in alternate years in the fields of Classical Music, Classical Dance, Theatre and Plastic Arts.

Answer: (d)

The Sultan Qaboos prize is a biennial award sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which is given for environmental preservation.

Answer: (d)

All the statements are correct. The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any Indian language.

To be eligible for the Vyas Samman, the literary work must be in the Hindi language. Bihari Puruskar is awarded to an outstanding work published in Hindi or Rajasthani by a Rajasthani writer.

Answer: (c)

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.

He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Note: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to David J. Thouless (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, NJ, US) and J. Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)

“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”

Answer: (c)

Ratan Tata was honoured on 26 February 2015 with an honorary Doctorate of Automotive Engineering by the Clemson University at the South Carolina Automotive summit. He was awarded for his contribution to the global automotive industry

Answer: (d)