honours & awards section 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (a)

B.C. Roy Award is given in the field of medicine. It was instituted in 1976 in memory of B. C. Roy by Medical Council of India. It is presented by President of India in New Delhi on July 1, National Doctors’ Day.

Answer: (d)

Hemant Karkare Maharashtra ATS chief died during a battle with terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attack.

Delhi cop Mohan Chand Sharma – led an anti-terror operation at Batla House in the national capital in September 2008. On September 19, 2008, Sharma received specific information that a suspected person who wanted in connection with the serial bomb blasts in Delhi was hiding in a flat in the Batla House area of Jamia Nagar. Leading a seven-member team, he quickly reached the identified flat and as soon as he entered the flat, he received the first burst of fire from the terrorists holed up inside. Undaunted, he returned the fire and in the ensuing exchange of fire, two terrorists were killed and one captured, but Sharma succumbed to injuries later. Havaldar Gajender Singh – Led his squad in the operation to rescue hostages from the terrorists holed up at Nariman House. After clearing the top floor of the terrorists, he reached the place where the ultras had taken position. As he closed in, the terrorists hurled a grenade injuring him.

Undeterred, Gajender Singh kept firing and closing in on the terrorists by exposing himself to the hostile fire. In the act, he injured one of the terrorists and forced others to retreat inside a room. He continued the encounter till he succumbed to injuries.

Vijay Salaskar Maharashtra Police Inspector died during a battle with terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attack.

Note: on the eve of 68th republic day 2017 President Pranab Mukherjee posthumously conferred the Ashok Chakra on Havildar Hangpan Dada of the Rashtriya Rifles, who laid down his life after singlehandedly killing three terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir last year.

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: (a)

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”