honours & awards section 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. It is one of the awards given in the field of fiction writing.

Note: The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK.

Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($ 61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.

Answer: (d)

Devesh Kumar was conferred with Sanjay Chopra Award on 24 January 2015 for his bravery.

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. Nobel Prize is not given in Mathematics.

Answer: (c)

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has been serving as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 during his tenure.

The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who had earlier criticised Pachauri when he was first elected in 2002.

Answer: (b)

Aditi Krishna kumar, an Indian woman author in Singapore, in fourth week of May 2016 won the ‘Scholastic Asian Book Award’. She was awarded for her 32000-word manuscript “Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus”.

Answer: (d)

The International Linguapax award is awarded annually on International Mother Language Day (21 February) by Linguapax (Linguapax Institute), which recognises and awards the actions carried out in different areas for the preservation of linguistic diversity, revitalization and reactivation of linguistic communities and the promotion of multilingualism.