honours & awards section 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

The Appan Menon Memorial Award consisting of a grant of ` 1 lakh is given each year to a professional journalist working in the area of world affairs or development news with an Indian perspective.

Answer: (c)

Mahashweta Devi was an Indian Bengali fiction writer and social activist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award (Bengali) in 1979 for her novel, titled Aranyer Adhikar.

She then won the Jnanpith Award in 1996, Ramon Magsaysay Award (Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts) in 1997 and the Padma Vibhushan for Literature & Education in 2006.

Answer: (b)

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition.

It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award.

The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.

Answer: (d)

Amartya Sen is an Indian Bengali economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Sen is best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. He helped to create the United Nations Human Development Index.

In 2012, he became the first non-American recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Answer: (b)

First recipient of the prize is Dr. Julius K. Nyerere Former President of Tanzania.