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- The Nobel Prize awarding ceremony takes place on December 10 of every year.
- The Nobel Prize for Literature was added later on to the other five existing areas – Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Peace and Economics.
(a) Both 1 and 2
(b) 1 only
(c) 2 only
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (b)
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Question : 1
The award is conferred to journalists aims to providing financial assistance :
a) Kalinga Award
b) Jnanpith Award
c) Bhatnagar Award
d) Appan Menon Memorial Award
Answer »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.
Question : 2
The award which, the famous writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who passed away recently, did not win
a) Magsaysay Award
b) Jnanpith Award
c) Sahity Akademi Award
d) Padam Vibhushan
Answer »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.
Question : 3
Consider the following statements:
- Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been awarded the inaugural CharlestonEFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015.
- It is an international award, instituted in the memory and spirit of British Economist John Maynard Keynes’ work, life and legacy.
a) 2 only
b) Both1and 2
c) 1 only
d) None of the above
Answer »Answer: (a)
Amartya Sen has been awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015.
Question : 4
Who has been awarded ‘Bharat Ratna’?
a) Amjad Ali Khan
b) Ravi Shankar
c) Dr. Kurien
d) Dr. Sarvapalli Gopal
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 5
What is the field in which coutstanding work may be recognised with the award of Pulitzer Prize ?
a) International Understanding
b) Literature and Journalism
c) Science and Technology
d) Environmental Studies
Answer »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.
Question : 6
Nobel Prize winning India, Amartya Sen, is known for his work in which area ?
a) Chemistry
b) Environmental Protection
c) Physics
d) Economics
Answer »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.
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