honours & awards section 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France, who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity.

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in Paris’ Panthéon.

She shared her 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.

Under her direction, the world’s first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes.

Answer: (c)

Former Union Minister and Senior Congress leader M.Veerappa Moily on 9 March 2015 was selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2014 for his Kannada poem Ramayana Mahanveshanam.

In the poem Ramayana Mahanveshanam, Moily tried to explore the Ramarajya or the true principle of the ideal state from a secular and modern point of view in his collection of poems.

Answer: (a)

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.

Note: The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.

Answer: (b)

Manmohan Singh received Japan’s top national award The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers 2014.

He was awarded for his contribution to the enhancement of relations and promotion of friendship between Japan and India. Manmohan Singh became the first Indian to receive this honour.

Answer: (c)