honours & awards section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan has been honoured with the award under Trade & Industry category.

Answer: (b)

In 1968, Sumitranandan Pant received the Jnanpith Award for ‘Chidambara,’ becoming the first Hindi writer to have achieved this award. Pant was considered one of the major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature.

Answer: (b)

Goh Chok Tong (born 20 May 1941) is a Singaporean politician. A member of the People’s Action Party (PAP), he became Singapore’s second Prime Minister on 28 November 1990, succeeding Lee Kuan Yew, and served in the role until 12 August 2004, when he stepped down and was succeeded by Lee Hsien Loong.

He subsequently served as Senior Minister until May 2011, and as Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Goh Chok Tong was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 2004.

Note: The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru.

It is awarded to the people “for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world”. In 2009 Angela Merkel of Germany got this award.

Answer: (c)

Though usually conferred on Indian citizens, the Bharat Ratna has been awarded to one naturalised citizen, Mother Teresa in 1980, and to two non-Indians, Pakistan national Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in 1987 and former South African President Nelson Mandela in 1990.

Answer: (a)

• C.V. Raman: 1954;
• Gobind Ballabh Pant: 1957;
• Bidhan Chandra Roy: 1961; and
• S. Chandrashekhar: he has not won the Award.

Answer: (b)

Though Ronal Ross (Medicine: 1902) and Rudyard Kipling (1907: Literature) won the Nobel Prizes, they were both foreign citizens born in India. Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.