honours & awards section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

In order to recognize a scientist, who provides a breakthrough for agriculture through a new insight that has created high potential value for the future, the Norman Borlaug Award has been constituted.

The nominations for the awards are for a scientist(s) of any discipline of agricultural and allied sciences. The award would be 10 lakh in cash.

Answer: (b)

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Best Actor award at the 88th Academy Awards for the movie, ‘The Revenant.’ It was his first Academy award. The Revenant is a 2015 American epic survival Western film directed, co-produced and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

Answer: (c)

He was the president of Namibia.Mo Ibrahim prize was established in 2007.

Answer: (a)

Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss was crowned Miss World 2014 at the final of the beauty pageant held in London. Strauss is a 22 year old fourth year medical student at university of the Free state. India’s 21 year old Koyal Rana made it to the top 10 but failed to make it to the top five.

Answer: (b)

Eminent Marathi litterateur Bhalchandra Nemade, whose 1963 novel Kosala(Cocoon) changed the dimensions of Marathi novel, was selected for the 2014 Jnanpith Award.

Answer: (b)

Priya Vasudev Mani, better known by her stage name Priyamani (born 4 June 1984), is an Indian film actress and model who has starred in several Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films.

She is best known for earning a National Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Muththazhagu in the 2006 Tamil film Paruthi Veeran and for her role as Malavika in the 2008 Malayalam film Thirakkatha, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

After her commercial successes in Kannada films like Raam, KoKo, Anna Bond and Only Vishnuvardhana, she established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in Kannada cinema.

Note: IN 63rd National film award, best actress award recipient was Kangana Ranaut for Tanu Weds Manu Returns.