honours & awards section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Two successive years of controversies in the Arjuna award forced the Union sports ministry to appoint V.K. Bali, former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court, as the head of the selection committee in July 2015.

Recommendations made by the earlier panels headed by Michael Ferreira (2013) and Kapil Dev (2014) led to intense lobbying amongst rival athletes.

Answer: (d)

The UK government announced the inaugural Dadabhai Naoroji Awards to honour individuals who have worked to strengthen the UK- India relationship over the years.

Answer: (d)

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia’s Nobel Prize.

The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government. Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh won this award in 1959, becoming the second recipient of this award after Jipson John of Taiwan in 1958. He was an Indian civil servant and the first Indian to be appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British Raj authorities. He subsequently served as the Finance Minister in the Union Cabinet (1950–1956).

After their resignation from the Union Cabinet He worked as Chairman of U.G.C.(1956–1961). He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi (1962–67). He was also President of I.S.I.(Indian Statistical Institute) from 1945 to 1964, Honorary Chairman of National Book Trust (1957–60).

Note: The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. Human rights activist Bezwada Wilson and Carnatic musician Thodur Madabusi Krishna are winners of the Magsaysay Award from India in 2016. Acharya vinobha Bhave was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award in 1958 for community leadership.

Answer: (c)

Kerala Tourism has won 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award.

Answer: (a)

Both the given statements are correct regarding the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in 1968.

Answer: (c)