honours & awards section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

Shah Rukh Khan was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Arts and Culture from the University of Bedfordshire in 2009.

Answer: (b)

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. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.

He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, a distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as a Master from 1998 to 2004.

He is the first Indian and the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He also serves as the first Chancellor of the proposed Nalanda International University.

Answer: (b)

Dhyan Chand award is India’s highest award for lifetime achievement in sports and games. The award is named after the legendary Indian hockey player Dhyan Chand and was initiated in 2002. The award carries a cash prize of ` 5 lakh, a plaque and a scroll of honour.

Answer: (c)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 January 2015 presented National Bravery Awards 2014 to 24 awardees. 8 girls and 16 boys were conferred with National Bravery Awards. Four of them have been awarded posthumously.

Answer: (c)

Eminent Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade on 6 February 2015 was chosen for the Jnanpith Award 2014. He will be the 50th recipient of the Jnanpith award.

His novel Kosala (Cocoon) published in 1963 was not only instrumental in changing the dimensions of the Marathi novel but also the world of Marathi friction was transformed with its advent.

With this award, he will join the league of three noted Marathi writers who have won the Jnanpith award. Nemade’s novels among others include Bidhar, Hool, Jarila, Jhool, etc.