honours & awards section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Kedarnath Singh has been chosen for the Jnanpith Award 2013. His works include many poems, essays and stories.

Answer: (a)

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan received the Governor of the year Award for 2015. The award recognises the Governor of a Central Bank who has demonstrated strong leadership during the period under review.

He was awarded for his disciplined and focused approach to tackling macroeconomic instability.

Answer: (c)

Tamil Superstar Rajnikanth was honoured with the centenary award for Indian film personality of the year 2014 at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The award consisted of a cash prize of 10 lakh rupees, a certificate and the silver peacock medal.

The award for Indian film personality of the year category was instituted in 2013 to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema.

Answer: (a)

English actor Eddie Redmayne won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Stephen Hawking in ‘The Theory of Everything’.

The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted from the memoir ‘Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen’ by Jane Wilde Hawking, the ex-wife of theoretical physicist Stephen.

Note: As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in the Best Actor category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea.

Answer: (d)

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances.

The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards

• the Nobel Prize in Physics,
• the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and
• the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences;

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards

• the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;
• the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and
• the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organization but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Answer: (b)

Wipro won the award in the categories of Managed IT Services, Managed Security Services, Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Services, Systems Integrator, Network Maintenance Services, Service Assurance Program, and Application Managed Service.