honours & awards section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Shri Shakhargad Nivasini Devi Complex and Esplanade House were among the 14 winners of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards- 2014.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

This year two Indians have won Grammy awards. They are Ricky Kej and Neela Vaswani. Ricky Kej won the best new age album trophy for his collaborated album winds of Samsara.

Neela Vaswani won the award in the children's album category for her album “I am Malala : How One Girl Stood UP For Education And Changed The World.”

Answer: (c)

Mad Max: Fury Road, a 2015 action film directed and produced by George Miller, had 10 nominations at the 88th Academy Awards (Oscar Awards 2016) and took home the most awards with 6 Oscar wins.

It won the Oscar awards for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.

Note: “La La Land”, bagged a maximum of six awards. For Director, Actress, Production Design, Cinematography, Original Score, Original Song.

Answer: (d)

The inaugural Mahathir Award for Global Peace was awarded to former South African President Nelson Mandela in Kuala Lumpur on 28 August, 2014. Current South African President Jacob Zuma accepted the award on behalf of Mandela.

Answer: (d)

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major Indian languages recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 100,000.