honours & awards section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013 has been given to

a) Shalini Singh

b) Narendra Kohli

c) Zubin Mehta

d) Arvind Aadiga

Question : 2

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka has been conferred with the prestigious 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014.
2. The award was instituted by Sahitya Akademy.
3. It is awarded annually to Hindi writers for his work published in past 10 years.

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 1 only

c) 1 and 2 only

d) None

Question : 3

Consider the following statements

1. The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.
2. The inaugural winner was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.

a) 1 and 2 only

b) 1 only

c) 2 only

d) Neither of these

Question : 4

Magsaysay award is given by

a) Philippines

b) UK

c) Malaysia

d) USA

Question : 5

Who is the first person of Indian origin to win the ‘Booker Prize’?

a) Arundhati Roy

b) V.S. Naipaul

c) Salman Rushdie

d) Jhumpa Lahiri

Question : 6

Which of the following has/have been honoured with Padam Vibhushan in 2014?

a) Dr. Raghunath A Mashelkar, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra

b) B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga, Maharashtra

c) Both (a) and (b)

d) Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram, Science and Engineering, Karnataka