honours & awards section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

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 : 2

Who among the following has received both Bharat Ratna and Nishan -e -Pakistan?

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

b) Moraji Desai

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Ayub Khan

Question : 3

Neel Mukherjee has been shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for which of the following book?

a) A Life Apart

b) The Lives of Others

c) Past Continuous

d) None of these

Question : 4

Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013 has been given to

a) Shalini Singh

b) Narendra Kohli

c) Zubin Mehta

d) Arvind Aadiga

Question : 5

Consider the following statements :

1. Bharat Ratna is not awarded to dead persons like the Nobel Prize.
2. The holders of the Bharat Ratna rank 7th in the Indian order of precedence.

a) Both 1 and 2

b) 1 only

c) 2 only

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Question : 6

Magsaysay award is given by

a) Philippines

b) UK

c) Malaysia

d) USA