honours & awards section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Neel Mukherjee, now a British resident has been shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for his book “The Lives of Others”.

Answer: (a)

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is not one of the Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.

The Prize in Economics, as it is referred to by the Nobel Foundation, was established and endowed by Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 on the occasion of the bank's 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Answer: (a)

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.

Satyarthi became the seventh person from India to win a Nobel Prize, while Yousafzai, the second Nobel Prize winner from Pakistan.

Note: The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.

Answer: (a)

Ten writers are on the judges’ list of finalists under serious consideration for the sixth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction.

Answer: (a)

The award was instituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1991.

Answer: (c)

Music conductor Zubin Mehta, on 6 September 2013, received the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural harmony.

President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the award to him in New Delhi.

Note: 5th Rabindranath Tagore Award (2016) Winners was Rajdeep Chowdhury, Chinsurah, West Bengal.