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Questions : The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 has been awarded to:

(a) Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai

(b) Kailash Satyarthi

(c) Barack Obama

(d) Kailash Satyarthi and Tawakkul Karman

The correct answers to the above question in:

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”.

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Question : 1

‘Ashoka Chakra’ is awarded for

a) outstanding contribution to literature

b) acts of gallantry in the presence of enemy

c) gallantry by children

d) the most conspicuous bravery or self sacrifice on land, air or sea but not in the presence of the enemy

Answer: (d)

Question : 2

International Simon Bolivar Prize was recently awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi by the government of

a) Venezuela

b) China

c) Mauritius

d) Cuba

Answer: (a)

International Simón Bolívar Prize winners are selected by the unanimous decision a jury of seven “eminent persons” – five representing the regions of the world, one chosen by the Venezuelan authorities, and a representative of the director-general – from a list of candidates submitted by UNESCO member states and associate members.

Question : 3

Who won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prie 2014 ?

a) Pankaj Subir

b) S. Janaki

c) Bilal Tanweer

d) Illa Bhatt

Answer: (c)

Lahore based author Bilal Tanweer won the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for his novel The Scatter Here is Too Great (Random House India).

Question : 4

Nobel Prize in which field is not paid out of the endowment set up by Dr. Alfred Nobel ?

a) Economics

b) Medicine

c) Peace

d) Chemistry

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.

Question : 5

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

Answer: (b)

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

Question : 6

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

Answer: (b)

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