honours & awards section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Consider the following statements.

1. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was awarded the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China.
2. The prize was established in 2009 by China’s Communist Government after it was angered by Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
3. Some of the previous recipients of the award are Vladimir Putin (2011), Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping (2012) and Fidel Castro (2014).

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 1 and 2 only

c) 2 and 3 only

d) None of these

Question : 2

Who received the Booker prize for the Book “Half a Life”?

a) V.S. Naipaul

b) Anita Desai

c) Arundhati Roy

d) Kiran Bedi

Question : 3

Match the following.

a) 3 2 1 4

b) 3 2 4 1

c) 3 4 2 1

d) 4 3 1 2

Question : 4

Who won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prie 2014 ?

a) Pankaj Subir

b) S. Janaki

c) Bilal Tanweer

d) Illa Bhatt

Question : 5

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

a) Venezuela

b) China

c) Mauritius

d) Cuba

Question : 6

‘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