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(a) V.S. Naipaul
(b) Anita Desai
(c) Arundhati Roy
(d) Kiran Bedi
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
Half a Life is a 2001 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul published by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel is set in India, Africa and Europe (London, Berlin and Portugal). Half a Life was long-listed for the Man Booker prize (2001).
Note: Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.
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Question : 1
Match the following.
List I | List II |
(Planets) | (Satellites) |
A. Bhatnagar Award | 1. Film |
B. B.C. Roy Award | 2. Medicine |
C. Dada Saheb Phalke Award | 3. Science |
D. Gandharva Award | 4. Classical Art |
5. Literature |
a) 3 2 1 4
b) 3 2 4 1
c) 3 4 2 1
d) 4 3 1 2
Answer »Answer: (a)
Question : 2
Vyas Samman is awarded annually by
a) Ministry of Culture
b) Times Group
c) KK Birla Foundation
d) Azim Premji Foundation
Answer »Answer: (c)
The Vyas Samman is a literary award that was first awarded in 1991. It is awarded annually by the K.K. Birla Foundation and includes cash of Rs. 250,000 (as of 2005).
To be eligible for the award, the literary work must be in the Hindi language and has been published in the past 10 years.
Question : 3
Who is the first Indian actress to receive the ‘Padma Shree’ Award?
a) Smita Patil
b) Meena Kumari
c) Nargis Dutt
d) Madhubala
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 4
Consider the following statements.
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was awarded the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China.
- 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.
- 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
Answer »Answer: (a)
The prize was established in 2010 by China’s Communist Government after it was angered by Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Question : 5
The ‘Cannes Award’ is given for excellence in which field?
a) Environment
b) Journalism
c) Literature
d) Films
Answer »Answer: (d)
Question : 6
Who won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prie 2014 ?
a) Pankaj Subir
b) S. Janaki
c) Bilal Tanweer
d) Illa Bhatt
Answer »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).
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