honours & awards section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Neha Gupta was awarded with the prestigious international children’s peace prize 2014. Neha an 18 year old Indian American from Philadelphia was awarded for her work to help orphans in India and other vulnerable children.

Answer: (a)

Nelson Mandela, a South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first-ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, became the second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient of the Bharat Ratna in 1990.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the first nonIndian recipient of this honour in 1987.

Answer: (d)

I.V. Sasi was awarded the prestigious J.C. Daniel Award for the year 2014 for his contributions towards the Malayalam entertainment industry on 12th October 2015.

Angus Deaton was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics on 12th October 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

Answer: (c)

Sir C. V. Raman was an Indian physicist whose groundbreaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.

He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering.

Answer: (b)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Satyajit Ray, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century, an Honorary Oscar in 1992 for Lifetime Achievement. The Government of India honoured him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in the same year.

Answer: (b)

The Vishvakarma Rashtriya puraskar and National Safety awards scheme was launched in 1965 by the ministry of labour to motivate the brilliant workers and industrial units who deliver their best to curb mishaps and increase the industrial (occupational) safety measures and work for the promotion of the interests of both the management and labour.