honours & awards section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (b)

Bezwada Wilson, a renowned campaigner against manual scavenging, and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna from Chennai were, in July 2016, named for the prestigious Magsaysay Award.

Wilson received the award for “asserting the inalienable right to a life of human dignity.” He is the national convener of the Safai Karmachari Andolan.

Answer: (c)

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.