honours & awards section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Nikhil Srivastava has been declared as the joint winner of the George Polya Award for solving the Kadison Singer problem.

Answer: (c)

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan was chosen for the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award (2013) for his contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony and peace.

The award was conferred on him on 20 August 2013, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Note: In 2016 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is presented to Shobha Mudgal (singer).

Answer: (d)

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

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.

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: (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: (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.