honours & awards section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (d)

Balbir Singh Senior was a member of three Olympic gold medal-winning Indian teams, viz.,

1. London Olympics (1948),
2. Helsinki Olympics (1952) and
3. Melbourne Olympics (1956).

He was the Vice-Captain of the Indian Hockey team during Helsinki Olympics and Captain during Melbourne Olympics.

Answer: (c)

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for

1. notable and outstanding research,
2. applied or fundamental in biology,
3. chemistry,
4. environmental science,
5. engineering,
6. mathematics,
7. medicine and
8. Physics.

Answer: (b)

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

Answer: (b)

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, on July 14, 2010, announced the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for 2009.

Recipients of the award in different fields are as follows:

Music:

• Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar – Hindustani vocal;
• Murad Ali – Hindustani instrumental – sarangi;
• Sanjeev Shankar and Ashwani Shankar (joint award) – Hindustani instrumental – shehnai;
• C.S. Sajeev – Carnatic vocal;
• Mysore A. Chandan Kumar – Carnatic instrumental – flute;
• V. Balaji - Carnatic instrumental – mridangam;
• Anil Srinivasan – creative and experimental music; and
• Moirangthem Meina Singh other major tradition of music – Nata Sankirtana of Manipur.

In Dance the awardees were:

• Ragini Chander Shekar – Bharatanatyam;
• Monisa Nayak – Kathak;
• Hanglem Indu Devi – Manipuri;
• Chinta Ravi Balakrishna – Kuchipudi;
• Lingaraj Pradhan – Odissi;
• Menaka P.P. Bora – Sattriya;
• Manjula B. Murthy – Mohiniattam;
• Swamimalai K. Suresh (music for dance) – Bharatanatyam nattuvangam and vocal.

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.