honours & awards section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

It was launched on 10th October ‘2004, by Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, and various other stakeholders like similar organisations engaged in promoting digital content inclusiveness in the whole of South Asian & Asia Pacific nation for development.

Answer: (d)

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi from India and Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

Answer: (a)

The Nobel prize is a set of international awards bestowed in a number of categories which is given annually to the winners by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances.

It was the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel that established the Nobel prizes in 1895 in Sweden.

Answer: (b)

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established and endowed by Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 on the occasion of the bank's 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Answer: (d)

The United Nations, in December 2013, honoured Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for successful management of cyclone Phailin. India (Odisha), thus, became the first country in South East Asia to be felicitated for disaster management by the UN.

Answer: (a)

Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege won the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize 2014. He was awarded for his efforts in helping thousands of gang rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.