honours & awards section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in the Kannada language. His rise as a prominent playwright in the 1960s, marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi.

He is a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.

He has served as Director of the Film and Television Institute of India (1974–1975) and Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of the Performing Arts (1988–93).

Answer: (a)

The Saraswati Samman was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any Indian language .

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

Award winners are eligible to use the Golden Peacock Awards Logo on all promotional kinds of literature.

Answer: (b)

Veteran film-maker Shyam Benegal was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2005 in New Delhi on September 14, 2007, by the Hon’ble President Ms Pratibha Patil.

Mr Benegal is one of the. pioneers of the new Indian cinema. Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of the Republic of India and was the first woman to hold office.

Note: The most recent (2016) recipient of the award is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.

Answer: (a)

Theodore Roosevelt, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909, was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any category.

He received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for having negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5. He also resolved a dispute with Mexico by resorting to arbitration as recommended by the peace movement.