honours & awards section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. In 1954 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.

Answer: (d)

The Kalinga Prize for popularization of Science is an international distinction instituted by UNESCO. It was started in 1951 by donation from Mr Bijoyanand Patnaik, founder and president of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.

Answer: (c)

The Mars Orbiter Mission Team of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category.

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on 5 November 2013 and it reached the Mars orbit on 24 September 2014.

The Indian spacecraft has gone into orbit around Mars on the very first attempt and no other country has been able to do this till now.

Answer: (d)

C Rajagopalachari, S Radhakrishnan and CV Raman were given Bharat Ratna in 1954.

1. Jawaharlal Nehru — 1955
2. Govind Ballabh Pant — 1958
3. Dr BC Roy — 1961

Answer: (a)

Virat Kohli won the ‘CEAT international cricketer of the year’ 2011-12 award in New Delhi in January 2013. Kohli pipped South African batsman Hashim Amla, Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka, Australian captain Michael Clarke and Pakistani spinner Saeed Ajmal to get the award.

Note : Ravichandran Ashwin has become the third India player and 12th player overall to win the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named as the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2016.

Answer: (d)

National Bravery award also known as Bharat Puraskar for Indian Children is given each year by Government of India and Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW) to Indian children for meritorious acts of bravery against all odds. The award is given to around 24 children below the age of 16.