honours & awards section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

US singer-songwriter Carole King became the first woman to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The award was given away at the White House in Washington.

Answer: (d)

The Pakistani non-government group The Citizen’s foundation is among the six winners of the Ramon Magsasay Award this year.

Answer: (b)

Merlin award is given to the Magicians who contribute significantly in the stage magic shows and creation of magic in the world. This award was created by Tony Hassini and his International Magicians Society.

Answer: (c)

Roderick MacKinnon (born 19 February 1956) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.

In 1989 he was appointed assistant professor at Harvard University where he studied the interaction of the potassium channel with a specific toxin derived from scorpion venom, acquainting himself with methods of protein purification and X-ray crystallography.

In 1996 he moved to Rockefeller University as a professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics where he started to work on the structure of the potassium channel.

These channels are of particular importance to the nervous system and the heart and enable potassium ions to cross the cell membrane.

Answer: (d)

Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this feat), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honour in 2009. In 2009 Dhoni topped the list of the world’s top 10 earning cricketers compiled by Forbes and he has been ranked as 31st richest sportsman in the world according to the Forbes Highest Paid Athletes for the year 2012.

Dhoni’s total earnings are estimated to be USD 26.5 million according to Forbes. Thus he has become the richest Indian sportsman surpassing Sachin Tendulkar. The TIME magazine added him in its “Time 100” list of 100 most influential people of 2011. Sports Pro has rated MS Dhoni as the 16th most remarkable athlete in the world.

Note: M.S.Dhoni got the ODI Player of the Year award 2 times (2008 & 2009) and Virat Kohli one time (2012).

Answer: (d)