Questions and Answers
Subject: Awards
• Apart from Journalism and Literature, this is the area in which excellence is honoured with The Pulitzer Prize?
Ans: Music
• Who won the 2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Abuja, Nigeria?
Ans: Switzerland
• Arjuna award is given to prominent sports persons in India. Arjuna Award was introduced in
Ans: 1961
• Besides Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, which other foreigner has won the Bharat Ratna award?
Ans: Nelson Mandela
• Besides Roosevelt, who among the following Presidents of America has won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: Wudro Wilson
• Booker prize is given to the field of :
Ans: Fiction
• Contribution to which field is honoured by Dhanvantari award?
Ans: medicine
• Contribution to which field is honoured by the B D Goenka Award?
Ans: Journalism
• Contribution to which field is honoured by the Global 500 award?
Ans: Environmental conservation
• Contribution to which field is honoured by the Kalinga awards?
Ans: Science and Technology
• Dada Saheb Phalke award is for the contribution to :
Ans: Cinema
• Despite being the greatest super hit film of all the times, ‘Sholay’ has won only one Filmfare Award. In which category did it get it?
Ans: Editing
• Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes individually for:
Ans: Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
• FiFi awards are given in_____industry:
Ans: Perfumes
• For outstanding contribution to which one of the following' fields is Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize given?
Ans: Science
• For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize Awarded?
Ans: All the above
• Gandhi Peace Prize for 2006 has been Awarded to
Ans: Shabana Azmi
• In terms of price money which of the following is the highest award given by the Government of India in any field?
Ans: Gandhi Peace Prize
• In terms of Prize money which of the following is the highest literary prize in India?
Ans: Saraswathy
• Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar is given in which field :
Ans: Environment
• Marlon Brando won his second Oscar for ‘The Godfather.’ For which film did he win the first Oscar?
Ans: On the Waterfront
• Men from which nation has won the highest number of Nobel Prizes?
Ans: America
• Nobel Prize award in Economics has been awarded from the year :
Ans: 1969
• On which date is Nobel Prize Awarded?
Ans: December 10
• Oscar prize is related to
Ans: Films
• Rahul Banerjee won which of the following Natioanl Senior Champioship held in January 2008?
Ans: Archery
• Sunita Williams is the recipient of which of the following Awards given away recently?
Ans: Padma Bhushan
• The Annual Academy awards are better known as
Ans: Oscar
• Who was the first winner of Saraswathy Samman?
Ans: Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan
• World Professional Billiards Champion Pankaj Advani accepted the Eklavya award, the highest recognition for a sportsperson in which state?
Ans: Karnataka
• The committee of the Norwegian Parliament Awards the prize for:
Ans: Peace
• The Fifth National Winter Games were organized in -
Ans: Gulmarg
• The first Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature is
Ans: Rabindranath Tagore
• The highest gallantry Award in India is
Ans: Paramvir Chakra
• The most coveted Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival was received by—
Ans: ‘The Class’
• The Prize for the oddest book title in a year is known as –
Ans: The Diagram
• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Awarded the Noble Prize in:
Ans: Physics & Chemistry
• The Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest is _____.
Ans: Sameer Mishra
• U-Tant Award is given for:
Ans: Social Service
• When did Amnesty International win the Nobel Prize?
Ans: 1977
• When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: 1979
• When did Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time?
Ans: 1917
• When was the Nobel Prize for literature instituted?
Ans: 1969
• Which American Gallantry award is given to the soldier who is wounded in action?
Ans: Purple
• Which country has initiated ‘Malcolm Baldridge Award' for Quality’?
Ans: Japan
• Which Indian Business Magazine has initiated the ‘Best Product Design Award’?
Ans: Business Week
• Which is the highest literary prize given by the Government in India?
Ans: Sahitya Akadami Award
• Which is the Prize in Mathematics, equivalent to Nobel Prize?
Ans: Fields Prize
• Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?
Ans: J. M. Coetzee
• Which of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?
Ans: Kabir Award
• Which of the following awards is given to the Best Parliamentarian?
Ans: J B Pant
• Which of the following awards was instituted by Shanti Prasad Jain?
Ans: Jnanpith award
• Which of the following awards was instituted by the Indian National Congress in its Centenary Year?
Ans: Indira Gandhi award for National Integration
• Which of the following awards was instituted in 1992 to mark the golden jubilee of the Quit India Movement?
Ans: Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award
• Which of the following cities will host 2012 Olympics Games?
Ans:
• Which of the following films won the best Film Award in 65th Golden Globe Awards ceremony ?
Ans: Atonement
• Which of the following is an award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh
Government?
Ans: Kabir Award
• Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?
Ans: Kalinga Prize
• Which of the following is India’s highest decoration for valour?
Ans: Param Vir Chakra
• Which of the following is India’s highest honour in the field of literature?
Ans: Jnanpith Award
• Which of the following is India’s highest peace-time gallantry award?
Ans: Ashoka Chakra
• Which of the following is the world’s top environmental conservation award?
Ans: Golden Panda Award
• Which of the following wing awards are limited only for the Asians?
Ans: Magsaysay
• Which one of the following awards instituted by KK Birla Foundation is given to an individual for outstanding work on Indian philosophy, culture and art?
Ans: Shankar Puraskar
• Which one of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?
Ans: Kabir award
• Which one of the following awards was instituted by the KK Birla Foundation?
Ans: Saraswati Samman
• Which one of the following is India’s highest civilian honour?
Ans: Bharat Ratna
• Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three
times so far?
Ans: International Committee of the Redcross
• The highest peace time gallantry award in India :
Ans: Ashok Chakra
• Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna?
Ans: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?
Ans: Salman
• Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Ans: Martin Luther King
• Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award?
Ans: C V Raman
• Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Ans: Rene Sully Prudhome
• With reference to Stree Shakti Puraskar, for which of the following is "Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award" given?
Ans: Administrative skills
• Who was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize?
Ans: Julius Nerera
• Who was the first winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award?
Ans: Vinobha Bhave
Subject: Awards
• Apart from Journalism and Literature, this is the area in which excellence is honoured with The Pulitzer Prize?
Ans: Music
• Who won the 2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Abuja, Nigeria?
Ans: Switzerland
• Arjuna award is given to prominent sports persons in India. Arjuna Award was introduced in
Ans: 1961
• Besides Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, which other foreigner has won the Bharat Ratna award?
Ans: Nelson Mandela
• Besides Roosevelt, who among the following Presidents of America has won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: Wudro Wilson
• Booker prize is given to the field of :
Ans: Fiction
• Contribution to which field is honoured by Dhanvantari award?
Ans: medicine
• Contribution to which field is honoured by the B D Goenka Award?
Ans: Journalism
• Contribution to which field is honoured by the Global 500 award?
Ans: Environmental conservation
• Contribution to which field is honoured by the Kalinga awards?
Ans: Science and Technology
• Dada Saheb Phalke award is for the contribution to :
Ans: Cinema
• Despite being the greatest super hit film of all the times, ‘Sholay’ has won only one Filmfare Award. In which category did it get it?
Ans: Editing
• Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes individually for:
Ans: Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
• FiFi awards are given in_____industry:
Ans: Perfumes
• For outstanding contribution to which one of the following' fields is Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize given?
Ans: Science
• For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize Awarded?
Ans: All the above
• Gandhi Peace Prize for 2006 has been Awarded to
Ans: Shabana Azmi
• In terms of price money which of the following is the highest award given by the Government of India in any field?
Ans: Gandhi Peace Prize
• In terms of Prize money which of the following is the highest literary prize in India?
Ans: Saraswathy
• Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar is given in which field :
Ans: Environment
• Marlon Brando won his second Oscar for ‘The Godfather.’ For which film did he win the first Oscar?
Ans: On the Waterfront
• Men from which nation has won the highest number of Nobel Prizes?
Ans: America
• Nobel Prize award in Economics has been awarded from the year :
Ans: 1969
• On which date is Nobel Prize Awarded?
Ans: December 10
• Oscar prize is related to
Ans: Films
• Rahul Banerjee won which of the following Natioanl Senior Champioship held in January 2008?
Ans: Archery
• Sunita Williams is the recipient of which of the following Awards given away recently?
Ans: Padma Bhushan
• The Annual Academy awards are better known as
Ans: Oscar
• Who was the first winner of Saraswathy Samman?
Ans: Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan
• World Professional Billiards Champion Pankaj Advani accepted the Eklavya award, the highest recognition for a sportsperson in which state?
Ans: Karnataka
• The committee of the Norwegian Parliament Awards the prize for:
Ans: Peace
• The Fifth National Winter Games were organized in -
Ans: Gulmarg
• The first Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature is
Ans: Rabindranath Tagore
• The highest gallantry Award in India is
Ans: Paramvir Chakra
• The most coveted Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival was received by—
Ans: ‘The Class’
• The Prize for the oddest book title in a year is known as –
Ans: The Diagram
• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Awarded the Noble Prize in:
Ans: Physics & Chemistry
• The Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest is _____.
Ans: Sameer Mishra
• U-Tant Award is given for:
Ans: Social Service
• When did Amnesty International win the Nobel Prize?
Ans: 1977
• When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: 1979
• When did Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time?
Ans: 1917
• When was the Nobel Prize for literature instituted?
Ans: 1969
• Which American Gallantry award is given to the soldier who is wounded in action?
Ans: Purple
• Which country has initiated ‘Malcolm Baldridge Award' for Quality’?
Ans: Japan
• Which Indian Business Magazine has initiated the ‘Best Product Design Award’?
Ans: Business Week
• Which is the highest literary prize given by the Government in India?
Ans: Sahitya Akadami Award
• Which is the Prize in Mathematics, equivalent to Nobel Prize?
Ans: Fields Prize
• Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?
Ans: J. M. Coetzee
• Which of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?
Ans: Kabir Award
• Which of the following awards is given to the Best Parliamentarian?
Ans: J B Pant
• Which of the following awards was instituted by Shanti Prasad Jain?
Ans: Jnanpith award
• Which of the following awards was instituted by the Indian National Congress in its Centenary Year?
Ans: Indira Gandhi award for National Integration
• Which of the following awards was instituted in 1992 to mark the golden jubilee of the Quit India Movement?
Ans: Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award
• Which of the following cities will host 2012 Olympics Games?
Ans:
• Which of the following films won the best Film Award in 65th Golden Globe Awards ceremony ?
Ans: Atonement
• Which of the following is an award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh
Government?
Ans: Kabir Award
• Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?
Ans: Kalinga Prize
• Which of the following is India’s highest decoration for valour?
Ans: Param Vir Chakra
• Which of the following is India’s highest honour in the field of literature?
Ans: Jnanpith Award
• Which of the following is India’s highest peace-time gallantry award?
Ans: Ashoka Chakra
• Which of the following is the world’s top environmental conservation award?
Ans: Golden Panda Award
• Which of the following wing awards are limited only for the Asians?
Ans: Magsaysay
• Which one of the following awards instituted by KK Birla Foundation is given to an individual for outstanding work on Indian philosophy, culture and art?
Ans: Shankar Puraskar
• Which one of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?
Ans: Kabir award
• Which one of the following awards was instituted by the KK Birla Foundation?
Ans: Saraswati Samman
• Which one of the following is India’s highest civilian honour?
Ans: Bharat Ratna
• Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three
times so far?
Ans: International Committee of the Redcross
• The highest peace time gallantry award in India :
Ans: Ashok Chakra
• Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna?
Ans: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?
Ans: Salman
• Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Ans: Martin Luther King
• Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award?
Ans: C V Raman
• Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Ans: Rene Sully Prudhome
• With reference to Stree Shakti Puraskar, for which of the following is "Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award" given?
Ans: Administrative skills
• Who was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize?
Ans: Julius Nerera
• Who was the first winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award?
Ans: Vinobha Bhave
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