Honour and Awards

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16 Who among the following had got the Bharat Ratna Award before becoming the President of India ?

A
Dr. Zakir Hussain
B
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
C
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
D
V.V. Giri

17 Arjuna Award is given for

A
Exceptional service in emergency
B
Bravery on battlefield
C
Outstanding performance in sports
D
Exceptional service in slum dwellers

18 In which year did Amartya Kumar Sen receive the Nobel Prize in Economics ?

A
1998
B
I995
C
2000
D
1990

19 Which of the following Nobel laureates was never an Indian ?

A
Mother Teresa
B
S. Chandrashekhar
C
V.S. Naipaul
D
H.G. Khurana

20 Who amongst the following got a Nobel Prize in recognition of his discoveries of how salts and water transported in and out of cells in the human body ?

A
Roderick MacKinnon
B
Kurt Wuethrich
C
John E. Sultan
D
H. Robert Horvitz

21 Which of the following awards is instituted by the UNESCO?

A
Nehru Award for International Understanding
B
Kalinga Prize
C
Arjuna Award
D
Nobel Prize

22 Who was awarded the first Rajiv Gandhi National Sabhavana Award ?

A
J.R.D Tata
B
Mother Teresa
C
Morarji Desai
D
None of these

23 Indira Goswami, the famous editor, poet, scholar and writer won the Jnanpith Award in which language?

A
Bengali
B
Odia
C
Assamese
D
Hindi

24 Who was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award (a trophy, citation and Rs. 25 lakh) in 2004 ?

A
Lee Kuan Yew
B
Goh Chok Tong
C
Aung San Suu Kyi
D
Mahathir Mohamed

25 Who among the following was selected for Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2005?

A
Aparna Sen
B
Govind Nihalani
C
M.S. Sathyu
D
Shyam Benegal

26 For how many categories has A.R. Rehman, the Golden Globe Award Winner for original sound track in the film“Slum Dog Millionaire” been nominated at the Oscars?

A
1
B
2
C
3
D
9

27 The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was :

A
C.V. Raman
B
Rabindra Nath Tagore
C
Hargobind Khurana
D
Amartya Sen

28 Who was (is) the first lady recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award?

A
Nargis Dutt
B
Uma Devi
C
Devika Rani
D
Sulochana

29 Who was the first musician to be felicitated with ‘Bharat Ratna’ ?

A
Lata Mangeshkar
B
M.S. Subbulakshmi
C
Pt. Ravi Shankar
D
Pt. Bhimsem Joshi

30 The highest civilian award of India 'Bharat Ratna' has been awarded to only two foreigners so far. One of them is Nelson Mandela. The other is :

A
Abdul Ghaffar khan
B
Mikhail Gorbachev
C
Marshal Tito
D
Abdul Wali Khan