Awards and Honours MCQs

131. Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to –

A. Monetary Economics
B. Welfare Economics
C. Environmental Economics
D. Development Economics
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Amartya Sen, Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

133. Who has been conferred with first World Sanskrit Award?

A. Ariana Grande
B. Gulzar
C. Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
D. Hari Prasad Chaurasia
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand has been conferred the first ‘World Sanskrit Award’ for her contribution towards promotion of the language.

134. Who is the recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2015?

A. Manoj Kumar
B. Dilip Kumar
C. Amitabh Bachchan
D. Binod Khanna
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Veteran Bollywood star Manoj Kumar, best known for his patriotic films Purab Aur Paschim, Upkar and Kranti, was chosen for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award (2015), the highest official recognition in Indian cinema.

137. Who among the following own the Nobel prize for literature?

A. Linus Pauling
B. Samuel Beckett
C. Philip Noel – Baker
D. Ralph Bunche
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. He won Nobel prize for Literature in 1969.
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