Awards and Honours MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Angela Merkel is the winner of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2013.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
M. F. Hussain is not a recipient of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo – electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules. This method has moved biochemistry into a new era.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any of the 22 languages of India listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
On 14 October, chair judge A. C. Grayling announced that Australian author Richard Flanagan had won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Indian first talkie film produced in 1931 was Alam Ara.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
‘Dangal’ is based on the real life of the famous Phogat wrestling family.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi’s ‘Khel Ratna’ award was Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, who was honoured for the performance in the year 1991 – 92.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan was awarded as best popular film providing wholesome entertainment in 63rd National Film Awards for the year 2015.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and physics.