Awards and Honours MCQs

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Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest award in cinema. It is given for the “outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema.”

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Madhya Pradesh government has instituted an award in memory of Sharad Joshi titled “Sharad Joshi Samman”, given each year to individuals for outstanding achievement in the field of writing.

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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 Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

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Two Indians have been declared the winners of 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award. Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk are among six individuals who were declared winners of the award. Magsaysay Awards are regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.

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Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, formerly known professionally as Pia Romero, is a Filipino – German model, actress and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2015.

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Shatrughan Sinha was awarded with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2017.

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Amartya Sen is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 1998, becoming the first Asian to have been honoured with the award. The Santiniketan born economist who is a pioneer in Welfare Economics has to his credit several books and papers on aspects of welfare and development.

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Indira Gandhi, who was the first and has been the only female Prime Minister of India so far, was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1972.

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Dr. C. V. Raman is India’s first and only physicist to win a Nobel Physics Prize in 1930 “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.

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