Awards and Honours MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Param Vir Chakra (PVC) is India’s highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self – sacrifice in the presence of the enemy, similar to the British Victoria Cross, US Medal of Honor, Pakistani Nishan – e – Haider, or French Legion of Honour or Russian Cross of St. George.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Maharana Mewar Award is a State Award of Rajasthan. This award has been instituted to honour work of permanent value to those who consider it their duty, like the Diwan of Shree Eklingnath ji, to serve society through services in the field of education, literature, social services, philanthropy and character building activities.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for 2017 was given to Bhartruhari Mahtab.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
‘Param Vir Chakra’ is the replacement of British Victoria Cross.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50 year long civil war to an end.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Music conductor Zubin Mehta received the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural harmony.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Peacetime Gallantry Awards recognize courage or self – sacrifice away from battlefield and include Ashok Chakra, Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra which is first, second and third respectively in order of precedence; while Param Vir Chakra and Vir Chakra are Wartime Gallantry Awards and recognizes self – sacrifice at battlefield. Yudh Seva Medal is military decorations for service during wartime.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The correct answer is Pulitzer Award. Indian – American Sanghamitra Kalita, who was the then managing editor of Los Angeles Times, was part of the team that won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category in 2016.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The first Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna award was conferred on Mother Teresa in 1992. The award was instituted by All India Congress Committee of the Indian National Congress Party in 1992 to commemorate the lasting contribution made by the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.