Awards and Honours MCQs

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A Grammy Award is any of a series of awards presented each year in the United States by either the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences or the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. The Grammys, as they are commonly known, are meant to recognize spectacular work in the music industry.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.

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Rajat Chauhan won 2016 Arjuna award in the field of ‘archery’.

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The Goa government executed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (GoI) and Nobel Media, Sweden to hold the ‘Nobel Prize Series’.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.

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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.