Awards and Honours MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Maharashtra got the first prize for the best tableau in the 2018 Indian Republic Day parade.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Literature.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply. Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production in Asia and Africa.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Eminent poet Dr. Bhagwati Lal Vyas was chosen for the 2015 Bihari Puraskar for his anthology of Rajasthani poems ‘Katha Sun Aawe Hai Sabad’.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Narendra Kohli won Vyas Samman, 2012.

✅ 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.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Malayalam actress Surabhi Lakshmi for her performance in low – budget film Minnaminungu won her first National Award for the best actress.

✅ 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.

✅ 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.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ was in the Shortlist for the Man booker Prize 2015.