Awards and Honours MCQs

✅ 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.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980, Tansen award is presented every year for excellence in Hindustani classical music. It is presented during the Tansen Samaroh at Gwalior.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison who is the first black American to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Malayalam film ‘Ottal’ (The Trap) won the Best Children’s Film award at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The ‘Cannes Award’ is given for excellence in films.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Amongst the following Sachin Tendulkar is the latest recipient of the ‘Bharat Ratna’ award.