Awards and Honours MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
J. Michael Kosterlitz is not amongst the winners of Nobel Prize 2016 for Chemistry.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
India’s Manushi Chhillar won the coveted Miss World 2017 crown at a grand event in China, bringing to an end the country’s dry spell of 17 years at the top pageant contest.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Arjuna award is given for outstanding performance in sports and games. This was the highest honour for sportspersons before Khel Ratna came up in 1991.

✅ The correct answer is option A.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Raghuveer Chaudhari is a novelist, poet and critic from Gujarat, India. He won the Jnanpith Award for the year 2015.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and Physics.

✅ The correct answer is option C.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She has been chosen ‘Person of the year 2015’ by Times magazine.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Bharatiya Jnanpith a literary and research organization, based in New Delhi, India, was founded on 18 February 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Amitabh Bachchan, acclaimed actor and son of well – known poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was presented the Dayawati Modi Award in 2002 for his contribution to the field of Art, Culture and Education.