Awards and Honours Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The Best Actress award at the 65th National Film Awards went to Sridevi.

Sridevi won the award for her role in Mom (2017). It was announced in April 2018, weeks after her death in February 2018, and was her first National Film Award.

Divya Dutta won the Best Supporting Actress award at the same ceremony for Irada. Anita Das and Sasha Thirupati are not the Best Actress winners.

Answer: C

Chhayanaut is a cultural organisation of Bangladesh.

Chhayanaut, founded in Dhaka in 1961, works to promote Bengali culture, music and Tagore's songs. It was named for the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, given by the Government of India, in an announcement made in February 2019.

Sri Lanka, the Netherlands and Russia are not its home. Tagore's cultural link with Bengal is the clue that points to Bangladesh.

Answer: D

Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

In April 2018 the rapper Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album DAMN., the first time the prize went to a work outside classical music and jazz.

Poetry, Drama and Fiction are separate Pulitzer categories, given to writers, not to musicians.

Answer: C

The answer is Dipa Karmakar.

Tripura's highest civilian honour is the Tripura Bibhushan (spelt Vibhushan in the state's release). It was presented on Statehood Day, 22 January 2021, to the gymnast Dipa Karmakar, a Padma Shri awardee, who received Rs 5 lakh, a certificate, a memento and a Risa. The Governor, Ramesh Bais, handed it over at a function in Agartala.

The cricketer Arshiya Das was honoured the same day with the lower Tripura Bhushan, so she is not the answer even though her name is among the options. 'None of them' is wrong because Dipa Karmakar is listed, and Dr. Chandan Das is not reported among the 2021 recipients.

Answer: D

The award was conferred on Rajinikanth.

The 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema, went to the actor Rajinikanth for his contribution to Indian cinema. It was announced in April 2021 and is the award the question refers to as the 2021 award.

Amitabh Bachchan is the trap: he received the previous (50th) award, announced in 2019. Aamir Khan (printed 'Amir Khan') and Akshay Kumar have not received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Answer: D

One of the 2018 Peace Prize winners is Nadia Murad.

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Nadia Murad, the Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity, and the Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

The others were 2018 Nobel laureates in other fields: George Smith and Gregory Winter ('Gregori' in the paper) in Chemistry, and Tasuku Honjo in Physiology or Medicine.

Answer: A

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Louise Elisabeth Glück.

The American poet Louise Glück was honoured for poetry whose spare, austere voice turns personal experience into something universal.

The other names are 2020 Nobel laureates in other fields. Roger Penrose (printed 'Panrose') shared the Physics prize for work on black holes. Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson (printed 'William') shared the Economics prize for improvements to auction theory.

Answer: B

The prize in Engineering Sciences went to Dr. Aloke Paul.

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is the CSIR's leading award for Indian scientists under 45. Dr. Aloke Paul, a materials engineer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, received it for 2017 in the Engineering Sciences category for his work on diffusion in materials.

The other three are scientists in other disciplines: Deepak Thankappan Nair is a structural biologist, Nissim Kanekar an astrophysicist and Sanjeev Das a cell biologist, so none of them is the Engineering Sciences awardee.

Answer: B

The joint winners were Bangalore and Delhi.

At the Wings India Awards 2024, presented in Hyderabad on 18 January 2024, Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, and Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, were jointly named Best Airport of the Year.

Hyderabad's airport won in a traffic category, not the overall title, and the other pairs were not the winners.

Answer: A

The nominee was Payal Kapadia.

Payal Kapadia was nominated for Best Director at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards (January 2025) for All We Imagine as Light, the first Indian woman to receive that nomination. The film had earlier won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2024.

Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair and Zoya Akhtar are well-known Indian directors, but none of them received this nomination.