On whom did US President George W. Bush bestow, in 2001, the highest American award for lifetime achievement in technology?
Answer: A
Arun Netravali received it.
The Indian-born president of Bell Laboratories was awarded the US National Medal of Technology for his work on digital video compression - the research underlying the MPEG standards and so most of modern digital television and streaming.
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Which American Gallantry award is given to the soldier who is wounded in action?
Answer: C
It is the Purple Heart.
It is awarded to any member of the American armed forces wounded or killed in action, and is the oldest military decoration still in use, deriving from the Badge of Military Merit that George Washington created in 1782.
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Which award, given by UNESCO, is for the popularisation of science?
Answer: D
The Kalinga Prize is associated with science.
Instituted at UNESCO in 1951 by Biju Patnaik of Odisha, it honours exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to the general public. Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell and Arthur C. Clarke are among the recipients.
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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
Answer: A
The other is Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
The Frontier Gandhi received the Bharat Ratna in 1987, the first non-Indian to do so, and Nelson Mandela followed in 1990. Ghaffar Khan led the non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier Province.
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Tansen Samman has been instituted by the Government of?
Answer: D
The Tansen Samman was instituted by Madhya Pradesh.
It is conferred at the Tansen Samaroh, held every December at Behat near Gwalior, beside the tomb of Tansen - the singer of Akbar's court, one of the nine jewels, who was born nearby.
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Who of the following is not a recepient of 2011 Nobel Peace prize
Answer: A
Hu Jintao was not a recipient.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, for their non-violent struggle for women's safety and their right to take part in peace-building. Hu Jintao was then President of China.
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Men from which nation have won the highest number of Nobel Prizes?
Answer: A
America leads.
The United States has produced more Nobel laureates than any other country, over 400, chiefly in the sciences and economics. Britain follows, then Germany and France. The lead is partly a result of the emigration of European scientists in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Which is the highest literary prize given by the Government in India?
Answer: D
It is the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Given by the national academy of letters since 1954 for an outstanding book in each of the twenty-four recognised languages, it is the highest literary honour conferred by a government body in India. The Jnanpith, though more prestigious, is a private award.
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The first Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Literature was
Answer: D
Rabindranath Tagore was the first.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, in his own English rendering. C.V. Raman's prize, in 1930, was in physics, and neither Mother Teresa's nor Sarojini Naidu's field was literature.
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Sanjaya Rajaram a noted Indian scientists received the prestigious World Food Prize, 2014 for his contribution to developing high-yield varieties of ____?
Answer: C
He worked on wheat.
Sanjaya Rajaram, who succeeded Norman Borlaug at CIMMYT, bred more than 480 wheat varieties released in 51 countries, crossing winter and spring wheats to produce plants of wide adaptation. He received the World Food Prize in 2014.
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