Honours and Awards Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The first person from the north-east to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was Bhupen Hazarika.

The Assamese singer, composer and filmmaker received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema, for 1992. He was later honoured with the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 2019.

Plabita Borthakur and Adil Hussain are actors from Assam who have not received the Phalke award. Since Hazarika is listed, 'None of them' is wrong.

Answer: A

Govind Ballabh Pant.

He was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, from 1950 to 1954, and later Union Home Minister, and received the Bharat Ratna in 1957.

Answer: D

Global 500 awards are for protection of the environment.

The UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour, instituted in 1987, recognised outstanding environmental achievement by individuals and organisations. Indian recipients include the Chipko movement and M.C. Mehta.

Answer: A

It is given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, instituted in 1958 and named after CSIR's founding director, is India's highest science award, given annually to scientists under 45 in seven disciplines.

Answer: D

They are better known as the Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has presented the Academy Awards since 1929. The origin of the nickname is disputed; the Academy adopted it officially in 1939.

Answer: B

They are distributed at Stockholm.

The ceremony is held on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death, in the Stockholm Concert Hall, and the Swedish king presents the medals. The peace prize is presented the same day at Oslo.

Answer: C

C.K. Nagaraja Rao was the first recipient.

The Moortidevi Award, instituted by the Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1983, honours literary work that reflects Indian philosophy and cultural values, in any of the recognised languages or in English.

Answer: A

Dr Zakir Husain received it before becoming President.

He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1963 while Vice-President, and became President in 1967. Rajendra Prasad received his in 1962, after leaving office, and Radhakrishnan in 1954, eight years before he became President.

Answer: B

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed won it.

The founder of BRAC in Bangladesh received the 2015 World Food Prize for building the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world, whose programmes in microfinance, education and agriculture have reached over a hundred million people.

Answer: A

The Orange Prize is given in literature.

Founded in 1996 and awarded to a novel written in English by a woman of any nationality, it was created after an all-male Booker shortlist in 1991. It is now the Women's Prize for Fiction.