Awards and Honours Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Louise E. Gluck (Louise Glück), the American poet.

The Swedish Academy honoured her distinctive poetic voice, which it said gives individual experience a universal reach. Her work includes collections such as The Wild Iris.

Bob Dylan is a past laureate, but he received the prize for 2016, not 2020. Daniel Morris is not a Nobel laureate in literature. Since Gluck is listed, 'None of them' is wrong.

Answer: C

The social worker is Radha Bhatt.

Radha Bhatt, a Gandhian worker associated with the Lakshmi Ashram at Kausani, was awarded the Padma Shri in 2025 for social work, in recognition of decades of work for women's education and the environment in the hills.

Basanti Bisht (Jagar singer) received the Padma Shri in 2017, Chandi Prasad Bhatt of the Chipko movement has received the Padma Bhushan, and Anil Joshi (environmentalist) has received the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan in earlier years.

Answer: A

The answer is Jasmine Eyal.

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced in April 2025 that Jasmine Eyal, a 16-year-old from Singapore, won the 10th Breakthrough Junior Challenge with a video explaining mechanogenetic cellular engineering, a biotechnology that uses mechanical forces to switch on cells' genes. She won a college scholarship of $250,000, her teacher a $50,000 prize, and her school a science lab.

The other three names in the options are not winners of this prize. The challenge is a global science-communication contest for students aged 13 to 18, judged on how clearly a video explains a scientific idea.

Answer: C

The awardee is Smt. Radha Bahin Bhatt.

Radha Bhatt, the Gandhian social worker associated with the Lakshmi Ashram at Kausani, was awarded the Padma Shri in 2025 for social work, in recognition of decades of work on women's empowerment, education and environmental causes in the hills.

Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (posthumously) were honoured for literature and education (travel writing), not social work, and the other names are not the 2025 Padma Shri awardees for social work from Uttarakhand.