The Nobel Prize for chemistry for the year 2011 has been awarded to
Answer: D
Dan Shechtman received it.
The Israeli scientist was awarded the 2011 chemistry prize for the discovery of quasicrystals - ordered structures that are not periodic, which crystallographers had held to be impossible. He was ridiculed for years before the finding was accepted.
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Florence Nightingale Medal is given internationally in which of these fields ?
Answer: B
The Florence Nightingale Medal is given in nursing.
Instituted by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1912, it is the highest international distinction a nurse can receive, awarded every two years for exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded and the sick.
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Name the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Prize in the world
Answer: B
Shirin Ebadi was the first.
The Iranian lawyer and human rights activist received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work on democracy and the rights of women and children - the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to be so honoured.
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Who has won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize ?
Answer: C
David Grossman won it.
The Israeli writer received the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen, the prize money being shared equally between author and translator.
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Name the India's highest award which is given to a civilian
Answer: A
It is the Bharat Ratna.
Instituted in 1954, it is the highest civilian honour of India, given for exceptional service in any field. It carries no title and no monetary grant, and the recipient is entitled only to a sanad and a medallion. The Param Vir Chakra is the highest military decoration.
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Which of the following decade is celebrated as United Nations Decade for Women
Answer: C
It was 1976 to 1985.
The United Nations Decade for Women followed International Women's Year in 1975, and its theme was equality, development and peace. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted during it, in 1979.
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Dilip Sardesai Award is awarded to the following cricketer
Answer: D
Rohit Sharma received it.
The Dilip Sardesai Award is given by the BCCI for the best performance in a Test series, and is named after the batsman remembered for the 1971 tour of the West Indies.
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Who was awarded the first Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhavana Award
Answer: C
Mother Teresa was the first recipient.
The Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award, instituted in 1992 for outstanding contribution to communal harmony and peace, was first conferred on her in 1995.
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Who won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides ?
Answer: B
Prashant Ranganathan won it.
He took the environmental engineering category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest pre-college science competition, for work on the biodegradation of pesticides.
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Which Indian director won the Lifetime Achivement Oscar in 1992
Answer: D
Satyajit Ray won it.
He received the honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1992, accepting it from a hospital bed in Calcutta a few weeks before his death. Ardeshir Irani made Alam Ara, India's first talkie, and Devika Rani was the first recipient of the Phalke Award.
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