Which award is given for exemplary work in the field of sustainable development?
Answer: B
The Tang Prize is given for sustainable development.
Established in Taiwan in 2012, it has four categories, of which sustainable development is one; the others are biopharmaceutical science, sinology and rule of law. Gro Harlem Brundtland was the first laureate in sustainable development.
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In which sector the Caparo Group that has won the International Business of the Year Award 2014 at the Asian Business Awards is associated with?
Answer: D
Caparo works in steel, automotive and engineering.
Founded in Britain by Swraj Paul in 1968, the group makes steel products and automotive components, and won the International Business of the Year Award at the 2014 Asian Business Awards.
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Who was the recipient of ?Business Leader of the Year? award by All India Management Association (AIMA)?
Answer: C
Adi Godrej received it.
The chairman of the Godrej Group was named Business Leader of the Year by the All India Management Association.
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Which Indian author was the first to win the Conspiracy Novel of the Year award from the American Literary Forum Society?
Answer: A
Nikhil Chandwani was the first.
The Indian writer received the Conspiracy Novel of the Year award from the American Literary Forum Society.
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Choose the unarmed UN peacemaker from Senegal for naming the Medal for exceptional courage?
Answer: D
He was Mbaye Diagne.
The Senegalese army captain, serving as an unarmed UN military observer in Rwanda in 1994, saved several hundred lives by driving people through militia checkpoints, and was killed by a mortar shell. The UN's Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage, created in 2014, is named after him.
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Who among the following got the Bharat Ratna award before becoming the president of India?
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.
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Identify the winner of Pen Pinter Prize 2014?
Answer: D
Salman Rushdie won it.
The PEN Pinter Prize, instituted in 2009 in memory of Harold Pinter, went to him in 2014. It is given to a writer of outstanding literary merit who casts an unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world.
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India's highest award given for exceptional work in art, literature and recognition of public service of the highest order is
Answer: C
The Bharat Ratna is India's highest award.
Instituted in 1954, it is conferred for exceptional service of the highest order in any field. It carries no title and no monetary grant, only a sanad and a peepal-leaf medallion. The Padma Bhushan ranks third, after the Padma Vibhushan.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland, the first recipient of Tang Prize in sustainable development, was a former Prime Minister of ?
Answer: C
She was Prime Minister of Norway.
Gro Harlem Brundtland led Norway three times and chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development, whose 1987 report Our Common Future gave the world the definition of sustainable development. She received the first Tang Prize in that category in 2014.
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Who has won the most Oscar awards in history?
Answer: C
Walt Disney has won the most Oscars.
He received 22 competitive Academy Awards and four honorary ones, from 59 nominations - more than anyone else in the history of the awards. Most were for animated short films.
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