Who was the first posthumous recipient of Bharat Ratna?
Answer: A
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first posthumous recipient.
He received the Bharat Ratna in 1966, the year he died at Tashkent hours after signing the agreement that ended the war with Pakistan. He had given the country the slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'.
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Who among the following got the 'Bharat Ratna' award, before becoming the President of India?
Answer: B
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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In which city is the Citizen Foundation located, selected for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award in 2014 ?
Answer: C
It is in Pakistan.
The Citizens Foundation, based at Karachi, received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2014 for building and running schools for the poorest children in Pakistan, half of whose pupils are girls.
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Who among the following was the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay awards?
Answer: B
Vinoba Bhave was the first Indian to receive it.
He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1958, the second year of the award, for the Bhoodan land-gift movement.
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Who among the following won the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Award 2014?
Answer: C
The Rubber Board won it.
The Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Award is given to government departments and public undertakings for outstanding work in promoting the use of Hindi in official work.
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____________ is the highest civilian award of India.
Answer: B
The Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award.
Instituted in 1954, it recognises exceptional service of the highest order in any field. The Vir Chakra is a military decoration and the Padma Shri the fourth-ranking civilian honour.
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Who was awarded the first Rajiv Ghandhi National Sadbhavana Award?
Answer: D
The answer is none of these.
The first Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award, in 1995, went to Mother Teresa, who is not among the options. The award recognises outstanding contribution to communal harmony and peace.
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In which categories did Marie Curie win her two different Nobel Prizes
Answer: A
She won in physics and chemistry.
Marie Curie shared the 1903 physics prize with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for radioactivity, and won the 1911 chemistry prize alone for the discovery of radium and polonium. She remains the only person to have won in two different sciences.
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Who was the winner of the International Children's Peace Prize 2014?
Answer: A
Neha Gupta won it.
The Indian-American teenager received the International Children's Peace Prize in 2014 for Empower Orphans, which she founded at nine and which has raised funds for education and health care for thousands of children in India and the United States.
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' Ashoka Chakra' is awarded for
Answer: D
It is awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or self-sacrifice on land, at sea or in the air, away from the field of battle.
The Ashoka Chakra is the highest peacetime gallantry award, the equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, which is given for valour in the presence of the enemy. It was instituted in 1952.
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