Awards and Honours Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The Bayalata awardee for 2019 is Y. Mallappa Gavayi.

The Karnataka Rajyotsava Awards for 2019, announced for the 64th anniversary of the State's formation, name Y. Mallappa Gavayi in the Bayalata category. Bayalata is the open-field folk theatre of Karnataka.

Shylashree appears in the list for films, and Sridhar Bhandari for Yakshagana, so they are wrong for Bayalata. B.V. Mallikarjunaiah is not the Bayalata awardee.

Answer: B

The best female playback singer was Bindhumalini.

At the 66th National Film Awards, for films of 2018 and announced in 2019, Bindhu Malini won the award for best female playback singer for the song 'Maayavi Manave' in the Kannada film Nathicharami.

Shreya Ghoshal has won the award several times, which makes her the natural trap, but not at the 66th awards. Ananya Bhat and Vani Harikrishna are Kannada singers who were not the winner that year.

Answer: D

The Dr. Gubbi Veeranna Award for 2018 went to Prakash Kadapatti.

The Government of Karnataka gives this award for achievement in theatre and rangabhoomi. The published list of recipients names Prakash Kadapatti for 2018, after Theresamma D'Souza for 2017.

Theresamma D'Souza is the 2017 recipient, and R. Paramashivan was honoured in an earlier year (2015). Chindodi Srikantesh is not the 2018 recipient.

Answer: B

The Rajyotsava Award for Cooperation in 2019 went to Ramesh Vaidya.

The list of the 64 Karnataka Rajyotsava awardees for 2019 names Ramesh Vaidya in the Cooperation category.

B.V. Mallikarjunaiah and Kattige Chennappa are not the Cooperation awardees, and "None of the above" is wrong because option B is correct.

Answer: A

The Karnataka winners were Venkatesh and Aarti.

Two children from Karnataka were among the 22 chosen for the 2019 National Bravery Awards of the Indian Council for Child Welfare: Venkatesh, from Raichur district, who guided an ambulance across a flooded bridge, and Aarti Kiran Shet, who saved her two-year-old brother from a raging cow.

The other pairs name Suresh, Bharath or Sharath, who are not among the awardees, and "None of the above" is wrong because option A is correct.

Answer: C

Dr. N. S. Dharmshaktu is associated with leprosy eradication.

Dr. Narottam Singh Dharmshaktu, a public health specialist who worked with the National Leprosy Eradication Programme, received the International Gandhi Award for his work in the fight against leprosy. The award, given by the Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation, is meant specifically for work on leprosy.

Poverty, AIDS and polio eradication are other public health and welfare fields, not the field of this award.

Answer: A

The award went to Atul Kumar Rai.

The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2023 for Hindi was given to Atul Kumar Rai for his novel Chandpur ki Chanda. The Yuva Puraskar is given each year to writers aged 35 or under in each of the languages the Akademi recognises.

Chetan Bhagat and Meghna Pant write in English, and Juni Chopra is not connected with the Hindi award.

Answer: B

The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 went to Geeta Press, Gorakhpur.

The award, announced in June 2023, recognised the Gita Press for its contribution to social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods. Founded in 1923, it is one of the world's largest publishers of Hindu religious texts.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman received the prize for 2020 and Sulabh International for 2016, while Yohei Sasakawa received it for 2018, so none of them is the 2021 laureate.

Answer: A

The Devi Ahilya Samman is given for work in folk art and tribal art.

The Rashtriya Devi Ahilya Samman, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Department of Culture and named after Ahilyabai Holkar of Indore, honours outstanding work in the field of folk and traditional (including tribal) arts.

Dalit literature, gender equality and girl child education are recognised by other awards; they are not the field of this samman.

Answer: D

The Jnanpith Award for 2022 went to Damodar Mauzo.

Damodar Mauzo, the Konkani novelist and short-story writer from Goa, received the 57th Jnanpith Award, announced for 2022. He is known for novels such as Karmelin and for his short stories.

Nilmani Phookan, the Assamese poet, was the recipient for 2021. Akkitham, the Malayalam poet, received the award for 2019, and Amitav Ghosh, the English-language novelist, for 2018.