Awards and Honours Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The key marks (3) and (4) as the wrong matches. Lakshman Singh and Vadivel Gopal are not matched with the fields printed against them in the key's list of Padma awardees.

The pairs Kapil Kapoor with Literature and Education and Deepak Dhar with Science and Engineering are accepted, so options naming (1) or (2) are rejected.

The question is based on the Padma awardees of 2024. Because I could not confirm the fields of Lakshman Singh and Vadivel Gopal independently, the explanation follows the key, which picks the pairs (3) and (4) as wrong and keeps Kapil Kapoor with literature and education and Deepak Dhar with science and engineering as right.

Answer: D

The key marks (D) as the incorrect statement: Dr Narayan Chakraborty was given the Padma Shri 2024 in the field of Science and Engineering, not Medicine.

The statements that he is from West Bengal, that he worked on environmental health and safety and that his research is on arsenic poisoning are accepted. The answer follows the key.

The statements about Dr Narayan Chakraborty, a Padma Shri awardee of 2024, say that he is from West Bengal and that his work concerns arsenic poisoning and environmental health. The award field is the point of the question, and the key marks the field printed as Medicine as the incorrect statement.

Answer: C

The key gives the code 4 3 2 1: the Dr Ambedkar Award with P. Sanmugam, the Thanthai Periyar Award with Suba. Veera Pandiyan, the Kamarajar Award with U. Balaraman and the Tamil Thendral Thiru.V.K. Award with S. Jeyaseela Stephen.

These are State award winners, so the matching follows the commission's key.

The key gives P. Sanmugam for the Dr Ambedkar Award, Suba. Veera Pandiyan for the Thanthai Periyar Award, U. Balaraman for the Kamarajar Award and S. Jeyaseela Stephen for the Tamil Thendral Thiru.V.K. Award. The names of the winners could not be independently checked here.

Answer: B

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, first found in the roundworm C. elegans.

Expression Sequence Tags are short sequenced pieces of expressed genes, a DNA microarray is a gene-expression testing tool, and SNPs are single-base variations in DNA. None of these was the subject of the award.

MicroRNAs were first found in 1993 by Ambros and Ruvkun in the lin-4 gene of C. elegans, and they act by binding messenger RNA and switching off the production of particular proteins.

Answer: B

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Narges Mohammadi.

The Iranian human rights activist, then in prison in Tehran, was honoured for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for human rights and freedom for all.

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors, won the 2024 prize, which makes it the trap. Felix Maradiaga is a Nicaraguan opposition figure who did not receive the prize.

Answer: A

The posthumous awardee from Tripura was Narendra Chandra Debbarma.

Narendra Chandra Debbarma, a veteran tribal leader and minister in the Tripura government, died in 2022 and was awarded the Padma Shri posthumously in 2023 for public affairs.

Bikram Bahadur Jamatia of Tripura also received the Padma Shri in 2023, for social work, but he was honoured in his lifetime. Risingbor Kurkalang of Meghalaya and Hem Chandra Goswami of Assam were other 2023 awardees from the north-east.

Answer: A

The total was 139 Padma Awards.

The Padma Awards for 2025, announced on the eve of Republic Day and presented by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan, numbered 139: 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.

\[ 7 + 19 + 113 = 139 \]

126, 142 and 119 do not match that total.

Answer: D

The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize went to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the OPCW, based at The Hague, for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons, at a time when it was overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal.

The other names won in other years: Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, Barack Obama in 2009 and Malala Yousafzai in 2014. Malala was a widely tipped candidate in 2013, which makes her the obvious trap.

Answer: C

The Amrut city and Municipal Corporation that took the first prize at the Swachhata Excellence Awards 2019 was Raigarh.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs gave the awards during the Shehri Samriddhi Utsav in February 2019. Raigarh in Chhattisgarh took first place among the AMRUT cities, with Ambikapur second and Kumbakonam third.

Hyderabad won in the separate Million Plus cities group, which is why it can look like a winner, but it was not the AMRUT first prize.

Answer: A

Village Rockstars is an Assamese film.

Directed by Rima Das, Village Rockstars tells the story of a girl in a village in Assam who dreams of forming a rock band. It won the Best Feature Film award at the 65th National Film Awards in 2018, the first Assamese film to do so since 1988, and was India's entry to the Oscars that year.

It was made in Assamese, not Bengali, Marathi or Hindi.