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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The UNESCO's ' Prix Jules Verne ' prize has been given to which of the following serials of Doordarshan
Answer: D
The prize went to Turning Point.
UNESCO's Kalinga-linked Prix Jules Verne recognised the Doordarshan science series, presented by Yash Pal and Girish Karnad, for popularising science on television.
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Orange Prize is given in the field of :
Answer: A
The Orange Prize is given in literature.
Founded in 1996 and awarded to a novel written in English by a woman of any nationality, it was created after an all-male Booker shortlist in 1991. It is now the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Who was the first Indian to be honoured with a lifetime achivement Oscar award
Answer: C
Satyajit Ray was the first.
He received the honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1992, accepting it from his hospital bed in Calcutta weeks before his death. The citation praised his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures.
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Anna Hazare was awarded the Padma Bhushan in recognition for
Answer: D
For transforming the barren village of Ralegan Siddhi.
Anna Hazare organised watershed development, tree planting and a ban on liquor in the drought-prone Maharashtra village from 1975, turning it into a model of rural self-reliance. He received the Padma Bhushan in 1992.
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Jawaharlal Nehru award is given for
Answer: C
It is given for international understanding.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was instituted in 1965 and administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. U Thant was the first recipient; others include Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.
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The first Indian to receive Nobel Prize in Literature was
Answer: D
Rabindranath Tagore was the first.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, in his own English rendering. C.V. Raman's prize, in 1930, was in physics, and neither Mother Teresa's nor Sarojini Naidu's field was literature.
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Who among the following has not received the Bharat Ratna?
Answer: B
Bal Gangadhar Tilak has not received the Bharat Ratna.
The award was instituted in 1954, some thirty-four years after his death, and although it has been given posthumously since 1966 he has never been named. Radhakrishnan received it in 1954, Shastri in 1966, Indira Gandhi in 1971 and Patel in 1991.
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Indian Cricketer who received Padma Shri 2017 Award is
Answer: D
Virat Kohli received the Padma Shri in 2017.
He was then captain of the Indian Test side, and had received the Arjuna Award in 2013 and the Khel Ratna in 2018.
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The first winner of the UN population award were
Answer: B
They were Indira Gandhi and Qian Xinzhong.
The United Nations Population Award was first given in 1983 to the Indian Prime Minister and to China's Minister for Family Planning, for their countries' population programmes.
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