The Goldman Awards are given for outstanding contribution in which of the following fields?
Answer: D
The Goldman Prize is for protection of the environment.
Established in 1989 by Richard and Rhoda Goldman of San Francisco, it is given each year to six grassroots environmental activists, one from each inhabited continent, and is often called the green Nobel.
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Which badminton player was honored with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2010?
Answer: A
Saina Nehwal received the Khel Ratna in 2010.
She had won the Indian Open Grand Prix, the Singapore Open and the Indonesia Open that year, and became the first Indian to win an Olympic badminton medal, a bronze, at London in 2012.
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Since foundation of nobel prize awards has been added to the original five disciplines which were considered for award of Nobel Prize
Answer: D
Economics was added.
Nobel's will provided for five prizes: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was instituted by the Swedish central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.
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The Prestigious 'Ramanujan Mathematics Award' at Eighth National Mathematical Convention on January 28, 2014, was awarded to
Answer: B
Anand Kumar received it.
He founded Super 30 at Patna, which coaches thirty students from poor families for the IIT entrance examination each year, free of charge, with most of them qualifying.
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Who among the following was the first Indian to receive the templeton Award
Answer: C
Dr S. Radhakrishnan was the first Indian recipient.
He received the Templeton Prize in 1975 for his work on the relation between religion and philosophy, in the year of his death. The prize honours progress towards research or discoveries about spiritual realities.
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The only couple to win the Nobel Prize were the
Answer: B
The Curies were the only couple to win the Nobel Prize.
Marie and Pierre Curie shared the 1903 physics prize with Henri Becquerel. Their daughter Irène and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie later shared the 1935 chemistry prize, making the family the most decorated in Nobel history.
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Who of the following was awarded ' Bharat Ratna ' posthumously
Answer: C
Jayaprakash Narayan received it posthumously.
He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999, twenty years after his death. He had led the movement against the Emergency and given it the name of Total Revolution. Lal Bahadur Shastri, in 1966, was the first posthumous recipient.
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The newly appointed adviser to Odsha government on public health programmes, K. Srinath Reddy is the receiver of which prestigious civilian award ?
Answer: C
He received the Padma Bhushan.
K. Srinath Reddy, a cardiologist who heads the Public Health Foundation of India, was honoured for his work on non-communicable disease and tobacco control.
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Which Indian Anti Hunger activist will be honoured with the 2017 Queens Young Leaders award ?
Answer: C
Ankit Kawatra was honoured.
He founded Feeding India, which redistributes surplus food from weddings and restaurants to the hungry through a network of volunteers. The Queen's Young Leaders Award recognised young people making a difference across the Commonwealth.
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1993 Nobel prize for literature has gone to the first black american lady, for her work ' Beloved'. The name of the lady is
Answer: D
She is Toni Morrison.
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the first black woman to do so. Beloved, published in 1987, is set after the American Civil War and had already won the Pulitzer Prize.
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