The 'Cannes Award' is given for excellence in which field?
Answer: A
The Cannes award is for films.
The Cannes Film Festival has been held on the French Riviera since 1946, and its highest honour is the Palme d'Or. Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar shared the top prize at the first festival.
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Who among the following has been selected for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award for his contribution to society as a Gujarati in March 2015 ?
Answer: A
Lord Meghnad Desai was selected.
The economist and member of the British House of Lords, born in Vadodara, received the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award, given by the World Gujarati Society to Gujaratis of distinction abroad.
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How many times was Mahatma Gandhi nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: B
He was nominated five times.
Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and finally in January 1948, days before his assassination. The prize is not awarded posthumously, and the Nobel Committee made no award that year, saying there was no suitable living candidate.
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Who among the following has not received the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: C
George Orwell never received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He died in 1950 at forty-six, and the prize is not awarded posthumously. Derek Walcott won in 1992, Pablo Neruda in 1971 and Ernest Hemingway in 1954.
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Dr. Rabindranth Tagore received the Nobel Prize for his work
Answer: C
He received it for Gitanjali.
The 1913 prize cited his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which he had made his poetic thought a part of the literature of the West. The English Gitanjali, published in 1912 with an introduction by W.B. Yeats, was his own prose rendering of poems from several Bengali collections.
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Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award, the prestigious award for exceptional contribution by a Scientist is awarded by ----
Answer: A
It is awarded by the Indian Science Congress Association.
The Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award honours exceptional contribution by a scientist, and is named after the founder of India's space programme.
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Winner of Ranji Trophy-2015 is -
Answer: D
Karnataka won it.
They beat Tamil Nadu in the 2014-15 final at Mumbai to retain the Ranji Trophy, their eighth title. The tournament is named after Ranjitsinhji, the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar who played for England.
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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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Who among the following own the Nobel prize for literature?
Answer: B
Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1969.
The Irish playwright and novelist wrote Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Linus Pauling won in chemistry and peace, and Philip Noel-Baker and Ralph Bunche in peace.
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Which of the following two Indian won the 57th edition Grammy Awards 2015 ?
Answer: A
Ricky Kej and Neela Vaswani were the two Indians.
At the 57th Grammy Awards in 2015 Ricky Kej won Best New Age Album for Winds of Samsara, made with the South African flautist Wouter Kellerman, and Neela Vaswani won Best Children's Album for her narration of Malala Yousafzai's memoir.
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