First Indian person who promptly decline Bharat Ratna Award was ____________.
Answer: C
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the first to decline it.
He objected that a member of the committee that selects recipients should not himself be considered. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1992.
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For which of his creation Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik won the People's Choice prize at the World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014 in US.
Answer: C
It was Save Tree, Save the Future.
Sudarsan Pattnaik, the sand artist from Puri, won the People's Choice prize at the 2014 World Cup of Sand Sculpting in the United States. He has represented India at over sixty international sand art competitions.
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The Sant Kabir award is presented for exemplary contribution in which field?
Answer: C
The Sant Kabir Award is for handicrafts and handlooms.
It is the highest national recognition for a master weaver, given by the Ministry of Textiles to those who have kept alive traditional weaving and passed the skill on.
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Who received the Deutsche prize for pricing models 2015 ?
Answer: B
Stephen Ross received it.
The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics was awarded to him in 2015 for arbitrage pricing theory and the binomial option pricing model, which underlie much of modern asset pricing.
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The Chameli Devi Award is given to an outstanding woman is a
Answer: D
The Chameli Devi Jain Award is given to an outstanding woman journalist.
Instituted in 1980 by the Media Foundation in memory of a freedom fighter, it recognises reporting that shows courage and social concern rather than mere professional distinction.
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Goldman Awards are given for outstanding contribution in which of the following fields?
Answer: C
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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The Nobel Prize for Economics 2014 was won by----?
Answer: D
Jean Tirole won it.
The French economist received the 2014 prize for his analysis of market power and regulation - how to regulate industries dominated by a few large firms, where neither free competition nor uniform rules will serve. Alvin Roth had won in 2012 for market design.
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Meghanath Saha award is given for outstanding contribution in which of the following fields?
Answer: B
The Meghnad Saha Award is given in science.
It commemorates the astrophysicist whose ionisation equation explained the spectra of stars, and who also founded the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and reformed the Indian calendar.
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Jnanpith Award is given for excellence in the field of:
Answer: A
C.K. Nagaraja Rao was the first recipient.
The Moortidevi Award, instituted by the Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1983, honours literary work that reflects Indian philosophy and cultural values, in any of the recognised languages or in English.
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Who has been selected for the Jnanpith award for 2014 ?
Answer: B
Bhalchandra Nemade was selected.
The Marathi novelist and critic received the Jnanpith Award for 2014. His novel Kosla, published in 1963, is regarded as a turning point in modern Marathi fiction.
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