Who among the following has received Sir Ross Masood Lifetime Acheivement Award?
Answer: C
Saiyid Hamid received it.
The award is named after Sir Ross Masood, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and grandson of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. Saiyid Hamid was himself a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh and a noted educationist.
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Who among the following bagged the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award 2014 for Biological Science?
Answer: A
Dr Roop Mallik won it.
The biophysicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research received the 2014 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in biological sciences for work on molecular motors - the proteins that transport cargo within the cell.
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Who was first Indian to be awarded with Bharat Ratna and Nobel Prize ?
Answer: C
Sir C.V. Raman.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 and was among the first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954. Tagore and Mother Teresa also hold both, but Raman received the Bharat Ratna first.
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Meghanath Saha award is given for outstanding contribution in which of the following field?
Answer: D
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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Who was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize?
Answer: B
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian Nobel laureate.
He received the Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali - the first Nobel of any kind awarded to an Asian. C.V. Raman followed in 1930.
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Diwan of Mysore who received Bharat Ratna Award -
Answer: B
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
The engineer who built the Krishnaraja Sagar dam and designed the flood protection system for Hyderabad served as Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918, and received the Bharat Ratna in 1955. His birthday, 15 September, is Engineer's Day.
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The Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after a former President of
Answer: B
It is named after a President of the Philippines.
Ramon Magsaysay, the country's seventh president, died in an air crash in 1957 and the award was instituted that year by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. It is often called Asia's Nobel Prize.
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Satya Nadella, the latest receiver of the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman, is the CEO of which of the following Companies?
Answer: A
He is the CEO of Microsoft.
Satya Nadella, born in Hyderabad, became Microsoft's third chief executive in 2014 and received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians.
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Who among the following has been felicitated with the esteemed Yash Chopra Memorial Award?
Answer: D
Amitabh Bachchan received it.
The Yash Chopra Memorial Award, instituted in 2013 in memory of the director, honours a lifetime's contribution to Indian cinema. Lata Mangeshkar was its first recipient.
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Meera Puraskar, the highest honour in Hindi-Sanskrit literature, is given by which of the following states?
Answer: D
It is given by Rajasthan.
The Meera Puraskar is the state's highest literary honour, named after the poet-saint Meerabai, and is given for a work in Hindi.
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