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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Which of the following personality has been awarded with Bharat Ratna and later award being withdrawn ?
Answer: D
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
The award was announced posthumously in 1992, but a writ petition questioned the presumption of his death and the Supreme Court's proceedings led the government to withdraw it. He remains the only person whose Bharat Ratna has been rescinded.
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Who among the following was the first Indian to receive the Megsaysay award
Answer: A
Vinoba Bhave was the first Indian recipient.
He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1958, the second year of the award, for the Bhoodan movement, in which he walked across India persuading landowners to give land to the landless.
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The Nobel peace prize is awarded in which city?
Answer: A
The Peace Prize is awarded at Oslo.
Nobel's will directed that four prizes be awarded by Swedish institutions in Stockholm but the peace prize by a committee of five chosen by the Norwegian parliament. Norway and Sweden were in union when he wrote it; the arrangement has survived their separation.
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Who among the following is a winner of the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
Answer: D
M.F. Husain received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.
The painter, among the founders of the Progressive Artists' Group, was honoured for a body of work that drew equally on Hindu, Muslim and folk traditions.
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The UNSECO'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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For outstanding contribution to which field is the Abel Prize given?
Answer: C
The Abel Prize is given in mathematics.
Established by Norway in 2002, the bicentenary of Niels Henrik Abel's birth, it is awarded annually and is regarded as mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel, which has no mathematics category. The Fields Medal, by contrast, is given only to mathematicians under forty.
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Which award is given for exemplary work in the field of sustainable development?
Answer: B
The Tang Prize is given for sustainable development.
Established in Taiwan in 2012, it has four categories, of which sustainable development is one; the others are biopharmaceutical science, sinology and rule of law. Gro Harlem Brundtland was the first laureate in sustainable development.
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___________Tourism won the silver prize of Golden Gate award at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin) 2015, Germany ?
Answer: A
Kerala Tourism won it.
The silver Golden Gate Award at ITB Berlin in 2015 went to Kerala for its campaign film. Kerala's tourism promotion has long been built on the backwaters and on the phrase 'God's Own Country'.
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Who won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides ?
Answer: B
Prashant Ranganathan won it.
He took the environmental engineering category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest pre-college science competition, for work on the biodegradation of pesticides.
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