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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Name the movie that voted 2016’s Best Film by Indian film critics’ poll?
Answer: D
Dangal was voted the best film of 2016.
Nitesh Tiwari's film about the wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his daughters won the Indian film critics' poll and became the highest-grossing Indian film to that date.
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Which international Airport Ltd has bagged the National Award for 'Excellence' in Energy Management ?
Answer: C
Hyderabad International Airport won it.
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport received the National Award for Excellence in Energy Management. It was the first airport in the world to receive LEED Silver certification at the design stage.
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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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' Ashoka Chakra' is awarded for
Answer: D
It is awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or self-sacrifice on land, at sea or in the air, away from the field of battle.
The Ashoka Chakra is the highest peacetime gallantry award, the equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, which is given for valour in the presence of the enemy. It was instituted in 1952.
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Arrange the following Nobel laureates in chronological order of the year they received the prize, earliest first.
(a) C.V. Raman (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Mother Teresa (d) Har Gobind Khorana (e) Amartya Sen
Answer: A
The order is (b), (a), (d), (c), (e).
Rabindranath Tagore won the literature prize in 1913, C.V. Raman physics in 1930, Har Gobind Khorana medicine in 1968, Mother Teresa peace in 1979 and Amartya Sen economics in 1998.
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' Ashoka Chakra ' is awarded for
Answer: D
It is awarded for acts of the most conspicuous bravery or self-sacrifice on land, at sea or in the air, away from the field of battle.
The Ashoka Chakra is the highest peacetime gallantry award and is often given posthumously. Its wartime counterpart is the Param Vir Chakra.
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Who was the Indian cricketer honoured with the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2012-13?
Answer: A
Kapil Dev received the award.
The C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award is the BCCI's highest honour, named after India's first Test captain. Kapil Dev led India to the World Cup in 1983 and was the first bowler to take 400 Test wickets.
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Which pair is not correctly matched
Answer: A
The wrong pair is Mahadevi Verma – Magsaysay Award.
She won the Jnanpith Award, in 1982, for the Hindi poetry collection Yama, not the Magsaysay. The other three pairings are correct: Indira Gandhi received the first UN Population Award in 1983, Mother Teresa the Magsaysay in 1962, and S. Chandrasekhar the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.
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Who was the recepient of the 1991 Nobel prize for peace
Answer: B
Aung San Suu Kyi received it.
She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma, and was under house arrest at the time; her sons accepted it for her. She was able to deliver her Nobel lecture only in 2012.
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