Awards and Honours Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Miss International India 2023 was Praveena Anjana.

Praveena Anjana was crowned Miss International India 2023 at the Femina Miss India 2023 pageant, which chooses India's representatives for international contests. The main Femina Miss India title that year went to Nandini Gupta of Rajasthan.

Harnaaz Sandhu won Miss Universe in 2021. The other names are not the 2023 Miss International India.

Answer: A

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Kariko, jointly with Drew Weissman.

They were honoured for discoveries about nucleoside base modifications that made it possible to develop effective mRNA vaccines, such as those used against COVID-19.

Svante Paabo won the 2022 Physiology or Medicine prize for work on the genomes of extinct hominins. Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Morten Meldal shared the 2022 Chemistry prize for click chemistry.

Answer: D

The number is Three.

Five people from Rajasthan were honoured in the Padma Awards announced in January 2022. Two received the Padma Bhushan, the Paralympian Devendra Jhajharia and the retired civil servant Rajiv Mehrishi. The remaining three received the Padma Shri: the Paralympic shooter Avani Lekhara, the artist Ramdayal Sharma and the screenwriter Chandraprakash Dwivedi.

Five is the total across both awards, which is why it is a tempting option, and it counts the two Padma Bhushan recipients as well. Two is the number of Padma Bhushan awardees. Four would need one more Padma Shri than the list has.

Answer: D

The 2024 Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna went to Praveen Kumar.

Praveen Kumar is a para high jumper who won gold in the T64 high jump at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. The four Khel Ratna awardees for 2024 were chess player D. Gukesh, hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh, shooter Manu Bhaker and Praveen Kumar.

Mona Aggarwal (para shooting), Annu Rani (javelin) and Jarmanpreet Singh (hockey) are accomplished athletes, but none of them was among the 2024 Khel Ratna recipients.

Answer: A

The Rajasthan awardee is Baijnath Maharaj.

Baijnath Maharaj of Rajasthan was among the Padma Shri awardees announced on the eve of Republic Day 2025, in the field of spiritualism.

The other three were also 2025 Padma Shri awardees, but not from Rajasthan: Anil Kumar Boro is a writer from Assam, Arvind Sharma a scholar of religion based in Canada, and Ratan Kumar Parimoo an art historian and painter from Gujarat.

Answer: C

The person not awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2024 is Lala Hardyal.

Five people were named for the Bharat Ratna in 2024: Karpoori Thakur (former Bihar Chief Minister), Lal Krishna Advani, former Prime Ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh and P.V. Narasimha Rao, and agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan.

Lala Har Dayal was a revolutionary and a founder of the Ghadar Party in the United States in 1913. He has not been awarded the Bharat Ratna.