Honours and Awards Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Vizianagaram won it.

The district in Andhra Pradesh was recognised for effective implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which guarantees a hundred days of wage employment a year to every rural household that demands it.

Answer: C

Ramlila was so proclaimed.

UNESCO listed the traditional performance of the Ramayana in 2005 as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity, and it was inscribed on the Representative List in 2008. Vedic chanting and Kutiyattam were the other Indian entries in that round.

Answer: C

The G.B. Pant Memorial Society instituted it.

The society, named after Govind Ballabh Pant, gives an annual award for outstanding parliamentary performance, judged on the quality of debate and command of procedure rather than on office held.

Answer: C

It was given to Puducherry.

The UNESCO literacy prizes recognise successful literacy campaigns, and India received them in three consecutive years, the 1992 award going to the Union Territory's total literacy campaign.

Answer: A

The Saraswati Samman is given for literature.

Instituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1991, it honours an outstanding literary work published in the previous ten years in any of the languages listed in the Eighth Schedule. Harivansh Rai Bachchan was the first recipient.

Answer: A

Soumitra Chatterjee received it.

The Bengali actor was honoured at the 59th National Film Awards in 2012. He had appeared in fourteen of Satyajit Ray's films, beginning as Apu in Apur Sansar in 1959.

Answer: A

Hu Jintao was not a recipient.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, for their non-violent struggle for women's safety and their right to take part in peace-building. Hu Jintao was then President of China.

Answer: C

Rabindranath Tagore was the first.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, seventeen years before C.V. Raman's physics prize of 1930 and fifty-five before Har Gobind Khorana's in medicine.

Answer: B

Vanya Mishra won it.

She was crowned Femina Miss India World in 2012 and went on to represent India at the Miss World pageant that year.

Answer: A

Chinu Modi received it.

The Gujarati poet and playwright was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2013 for his collection Khara Zaran. He wrote under the pen name Irshad.