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- Question
Which Indian personality has been selected for France?s highest civilian award ?Legion of Honour? ?
Options- A. Amitabh Bachchan
- B. Salman Khan
- C. Soumitra Chatterjee
- D. Shahrukh Khan
- Correct Answer
- Soumitra Chatterjee
ExplanationVeteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been selected for France?s highest civilian award ?Legion of Honour? for his outstanding contribution to cinema and theatre. With this, Chatterjee has become the first Bengali actor to be chosen for the award. The honour comes almost 3 decades after the same recognition was conferred on master director Satyajit Ray in 1987. Chatterjee has acted in several of Ray?s films including ?Apur Sansar?, ?Debi?,? Aranyer Din Ratri?, ?Ghare Bairey? and ?Ganashatru?. Earlier recipients of the Legion of Honour include sitar meastro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Amitabh Bachaan, Shahrukh Khan and Kamal Hasan. Chatterjee was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2012.
- 1. The first Indian to receive the U Thant award for cultural understanding was
Options- A. Jawaharlal Nehru
- B. Indira Gandhi
- C. Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- D. None of these Discuss
- 2. Who has been nominated for the prestigious Padma Bhushan award by the Sports Ministry for 2017 ?
Options- A. M S Dhoni
- B. P V Sindhu
- C. Hardik Pandya
- D. Virender Sehwag Discuss
- 3. Dronacharya Award Is Given To
Options- A. Sports Editors
- B. Umpires
- C. Sportsmen
- D. Coaches Discuss
- 4. Who has won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize ?
Options- A. Roy Jacobsen
- B. Amos Oz
- C. David Grossman
- D. Ian Samsom Discuss
- 5. Who has become the first Asian to be chosen for the prestigious "Von Hippel Award" ?
Options- A. Charles Lieber
- B. Marvin Cohen
- C. C.N.R Rao
- D. Stuart Parkin Discuss
- 6. Who has been conferred the Ashoka Chakra for year 2019?
Options- A. Syam Prasad
- B. Ahmed Sunani
- C. Nazir Ahmad Wani
- D. Vishnu wagh Discuss
- 7. Who of the following was awarded ' Bharat Ratna ' posthumously
Options- A. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
- B. Mother Teresa
- C. Jayaprakash Narayan
- D. Khan abdul Ghaffar Khan Discuss
- 8. Which district in Andra Pradesh won the MGNREGA annual award for effective implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ?
Options- A. Vizianagaram
- B. Vizag
- C. Guntur
- D. Srikakulam Discuss
- 9. Arjuna Award was introduced in _____ ?
Options- A. 1971
- B. 1961
- C. 1951
- D. 1987 Discuss
- 10. Who has become the 1st woman player from Jharkhand who has been awarded Dhyan Chand Award 2017 ?
Options- A. Poonam Rani
- B. Samurai Tete
- C. Monika Malik
- D. Navjot Kaur Discuss
Honours and Awards problems
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Correct Answer: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Correct Answer: P V Sindhu
Correct Answer: Coaches
Explanation:
The Dronacharya Award, formally known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is sports training honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Drona, often referred as "Dronacharya" or "Guru Drona", a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India.
Correct Answer: David Grossman
Explanation:
David Grossman has become the first Israeli author to win the 2017 Man Booker International prize for his novel ?A Horse Walks Into a Bar?. The novel was translated by Jessica Cohen and is published in Britain by Jonathan Cape. The book is an ambitious high-wire act of a novel that shines a spotlight on the effects of grief, without any hint of sentimentality. Since 2016, the Man Booker International Prize awards both the winning author and translator £25,000. To be considered for the prize, books had to be translated into English and published in the UK between May 1, 2016 and April 30, 2017.
Correct Answer: C.N.R Rao
Explanation:
The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers?brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines. The Von Hippel Award is named after Arthur von Hippel (1898-2003), who was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, semiconductors, ferromagnetics and ferroelectrics.
Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna Prof C.N.R. Rao was awarded 2017 Von Hippel Award. He is first Indian and first Asian to win this honour. The award will be presented to Prof Rao for his interdisciplinary contributions to development of novel functional materials, including nanomaterials, graphene, superconductivity, 2D materials and colossal magnetoresistance at Boston in November 2017.
Correct Answer: Nazir Ahmad Wani
Correct Answer: Jayaprakash Narayan
Correct Answer: Vizianagaram
Explanation:
The Ministry of Rural Development has selected Vizianagaram as one among the 17 districts across the nation for the MGNREGA annual award for effective implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act during 2015-16. The award would be presented at the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Sammelan to the district programme coordinator and District Collector on June 19, 2017 in New Delhi.
Correct Answer: 1961
Correct Answer: Samurai Tete
Explanation:
The Apex body for The national sport Hockey India pitched Jharkhand's Samurai Tete, former Team India skipper, for the Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award 2016.
Sumrai Tete is a member of the India women's national field hockey team. She played with the team when it won the Gold at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games.
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