General Awareness | Awards

General Awareness | Awards

Feb 6, 2025 - 14:48 Updated: Feb 6, 2025 - 15:10
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1. Who was the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay award?

Indira Gandhi
T.N. Seshan
Kiran Bedi
Vinoba Bhave

2. 'Dronacharya' Award is given in recognition of

Best coaching in sports
Best research work in medicines
Best N.C.C. cadet
Best wrestler

3. 'Kalidas Samman' is given for the contribution in which of the following fields?

Art
Games
Medicine
Peace

4. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is given for the contribution in which of the following field?

Art and Handicraft
Literature
Science and Technology
Sports

5. Which award is given for excellence in sports?

Jamnalal Bajaj Award
Arjuna Award
Tagore Award
Moortidevi Award

6. Who among the following is not awarded with Nobel Prize?

C.V. Raman
H.J. Bhabha
R.N. Tagore
Mother Teresa

7. Who among the following Nobel Prize winner was not an Indian citizen?

Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar
C.V. Raman
Mother Teresa
Rabindra Nath Tagore

8. Which agricultural scientist was awarded with Nobel Prize for Peace?

M.S. Swaminathan
Norman Borlaug
S. Chandrasekhar
Hargovind Khurana

9. Who is the first Indian actress to receive the 'Padma Shree' Award?

Smita Patil
Nargis Dutt
Meena Kumari
Madhubala

10. Who among the following is not the recipient of the Bharat Ratna Award?

Ustad Bismillah Khan
Satyajit Ray
Lata Mangeshkar
Raj Kapoor

11. The first lady to receive 'Gyanpeeth' Award is

Ashapurna Devi
Mahashweta Devi
Mahadevi Verma
Amrita Pritam

12. Who among the following Pakistani National was awarded the 'Bharat Ratna' by the Indian Government?

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Liaqat Ali Khan
M.A. Jinnah
Muhammad Iqbal

13. To which foreigner was 'Bharat Ratna' awarded in 1990?

Nelson Mandela
Mikhail Gorbachov
Abdul Ghaffar
Yasir Arafat

14. Which of the following foreigner citizen has been awarded 'Bharat Ratna'?

Nelson Mandela
Bill Clinton
Adolf Hitler
Boris Yeltstin

15. Who has been awarded 'Bharat Ratna'?

Amjad Ali Khan
Dr. Kurien
Ravi Shankar
Dr. Sarvapalli Gopal

16. In which year, the first 'Bharat Ratna' was awarded?

1951
1953
1954
1956

17. Who among the following was the first to receive 'Bharat Ratna' Award?

Govind Ballabh Pant
S. Radhakrishnan
Rajendra Prasad
Jawaharlal Nehru

18. Who among the following was the first recipient of Bharat Ratna?

S. Radhakrishnan
C.V. Raman
C. Rajagopalachari
Jawaharlal Nehru

19. In 1992, J.R.D. Tata was awarded which of the following awards?

Bharat Ratna
Padma Vibhushan
Padmabhushan
Padmashree

20. Who was the first recipient woman of Vyas Samman?

Chitra Mudgal
Prabha Khetan
Malti Joshi
Mannu Bhandari

21. In which field is the 'Swarna Kamal' award given?

Literature
Cinema
Classical Music
Theatre

22. Who is the first person of Indian origin to win the 'Booker Prize'?

Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
V.S. Naipaul
Jhumpa Lahiri

23. Nobel Prizes are given by

The Government of Norway
The Government of Switzerland
The Government of Sweden
Swedish Academy

24. The 'Chakradhar Fellowship' is given in the field of

Folk dance
Classical music
Classical dance
Literary criticism

25. The Maharana Pratap Award is given for excellence in the field of

Science and Technology
Sports
Social Work
Performing Arts

26. Which one among the following Indians was honoured by a Special Oscar Award?

Mahesh Bhatt
Mina Nair
Satyajit Ray
O.P. Sippy

27. Who among the following is Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award winner?

Bhagawat Rawat
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Cyan Ranjan

28. Who among the following journalists is the recipient 'Magsasey' Award?

Khushwant Singh
Arun Shorie
Dharmavir Bharti
Kamleshwar