Awards And Honours

11.Which was the first talkie feature film of India?
a.
b.
c.
d.Aadami

Option”B” is correct

Alam Ara was the first talkie feature film of India.

12.In which of the following fields is the B. C. Roy Award given?
a.Music
b.Journalism
c.Environment
d.Medical

Option”D” is correct

B. C. Roy Award is given in the field of Medical Science.

13.Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to –
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”B” is correct

Amartya Sen, Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

14. . . . . . . . won the award in the Non – Feature Film Category at the 64th National Film Awards 2016.-
a.
b.
c.Firefly
d.School

Option”B” is correct

Fireflies in the Abyss won the award in the Non – Feature Film Category at the 64th National Film Awards 2016.

15.Which European Country conferred on Amartya Sen its highest civilian honour in 2013?
a.Germany
b.
c.France
d.Belgium

Option”C” is correct
16.
‘Sanghmitra Kalita’ has been honoured with which award recently?
a.Pulitzer Award
b.
c.
d.

Option”A” is correct

The correct answer is Pulitzer Award. Indian – American Sanghamitra Kalita, who was the then managing editor of Los Angeles Times, was part of the team that won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category in 2016.

17.Who of the following was honoured as 2014 World Food Prize Laureate?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”B” is correct

Sanjaya Rajaram, a wheat breeder who has spent his life developing more than 480 varieties of the staple crop, was awarded The World Food Prize among an international audience at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.

18.The 28th Annual lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 2013 was conferred to –
a.
b.
c.Hariharan
d.

Option”C” is correct

The Madhya Pradesh government, in May 2013, conferred the 28th Annual Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 2013 on famous playback singer Hariharan.

19.Kailash Satyarthi, a Nobel laureate, was selected for –
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”C” is correct

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi conferred Harvard University’s 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award. He was awarded for his continuing contribution to the cause of child rights and abolition of child slavery.

20.Which homegrown MNC was named the innovator of the year 2017 in the Times India Awards?
a.
b.Mindtree
c.
d.

Option”A” is correct

Mahindra & Mahindra, a homegrown automotive multinational that produces everything from two-wheelers to tractors, was named Innovator for the Year 2017.

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