Awards And Honours

51.Who among the following has been chosen ‘Person of the year 2015’ by Times magazine?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”D” is correct

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She has been chosen ‘Person of the year 2015’ by Times magazine.

52.Nobel Prizes are distributed annually at –
a.Manila
b.Stockholm
c.Geneva
d.

Option”B” is correct

Except for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

53.Which of the following was the winner of the Grammy Awards 2016 “Song of the Year”?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”D” is correct

Ed Sheeran won two Grammy awards including song of the Year for “Thinking Out Loud”.

54.Which one of the following States will host the Nobel Prize Series – India 2018 (Science Impacts Life) Exhibition?
a.Gujarat
b.Rajasthan
c.Goa
d.

Option”C” is correct

The Goa government executed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (GoI) and Nobel Media, Sweden to hold the ‘Nobel Prize Series’.

55.Kalidas Samman Award has been instituted by –
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”C” is correct

The Kalidas Samman is a prestigious arts award presented annually by the government of Madhya Pradesh in India.

56.Which city has become the first Indian city to win ‘Pierre Lenfant International Planning Excellence Award 2017’ instituted by the American Planning Association?
a.Bhubaneshwar
b.Kolkata
c.
d.Meerut

Option”A” is correct

Bhubaneswar has become the first Indian city to win Pierre Lenfant International Planning excellence award 2017 for its town planning process.

57.Who was directly elected for the post of judge of the supreme court?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”A” is correct

Indu Malhotra was directly elected for the post of judge of the supreme court.

58.Dr. C.V. Raman was awarded Nobel Prize for his work connected with which of following phenomenon of Radiation?
a.Scattering
b.Diffraction
c.Interference
d.Polarization

Option”A” is correct

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.

59.Which of the following cities is included in the batch of 9 new cities selected for the Smart City Mission in January, 2018?
a.
b.Aligarh
c.Itanagar
d.Jhargram

Option”C” is correct

The nine cities include three from Uttar Pradesh – Moradabad, Bareilly and Saharanpur, Bihar Sharif (Bihar), Silvassa (Dadra and Nagar Havelli), Erode (Tamil Nadu), Daman and Diu, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and Kavaratti (Lakshadweep).

60.Who among the following has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option”D” is correct

Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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