Awards And Honours

61.	Which feature film was selected as the best Hindi feature film in the 2017 National Film Award?
a.	Neerja
b.	Rustom
c.	Kadvi Hawa
d.	Dangal Option”A” is correct Sonam Kapoor’s ‘Neerja’ won the best Hindi feature film award.

62.	Who has recently been awarded with Nobel Prize for peace in 2016?
a.	Juan Manuel Santos
b.	Henry Dunant
c.	Kailash Satyarthi
d.	Malala Yousafzai Option”A” is correct The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50 year long civil war to an end.

63.	Who is the recipient of Nobel Prize in literature in 2017?
a.	Salman Rushdie
b.	Amitabh Ghosh
c.	Kazuo Ishiguro
d.	Paulo Coelho Option”C” is correct The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.

64.	Raghuvir Chaudhary, who was recently awarded Sahitya Akademi Puraskar, enriched the literature in :
a.	Marathi
b.	Gujarati
c.	Kannad
d.	Hindi Option”B” is correct Raghuveer Chaudhari is a novelist, poet and critic from Gujarat, India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977, for his novel trilogy Uparvas.

65.	Which of the following states won the best tableau prize in the 2018 Indian Republic Day parade?
a.	Maharashtra
b.	Assam
c.	Kerala
d.	Punjab Option”A” is correct Maharashtra got the first prize for the best tableau in the 2018 Indian Republic Day parade.

66.	Name the Indian origin boy in United Kingdom who became the youngest applicant in a decade to achieve the highest score in the Mensa IQ test, beating geniuses such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
a.	Mehul Garg
b.	Tanishq Abraham
c.	M. Tenith Adithyaa
d.	Akrit Jaiswal Option”A” is correct Mehul Garg, 10 year old Indian origin boy scored more than Einstein and Hawking in Mensa IQ test.

67.	The award which, the famous writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who passed away recently, did not win –
a.	Sahitya Akademi Award
b.	Jnanpith Award
c.	Ramon Magsaysay
d.	Padam Vibhusan Option”D” is correct

68.	Who has been conferred with first World Sanskrit Award?
a.	Ariana Grande
b.	Gulzar
c.	Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
d.	Hari Prasad Chaurasia Option”C” is correct Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand has been conferred the first ‘World Sanskrit Award’ for her contribution towards promotion of the language.

69.	Which state has bagged the top spot at the country’s most popular tourist destination among foreign and domestic tourists in 2016?
a.	Goa
b.	Uttar Pradesh
c.	Maharashtra
d.	Tamil Nadu Option”D” is correct Tamil Nadu has bagged the top spot as the country’s most popular tourist destination among foreign and domestic tourists in 2016.

70.	Who is the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2013?
a.	Haruki Murakami
b.	Eleanor Catton
c.	Malala Yousafzai
d.	Vikram Seth Option”B” is correct Eleanor Catton has won 2013 Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, for her second novel, “The Luminaries.”

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