CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Awards And Prizes Of India And World Quiz 13 - MCQExams.com

Who won the $$64^{th}$$ National Film Award for Best Actor?
Which of the following represents the correct chronological order of Indian women who brought home the 'Miss World' crown over the years?
  • Diana Hayden, Aishwarya Rai, Yukta Mookhey and Priyanka Chopra
  • Aishwarya Rai, Diana Hayden, Yukta Mookhey and Priyanka Chopra
  • Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, Diana Hayden and Yukta Mookhey
  • None of these
Who has won the 2017 Pulitzer prize in fiction ?
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Hisham Matar
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Matthew Desmond
This Indo-Canadian novelist has written only three novels till date and has been shortlisted for Booker Prize for all three of them. Who is this author?
Prime minister has declared __________ award for ten achievers from ASEAN countries on the occasion of silver jubilee of India-ASEAN ties and $$69^{th}$$ Republic day.
  • Padma Vibhushan
  • Padam Bhushan
  • Padma Shri
  • None of these
Who became the first Indian origin American to win the Miss America pagent in $$2014$$?
  • Nina Davuluri
  • Katie Stam
  • Kimberly Aiken
  • Tara Holland
Who is the only Indian to have won an Oscar for lifetime achievement in films?
  • Mani Ratnam
  • Yash Chopra
  • Anurag Basu
  • Satyajit Ray
Who among the following has won the 2017 Pen Printer Prize?
World Radio Day (WRD) is observed every year on February 13 to celebrate radio as the medium for entertainment, information and the mode for communication. What was the theme of the 2018 WRD?
  • Youth and Radio
  • Radio and sports
  • Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Radio
  • Radio is you
Which country hosted the united Nations Day of Vesak 2017?
  • Malaysia
  • Indonesia
  • Sri Lanka
  • Myanmar
World Press Freedom Day is observed on which of the following dates?
  • August 18
  • May 9
  • May 3
  • July 1
When was the prestigious award Pulitzer Prize established?
  • 1901
  • 1899
  • 1911
  • 1917
The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated in India in January every other year to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the development of India. In which city was the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrated in $$2017$$?
  • Hyderabad
  • Kochi
  • Bhopal
  • Bengaluru
The legendary American author Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature inWhich of these is a famous novel by this eminent writer?
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Europe
Who has won the 2017 Sahitya Akadami Bal Sahitya Puraskar award (English)?
For his scientific work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in $$1954$$. In $$1962$$, for his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This makes him the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. Who is this incredible gentleman?
  • Linus Pauling
  • Frederic Joliot
  • Richard Feynman
  • Aage Bohr
Which of the following countries was the host country for 2017 World Environment Day celebrations?
  • South Korea
  • Canada
  • France
  • South Africa
Mahatma Gandhi Seva Award was instituted in $$2014$$ by the Karnataka government. Who among the following was the first winner of this award?
  • Channamma Hallikeri
  • S. N. Subba Rao
  • N. S. Hardikar
  • K. G. Subramanyan
This multi-award-winning movie about a poverty-stricken woman who, in the absence of her husband, struggles to raise her sons and survive many troubles, was India's first entry for the Academy Award inBut, it lost the Oscar by one vote. What is the name of the movie?
  • Garam Hawa
  • Mother India
  • Aurat
  • Jagte Raho
He was awarded with Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 2001 for his extensive work on water conservation in drought prone Eastern Rajasthan by building water harvesting structures. Who is he? 
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  • Dr. Rajendra Singh
  • Fateh Singh Rathore
  • Valmik Thapar
  • Chewang Norphel
Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of British boys stuck on an Uninhabited island, who try to govern themselves with disastrous result. It was the Noble Prize winning author's first book and is considered one of the top 100 books of the twentieth century. Who wrote this novel?
Who has won the $$2017$$ Pulitzer Prize in fiction?
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Hisham Matar
  • None of these
The $$89^{th}$$ Academy Awards commonly referred to as Oscars honoured the best films ofIt took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Who hosted the Academy Awards Ceremony?
The Golden Bear is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Which film has won the Golden Bear Award at the $$67^{th}$$ Berlin International Film Festival $$2017$$?
  • The Other Side of Hope
  • On Body and Soul
  • Close-Knit
  • None of these
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK. Many Indians have won this prestigious award. Which Indian writer won it for her book entitled 'The God of Small Things'?

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  • Kiran Desai
  • Anita Brookner
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Anita Desai
At the $$2018$$, Grammy Awards, an extraordinary event happened : Reading of a popular book by Cher, Snoop Dogg, Cardi B, John Legend, DJ Khaled and Hillary Clinton. Which book is this?
  • Artemis
  • Fire and Fury
  • Thanks, Obama
  • Forest Dark
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, $$2015$$ was awarded to __________ for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair".
  • Tomas Lindahl
  • Paul L. Modrich
  • Aziz Sancer
  • All of these
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a historic railway station in Mumbai, which serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways. In which style form was it built?
  • Corinthian
  • Classical Greece-Roman
  • Victorian Gothic Revival
  • Dorian
$$2017's$$ winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace received it "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and its ground breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".
Identify this organisation.
  • Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
  • Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
He is an American actor and film producer who was acclaimed for his performances in several films including 'The Departed' and 'Inception'. He has won his first ever Oscar Award in the yearName him.
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