CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Awards And Prizes Of India And World Quiz 4 - MCQExams.com

Name the person who had been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2016. 
  • Alice Munro
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Han Kang, Deborah Smith
  • Eleanor Canon
Who is the first Indian won the BAFTA film award?
  • Rasool Pookutti
  • A.R. Rehman
  • Taban Sinha
  • Krish Karnad
The first music artist who received Bharat Ratna Award was
  • Lata Mangeshkar
  • M.S. Subbulakshmi
  • Ustad Bismillah Khan
  • Ravi Shankar
Prem Bhatia Award is associated with
  • Journalism
  • Literature
  • Sports
  • Medicine
The first Neetaji Award announced In 2007 was to ______.
  • Fidel Castro
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Shyam Bengal
  • I.K. Gujral
Who among the following Indian peacekeepers will be honored posthumously with UN medal?
  • Brijesh Thapa and Private Ravi Kumar
  • Brijesh Thapa and Akhilendra Singh
  • Akhilendra Singh and Private Ravi Kumar
  • Brijesh Thapa and Baldev Tomar
Which organisation(s) won the "ICSI National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance - 2015"? 
  • Wipro Ltd.
  • Engineers India Ltd.
  • CMC
  • ONGC Ltd.
Highest decoration for valour and sacrifice in Indian forces is
  • Mahavir Chakra
  • Paramvir Chakra
  • Ashoka Chakra
  • Bharat Ratna
Who received Nobel Prize for Physiology / Medicine in 2016?
  • Yoshinori Ohsumi.
  • Sir John B. Gurdon & Shinya Yamanaka
  • Richard Anel & Linda Buck
  • Andrew Z. Fire & Craig C. Mello
Feroz Gandhi Award is given to outstanding performance in the field of
  • journalism
  • parliamentary debate
  • medical research
  • preservation of wild life
Which one of the following is correctly matched? 
  • Kiran Bedi Award - Ramon Magsaysay
  • Aung San Suu Kyi - Wimbledon
  • Pete Sampras - Premium Imperriale Award
  • Charles Correa - Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
Who among the following won the Europe's Top human rights award, the "Sakharov Prize" in october 2016?
  • Dharmendra
  • Nadia Murad Basse and Lamiya Aji Bashar
  • Shatrughan Sinha
  • Amitabh Bachchan
Match List-I with List-II correctly and select your answer :
List-I (Persons)List-ll (Prizes Won)
a)Jimmy Carter1)Booker Prize
b)James Kelman2)Kurt Tucholsky Prize
c)Taslima Nasreen3)Fullbright Prize for International Understanding 
d)Mikhail Gorbachev4)U. Thant Prize
Codes:
a)    b)    c)    d)
  • 3 2 1 4
  • 3 1 2 4
  • 1 2 3 4
  • 4 2 3 1
In the $$58^{th}$$ Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony held in $$2016$$, the Best World Music Album Award was won by
  • Alison Krauss
  • Adele
  • Natalie Cole
  • Angelique Kidjo
Who among the following persons refused to accept the Padma Vibhushan Award?
  • Ustad Vilayat Khan
  • Pandit Ravi Shankar
  • Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
  • Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on
  • Special theory of relativity
  • General theory of relativity
  • Theory of photoelectric effect
  • Theory of Brownian motion
Who among the following has been awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar for the year $$2016$$?
  • Suresh Rajshekhkar
  • Satyabrata Rout
  • Jayesh Sheth
  • Siddhesh Gajjar
Which city's police department has received the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) Smart Police Award for the year 2017?
  • Indore
  • Varanasi
  • Pune
  • Kochi
Who among the following shared the first UN Population Award with a Chinese?
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Yuri Andropov
  • Yehudi Menuhin
Who won the $$24th$$ Ekalabya award on $$8th$$ October, $$2016$$?
  • Sprinter Srabani Nanda
  • Vikas Amte
  • Prakash Amte
  • Kota Harinarayan
Who among the following received Nobel Prize for full sequence of the $$51$$ amino acids in insulin?
  • Linus Pauling
  • Maurice Wilkins
  • Sanger
  • Watson and Crick
The first Indian/Asian to get the Nobel Prize was ______________.
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • C.Rajagopalachari
  • C.V.Raman
  • Hargobind Khorana
To which foreigner was the Bharat Ratna award given in $$1990$$?
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Gorbachev
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Saddam Hussain
Which Bollywood actress will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award for being an international icon?
  • Deepika Padukone
  • Katrina Kaif
  • Priyanka Chopra
  • Sonam Kapoor
Who among the following film personalities has NOT yet received the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for distinguished service to the film industry?
  • Raj Kapoor
  • Rakeysh Mehra
  • Shyam Benegal
  • Ashok Kumar
Who received Arjuna Award in the discipline of Para-Athletics in $$2016$$?
  • Anupama Gokhale
  • Sandeep Singh Mann
  • Manuel Aaron
  • Devaki Prasad
In $$1973$$, the Nobel Prize in Physiology for deciphering the language of bees was awarded to
  • H.G.Khorana
  • K.V.Frisch
  • Julian Huxley
  • Dorothy Hodgkins
The Nargis Dutt Film Award is given to the best feature film on _____________.
  • National integration
  • Environment
  • Social issues
  • Wholesome entertainment
Sophie prize is related to ____________.
  • films
  • social work
  • environment
  • medicine
What is the rank of India in the renewable energy country attractiveness index by Ernst & Young (EY)?
  • $$1^{st}$$
  • $$2^{nd}$$ May
  • $$3^{rd}$$ May
  • $$4^{th}$$ May
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