CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 3 - MCQExams.com

Who in India was conferred the highest British award 'The Order of Merit(OM)'?
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Rajiv Gandhi
  • Mother Teresa
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
Ramon Magsaysay award is named after the former President of.
  • Philippines
  • Thailand
  • Indonesia
  • None of these
Who received the International Prize in statistics on $$19$$ October $$2016$$?
  • Sir David Cox
  • Hu Jia
  • Raif Badawi
  • Jafar Panahi
Kalinga award is instituted by
  • Indian Adult Education Association for outstanding contribution of adult literacy in India
  • Gnanpith, a cultural-literary society for encouraging creative writing, in various modern Indian languages
  • UNESCO for exceptional contribution of efforts to popularise science
  • None of the above
Which renowned Hindi scholar has been named for the 2016 Vyas Samman?
  • Surendra Verma
  • Vishwanath Tripathi
  • Kamal Kishore Goyenka
  • Sunita Jain
Who was chosen for the Abel Prize in Mathematics in $$2016$$?
  • Mikhail Gromov
  • John T. Tate
  • Andrew Wiles
  • John Milnor
Who has been appointed as the head of UN peacekeeping on February 14, 2017 for a year?
  • Herve Ladsous
  • Jean-Pierre Lacroix
  • Atul Khare
  • Jeffrey Feltman
Which bank has won the 2017 National MSME Excellence Award on February 10, 2017?
  • Canara Bank
  • Corporation Bank
  • Dena Bank
  • Andhra Bank
Who won G.D. Birla award for Scientific Research $$2015$$?
  • Manindra Agrawal
  • Prof. Sanjay Mittal
  • Subhasis Choudhry
  • Tarun Vaidyanathan
Who has been conferred with the highest US civilian honour, Presidential Medal of Freedom, on January 12, 2017 by President - Barak Obama?
  • Paul Ryan
  • Joe Biden
  • Jacob Lew
  • John Kerry
Who has been conferred with The Hindu Prize 2016 at the 7th edition of the Hindu Literature for Life festival 2017 ?
  • Pradeep Sebastian
  • Manjula Padmanabhan
  • Kiran Doshi
  • Anil Menon
Who has been crowned as the Miss Universe 2017?
  • Andrea Tovar
  • Raquel Pelissier
  • Iris Mittenaere
  • Roshmitha Harimurthy
Mawlynnong village which was named as the Cleanest Village in Asia in 2003 is located in which state of India ? 
  • Assam
  • Meghalaya
  • Manipur
  • Arunachal Pradesh
The 7-day Khajuraho Dance Festival 2017 has been organized in which state?
  • Madhya Pradesh
  • Assam
  • Arunachal Pradesh
  • Tamil Nadu
Gold Panda, world's top international conservation award, is instituted by
  • WWF
  • UNESCO
  • Green Peace
  • WWW
Dhyan Chand Award for $$2016$$ in the discipline of Rowing was given to.
  • Rajendra Pralhad Shelke
  • Gundeep Kumar
  • J.S. Bhatia
  • Sukhbir Singh
The first Indian to get the Oscar Award was.
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Bhanu Athaiya
  • Shekhar Kapoor
Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize for his work.
  • Evening Songs
  • Morning Songs
  • Gitanjali
  • Gora
Who among the following has been chosen for the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal for the Young Scientist Award for the year 2017 ?
  • Sanjay Pratihar
  • Naresh Lodha
  • Murari Tripathi
  • Prateek Desai
Who got Oscar award posthumously?
  • Peter Finch
  • Sir Lawrence Olivier
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Oliver Hardy
Which Sports person received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2016?
  • Gagan Narang
  • P.V. Sindhu
  • Deepika Kumari
  • Yuvraj Singh
Who has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at 6th National Photography Awards on March 22, 2017?
  • Dipayan Bhar
  • Ravinder Kumar
  • Raghu Rai
  • Atul Chotibey
Which 2 eminent persons received the Country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna in 2015? 
  • M.S. Subbulakshmi and Pandit Ravi Shankar
  • Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul ICalam and Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali
  • Bismilla Khan and Kumari Lata Mangeshkar
Name the Indian-origin British Cabinet Minister, who received Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) on 28th March 2017 
  • Smita Shah
  • Priti Patel
  • Vibha Parikh
  • Neela Joshi
Who has been named for the 2017 Padma Vibhushan award in the field of Art and Music?
  • Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • Shri K J Yesudas
  • Shri Sharad Pawar
  • Shri Murli ManoharJoshi
Who recieved the first Rajiv Gandhi Kind Ratna Award for the year 1991-92 in 1992?
  • Viswanathan Anand
  • Geet Sethi
  • Leander Paes
  • Karnam Malleswari
Who was the first actor to get Oscar Award?
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Fairbanks
  • Montgomery
  • Emil Jannings
Whose Ramayana in Telugu received Gnanpith Award?
  • Viswanath Satyanarayana
  • Narayana Reddy
  • Rayaprolu Subba Rao
  • Duvvuri Rami Reddy
Who among the following has been honoured by Tamil Nadu State Government with "Avvaiyar Award" for 2017?
  • Padma Venkataraman
  • Vaidehi Chinappa
  • Shruti Iyer
  • Srilata Venkatesh
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service had been given to _______
  • Los Angeles Times
  • New York Times
  • Associated Press
  • The Sun Herald
Bollywood actress, ________ has received the 'International Humanitarian Award' at the second annual Asian Voice Charity Awards.
  • Katrina Kaif
  • Deepika Padukone
  • Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Priyanka Chopra
Which woman player was given Arjuna Award for 2016 in Athletics?
  • Sushma Devi
  • Poovamma
  • Lalita Babar
  • Asha Roy
Which among the following has been adjudged as Cleanest City in Swachh Survekshan 2017?
  • Surat, Gujarat
  • Indore, Madhya Pradesh
  • Amritsar, Punjab
  • Pune, Maharashtra.
_______, a 43-year-old UK entrepreneur has become the first India-born woman to be elected as a councillor to a ward in the UK
  • Rehana Ameer
  • Malti Pathak
  • Sheela Patel
  • Mahrukh Dastoor
Who among the following has won the prestigious 2016 Wisden-MCC (Melbourne Cricket Council) Cricket Photograph of the Year?
  • Munatazir Sheikh
  • Bilal Khan
  • Imtiyaz Ahmed
  • Saqib Majeed
Who among the following became the first person to win the MTV Movie and TV Awards'new gender-neutral Best Actor in a Movie award ?
  • Kate Winslet
  • Carey Mulligan
  • Keira Knightley
  • Emma Watson
Who was awarded Templeton Prize 2016?
  • Francisco J. Ayala
  • Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
  • Jonathan Sacks
  • Rev, Desmond Tutu
Who will be conferred with the Rashtriya Kalidas Samman for the year 2016-17?
  • N. Rajam
  • Anupam Kher
  • Banshi Kaul
  • Raj Bisaria
Who among the following has won this year's WWF International President's Award for his efforts to change attitudes towards nature? 
  • Abhishek Jindal
  • Rohan Chakravarty
  • Neeraj Patel 175
  • Shankar Reddy
Which among the following has become the first Indian city to win Pierre L'Enfant Award?
  • Guwahati, Assam
  • Bhubaneswar, Odisha
  • Kochi, Kerala
  • Pune, Maharashtra
Name the person who received both Bharat Ratna and Nishan-e-Pakistan.
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  • Ayub Khan
  • Morarji Desai
The' Tiger's Wife' was written by
  • Téa Obreht
  • Charles Darwin
  • J.M. Barrie
  • John Bunyan
'Invisible Man' was written by 
  • H.G Wells
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • John Keats
  • R.L. Stevenson
Who was conferred the prestigious "Mother Teresa International Award for Social Justice" for $$2015$$?
  • Vinod Mehta
  • Sanjiv Bhatt
  • Aishwarya Rai
  • Bilquis Bano
Who among the following was honoured with German Green Talent award 2018?
  • T.N. Seshan
  • Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • Peter Jackson
  • Shamik Chowdhury
Who created the character ' Sancho Panza'?
  • Cervantes
  • George Elot
  • P.G. Wode House
  • Kipling
Who among the following was honoured with sustainable development leadership award on $$6th$$ October, $$2016$$?
  • Aravanan and Porko
  • Ilavarasu
  • Pawan Chamling
  • Ramanathan
Who received "Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management in $$2014$$?
  • Prof. Yash Pal
  • Smt. Tessy thomas
  • Smt. Aruna Roy
  • Dr. A.S. Pillai
Who among the following has won this year's TIME magazine's Readers' Poll of the 100 most influential people in the world?
  • Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
  • Donald Trump, President of US
  • Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
  • Elon Musk, Tesla CEO.
The Book ' Bread, Beauty and Revolution" was written by
  • Milton
  • K.A. Abbas
  • Jules Verne
  • Bernard Shaw
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