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Below is a list of most renowned awards:

Noble Prize
Noble Prize are for Contributions to society
Bharat Ratna

It is India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest

degrees of national service

Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer awards are for Literacy achievement

Padma Awards:

Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri

Padma awards are for exceptional and distinguished service
in any field including service rendered by Government
servants.

Gallantry Awards:

Param Vir Chakra (PVC), Ashok Chakra, Shaurya

Chakra
These awards are given for appreciating the brave and
gallant

The Golden Peacock

Awards

It is recognised worldwide as the hallmark of corporate

excellence. It builds the Brand Equity and inspires and aligns
the entire workforce.

Manthan Award

It is an initiative in India to recognize the best practices in eContent and Creativity.

Arjun Awards

Arjuna Award is given for Excellence in sports

FiFi Awards

The FiFi Awards honor the fragrance industry's creative

achievements

International Gandhi
Peace Prize

This award is given to individuals and institutions for their

contributions towards social, economic and political
revolution through non-violence and Gandhian philosophy.
The award carries Rs. 10 million in cash.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

National Award

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is for Excellence in Public

Administration, Academics and Management

Rajiv Gandhi Khel

Ratna

The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is Indias highest honour given

for achievement in sports.

GREEN STAR AWARDS

The Green Star Awards recognize those who have made

extraordinary efforts to respond to environmental disasters
around the world.

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1.

First women from India to win a

Nobel prize

Mother Teresa, peace prize in 1979

2.

First woman to receive Bharat

Ratna

Indira Gandhi in 1971

3.

First recipient of Jnanpith award

G Sankara Kurup, for Odakkuzhal (Flute) in

Malayalam

4.

First woman to win the Jnanpith

award

Asha Purna Devi 1976 for her work Pratham

Pratisrutiin Bengali

5.

First Indians to win Bharat Ratna

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari,

Dr. C. V. Raman in 1954

6.

First Indian to win Nobel Prize in

Literature

Rabindranath Tagore

7.

First Indian to win two Oscar

A. R. Rahman

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8.

First Indian to win an Oscar in the

technical category is

Resul Pookutty

9.

First Indian to win booker Prize

Arundhati roy in 1997 for 'The God of Small

Things'

10.

First Indian woman to win a Pulizer Jhumpa Lahiri in 2000

Prize

11.

First Indian to win Dadasaheb

Phalke Award

Devika Rani in 1970

12.

First Indian Oscar winner

Bhanu Athaiya, for best costume design for

the film 'Gandhi' in 1982

13.

First Indian Oscar nomination for

Best Foreign Language Film

Mother India, 1957

14.

First Indian Olympic team medal

gold for Hockey, at Amsterdam beating the

Netherlands in 1928

15.

Winner of first Indian Olympic

Individual medal

K. D. Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki

in 1952

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1.

Apart from Journalism and Literature, this is the area in which

excellence is honoured with The Pulitzer Prize?
(a) Music
(b) Sports
(c) Social Work
(d) Charity

Answer: (a)

2.

Who won the 2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Abuja,

Nigeria?
(a) Netherlands
(b) Switzerland
(c) Brazil
(d) Portugal

Answer: (b)

3.

Arjuna award is given to prominent sports persons in India.

Arjuna Award wasintroduced in
(a) 1971
(b) 1961
(c) 1981
(d) 1991

Answer: (b)

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4.

Besides Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, which other foreigner has

won the Bharat Ratna award?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) Kofi Annan
(d) Mujib-ur-Rahman

Answer: (a)

5.

Besides Roosevelt, who among the following Presidents of

America has won the Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) Thomas Jefforson
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Wudro Wilson
(d) none of these

Answer: (c)

6.

Booker prize is given to the field of :

(a) Poetry
(b) Drama
(c) Essay
(d) Fiction

Answer: (d)

7.

Consider the following statements :

1. V.K. Krishna Menon Foundation is based in New Delhi.
2. The first recipient of the V.K. Krishna Menon Award is the
Chief Justice of India, KG. Balakrishnan.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (b)

8.

Consider the following statements:

1.Nobel Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo by the King of
Norway.
2. The Nobel laureate receives three things-a diploma, a medal
and a document confirming the prize amount.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct ?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (c)

9.

Contribution to which field is honoured by Dhanvantari

Answer: (d)

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award?
(a) Physics
(b) space research
(c) literature
(d) medicine

10.

Contribution to which field is honoured by the B D Goenka

Award?
(a) Literature
(b) Journalism
(c) Culture
(d) Science

Answer: (b)

11.

Contribution to which field is honoured by the Global 500

award?
(a) Cinema
(b) Environmental conservation
(c) Sports
(d) Literature

Answer: (b)

12.

Contribution to which field is honoured by the Kalinga awards? Answer: (a)

(a) Science and Technology
(b) Literature
(c) Peace
(d) Environmental protection

13.

Dada Saheb Phalke award is for the contribution to :

(a) Cinema
(b) Sports
(c) Literature
(d) Environment

Answer: (a)

14.

Despite being the greatest super hit film of all the times,
Sholay has won only one Filmfare Award. In which category did
it get it?
(a) Best Film
(b) Sound Recording
(c) Music
(d) Editing

Answer: (d)

15.

Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel

Answer: (a)

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Prizes individually for:

(a) Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
(b) Peace prize in 1954, Chemistry in 1962
(c) Physics in 154, Medicine in 1962
(d) Medicine in 1954, Physics in 1962

16.

FiFi awards are given in_____industry:

(a) Film
(b) Home Appliances
(c) Automobiles
(d) Perfumes

Answer: (d)

17.

For outstanding contribution to which one of the following' fields Answer: (c)
is Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize given?
(a) Literature
(b) Performing Arts
(c) Science
(d) Social Service

18.

For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize Awarded?

(a) Physics and chemistry
(b) Physiology or Medicine
(c) Literature, Peace and Economics
(d) All the above

Answer: (d)

19.

Gandhi Peace Prize for 2006 has been Awarded to

(a) Shabana Azmi
(b) Javed Akhtar
(c) Dalai Lama
(d) Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Answer: (a)

20.

In terms of price money which of the following is the highest

award given by the Government of India in any field?
(a) Bharat Ratna
(b) Gandhi Peace Prize
(c) Arjuna Award
(d) Jnanpith Award

Answer: (b)

21.

In terms of Prize money which of the following is the

highest literary prize in India?

Answer: (b)

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(a) Vyas Samman

(b) Saraswathy Samman
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Kalidas Samman

22.

Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar is given in which field :

(a) Cinema
(b) Sports
(c) Environment
(d) Literature

Answer: (c)

23.

Marlon Brando won his second Oscar for The Godfather. For
which film did he win the first Oscar?
(a) Streetcar named Desire
(b) On the Waterfront
(c) Apocalypse No w
(d) Last Tango in Paris

Answer: (B)

24.

Men from which nation has won the highest number of Nobel
Prizes?
(a) England
(b) France
(c) America
(d) Italy

Answer: (c)

25.

Nobel Prize award in Economics has been awarded from the

year :
(a) 1978
(b) 1965
(c) 1960
(d) 1969

Answer: (d)

26.

Nobel Prizes are not given for the performance in the area
of
(a) Literature
(b) Physics
(c) Chemistry
(d) Music

Answer: (d)

27.

On which date is Nobel Prize Awarded?

Answer: (a)

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(a) December 10
(b) January 10
(c) April 10
(d) July 10

28.

Oscar prize is related to

(a) Literature
(b) Films
(c) Science
(d) Music

Answer: (b)

29.

Rahul Banerjee won which of the following Natioanl Senior

Champioship held in January 2008?
(a) Badminton
(b) Chess
(c) Archery
(d) Golf
(E) None of these

Answer: (c)

30.

Sunita Williams is the recipient of which of the following

Awards given away recently?
(a) Woman of the year 2007
(b) Padma Bhushan
(c) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
(d) Pravasi India Award 2007

Answer: (b)

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1.

The Annual Academy awards are better known as

(a) Nobel Prize
(b) Magsasay Award
(c) Oscar Award
(d) None of these

Answer:
(c)

2.

Who was the first winner of Saraswathy Samman?

(a) Rama Kant Path
(b) Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan
(c) Vijay Tendulkar

Answer:
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(d) Dr Harbajan Singh

3.

World Professional Billiards Champion Pankaj Advani accepted

Answer:
the Eklavya award, the highest recognition for a sportsperson in (b)
which state?
(a) Delhi
(b) Karnataka
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Kerala
(e) Andhra Pradesh

4.

The committee of the Norwegian Parliament Awards the prize

for:
(a) Economics
(b) Peace
(c) Medicine
(d) Literature

Answer:
(b)

5.

The Fifth National Winter Games were organized in (a) Jaipur

(b) Gulmarg
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Chennai
(E) Delhi

Answer:
(b)

6.

The first Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature is

(a) Mother Teresa
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sorijini Naidu
(d) C.V. Raman

Answer:
(b)

7.

The highest gallantry Award in India is

(a) Ashok Chakra
(b) Paramvir Chakra
(c) Mahavir Chakra
(d) Param Vishista Chakra

Answer:
(b)

8.

The most coveted Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival was
received by
(a) Hunger
(b) Line of Passage

Answer:
(c)

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(c) The Class

(d) Three Monkeys

9.

The Prize for the oddest book title in a year is known as

(a) The Diagram Prize
(b) The Bizarre Prize
(c) The Bibliophile Prize
(d) The Cenotaph Prize

Answer:
(a)

10.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Awarded the Noble

Prize in:
(a) Physics
(b) Economics
(c) Chemistry
(d) (a) and (c)

Answer:
(d)

11.

The Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest is

_____.
(a) Ravi Kumar
(b) Sameer Mishra
(c) Kuljit Singh
(d) None of these

Answer:
(b)

12.

U-Tant Award is given for:

(a) Social Service
(b) Contribution to east-west understanding
(c) Community leadership
(d) Journalism

Answer:
(a)

13.

When did Amnesty International win the Nobel Prize?

(a) 1917
(b) 1949
(c) 1977
(d) 1982

Answer:
(c)

14.

When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?

(a) 1979
(b) 1975
(c) 1981
(d) 1982

Answer:
(a)

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15.

When did Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize for the first
time?
(a) 1917
(b) 1977
(c) 1949
(d) 1956

Answer:
(a)

16.

When was the Nobel Prize for literature instituted?

(a) 1956
(b) 1969
(c) 1972
(d) 1975

Answer:
(b)

17.

Which American Gallantry award is given to the soldier who is

wounded in action?
(a) Iron Cross
(b) Purple Heart
(c) Congressional Medal
(d) Victoria Cross

Answer:
(B)

18.

Which country has initiated Malcolm Baldridge Award' for

Quality?
(a) USA
(b) UK
(c) France
(d) Japan

Answer:
(d)

19.

Which Indian Business Magazine has initiated the Best Product

Design Award?
(a) Business India
(b) Business Today
(c) Outlook Business
(d) Business Week

Answer:
(d)

20.

Which is the highest literary prize given by the Government in

India?
(a) Saraswati Samman
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Sahitya Akadami Award
(d) Jnanpith Award

Answer:
(c)

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21.

Which is the Prize in Mathematics, equivalent to Nobel Prize?

(a) Newton Prize
(b) Gauss Prize
(c) Fields Prize
(d) Cambridge Prize

Answer:
(c)

22.

Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?

(a) Margaret Atwood
(b) Ian Mc Ewan
(c) J. M. Coetzee
(d) Graham Swift

Answer:
(c)

23.

Which of the following awards is given for contribution to

poetry?
(a) Kabir Award
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Saraswathy Samman
(d) Vyas Samman

Answer:
(a)

24.

Which of the following awards is given to the Best

Parliamentarian?
(a) Gujar Mal Modi Award
(b) J B Pant Award
(c) Nehru Award
(d) none of those

Answer:
(b)

25.

Which of the following awards was instituted by Shanti Prasad

Jain?
(a) Vyas Samman
(b) Shankar Samman
(c) Jnanpith award
(d) Kabir Award

Answer:
(c)

26.

Which of the following awards was instituted by the Indian

National Congress in its Centenary Year?
(a) Gandhi Peace Prize
(b) Nehru Award
(c) Indira Gandhi award for National Integration
(d) Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award

Answer:
(c)

27.

Which of the following awards was instituted in 1992 to mark the

Answer:

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golden jubilee of the Quit India Movement?

(a) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
(b) Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award
(c) Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award
(d) Rajiv Smriti Puraskar

(b)

28.

Which of the following cities will host 2012 Olympics Games?

(a) Paris
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) Madrid

Answer:
(c)

29.

Which of the following films won the best Film Award in 65th
Golden Globe Awardsceremony ?
(a) Away from her
(b) Atonement
(c) No Country for Old Men
(d) Im Not there

Answer::
(b)

30.

Which of the following is an award instituted by the Madhya

Pradesh
Government?
(a) Dhanvantari Award
(b) Kabir Award
(c) Saraswathi Samman
(d) Arjuna Awards

Answer:
(b)

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1.

Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?

(a) Aryabhatta awards
(b) Kalinga Prize
(c) Abdus Salam Prize
(d) None of these

Answer:
(b)

2.

Which of the following is Indias highest decoration for valour? Answer:

(a) Param Vir Chakra
(a)
(b) Mahavir Chakra

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(c) Vir Chakra

(d) Asoka Chakra

3.

Which of the following is Indias highest honour in the field

of literature?
(a) Vyas Samman
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Saraswathi Samman

Answer:
(c)

4.

Which of the following is Indias highest peace-time gallantry

award?
(a) Mahavir Chakra
(b) Ashoka Chakra
(c) Vir Chakra
(d) Param Vir Chakra

Answer:
(b)

5.

Which of the following is the worlds top environmental

conservation award?
(a) Golden Bear Award
(b) Golden Panda Award
(c) Golden Globe Award
(d) Golden Palms Award

Answer:
(b)

6.

Which of the following wing awards are limited only for the
Asians?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru Award
(b) Alternative Nobel Prize
(c) Magsaysay Award
(d) Man Booker Prize

Answer:
(c)

7.

Which one of the following awards instituted by KK Birla

Foundation is given to an individual for outstanding work
on Indian philosophy, culture and art?
(a) Saraswathy Samman
(b) Vyas Samman
(c) Shankar Puraskar
(d) Kalidas Samman

Answer:
(c)

8.

Which one of the following awards is given for contribution to

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poetry?
(a) Kabir award
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Saraswathy Samman
(d) Vyas Samman

(a)

9.

Which one of the following awards was instituted by the KK Birla

Foundation?
(a) Saraswati Samman
(b) Kabir Award
(c) Kalidas Samman
(d) Jnanpith Award

Answer:
(a)

10.

Which one of the following is Indias highest civilian honour?

(a) Bharat Ratna
(b) Padma Bhushan
(c) Padama Vibhushan
(d) Padma Sri

Answer:
(a)

11.

Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three

times so far?
(a) Medame Curie
(b) Linus Pauling
(c) Alexender Flemming
(d) International Committee of the Redcross

Answer:
(d)

12.

Who among the following actors has won the Chevalier

Award instituted by the French Government?
(a) MG Ramakrishnan
(b) Raj Kumar
(c) Shivaji Ganeshan
(d) Kamal Hasan

Answer:
(c)

13.

Who among the following has won the Polar Music

Award instituted by the Royal Music Academy, Sweden?
(a) Sakir Hussein
(b) Pundit Ravi Shankar
(c) Bismillah Khan
(d) Allah Rakha Khan

Answer:
(b)

14.

Who was the first winner of the Jawaharlal Nehru

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Award for International Understanding?

(a) U Thant
(b) Martin Luther King
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(d) Yehudi Menuhin

(a)

15.

Who among the following national leaders have won the highest
civilian honours of Pakistan?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Morarji Desai
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(d) Indira Gandhi

Answer:
(b)

16.

Who among the following was selected for the 2001 Dada
Saheb Phalke Award?
(a) Dev Anand
(b) Lata Mangeshkar
(c) Ramanand Sagar
(d) Yash Chopra

Answer:
(d)

17.

Who among the following was the first to win the Booker Prize?
(a) William Golding
(b) PH Newby
(c) JM Coetzee
(d) Peter Carey

Answer:
(b)

18.

Who among the following was/were selected for the 12th South
Indian Education Society Awards in December 2009?
(a) Somnath Chatterjee
(b) M. Annadurai
(c) E. Sridharan and Satya Vrat Shastri
(d) All of the above

Answer:
(d)

19.

Who amongst the following was honoured with the Jawaharlal

Nehru Award forInternational Understanding fiven away
recently?
(a) Mr. Umaru Yar Adua
(b) Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(c) Mr. Vladimir Putin
(d) Olafur Ragnar

Answer:
(d)

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20.

Who amongst the following won the Mens single title

of Australian Open Tennis 2008?
(a) Novak Djokovic
(b) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(c) Jonathan Erlich
(d) Andy Ram

Answer:
(a)

21.

Who of the following won the Nobel Prize for his work
on Photoelectric effect?
(a) Albert Einstein
(b) Werner Heisenberg
(c) Steven Weinberg
(d) Max Planck

Answer:
(a)

22.

The highest peace time gallantry award in India :

(a) Padma Bhushan
(b) Ashok Chakra
(c) S.S. Bhatnagar award
(d) Padma Vibhushan

Answer:
(b)

23.

Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna?

(a) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Nelson Madela
(d) Benazir Bhutto

Answer:
(a)

24.

Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?

(a) Arundathi Roy
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) VS Naipaul
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri

Answer:
(b)

25.

Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International

Understanding?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Mother Teresa
(c) U. Thant
(d) Dr. Jonas Salk

Answer:
(a)

26.

Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award?

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(a) S Chandra Sekhar

(b) C V Raman
(c) J C Bose
(d) Hargobind Khorana

(b)

27.

Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
(a) Albert Camus
(b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Knut Hamson
(d) Rene Sully Prudhome

Answer:
(d)

28.

With reference to Stree Shakti Puraskar, for which of the following

is "Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award" given?
(a) Administrative skills
Answer:
(b) Achievements in Scientific Research
(a)
(c) Achievements in Sports and Games
(d) Courage and valour

29.

Who was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize?

(a) AT Aryaratne
(b) Julius Nerera
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) None of these

Answer:
(b)

30.

Who was the first winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award?

(a) Vinobha Bhave
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(d) None of these

Answer:
(a)