AWARDS QUESTIONS

2. Find out the odd one
(a) Magsaysay Award
(b) Commonwealth Writers Prize
(c) Jnanapith Award (d) Nobel Prize

OTHERS ARE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

3.M.S. Swaminathan received (a) Magsaysay award (b) Padma Vibhushan (c) Padmabhushan award (d) all the above

4.Arjuna Award was introduced in
(a) 1961 (b) 1969 (c) 1972 (d) 1995 

ARJUN AWARDS FOR SPORTS

5.Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2000 was awarded to the former President of South Africa along with
(a) C. Subramaniam (b) Grameen Bank of Banglasdesh
(c) Satish Dhawan (d) Word Health Organisation

6.Name the film which won 11 Oscars at the 76th Annual Academy Awards
(a) Mystic River  (b) Cold Mountain
(c) The lord of Rings: The Return of the King
(d) Monster

7.U-Tant award is given for:
(a) Contribution to east-west understanding
(b) Community leadership
(c) Social Service (d) Journalism

8.Who among the following has been awarded the Sydney peace Prize 2004 for her work in social campaigns and advocacy to non-violence?
(a) Medha Padkar (b) Vandana Shiva
(c) Arundharti Rai (d) Aparna Sen (e) None of these

9. On whom did the US President George W. bush bestow, in 2002, the US's highest award for life-time achievement in the field of scientific research?
(a) Subramaniam Chandrasekhar
(b) Prof. C. Radhakrishna Rao
(c) Dr. Hargovind Khorana
(d) Arun Netravalli

10. Shirin Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, is from
(a) Iraq (b) Nigeria (c) Iran (d) Libya

11. Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?
(a) Margaret Atwood (b) J. M. Coetzee
(c) Graham  Swift     (d) Ian Mc Ewan

12. The research work of Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield, the Nobel Prize winners for Medicine in 2003, relates to
(a) The control of AIDS (b) Magnetic  resonance imaging
(c) Respiratory diseases (d) Genetic engineering

13. The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Shanta Sinha known as
(a) a campaigner for urban sanitation
(b) an anti-child labour activist
(c) an organiser of rain-water harvesting schemes
(d) an activist for the welfare of poor rural women

14. The first recipient of Kalinga Prize was

ANSWER:  FRENCH PHYSICIST LOUIS DE BROGLIE

15. Nehru Award is instituted for

INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING AND PEACE

16. The scientist who was conferred with all the three national awards: Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna

A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM

17. The first recipient of Gandhi Peace Prize was

DR. JULIUS N. NYERERA

18. In the following who was not a Miss World
(a) Yuktha Mookhey (b) Aishwarya Rai
(c) Priyanka Chopra (d) Sushmita Sen

19. Oscar Award is associated with

CINEMA