Ans: UNESCO
F Guillermo Cano World
Press Freedom Prize. The prize is named in honour of Guillermo Cano, the
Columbian journalist who was assassinated in 1986.
F The 2015 award was won
by Mazen Darwish, Syrian media activist who has been in prison since 2012.
2. Name the 2015 Grammy Album of the Year.
Ans: Morning Phase" (Produced by the singer
Beck Hansen)
F The Grammy Award for the
Record of the Year was won by “Stay with Me” by Swam Smith.
3. The Pritzker Prize is awarded in which field?
Ans: Architucture
4. Which newspaper won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize
for Public Service?
Ans: The Post and Courier
5. Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada), Tony de Brum (Canada),
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (Uganda) and Gino Strada (Italy) are the recipients
of the 2015 edition of which international award?
Ans: Right Livelihood Award
F The award was instituted
in 1980 by a Jakob Von Uexkull. The first Indian recipient is Ela Bhatt, along
with her organisation, Self-Employed Women’s Association (1984)
6. Which international award, given by the
Association of Computing Machinery, is termed to be the Nobel Prize in
Computing?
Ans: Turing Award
7. Which posthumous award is given by the UN to
military personnel, police, or civilians who lose their lives while serving In a
United Nations peace keeping operation?
Ans: Dag Hammarskjold Medal
8. Who received the 2015 Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace, Disarmament and Development?
Ans: United Nations High commissioner for
refugees (UNHCR)
9. The BAFTA Awards are given by which
organisation?
Ans: British Academy of Film and Television
10. Which international award was has been established
by the European Union, to honour individuals and groups of people who have
dedicated their lives M the defense of hmuan rights and freedom of thought?
Ans: Sakharov Peace Prize.
F Raif Badawi, a Saudi
Arabian writer, dissident and activist won the 2015 Sakharov Peace Prize.
11. The seventeen year old Abraham M Keita from Liberia
won the 2015 edition of which international prize?
Ans: International Children's Peace Prize
F The award is an initiative
of the Kids Rights Foundation, headquartered in Amsterdam
12. Which country gives the award named National
Malala Peace Prize?
Ans: Pakistan
13.Which international medal is administered by
the National Constitution Centre of the : United States?
Ans: Liberty Medal
F The 2015 winner is Dalai
Lama
14. Who was the first Time Person of the Year?
Ans: Charles Lindbergh (1927)
F The 2015 Time Persian of
the Year is Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.
F She also tops the list
of the Forbes Most Powerfel Women in the World.
15. Who tops the list of the Forbes 2015 List of
the World's most Powerful People?
Ans: Vladimir Putin
16. In which year was the Bharat Ratna fisrt
awarded?
Ans: 1954
F The first recipients were
C Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli
RadhaKrishnan and CV Raman.
17. In 2014, Sachin Tendulkar, along with which
famous chemist received the Bharat Ratna?
Ans: CNR Rao
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