Ans: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize.
It is an honorary award
presented once every five years for the outstanding achievements and
contributions of two individuals (one female and one male).
2. Which award is given by the Academy of Recordings Arts
and Sciences in the United States?
Ans: Grammy Awards
3. Which Indian was in the shortlist of the 2015 Man Booker
Prize?
Ans: Sunjeev Sahota (Novel-The Year of the Runaways)
The 2015 Man Booker Prize was
won by Marlon James, for her novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings.
4. Which is the first organisation to win a Nobel Prize?
Ans: Institute of International Law (1904 Nobel Prize for
Peace)
5. Name the organisation from Kerala which got the Right
Livelihood Award in 1996?
Ans: Kerala Sashtra Sahitya Parishad
6. The Templeton Award, instituted by industrialist John
Templeton, is given in which field?
Ans: Religion and Spirituality
7. As per the rules of the Nobel Price, a maximum of how
many persons can share an award?
Ans: Three
8. Which award, instituted by the Booker Prize Foundation,
is given to writers once in two years?
Ans: Man Booker International Prize
9. Who is the first recipient of the World Food Prize?
Ans: Prof. M.S. Swaminathan (1987). The other Indians who received
this award are,
F Dr.
Verghese Kurien (1988)
F Dr
Gurdev
Singh Khush (1996)
F B.R. Barwale (1998)
F Dr.
Surinder K. Vasal (2000)
F Dr
Modadugu Gupta (2005)
F Dr. Sanjaya
Rajaram (2014)
F The
2015 winner of the Prize is Fazle Hasan Abed (Bangladesh).
The award is given annually to
recognise contributions in any field involved in the world supply of food.
10. Name the three films which won 11 Academy Awards each.
Ans: Ben-Bur (1959)
F Titanic
(1997)
F The Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
11. Which individual got the most number of Oscar Awards?
Ans: Walt Disney (22)
The most number of Oscars won
by a female is Edith Head (Eight), for costume designing.
12. Name the Keralite who entered the short list for the Man
Booker Prize in 2012.
Ans: Jeet Tayyil (Novel- Narcopolis)
13. Who got the most number of Oscars for acting?
Ans: Katherine Hepburn (4)
14. Name the Indians who won the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Ans: Sanjiv Chaturvedi and Anshu Gupta
The other winners of the 2015
award are Kommaly Chanthavong (Laos), Kyaw Thu (Myanmar) and Ligaya Fernando-
Amilbangsa (Philippines)
15. Who is the first head of a state in get a Nobel Prize?
Ans: Theodore Roosevelt.
He got the 1906 Nobel peace
Prize, while he was the President of the United States.
16. Who is the first recipient of the International Gandhi Peace
Prize?
Ans: Julius Nyerere (1995)
F The
award was launched on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi.
F The
jury of the award consists of the Prime Minister of India, the Leader of the
Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the Chief Justice of India and two eminent
persons.
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