Awards and Honours Questions

1. Which Indian was among the first recipients of Magsaysay Award?

Ans: Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1958)

2. Which prize, instituted in 1731 by the Royal Society of Landon, is considered to be the oldest surviving seientific award in the world?

Ans: Copley Medal.

  F The 2015 winner of the award is Peter Higgs.

3. Who is the first winner of the Man Booker Prize?

Ans: PH Newby (1969, Novel- Something to Answer for)

4. Name the Belarusian writer and journalist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize fig Literature.

Ans: Svetlana Alexievich

5. In which year did Salmon Rushdie get Booker Prize?

Ans:  1981 (Novel- Midnight’s Children)

The other Indian recipients of the Booker Prize are,

F Arundhati Roy (1997, The God of Small Things)

F Kiran Desi (2006, The Inherithnee of Loss)

F Aravind Adige (2008, The White Tiger)

6. Which Trinidadian writer of Indian origin, Known for the book, In a Free State, got the 1971 Booker Prize?

Ans: V S Naipaul

7. Takaaki Kaijita and Arthur B McDonald won the 2015 Physics Nobel Prize, for their discovery about the mass of which particle?

Ans: Neutrinos

8. The 2015 Nobel Prize in which subject was shared by Thomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for the mechanistic studies of DNA repair?

Ans: Chemistry

9. Which Syrian-Lebanese Arab poet received the 2015 Kumaran Asan World Prize for poetry?

Ans: Adonis

10. Which award was instituted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association?

Ans: Golden Globe Award

11. Name the only person who received both the Oscar and the Booker Awards?

Ans: Ruth Pawer Jhabwala

12. Who got the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine?

Ans: William C Campbell and Satoshi Omura

The award was for their discoveries concerning a new therapy against infections caused by roundworm parsite

13. What is the group of four organisations- The Tunisian General Labour Union, Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers, cmmonly called?

Ans: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

F The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was won by this group

14. What is the exact name of the Economics Nobel Prize?

Ans: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

F The prize was first awarded in 1969.

F The 2015 award was won by Angus Deaton for his analysissis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

15. Which Malayalam movie was awarded Golden Pheasant (Suvarna Chakoram) for the best film in the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) 2014?

Ans: Ottal (Directed by Jayaraj)

16. Which movie was awarded the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) for the best film in the Cannes International Film Festival?

Ans: Dheepan (French)

17. Who won the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or?

Ans: Lionel Messi

F This is his fifth Ballon d’Or. Carli Lloyd is the 2015 FIFA Woman Player of the Year.

18. Which award, institutud by the International Mathematical Union, is given every four years to recognise outstanding mathematical achievement? Ans: Fields Medal

F The 2014 winners are Artur Avila, Manjul Bhargava, Martin Hairer and Maryam Mirzakhani.

F Maryam Mirzakhani (Iran) is the only woman ever to have won the prize.