1. Wolf Prize is given by:
(a) USA (b) Israel (c) Japan (d) Britain
Ans: b
2. Wolf Prize was given for the first time in:
(a) 1978 (b) 1988 (c)
1990 (d)
1970
Ans: a
3. Wolf Prize is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry; Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and ______.
(a) Peace (b) Arts (c)
Economics (d) Literature
Ans: b
4. Wolf Prize in Arts rotates annually between architecture,
music, painting and ______.
(a) Sculpture (b) Cinema (c) Drama (d) Acting
Ans: a
5. Until the establishment of the _____ the Wolf Prize was
probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics",
since the more prestigious Fields Medal was only awarded every 4 years to
mathematicians under 40.
(a) BAFTA Award (b) Jerusalem Prize
(c) Lasker Award (d) Abel Prize
Ans: d
6. Wolf Foundation was founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf who was
born in:
(a) Cuba (b) Spain (c) Germany (d) France
Ans: c
7. The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been
awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions
to _____.
(a) Medical science (b) Mathematics (c) Literature (d) Cinema
Ans: a
8. What is known as 'America's Nobel'?
(a) Oscar Award (b) Grammy Award
(c) Lasker Award (d) Jerusalem Prize
Ans: c
9. The Award given in International Congress of the
International Mathematical Union:
(a) Lasker Award (b) Fields Medal (c) Wolf Prize (d) Abel Prize
Ans: b
10. Founded at the behest of Canadian mathematician John
Charles Fields, Fields medal was first awarded in:
(a) 1916 (b) 1926 (c) 1946 (d) 1936
Ans: d
11. Fields Medal has been regularly awarded since:
(a) 1950 (b) 1955 (c) 1960 (d) 1965
Ans: a
12. Which is known as the 'Mathematician's Nobel'?
(a) Oscar (b) BAFTA Award (c) Pulitzer Prize (d) Abel Prize
Ans: d
13. Abel Prize was awarded for the first time in:
(a) 2000 (b) 2001
(c) 2002 (d) 2003
Ans: d
14. In which year Arundhathy Roy got Booker Prize?
(a) 1996 (b) 1997 (c) 1998 (d) 1999
Ans: b
15. The book of Arundhathy Roy got Booker Prize:
(a) The Road ahead (b)
The God of Small things
(c) The Greater Common Good (d) Ina Free State
Ans: b
16. Who got Booker of Booker (1983) and Best of Booker Award
(2008) for the book 'Midnight's Children'?
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) P.H.Newby
(c) V.S. Naipaul (d) Ben Okri
Ans: a
17. Aravind Adiga's debut novel, The White Tiger, won the
Booker Prize in:
(a) 2005 (b) 2008 (c)
2006 (d) 2007
Ans: b
18. Booker Prizes were started in:
(a) 1960 (b) 1962
(c) 1964 (d) 1968
Ans: d
19. Booker Prizes are given to authors in _____ language:
(a) German (b) English (c) French (d) Russian
Ans: b
20. The first to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy (b) Salman Rushdie
(c) P.H. Newby (d) V.S. Naipaul
Ans: c
21. The first to get two booker prizes:
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Peter Carey (c) Ben Okri (d) JM Coetzee
Ans: b
22. Who got Booker Prize and Nobel Literature Prize?
(a) VS Naipaul (b) Salman Rushdie (c) JM Coetzee (d) (a) and (c)
Ans: d
23. The first person of Indian orgin to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy (b)
Kiran Desai (c) V.S. Naipaul (d) Ben Okri
Ans: c
24. The first Indian to get Booker Prize:
(a) Kiran Desai (b) Arundathy Roy (c) Salman Rushdie
Ans: b
25. The second Indian to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy (b) Kiran Desai (c) Jhumpa Lahiri
Ans: b
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