Questions About Awards

1. In which year was Nelson Mandela awarded the Bharat Ratna?

Ans: 1990

2. Satyendranath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wanchk and V K Krishna Menon were the first ever recipients of which national honour?

Ans: Padma Vibhushan (1954)  

3. who is the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Rata Award?

Ans: Viswanathan Anand (1991-92).

F The 2015 winner of the award is Sonia Mirza, KM Beenamol (2002-03) and Anju Bobby George (2003-04) are the Keralites who have won this award.

4. Raghuveer Chaudhari, winner of the 2015 Jnanpith Award, is a writer in which Language?

Ans:Gujarati

5. Who is the first woman writer to receive Jnanpith Award?

Ans: Ashapoorna Devi (1976)

The other women recipients of the award are,

F Amrita Pritam

F Mahadevi Varma

F Qurratulain Hyder

F Mahasweta Devi

F Indira Goswami

F Pratibha Roy

6. Name the two Tamil winners of Jnanpith Award.

Ans: P V Akilan (1975) and D Jayakanthan (2002)

7. Who is the only Sanskrit writer to get Jnanpith?

Ans: Satya Vrit Shastri (2006)  

8. Which award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith for a work which emphasizes Indian philosophy and cultural heritage?

Ans: Moortidevi Award

F CK. Nagaraja Rao (1983) is the first person to receive the award.

F Akkitham Achuthan Nampoothiri (2009) and C Radhakrishnan (2013) are the Malayalam writers who received this ward.

F The 2014 award was won by the Hindi writer Viswanath Tripathi.

9. Name the national award instituted by the Government of India to the outstanding nursing personnel.

Ans: Florence Nightingale Award  

10. Who is the first musician to get Bharat Ratna?

Ans:M.S. Subbulakshmi (1998)

11. Which award has been instituted by the K K Birla Foundation, for an outstanding literary work in any of the 22 Indian Language listed in Schedule VIII of the Indian constitution?

Ans: Saraswati Samman

F Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1991) is the first recipient of the award.

F The 2014 winner of the award is Veerappa Moily for his book, Ramayana Mahanweshanam (Kannada)

F The Malayalam writers who got this award are Balamani Amma (1995), K. Ayyappa Panicker (2005) and Sugathakumari (2012).

F Vyas Samman is also awarded annually by the K.K Birla Foundation, to a literary work in the Hindi language.

12. V.K Krishna Menon is the first Keralite to win which civilian Award?

Ans:Padma Vibhushan (1955)

13. Which award has been instituted by the Government of India to honour exceptional Non-Resident Indians (NRI) and Persons of Indian Origins (PIO)?

Ans:Pravasi Bharatiya Samman

14. Major Som Nath Sharma was the first recipient of which Indian gallantry award?

Ans:Param Vir Chakra. 

                             He was awarded the medal posthumously.