Below is a list of most renowned awards:

Noble Prize

Noble Prize are for Contributions to society

Bharat Ratna

It is India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest degrees of

national service

Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer awards are for Literacy achievement

Padma Awards:

Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri

Padma awards are for exceptional and distinguished service in any field
including service rendered by Government servants.

Gallantry Awards:

Param Vir Chakra (PVC), Ashok Chakra, Shaurya Chakra

These awards are given for appreciating the brave and gallant

The Golden Peacock Awards

It is recognised worldwide as the hallmark of corporate excellence. It builds

the Brand Equity and inspires and aligns the entire workforce.

Manthan Award

It is an initiative in India to recognize the best practices in e-Content and

Creativity.

Arjun Awards

Arjuna Award is given for Excellence in sports

FiFi Awards

The FiFi Awards honor the fragrance industry's creative achievements

International Gandhi Peace

Prize

This award is given to individuals and institutions for their contributions

towards social, economic and political revolution through non-violence and
Gandhian philosophy. The award carries Rs. 10 million in cash.

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is for Excellence in Public
Administration, Academics and Management
Award
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is Indias highest honour given for
achievement in sports.

GREEN STAR AWARDS

The Green Star Awards recognize those who have made extraordinary
efforts to respond to environmental disasters around the world.

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Questions

Answers

1.

First women from India to win a

Nobel prize

Mother Teresa, peace prize in 1979

2.

First woman to receive Bharat

Ratna

Indira Gandhi in 1971

3.

First recipient of Jnanpith award

G Sankara Kurup, for Odakkuzhal (Flute) in

Malayalam

4.

First woman to win the Jnanpith

award

Asha Purna Devi 1976 for her work Pratham

Pratisrutiin Bengali

5.

First Indians to win Bharat Ratna

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. C. V.

Raman in 1954

6.

First Indian to win Nobel Prize in

Literature

Rabindranath Tagore

7.

First Indian to win two Oscar

Awards is

A. R. Rahman

8.

First Indian to win an Oscar in the

technical category is

Resul Pookutty

9.

First Indian to win booker Prize

Arundhati roy in 1997 for 'The God of Small Things'

10.

First Indian woman to win a

Pulizer Prize

Jhumpa Lahiri in 2000

11.

First Indian to win Dadasaheb

Phalke Award

Devika Rani in 1970

12.

First Indian Oscar winner

Bhanu Athaiya, for best costume design for the film

'Gandhi' in 1982

13.

First Indian Oscar nomination for

Best Foreign Language Film

Mother India, 1957

14.

First Indian Olympic team medal

gold for Hockey, at Amsterdam beating the

Netherlands in 1928

15.

Winner of first Indian Olympic

Individual medal

K. D. Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki in 1952

Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award which is awarded for the
highest degrees of national service. This service takes account of
artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, and recognition of public
service of the highest order.
The award was established by the first President of India, Rajendra
Prasad, on 2 January 1954. The awarding of the Bharat Ratna was
suspended from 13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980.
The photographs and short biography links associated with this page
would certainly widen reader's knowledge about the history of "Bharat
Ratna Award" besides finding facts about those great souls who have
made our country proud by outshining in their respective fields.

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Name of the
recipient

Awarded
Their individuality
in

1954

Indian political leader, the first and

the only governor-general of
independent India.

1954

Indian physicist, the recipient of the

Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930
(birth. Nov. 7, 1888, Trichinopoly
[Tiruchirappalli], India; death. Nov.
21, 1970, Bengaluru),

1954

Philosopher, scholar and statesman,

president of India from 1962 to
1967

1955

Independence activist, author

Shri Chakravarti
Rajagopalachari

Dr.
Chandrasekhara
Venkata Raman

Dr. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan

Dr. Bhagwan Das

1955

Independence activist, author, first

prime minister of independent India
(1947-64)

1955

Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore

1957

Independence activist, Chief

Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Home
Minister

1958

Also known as Maharishi Karve,

Indian social reformer and educator

Shri Jawaharlal
Nehru

Dr. Mokshagundam
Vivesvaraya

Pt. Govind Ballabh

Pant

Dr. Dhonde Keshav

Karve

1961

Physician, Chief Minister of West

Bengal

1961

Independence activist, educator

1962

First president of the Republic of

India (1950-62). A lawyer-turnedjournalist, also president of the
Indian National Congress

1963

Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

Dr. Bidhan Chandra

Roy

10

Shri Purushottam
Das Tandon

11

Dr. Rajendra
Prasad

12

Dr. Pandurang
Vaman Kane

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1963

Scholar, third President

1966

Posthumous Award: independence

activist, third Prime Minister

1971

Fourth Prime Minister

1975

Trade unionist and fourth President

Dr. Zakir Hussain

14

Shri Lal Bahadur

Shastri

15

Smt. Indira Gandhi

16

Shri Varahagiri
Venkata Giri

17

1976

Posthumous Award: independence

activist, Chief Minister of Madras
State

1980

Catholic nun, founder of the

Missionaries of Charity

1983

Posthumous Award: social

reformer, independence activist

1987

First non-citizen, independence

activist

Shri Kumaraswamy
Kamraj

18

Mother Teresa,
(Agnes Gonxha
Bojaxhiu)

19

Shri Acharya
Vinoba Bhave

20

Khan Abdul Ghaffar

Khan

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1988

Posthumous Award: film actor,

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

1990

Posthumous Award: architect of the

Indian Constitution, politician,
economist, and scholar

1990

Second non-citizen and first nonIndian recipient, Leader of the AntiApartheid movement

1991

Independence activist, fifth Prime

Minister

Shri Marudur
Gopalan
Ramachandran

22

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji

Ambedakr

23

Dr. Nelson
Rolihlahla Mandela

24

Shri Morarji
Ranchhodji Desai

25

1991

Seventh Prime Minister

1991

Posthumous Award: independence

activist, first Home Minister

1992

Industrialist and philanthropist

1992

Posthumous Award: independence

activist, first Minister of Education

Shri Rajiv Gandhi

26

Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel

27

Shri Jehangir
Ratanji Dadabhai
Tata

28

Shri Maulana Abul

Kalam Azad

29

1992

Filmmaker

1997

Aeronautical engineer, eminent

defence scientist, Dr. Kalam was
India's eleventh president from
2002 to 2007

1997

Posthumous Award: independence

activist

1997

Independence activist, second

Prime Minister

Shri Satyajit Ray

30

Shri (Dr.) Avul

Pakir Jainulabdeen
Abdul Kalam

31

Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali

32

Shri Gulzari Lal

Nanda

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1998

Chidambaram Subramaniam (birth:

January 30, 1910 death: November
7, 2000) He was an Indian
statesman, Freedom fighter, state
minister, central minister and
governor.

1998

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu
Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916
11 December 2004), Also known as
M.S., she was a renowned Carnatic
vocalist.

1999

Distinguished economist and

philosopher, awarded the Nobel
Prize in 1998 for his seminal work
in welfare economics

1999

Posthumous Award: independence

activist, Chief Minister of Assam

Shri Chidambaram
Subramaniam

34

Smt. Madurai
Shanmukhavadivu
Subbulakshmi

35

Prof. Amartya Sen

36

Lokpriya Gopinath
Bordoloi

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1999

Posthumous Award: Indian political

leader and theorist, leader of sociopolitical mass-movements in
Gujarat and Bihar

1999

Sitar player

2001

Legendary Indian playback singer;

sang for more than 2,000 Indian
films in a career spanning nearly six
decades

2001

(birth March 21, 1916, Bhirung Raut

Ki Gali, in Dumraon, Bihar; death
Aug. 21, 2006, Varanasi).

Loknayak
Jayprakash
Narayan

38

Pandit Ravi
Shankar

39

Kumari Lata
Dinanath
Mangeshkar

40

Ustad Bismillah
Khan

41

2008

(birth. Feb. 14, 1922, Gadag,

Dharwad, Karnataka), His full name
is Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi.

Pandit Bhimsen
Joshi

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Questions

Answers

1.

Apart from Journalism and Literature, this is the area in which

excellence is honoured with The Pulitzer Prize?
(a) Music
(b) Sports
(c) Social Work
(d) Charity

Answer: (a)

2.

Who won the 2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Abuja, Nigeria?
(a) Netherlands
(b) Switzerland
(c) Brazil
(d) Portugal

Answer: (b)

3.

Arjuna award is given to prominent sports persons in India. Arjuna

Award wasintroduced in
(a) 1971
(b) 1961
(c) 1981
(d) 1991

Answer: (b)

4.

Besides Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, which other foreigner has won
the Bharat Ratna award?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) Kofi Annan
(d) Mujib-ur-Rahman

Answer: (a)

5.

Besides Roosevelt, who among the following Presidents of

America has won the Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) Thomas Jefforson
(b) Bill Clinton

Answer: (c)

(c) Wudro Wilson

(d) none of these
6.

Booker prize is given to the field of :

(a) Poetry
(b) Drama
(c) Essay
(d) Fiction

Answer: (d)

7.

Consider the following statements :

1. V.K. Krishna Menon Foundation is based in New Delhi.
2. The first recipient of the V.K. Krishna Menon Award is the Chief
Justice of India, KG. Balakrishnan.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (b)

8.

Consider the following statements:

1.Nobel Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo by the King of
Norway.
2. The Nobel laureate receives three things-a diploma, a medal and a
document confirming the prize amount.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct ?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (c)

9.

Contribution to which field is honoured by Dhanvantari award?

(a) Physics
(b) space research
(c) literature
(d) medicine

Answer: (d)

10.

Contribution to which field is honoured by the B D Goenka Award?

(a) Literature
(b) Journalism
(c) Culture
(d) Science

Answer: (b)

11.

Contribution to which field is honoured by the Global 500 award?

(a) Cinema
(b) Environmental conservation
(c) Sports
(d) Literature

Answer: (b)

12.

Contribution to which field is honoured by the Kalinga awards?

(a) Science and Technology
(b) Literature

Answer: (a)

(c) Peace
(d) Environmental protection
13.

Dada Saheb Phalke award is for the contribution to :

(a) Cinema
(b) Sports
(c) Literature
(d) Environment

Answer: (a)

14.

Despite being the greatest super hit film of all the times, Sholay has
won only one Filmfare Award. In which category did it get it?
(a) Best Film
(b) Sound Recording
(c) Music
(d) Editing

Answer: (d)

15.

Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes
individually for:
(a) Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
(b) Peace prize in 1954, Chemistry in 1962
(c) Physics in 154, Medicine in 1962
(d) Medicine in 1954, Physics in 1962

Answer: (a)

16.

FiFi awards are given in_____industry:

(a) Film
(b) Home Appliances
(c) Automobiles
(d) Perfumes

Answer: (d)

17.

For outstanding contribution to which one of the following' fields

is Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize given?
(a) Literature
(b) Performing Arts
(c) Science
(d) Social Service

Answer: (c)

18.

For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize Awarded?

(a) Physics and chemistry
(b) Physiology or Medicine
(c) Literature, Peace and Economics
(d) All the above

Answer: (d)

19.

Gandhi Peace Prize for 2006 has been Awarded to

(a) Shabana Azmi
(b) Javed Akhtar
(c) Dalai Lama
(d) Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Answer: (a)

20.

In terms of price money which of the following is the highest award

given by the Government of India in any field?
(a) Bharat Ratna

Answer: (b)

(b) Gandhi Peace Prize

(c) Arjuna Award
(d) Jnanpith Award
21.

In terms of Prize money which of the following is the highest literary

prize in India?
(a) Vyas Samman
(b) Saraswathy Samman
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Kalidas Samman

Answer: (b)

22.

Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar is given in which field :

(a) Cinema
(b) Sports
(c) Environment
(d) Literature

Answer: (c)

23.

Marlon Brando won his second Oscar for The Godfather. For which
film did he win the first Oscar?
(a) Streetcar named Desire
(b) On the Waterfront
(c) Apocalypse No w
(d) Last Tango in Paris

Answer: (B)

24.

Men from which nation has won the highest number of Nobel Prizes?
(a) England
(b) France
(c) America
(d) Italy

Answer: (c)

25.

Nobel Prize award in Economics has been awarded from the year :
(a) 1978
(b) 1965
(c) 1960
(d) 1969

Answer: (d)

26.

Nobel Prizes are not given for the performance in the area of
(a) Literature
(b) Physics
(c) Chemistry
(d) Music

Answer: (d)

27.

On which date is Nobel Prize Awarded?

(a) December 10
(b) January 10
(c) April 10
(d) July 10

Answer: (a)

28.

Oscar prize is related to

(a) Literature
(b) Films

Answer: (b)

(c) Science
(d) Music
29.

Rahul Banerjee won which of the following Natioanl Senior

Champioship held in January 2008?
(a) Badminton
(b) Chess
(c) Archery
(d) Golf
(E) None of these

Answer: (c)

30.

Sunita Williams is the recipient of which of the following Awards given

away recently?
(a) Woman of the year 2007
(b) Padma Bhushan
(c) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
(d) Pravasi India Award 2007

Answer: (b)

1.

The Annual Academy awards are better known as

(a) Nobel Prize
(b) Magsasay Award
(c) Oscar Award
(d) None of these

Answer:
(c)

2.

Who was the first winner of Saraswathy Samman?

(a) Rama Kant Path
(b) Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan
(c) Vijay Tendulkar
(d) Dr Harbajan Singh

Answer:
(b)

3.

World Professional Billiards Champion Pankaj Advani accepted the Eklavya

award, the highest recognition for a sportsperson in which state?
(a) Delhi
(b) Karnataka
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Kerala
(e) Andhra Pradesh

Answer:
(b)

4.

The committee of the Norwegian Parliament Awards the prize for:

(a) Economics
(b) Peace
(c) Medicine
(d) Literature

Answer:
(b)

5.

The Fifth National Winter Games were organized in (a) Jaipur

(b) Gulmarg
(c) Hyderabad

Answer:
(b)

(d) Chennai
(E) Delhi
6.

The first Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature is

(a) Mother Teresa
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sorijini Naidu
(d) C.V. Raman

Answer:
(b)

7.

The highest gallantry Award in India is

(a) Ashok Chakra
(b) Paramvir Chakra
(c) Mahavir Chakra
(d) Param Vishista Chakra

Answer:
(b)

8.

The most coveted Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival was received
by
(a) Hunger
(b) Line of Passage
(c) The Class
(d) Three Monkeys

Answer:
(c)

9.

The Prize for the oddest book title in a year is known as

(a) The Diagram Prize
(b) The Bizarre Prize
(c) The Bibliophile Prize
(d) The Cenotaph Prize

Answer:
(a)

10.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Awarded the Noble Prize in:
(a) Physics
(b) Economics
(c) Chemistry
(d) (a) and (c)

Answer:
(d)

11.

The Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest is _____.

(a) Ravi Kumar
(b) Sameer Mishra
(c) Kuljit Singh
(d) None of these

Answer:
(b)

12.

U-Tant Award is given for:

(a) Social Service
(b) Contribution to east-west understanding
(c) Community leadership
(d) Journalism

Answer:
(a)

13.

When did Amnesty International win the Nobel Prize?

(a) 1917
(b) 1949
(c) 1977
(d) 1982

Answer:
(c)

14.

When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?

(a) 1979
(b) 1975
(c) 1981
(d) 1982

Answer:
(a)

15.

When did Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time?
(a) 1917
(b) 1977
(c) 1949
(d) 1956

Answer:
(a)

16.

When was the Nobel Prize for literature instituted?

(a) 1956
(b) 1969
(c) 1972
(d) 1975

Answer:
(b)

17.

Which American Gallantry award is given to the soldier who is wounded in

action?
(a) Iron Cross
(b) Purple Heart
(c) Congressional Medal
(d) Victoria Cross

Answer:
(B)

18.

Which country has initiated Malcolm Baldridge Award' for Quality?

(a) USA
(b) UK
(c) France
(d) Japan

Answer:
(d)

19.

Which Indian Business Magazine has initiated the Best Product Design
Award?
(a) Business India
(b) Business Today
(c) Outlook Business
(d) Business Week

Answer:
(d)

20.

Which is the highest literary prize given by the Government in India?

(a) Saraswati Samman
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Sahitya Akadami Award
(d) Jnanpith Award

Answer:
(c)

21.

Which is the Prize in Mathematics, equivalent to Nobel Prize?

(a) Newton Prize
(b) Gauss Prize
(c) Fields Prize
(d) Cambridge Prize

Answer:
(c)

22.

Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?

Answer:

(a) Margaret Atwood

(b) Ian Mc Ewan
(c) J. M. Coetzee
(d) Graham Swift

(c)

23.

Which of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?

(a) Kabir Award
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Saraswathy Samman
(d) Vyas Samman

Answer:
(a)

24.

Which of the following awards is given to the Best Parliamentarian?

(a) Gujar Mal Modi Award
(b) J B Pant Award
(c) Nehru Award
(d) none of those

Answer:
(b)

25.

Which of the following awards was instituted by Shanti Prasad Jain?

(a) Vyas Samman
(b) Shankar Samman
(c) Jnanpith award
(d) Kabir Award

Answer:
(c)

26.

Which of the following awards was instituted by the Indian National

Congress in its Centenary Year?
(a) Gandhi Peace Prize
(b) Nehru Award
(c) Indira Gandhi award for National Integration
(d) Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award

Answer:
(c)

27.

Which of the following awards was instituted in 1992 to mark the golden
jubilee of the Quit India Movement?
(a) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
(b) Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award
(c) Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award
(d) Rajiv Smriti Puraskar

Answer:
(b)

28.

Which of the following cities will host 2012 Olympics Games?

(a) Paris
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) Madrid

Answer:
(c)

29.

Which of the following films won the best Film Award in 65th Golden Globe
Awardsceremony ?
(a) Away from her
(b) Atonement
(c) No Country for Old Men
(d) Im Not there

Answer::
(b)

30.

Which of the following is an award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh

Answer:

Government?
(a) Dhanvantari Award
(b) Kabir Award
(c) Saraswathi Samman
(d) Arjuna Awards

(b)

1.

Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?

(a) Aryabhatta awards
(b) Kalinga Prize
(c) Abdus Salam Prize
(d) None of these

Answer:
(b)

2.

Which of the following is Indias highest decoration for valour?

(a) Param Vir Chakra
(b) Mahavir Chakra
(c) Vir Chakra
(d) Asoka Chakra

Answer:
(a)

3.

Which of the following is Indias highest honour in the field of literature?

(a) Vyas Samman
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Saraswathi Samman

Answer:
(c)

4.

Which of the following is Indias highest peace-time gallantry award?

(a) Mahavir Chakra
(b) Ashoka Chakra
(c) Vir Chakra
(d) Param Vir Chakra

Answer:
(b)

5.

Which of the following is the worlds top environmental conservation

award?
(a) Golden Bear Award
(b) Golden Panda Award
(c) Golden Globe Award
(d) Golden Palms Award

Answer:
(b)

6.

Which of the following wing awards are limited only for the Asians?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru Award
(b) Alternative Nobel Prize
(c) Magsaysay Award
(d) Man Booker Prize

Answer:
(c)

7.

Which one of the following awards instituted by KK Birla Foundation is

given to an individual for outstanding work on Indian philosophy, culture
and art?
(a) Saraswathy Samman
(b) Vyas Samman

Answer:
(c)

(c) Shankar Puraskar

(d) Kalidas Samman
8.

Which one of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?

(a) Kabir award
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Saraswathy Samman
(d) Vyas Samman

Answer:
(a)

9.

Which one of the following awards was instituted by the KK Birla

Foundation?
(a) Saraswati Samman
(b) Kabir Award
(c) Kalidas Samman
(d) Jnanpith Award

Answer:
(a)

10.

Which one of the following is Indias highest civilian honour?

(a) Bharat Ratna
(b) Padma Bhushan
(c) Padama Vibhushan
(d) Padma Sri

Answer:
(a)

11.

Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three

times so far?
(a) Medame Curie
(b) Linus Pauling
(c) Alexender Flemming
(d) International Committee of the Redcross

Answer:
(d)

12.

Who among the following actors has won the Chevalier Award instituted by
the French Government?
(a) MG Ramakrishnan
(b) Raj Kumar
(c) Shivaji Ganeshan
(d) Kamal Hasan

Answer:
(c)

13.

Who among the following has won the Polar Music Award instituted by the
Royal Music Academy, Sweden?
(a) Sakir Hussein
(b) Pundit Ravi Shankar
(c) Bismillah Khan
(d) Allah Rakha Khan

Answer:
(b)

14.

Who was the first winner of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International
Understanding?
(a) U Thant
(b) Martin Luther King
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(d) Yehudi Menuhin

Answer:
(a)

Who among the following national leaders have won the highest civilian

Answer:

15.

honours of Pakistan?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Morarji Desai
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(d) Indira Gandhi

(b)

16.

Who among the following was selected for the 2001 Dada Saheb Phalke
Award?
(a) Dev Anand
(b) Lata Mangeshkar
(c) Ramanand Sagar
(d) Yash Chopra

Answer:
(d)

17.

Who among the following was the first to win the Booker Prize?
(a) William Golding
(b) PH Newby
(c) JM Coetzee
(d) Peter Carey

Answer:
(b)

18.

Who among the following was/were selected for the 12th South Indian
Education Society Awards in December 2009?
(a) Somnath Chatterjee
(b) M. Annadurai
(c) E. Sridharan and Satya Vrat Shastri
(d) All of the above

Answer:
(d)

19.

Who amongst the following was honoured with the Jawaharlal Nehru
Award forInternational Understanding fiven away recently?
(a) Mr. Umaru Yar Adua
(b) Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(c) Mr. Vladimir Putin
(d) Olafur Ragnar

Answer:
(d)

20.

Who amongst the following won the Mens single title of Australian Open
Tennis 2008?
(a) Novak Djokovic
(b) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(c) Jonathan Erlich
(d) Andy Ram

Answer:
(a)

21.

Who of the following won the Nobel Prize for his work on Photoelectric
effect?
(a) Albert Einstein
(b) Werner Heisenberg
(c) Steven Weinberg
(d) Max Planck

Answer:
(a)

22.

The highest peace time gallantry award in India :

(a) Padma Bhushan
(b) Ashok Chakra
(c) S.S. Bhatnagar award

Answer:
(b)

(d) Padma Vibhushan

23.

Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna?

(a) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Nelson Madela
(d) Benazir Bhutto

Answer:
(a)

24.

Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?

(a) Arundathi Roy
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) VS Naipaul
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri

Answer:
(b)

25.

Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International

Understanding?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Mother Teresa
(c) U. Thant
(d) Dr. Jonas Salk

Answer:
(a)

26.

Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award?
(a) S Chandra Sekhar
(b) C V Raman
(c) J C Bose
(d) Hargobind Khorana

Answer:
(b)

27.

Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
(a) Albert Camus
(b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Knut Hamson
(d) Rene Sully Prudhome

Answer:
(d)

28.

With reference to Stree Shakti Puraskar, for which of the following is "Devi
Ahilya Bai Holkar Award" given?
(a) Administrative skills
(b) Achievements in Scientific Research
(c) Achievements in Sports and Games
(d) Courage and valour

Answer:
(a)

29.

Who was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize?

(a) AT Aryaratne
(b) Julius Nerera
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) None of these

Answer:
(b)

30.

Who was the first winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award?

(a) Vinobha Bhave
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(d) None of these

Answer:
(a)