General Awareness

Indian Honours and Awards

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Indian honours and awards recognize outstanding achievements by civilians, military personnel, and artists in various fields. The scope includes prestigious civilian honors like Padma awards, literary prizes, and specific accolades like the Borlaug Award. These current affairs and general awareness topics are vital for government exams.

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Indian Honours and Awards Questions

Multiple choice

16th Vachaspati Puraskar for the year 2007 has been conferred on:

  1. K.Natarajan

  2. Ayyapa Panigrahi

  3. Swami RamBhadracharya ( Note: For his creation  MahaKavyam )
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Swami Rambhadracharya received the 16th Vachaspati Puraskar in 2007 for his Sanskrit epic 'Shri Bhavartha Ramayana' (also referred to as MahaKavyam). He is a renowned Sanskrit scholar and poet, despite being visually impaired from birth.

Multiple choice

Chameli Devi Award awarded to a woman is associated with which field?

  1. Social Work

  2. Sports

  3. Politics

  4. Journalism
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Chameli Devi Award is given for outstanding contributions in journalism, particularly to women journalists. It was instituted in 1980 by the Media Foundation and is named after Chameli Devi Jain, a freedom fighter and social worker.

Multiple choice

Who was selected for the best Parliamentarian of the Year Award for 2007?

  1. Priyaranjan Dasmunsi

  2. Sonia Gandhi

  3. Lal Krishna Adwani

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Priyaranjan Dasmunsi received the Best Parliamentarian Award for 2007. This annual award is given by the Indian Parliamentary Group to recognize outstanding contributions to parliamentary proceedings. Dasmunsi was a senior Congress leader and Minister.

Multiple choice

Mahashweta Devi, recipient of the Jnanpith Award, was born in

  1. Orissa

  2. Uttar Pradesh

  3. Tamil Nadu

  4. Dhaka
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Mahashweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, which was then part of undivided India under British rule (now Bangladesh). She was a renowned Bengali writer and social activist who received the Jnanpith Award in 1996. The other options are Indian states, but her birthplace is in modern-day Bangladesh.

Multiple choice

Who among the following had got the Bharat Ratna Award before becoming the President of India?

  1. Dr. Jakir Hussain

  2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  3. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

  4. V.V. Giri
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Dr. Zakir Hussain received Bharat Ratna in 1963, four years before becoming President (1967-1969). Other Presidents received Bharat Ratna during or after their term: Radhakrishnan (1954, became President 1962), V.V. Giri (1975, was President 1969-74).

Multiple choice

“Kaagaz Te Canvas” is an award winning work by

  1. Dr. H.S. Mehboob

  2. Amrita Pritam

  3. Surjit Pattar

  4. Dr. Harbhajan Singh
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Kaagaz Te Canvas is a celebrated Punjabi novel by Amrita Pritam, a prominent Punjabi writer and poet. The other names listed are also Punjabi literary figures but not the author of this specific award-winning work.

Multiple choice

Science Day in India is observed to

  1. coincide with the discovery of the Raman Effect

  2. celebrate the discovery made by JC Bose

  3. coincide with the winning of the Nobel by Hargobind Khurana

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

National Science Day in India is celebrated on February 28 each year to commemorate CV Raman's discovery of the Raman Effect in 1928, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. This discovery demonstrated the inelastic scattering of photons and revolutionized the study of molecular structure. The other options refer to different scientists and achievements not connected to Science Day.

Multiple choice

The Punjabi writer was conferred the Padma Vibhushan in 2004?

  1. Amrita Pritam

  2. Nirmal Verma

  3. Tara Singh

  4. S. Gurbaksh Singh
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Amrita Pritam (1919-2005) was a renowned Punjabi writer and poet who received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2004 for her contributions to literature. She was the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award and is best known for her poem 'Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu' and novel 'Pinjar'.