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

In India which award is presented to a best volunteer?

  1. Nobel peace prize

  2. Order of british empire

  3. Darwin Award

  4. I- voluntee award
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The iVolunteer Awards are a premier national recognition in India aimed at celebrating and promoting volunteerism across the country.

Multiple choice

What is the Nobel Prize?

  1. Biggest experiment of the year

  2. Recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances

  3. The newest invention

  4. Most interesting information gathered
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award given annually to individuals or organizations in recognition of outstanding academic, cultural, or scientific achievements. It was established by the will of Alfred Nobel and covers fields such as Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is NOT associated with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

  1. People’s President

  2. Iron Man of India

  3. Missile Man of India

  4. Bharat Ratna Awardee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Dr. Kalam is known as the Missile Man of India and the People's President, and he was a Bharat Ratna awardee. The title Iron Man of India refers to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Multiple choice

Padmashree awardee Saalumarada Thimmakka is also known as:

  1. Mother of nature

  2. Mother of Trees

  3. Mother of Plants

  4. Mother of Environment
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Saalumarada Thimmakka is an environmentalist from Karnataka, known for planting and tending to hundreds of banyan trees, earning her the title 'Mother of Trees'.

Multiple choice economics constraints in economic development of rajasthan programmes for poverty eradication poverty : challenge facing india poverty as a challenge

Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for economics in _________.

  1. 1988

  2. 1991

  3. 1998

  4. 2000
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Amartya Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members. 

Multiple choice

Which award is given to the best children's book written in an Indian language?

  1. Sahitya Akademi Award

  2. Bal Sahitya Puraskar

  3. National Book Trust Award

  4. Children's Book Trust Award
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Bal Sahitya Puraskar is an annual award given by the Sahitya Akademi to the best children's book written in an Indian language.

Multiple choice

Who was the first recipient of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore

  2. Munshi Premchand

  3. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

  4. Firaq Gorakhpuri
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore was the first recipient of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 1955 for his book 'Galpaguchchha'.

Multiple choice

Which award is given to the best children's book written in English?

  1. Sahitya Akademi Award

  2. Bal Sahitya Puraskar

  3. National Book Trust Award

  4. Children's Book Trust Award
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Children's Book Trust Award is an annual award given by the Children's Book Trust to the best children's book written in English.

Multiple choice

Which award is given to the best children's book written in Hindi?

  1. Sahitya Akademi Award

  2. Bal Sahitya Puraskar

  3. National Book Trust Award

  4. Bharatiya Jnanpith Award
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Bal Sahitya Puraskar is an annual award given by the Sahitya Akademi to the best children's book written in Hindi.