Honours and Awards: General Knowledge Questions and Answers

Q31. Who among the following was the first Indian to receive the Templeton Award?

[A] Vinoba bhave

[B] Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

[C] Mother teresa

[D] Baba amte

Q32. Who among the following is not a recipient of Bharat Ratna?

[A] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

[B] Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

[C] Lal Bahadur Shastri

[D] Mrs. Indira Gandhi

Q33. Who won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides?

[A] Suresh Kumar

[B] Vijay Ragunathan

[C] Prashant Ranganathan

[D] Shanmuga Sundaram

Q34. Who among the following was the first to receive the Nobel Prize?

[A] Hargovind Khurana

[B] Rabindranath tagore

[C] C.V.Raman

[D] None of these

200+ Honours and Awards Quiz Questions & Answers

Q35. Feroz Gandhi Award is associated with

[A] Journalism

[B] Medical Research

[C] Parlimentory debate

[D] Preservation of worldlife

Q36. The recipient of the first ‘Moortidevi literacy Award’ is 

[A] Swami Siva balayogi

[B] Ramanlal Joshi

[C] Masud hussain Khan

[D] C.K Nagaraja Rao

Q37. Which of the following awards was conferred on Mrs. Kiran Bedi

[A] Golden Globe

[B] Rani Lakshmi

[C] Saraswati

[D] Magsaysay

Q38. ‘Global 500’ awards are given for the outstanding achievement in which of the following fields

[A] Elimination of illiteracy

[B] Protection of environment

[C] Population Control

[D] campaign against drugs

Q39. Orange Prize is given in the field of 

[A] Acting

[B] Literature

[C] Sports

[D] Medicine

Q40. Sharad Joshi Samman is awarded for

[A] Satire and essay

[B] Cartoon

[C] Social Service

[D] Trade Union activity