Description : Who was the first musician to be felicitated with ‘Bharat Ratna’ ? (1) Lata Mangeshkar (2) M.S. Subbulakshmi (3) Pt. Ravi Shankar (4) Pt. Bhimsem Joshi
Last Answer : M.S. Subbulakshmi
Description : Who has instituted the “Moortidevi Sahitya Puraskar” ? (1) Ministry of HRD, Central Government (2) Sahitya Academy (3) Bharatiya Jnanapeeth Trust (4) Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Last Answer : Bharatiya Jnanapeeth Trust
Description : Who is the recepient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2010 in Hindi Literature category? (1) Uday Prakash (2) Laxman Dubey (3) Nanjil Nandan (4) Mangat Badal
Last Answer : Uday Prakash
Description : The first recipient of Bharat Ratna was (1) Jawaharlal Nehru (2) Govind Vallabh Pant (3) B. C. Roy (4) C. V. Raman
Last Answer : C. V. Raman
Description : Who, out of the following, was the first recipient of Bharat Ratna Award ? (1) B.C. Roy (2) S. Chandrasekhar (3) C.V. Raman (4) Gobind Ballabh Pant
Last Answer : C.V. Raman
Description : Who was the First Indian Nobel Prize winner ? (1) Sir C.V. Raman (2) Mother Teresa (3) S. Chandrashekar (4) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Last Answer : Rabindra Nath Tagore
Description : Who was the first Ramon Magsaysay Award winner from India? (1) C.D. Deshmukh (2) Jayaprakash Narayan (3) Dr. Verghese Kurien (4) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Last Answer : Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Description : Who is the winner of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award (2011) ? (1) Gagan Narang (2) Saina Nehwal (3) Sachin Tendulkar (4) M.S. Dhoni
Last Answer : Gagan Narang
Description : Name the winner of the Sanjay Chopra National Award for Bravery 2008. (1) Saumika Mishra (2) Santosh Sen (3) Amit Kumar (4) Pappu
Last Answer : Saumika Mishra
Description : Who was the recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 ? (1) A.R. Rahman (2) Javed Akhtar (3) K. Balachandar (4) V.K. Murthy
Last Answer : K. Balachandar
Description : Who among the following has been conferred the ‘Climate Protection Award’ by the Environment Protection Agency of the US ? (1) Medha Patkar (2) Rajendra Singh (3) R. K. Pachauri (4) Arundhati Roy
Last Answer : R. K. Pachauri
Description : Who among the following former Chiefs of Army Staff had been awarded the ‘Mahavir Chakra’ twice ? (1) General K.M. Cariappa (2) General K.S. Thimmayya (3) General A.S. Vaidya (4) General S.H.F.J. Man-ekshaw
Last Answer : General A.S. Vaidya
Description : The Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 2011 has been awarded to (1) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess (2) Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman (3) Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent (4) Dan Schechtman
Last Answer : Dan Schechtman
Description : The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2011 has been awarded to (1) Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess (2) Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman (3) Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent (4) Dan Schechtman
Last Answer : Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess
Description : Which of the following Nobel laureates was never an Indian ? (1) Mother Teresa (2) S. Chandrashekhar (3) V.S. Naipaul (4) H.G. Khurana
Last Answer : V.S. Naipaul
Description : High Yielding Variety of wheat was developed by (a) G.B Pant. (b) Norman Borlaug. © A.K Sen. (d) None of them.
Last Answer : (b) Norman Borlaug.
Description : .“ As size of a farm increases productivity decreases”- who argued? (a) A.K Sen. (b) G.B Pant. © M Hauk. (d) M.S Swaminathan.
Last Answer : (a) A.K Sen.
Description : The first recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award was (1) Mrs. Devika Rani (2) Mrs. Kanan Devi (3) B.N. Sarkar (4) Prithvi Raj Kapoor
Last Answer : Mrs. Devika Rani
Description : The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was (1) C.V. Raman (2) Rabindra Nath Tagore (3) Hargobind Khurana (4) Amartya Sen
Description : The first Indian to win the ICC ODI Player of the Year (2007) Award is (1) Saurav Ganguly (2) Virender Sehwag (3) Yuvraj Singh (4) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Last Answer : Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Description : Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2012 ? (1) European Union (2) U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3) International Atomic Energy Agency (4) Liu Xiaobo
Last Answer : European Union
Description : International Simon Bolivar Prize was recently awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi by the government of (1) Mauritius (2) China (3) Venezuela (4) Cuba
Last Answer : Venezuela
Description : The WISE Prize-2012, also known as the “Nobel Prize for Education” was conferred by the WISE Summit in Doha on : (1) Dr. Madhav Chavan (2) Dr. Yash Pal (3) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (4) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Last Answer : Dr. Madhav Chavan
Description : Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development - 2012 was awarded to : (1) Sunita Williams (2) Chanda Kochhar (3) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (4) Tereza Fajksova
Last Answer : Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Description : Which of the following is not a recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award ? (1) Prithvi Raj Kapoor (2) Mrs. Kanan Devi (3) Gemini Ganesan (4) Mrs. Devika Rani
Last Answer : Gemini Ganesan
Description : In which year did Amartya Kumar Sen receive the Nobel Prize in Economics ? (1) 1998 (2) I995 (3) 2000 (4) 1990
Last Answer : 1998
Description : Filmfare Award for Best Female Actor, 2011 was conferred on (1) Shilpa Shetty (2) Priyanka Chopra (3) Vidya Balan (4) Katrina Kaif
Last Answer : Vidya Balan
Description : Novelist, Mr. Salman Rushdie was awarded “Knighthood” by (1) Queen Elizabeth II (2) Prince Charles (3) Mr. Gordon Brown (4) Mrs. Margaret Thatcher
Last Answer : Queen Elizabeth II
Description : Which one of the following was crowned Pantaloon’s Femina Miss India World, 2012? (1) Vanya Mishra (2) Prachee Meera (3) Rochello Maria Rao (4) Shakshee Hariharan
Last Answer : Vanya Mishra
Description : Which one of the following Indian film actors has been conferred the Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Culture by Bedfordshire University, London ? (1) Amir Khan (2) Anil Kapoor (3) Amitabh Bachchan (4) Shah Rukh Khan
Last Answer : Shah Rukh Khan
Description : Nobel Prizes are awarded annually at (1) Stockholm (2) Washington (3) Geneva (4) Oslo
Last Answer : Oslo
Description : The Magsaysay Award for social service was instituted by (1) the Government of India (2) the UNO (3) the ILO (4) Philippines Government
Last Answer : Philippines Government
Description : The Indian representing an international organization who shared the Nobal Peace Prize with Al Gore of U.S. was (1) Rajendra Pachauri (2) Viswanathan Subramanian (3) R.N. Tagore (4) Mother Teresa
Last Answer : Rajendra Pachauri
Description : The Nobel Prize was instituted by the country (1) USA (2) UK (3) Russia (4) Sweden
Last Answer : Sweden
Description : The book ‘The Audacity of Hope’ has been written by (1) Nayantara Sehgal (2) Aravind Adiga (3) Vikram Seth (4) Barack Obama
Last Answer : Barack Obama
Description : Bharat Ratna is designed like the leaf of (1) Banyan tree (2) Peepal tree (3) Cocount tree (4) Sandalwood tree
Last Answer : Peepal tree
Description : The Nobel Prize for Economics was instituted by (1) Alfred Nobel (2) Sweden’s central bank (3) The Nobel Committee (4) World Bank
Last Answer : Sweden’s central bank
Description : Who of the following is not a recipient of ‘Bharat Ratna’? (1) Morarji Desai (2) Gulzari Lal Nanda (3) Rajiv Gandhi (4) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Last Answer : Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Description : Nobel Prize in which field is not paid out of the endowment set up by Dr. Alfred Nobel ? (1) Peace (2) Medicine (3) Economics (4) Chemistry
Last Answer : Economics
Description : Who among the following had got the Bharat Ratna Award before becoming the President of India ? (1) Dr. Zakir Hussain (2) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (3) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (4) V.V. Giri
Last Answer : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Description : Who is the scientist who was associated with food grain revolution and who also won the Nobel Prize for Peace? (1) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (2) Dr. N.E. Borlaug (3) Dr.Subramaniam Chandra Sekhar (4) Willy Brandt
Last Answer : Dr. N.E. Borlaug
Description : Who received Booker prize for the Book “Half a Life” ? (1) Arundhati Roy (2) Anita Desai (3) V.S. Naipaul (4) Kiran Bedi
Description : Manav Seva Award has been instituted in the memory of (1) Indira Gandhi (2) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (3) Rajiv Gandhi (4) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Last Answer : Rajiv Gandhi
Description : The ‘Global 500’ awards are given for outstanding achievement in which one of the following fields? (1) Literature (2) Medicine (3) Environmental Protection (4) Promotion of International Peace
Last Answer : Environmental Protection
Description : Which India-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Astrophysics? (1) Prof. Chandrashekhar (2) Sir C.V. Raman (3) Satyendra Nath Bosh (4) Vikram Sarabhai
Last Answer : Prof. Chandrashekhar
Description : Kalinga Prize for popularisation for science was established in 1951 by the UNESCO at the initiative of (1) C.V. Raman (2) Jagadish Chandra Bose (3) Biju Patnaik (4) S. Radhakrishnan
Last Answer : Biju Patnaik
Description : Who, among the following, is a non-Indian who was conferred “Bharat Ratna”? (1) Mother Teresa (2) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman (3) Nelson Mandela (4) Lord Mountbatten
Last Answer : Nelson Mandela
Description : Who of the following pairs of Nobel Laureates in Physics was awarded 2010 Nobel Prize? (1) John C Mather, George F. Smoot (2) Albert Fert, Peter Grunberg (3) David Gross, Frank Wilczek (4) Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
Last Answer : Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
Description : Who of the following was not the recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics 2010? (1) Peter A. Diamond (2) Christopher Pissarides (3) Lui Xiaobo (4) Dale Mortensen
Last Answer : Lui Xiaobo
Description : Who among the following won the ‘ICC Cricketer of the Year Award’ for the year 2009 ? (1) M.S. Dhoni (2) Gautam Gambhir (3) Mitchell Johnson (4) Tillakaratne Dilshan
Last Answer : Mitchell Johnson