Honours and Awards Questions

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Who was the first person to receive a Jnanpith award for a Telugu work ?

A) C. Narayana reddy B) Viswanatha Satyanarayana
C) Ravuri Bharadwaja D) Srirangam Srinivasarao
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Viswanatha Satyanarayana

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"Kalinga Prize" associated with which of the following fields  ?

A) Sports B) Journalism
C) Science D) Literature
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Science

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Who among the following received the Nobel Prize Twice in different subjects

A) Madam Curie B) Frederic Sanger
C) Pierre Curie D) John Bardeen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Madam Curie

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Which of the following authors won the booker prize twice

A) Margaret Atwood B) Ian Mc Ewan
C) J.M. Coetzee D) Graham Swift
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) J.M. Coetzee

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Who among the following is the first Asian Winner of Nobel Prize

A) Mother Teresa B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) C.V.Raman D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore

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The World Food Prize is given by which of the following Organisations/World bodies

A) UNICEF B) Kraft general foods
C) FAO D) UNDP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Kraft general foods

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Which Indian Anti Hunger activist will be honoured with the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders award  ?

A) Sachin Bansal B) Anil Agarwal
C) Ankit Kawatra D) Kunal Bahl
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ankit Kawatra

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Indian anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra has honoured with the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders award for his exceptional work in transforming the lives of others. Kawatra is among the 60 others from all 53 Commonwealth countries to be felicitated with the prestigious award by Queen Elizabeth (II) at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace in London on June 29, 2017. The honourees will also undergo a year-long mentoring and online learning by the University of Cambridge to build leadership capabilities and better their work towards the communities. He is the founder of Feeding India, a not-for profit organization that works towards solving problems of hunger, malnutrition and food wastage, mainly by redistributing extra food from restaurants, canteens, households, corporates etc. to help people in need.

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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) Shanmuga Sundaram B) Prashant Ranganathan
C) Suresh Kumar D) Vijay Ragunathan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Prashant Ranganathan

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An Indian boy has won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides. Prashant Ranganathan, a 12th grader from Jamshedpur, alongwith over 20 high school students from various parts of India, participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

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