Honours and Awards : General knowledge questions and answers - Part 2

Honours and Awards : General knowledge questions and answers - Part 2

1. In which year Bharat Ratna Award was started?

a. 1954
b. 1955
c. 1957
d. 1958

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2. Who was the first person to receive Bharat Ratna Award?

a. Dr. M Vishweshwariah
b. Dr. C V Raman
c. Dr. Bhagwan Dash
d. Mother Teresa

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3. In which year Mother Teresa was awarded with Bharat Ratna?

a. 1980
b. 1976
c. 1983
d. 1988

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4. When was Dadasaheb Phalke Award started?

a. 1969
b. 1970
c. 1968
d. 1971

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5. Who was the first Indian to receive Ashoka Chakra?

a. D.K Jata and M.C Dixit
b. D.K Jata
c. M.C Dixit
d. None of the above

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6. In which year Asha Bhosle received Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

a. 2001
b. 2000
c. 1999
d. 1998

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7. In 2012 which actor was awarded with Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

a. Pran
b. Ashok Kumar
c. Satyajit Ray
d. Dev Anand

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8. In 2001 ____________ was awarded with Bharat Ratna Award.

a. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
b. Lata Mangeshkar
c. Ustad Bismillah Khan
d. Kavita Krishanamurti

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9. Who was the first person to receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

a. Devika Rani
b. B.N. Sircar
c. Pankaj Mullick
d. Kanan Devi

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10. In which year Manna Dey was awarded with Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

a. 2006
b. 2007
c. 2005
d. 2008

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11. Who is the first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize?

a. Shirin Ebeadi
b. Tawakel Karman
c. Leila Ahmed
d. Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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12. Who is the first Indian to win Olympic Individual Gold medal?

a. K.D. Jadhav
b. Abhinav Bindra
c. Karnamm Malleswari
d. Rajyavardhan Singh

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13. The first Indian music director to win an Oscar is _______________

a. Ismail Merchant
b. A. R. Rahman
c. Shyam Bebegal
d. Manna Dey

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14. Who is the first Indian to receive Nishan-e-Pakistan award?

a. Morarji Desai
b. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Ayub Khan
d. Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

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15. Who is the first Indian Oscar winner?

a. Ashutosh Gowarikar
b. Mira Nair
c. Bhanu Athaiya
d. Ismail Merchant

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16. ____________ is the first Indian to win Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.

a. Satyajit Ray
b. K.K Kapil
c. Bhanu Athaiya
d. Mehboob Khan

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17. Who was the first Indian to receive Man Booker Prize?

a. Kiran Desai
b. Aravind Adiga
c. Arundati Roy
d. Salman Rushdie

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18. _________ was first Hindi Film which was nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

a. Mother India
b. Lagaan
c. Slumdog Millionaire
d. Salaam Bombay

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19. Who won the Miss Universe pageant for the first time from India?

a. Sushmita Sen
b. Lara Dutta
c. Yukta Mookhey
d. Diana Hayden

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20. Who was the first Indian man to received Nobel Prize?

a. Har Gobind Khorana
b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. C.V Raman
d. Amartya Sen

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