Awards & Honours GK Questions with Answers – Page 4

Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1877, and the Order of the Indian Empire was created the following year to honour a wider and more junior group of officials than the Star of India covered; its motto, Imperatricis auspiciis, means under the auspices of…

Instituted by the East India Company in 1837, the Indian Order of Merit was the oldest gallantry decoration in India and, until 1911, the only such award open to Indian soldiers, who could not then receive the Victoria Cross.

Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, and it bears the words For Valour; the award was then backdated so that acts of gallantry from 1854 onwards, during the Crimean War, could be recognised.

A sepoy of the 129th Baluchis, Khudadad Khan won the Victoria Cross for holding his machine gun position in Belgium in October 1914, becoming the first Indian to receive the decoration after Indian soldiers were made eligible for it in 1911.

After troops under General Dyer fired on a gathering at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on 13 April 1919, Tagore wrote to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, on 31 May 1919, renouncing the knighthood conferred on him in 1915.

Gandhi had been awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind in 1915 for raising an ambulance corps in South Africa, and in 1920 he returned it in a letter to the Viceroy, giving up two South African war medals at the same time, as part of the surrender of titles and honours that the…

Queen Victoria instituted the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 for distinguished public service in India, and unlike the orders of chivalry it was open to any person of any rank, Indian or European, man or woman, in gold, silver and bronze classes.

The Order of the Star of India was created in 1861, four years after the Revolt of 1857, to tie the princely rulers and senior officials of India to the British Crown, and its motto was Heaven's light our guide; it was given three classes in 1866, the Knight Grand…

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969 to mark the birth centenary of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and the actress Devika Rani received it first.

The medal is given at IFFI by the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication, based in Paris and associated with UNESCO, to a film that reflects the ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence that Mahatma Gandhi stood for.

The Golden Peacock, or Swarna Mayur, goes to the best film of the international competition at IFFI, and the cash prize is shared between the director and the producer; Silver Peacock awards go to the best director, the best actor and the best actress.

The thirty-fifth edition of 2004 was the first held in Goa, and the state has been the permanent venue since then, with the festival normally taking place in the last week of November.

The first edition was organised on behalf of the Government of India and travelled through Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum, which made it the first international film festival held anywhere in Asia.

She received the first Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Baiju Bawra, and the first Best Actor award of the same year went to Dilip Kumar for Daag.

Bimal Roy's film about a farmer who goes to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw took the first Filmfare Award for Best Film, and Bimal Roy took the first award for Best Direction for the same film.

At their start in 1954 the awards carried the name of Clare Mendonca, a critic associated with The Times of India, and only later did they come to be called the Filmfare Awards after the magazine.

The Filmfare statuette, designed by the sculptor N. G. Pansare, shows a female figure and the dark finish gave it its popular name, which the magazine itself uses.

The magazine Filmfare, published by The Times Group, held its first award ceremony in 1954 for the films released in 1953, which makes these the oldest film awards in India.

The correct answer is A, Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, administered by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, in which bravery is one of the categories of the Bal Shakti Puraskar, alongside innovation, scholastic achievement, social service, art and culture, and sport; the Bal Kalyan Puraskar in the same…

The Ministry of Home Affairs announces the Jeevan Raksha Padak series on 15 August each year, and the medal with its certificate is then presented to the recipient by the state government, union territory administration or ministry concerned rather than at a single investiture in Delhi.