Awards & Honours Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 3

Devika Rani received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for 1969, the year the Government of India instituted it to mark the centenary of the birth of Dadasaheb Phalke, maker of Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first full-length feature film.

The Vyas Samman was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation and is given for an outstanding literary work in Hindi published in the previous ten years.

The Gujarati film Hellaro, directed by Abhishek Shah, won the Golden Lotus for Best Feature Film at the 66th National Film Awards for films of 2018.

The Bharat Ratna for 2019 went to three people: former President Pranab Mukherjee, social reformer Nanaji Deshmukh and singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika, so two others were honoured along with him.

She won The Hindu Prize 2018 for fiction for her novel "Requiem in Raga Janki".

The science journalist Gobind Behari Lal won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1937, the first person of Indian origin to receive it.

The Order of Zayed is the highest civilian decoration of the UAE. The medal is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE and its first President from 1971 until his death in 2004.

The Telugu poet K. Siva Reddy received the Saraswati Samman for 2018 for his poetry collection "Pakkaki Ottigilite".

The United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction honours people and institutions that work to reduce the risk of disasters.

The Indian civilian honours run in a fixed order of precedence: the Bharat Ratna first, then Padma Vibhushan, then Padma Bhushan and then Padma Shri. Counting from the top, Padma Bhushan is therefore the third highest, and it is given for distinguished service of a high order in any field.

The wrestler Vinesh Phogat was nominated in 2019 for the Laureus World Sports Award in the Breakthrough of the Year category, the first Indian athlete to be shortlisted in that category.

The Jnanpith Award is India's highest literary honour, given to an author for an outstanding contribution to literature. It was instituted in 1961 by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust and first awarded in 1965 to the Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup for his collection Odakkuzhal.

He was the first person of Indian origin to win the Pulitzer Prize, sharing the award for reporting in 1937.

The Saraswati Samman is a literary award given for an outstanding work of prose or poetry. It was started in 1991 by the K.K.

The Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports and Games was instituted in 2002 to honour sportspersons who not only performed well in their playing days but kept serving the sport after retiring.

She won Miss Universe in 1994, becoming the first Indian to do so, but she never held the Miss World title.

The National Film Awards are organised by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which handles films, broadcasting and the press.

The Vyas Samman for 2017 went to the Hindi writer Mamta Kalia for her novel 'Dukham Sukham'. The Vyas Samman is given every year by the K.K.

The Emmy awards are the American honours for work made for television, covering drama series, comedy, news and documentary programmes, and they stand in the same relation to television as the Oscars do to cinema.

It is the third-highest of India's peacetime gallantry awards, given for bravery other than in the face of the enemy.