Awards & Honours questions asked in previous year papers of SSC, Banking, Railway and other exams, with the exam and year, answers and explanations.
68 previous-year questions
The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2016 was given to
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz, three British-born physicists working in the United States.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2016?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016 went to the Telugu film-maker Kasinadhuni Viswanath, and it was presented to him in 2017.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, 2016?
The Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh received the 52nd Jnanpith Award, for the year 2016. The Jnanpith Award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust for an outstanding contribution to literature in Indian languages, and is India's highest literary honour.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following has won the Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2016 ?
The Telugu film-maker K. Viswanath received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016, presented in May 2017. Kasinadhuni Viswanath was known for films built around Indian classical music and dance, above all Sankarabharanam (1980), as well as Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam.
Read the full explanation →Akshay Kumar was chosen for the best actor award for the 64th National Film Awards (2017) for his role in the Hindi film
Akshay Kumar won the Best Actor award at the 64th National Film Awards, announced in April 2017, for playing a naval officer in Rustom.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following novels won the Pulitzer Prize for the year 2017 in the Fiction category ?
Colson Whitehead's novel won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Underground Railroad follows Cora, a young woman who escapes a cotton plantation in Georgia.
Read the full explanation →Which country recently conferred its highest civilian honor 'Amir Amanullah Khan Award' to Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
The Amir Amanullah Khan Award is Afghanistan's highest civilian honour, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi received it in June 2016 at Herat, on the day he and President Ashraf Ghani opened the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, earlier called the Salma Dam, which India built on the Hari Rud.
Read the full explanation →The Magsaysay Award is given in the name of Ramon Magsaysay. He was the President of which country?
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after Ramon Magsaysay, the seventh President of the Philippines, who died in an air crash in 1957.
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