This Awards & Honours quiz on Gallantry Awards puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
Which is the highest wartime gallantry award of India?
It is given for the most conspicuous act of bravery or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy, on land, at sea or in the air, and its name means the wheel of the ultimate brave.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest peacetime gallantry award of India?
It is awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or an act of daring or self-sacrifice of the highest order away from the field of battle, and it may be given to civilians as well as to members of the armed forces.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra?
His company held off a much larger body of raiders and kept them from reaching the airfield, which allowed reinforcements to continue arriving in Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →The Param Vir Chakra was designed by
Born in Switzerland to a Swiss father and a Hungarian mother, she married an officer of the Indian Army, took Indian citizenship and made a deep study of Indian languages and tradition, which she drew on for the design of the medal and its vajra motif.
Read the full explanation →The Param Vir Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra and Vir Chakra were instituted on
The three wartime awards were instituted on that date but were given effect from 15 August 1947, so that acts of bravery in the fighting in Kashmir could be recognised.
Read the full explanation →Which award is the peacetime equivalent of the Maha Vir Chakra?
The three wartime awards have three peacetime counterparts in the same order: Param Vir Chakra with Ashoka Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra with Kirti Chakra and Vir Chakra with Shaurya Chakra.
Read the full explanation →The Shaurya Chakra is the peacetime equivalent of which wartime award?
The Shaurya Chakra is the third of the peacetime gallantry awards and therefore corresponds to the third of the wartime awards, the Vir Chakra, both being given for acts of gallantry that rank below the first two grades.
Read the full explanation →In which year were the Ashoka Chakra Class I, Class II and Class III renamed as the Ashoka Chakra, Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra?
The three peacetime gallantry awards were instituted in 1952 as the Ashoka Chakra of the first, second and third class, and in January 1967 the second and third were renamed the Kirti Chakra and the Shaurya Chakra, while the first kept the name Ashoka Chakra.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first woman to be awarded the Ashoka Chakra?
She was the flight purser on a hijacked aircraft at Karachi in 1986 and was killed while shielding passengers as she helped them escape.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not a wartime gallantry award?
It is a peacetime gallantry award, given for conspicuous gallantry away from the field of battle, and it may be conferred on civilians as well as on members of the armed forces.
Read the full explanation →Captain Vikram Batra, who fought in the Kargil conflict of 1999, was awarded which decoration?
Captain Vikram Batra of the 13 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles received it posthumously for the recapture of heights during the Kargil conflict of 1999.
Read the full explanation →Which motif appears around the state emblem on the Param Vir Chakra?
Savitri Khanolkar chose the motif from the old story in which the sage Dadhichi gave up his body so that his bones could be made into the weapon with which Indra defeated his enemy, a symbol of sacrifice that suits the highest award for valour.
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