Awards & Honours Mixed Quiz: Set 33

All three statements are incorrect, so all three are 'not correct'. Statement 1 is wrong because in Balaji Raghavan v. Union of India (1995) the Supreme Court held that the Bharat Ratna and Padma awards are not titles within the meaning of Article 18(1), which abolishes titles; they are honours…

Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe in 1994 at Manila in the Philippines, the first Indian to take that crown, and in the same year Aishwarya Rai won Miss World, so 1994 is the year India held both titles.

The first three gallantry awards of independent India were instituted on 26 January 1950, but they were the Param Vir Chakra, the Maha Vir Chakra and the Vir Chakra.

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.

He was born in Cambridge, England, and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.

The Fellowship is the Akademi's highest honour and is deliberately scarce: not more than forty living persons hold it at any one time, which is why it is reserved for masters and senior scholars of the performing arts.

This film in the Monpa language won the award for the Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation at the 67th National Film Awards, announced in March 2021 for films of 2019.

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.

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.

The Tansen Samman is given by the Government of Madhya Pradesh for Hindustani classical music and is announced in connection with the Tansen Samaroh, the music festival held every year at Behat near Gwalior, the birthplace of Tansen, the great singer of Akbar's court and one of the nine jewels…

The novel by French writer David Diop, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, won the International Booker Prize in 2021.

The Kabir Puraskar, administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs and named after the poet who stood outside sectarian division, is given for conspicuous courage and humanity in saving the lives and property of members of another community during communal riots, and it too has three classes.

The Global Goalkeeper Award is one of the Goalkeepers awards the foundation gives to leaders who advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The actress, remembered for films such as Achhut Kanya and for her part in Bombay Talkies, was the first recipient of the award given for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema, named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913 and is called the father of Indian cinema.

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.

Lata Mangeshkar received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989, and she was later awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2001.

Narges Mohammadi won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, but it was given for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for human rights and freedom for all, not for bringing peace to Afghanistan.

Asha Parekh received the Padma Shri in 1992, chaired the Central Board of Film Certification from 1998 to 2001 as its first woman head, and was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2020.

The Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan received the 56th Jnanpith Award and the Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo the 57th; both were announced together in December 2021.

These are the words of the Nobel committee's citation for Jimmy Carter, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.