This Awards & Honours quiz on National Film Awards and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award puts 11 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.
11 questions with answers and explanations
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in which year?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969, which was the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, the father of Indian cinema.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
Devika Rani received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969. She worked at Bombay Talkies and is often described as the first lady of Indian cinema, and the fact that the first award went to an actress is exactly what examiners like to test.
Read the full explanation →The National Film Awards in India were instituted in which year?
The National Film Awards were instituted in 1954, and the first set of awards was given for films released in the previous year.
Read the full explanation →In the National Film Awards, the award for Best Feature Film carries which medallion?
The Swarna Kamal, or Golden Lotus, is the medallion awarded for the highest honours of the National Film Awards, and the Best Feature Film is the chief among them.
Read the full explanation →Dadasaheb Phalke, after whom the award is named, directed which film in 1913?
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and it is recognised as the first full length Indian feature film.
Read the full explanation →The National Film Awards are conferred by the Government of India through which ministry?
The National Film Awards are conferred by the Government of India through the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which appoints the juries for feature films, non feature films and writing on cinema and announces the results each year.
Read the full explanation →Dadasaheb Phalke is popularly known by which title?
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke is called the father of Indian cinema because he made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, the first full length Indian feature film, and went on to make many more, building the craft of film making in the country almost from nothing.
Read the full explanation →Which film won the first Best Feature Film award at the National Film Awards, for the year 1953?
The Marathi film Shyamchi Aai, directed by P. K. Atre and based on the writing of Sane Guruji, won the first Best Feature Film award at the National Film Awards for the year 1953.
Read the full explanation →How many persons receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in a year?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is given to a single person each year for a lifetime of outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema, and it is presented along with the National Film Awards.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award consists of which of the following?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award carries the Swarna Kamal, or Golden Lotus, along with a cash prize, a shawl and a certificate, and it is presented at the National Film Awards ceremony.
Read the full explanation →The first set of National Film Awards, given in 1954, honoured films released in which year?
The National Film Awards were instituted in 1954 and the first set of awards honoured films released in 1953, which is why the first Best Feature Film award is recorded against the Marathi film Shyamchi Aai for that year.
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