This Books & Authors quiz on Nobel and Booker Winners from India puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic, 3 of them asked in real previous-year papers. 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
How many categories Nobel Prize Awards are awarded each year?
The Nobel Prize is awarded every year in six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences.
Read the full explanation →Who is the first ever Indian recipient of a Nobel Prize?
He was the first Indian and also the first person from Asia to be awarded a Nobel Prize in any category, and the prize brought Indian writing to the notice of readers across Europe.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the first female from India to receive the Nobel Peace prize?
She was born at Skopje, came to India as a nun, took Indian citizenship in 1948 and founded the Missionaries of Charity at Kolkata in 1950.
Read the full explanation →Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for which work?
The Nobel Prize for Literature came to him in 1913 for these verses, the citation praising their sensitive and beautiful language, and it made him the first Asian Nobel laureate.
Read the full explanation →In which year did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and for the effect that carries his name, by which light passing through a transparent medium changes in wavelength.
Read the full explanation →Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for which novel?
It won the Booker Prize in 1997, the fiftieth year of India's independence, and made her the first Indian woman to win the award.
Read the full explanation →Which novel of Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981?
It was later chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and again as the Best of the Booker in 2008, the only novel to be honoured in that way twice.
Read the full explanation →The White Tiger, which won the Booker Prize, was written by which author?
The book is told as a set of letters written by Balram Halwai, a driver who rises from a poor village to become a businessman in Bangalore, and it was later made into a film.
Read the full explanation →Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize in 2006 for which of the following novels?
It won the Booker Prize in 2006, and Kiran Desai was at the time the youngest woman to have won the award.
Read the full explanation →Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in which category?
Amartya Sen was awarded the prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, among them his work on social choice, on poverty and on the causes of famines.
Read the full explanation →Tomb of Sand, which won the International Booker Prize in 2022, is the translation of a novel written in which language?
Tomb of Sand is Daisy Rockwell's English translation of Ret Samadhi, a Hindi novel by Geetanjali Shree about an eighty year old woman who, after the death of her husband, travels to Pakistan to face the memories of Partition.
Read the full explanation →Kailash Satyarthi shared the Nobel Peace Prize of 2014 with which person?
The Nobel Peace Prize of 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi, who has worked for decades against child labour and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, and Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for the right of girls to go to school.
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