The Booker Prize is awarded for excellence in which field?
- A.Journalism
- B.A work of fiction written in English
- C.Scientific research
- D.Public service in Asia
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, a work of fiction written in English. The Booker Prize is a British literary award given each year to one novel. Until 2014 only writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe were eligible; since then any novel originally written in English and published in the United Kingdom may be considered, and the winner receives fifty thousand pounds.
Option A, journalism, belongs to the Pulitzer Prize, which is American. Option C, scientific research, belongs to the Nobel Prizes and, in India, to awards such as the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Option D, public service in Asia, describes the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Note also that the International Booker Prize is a separate award, given for a book translated into English, with the money shared equally between author and translator.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after a former President of which country?
- A.Indonesia
- B.Malaysia
- C.Philippines
- D.Thailand
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Ramon Magsaysay was President of the Philippines and died in an aircraft crash in March 1957. The award was created in his memory later that year, and it is given at Manila, the Philippine capital, on 31 August, his birth anniversary.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Ramon Magsaysay Award established?
- A.1947
- B.1952
- C.1957
- D.1962
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The trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund of New York set up the award in 1957, the year in which President Ramon Magsaysay died, and the first awards were given in 1958.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award?
- A.Mother Teresa
- B.Vinoba Bhave
- C.Jayaprakash Narayan
- D.C. D. Deshmukh
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He received the award in 1958, in the very first year it was given, for community leadership, in recognition of the Bhoodan movement in which he walked from village to village asking landowners to give land to the landless.
Read the full explanation →The Ramon Magsaysay Award is popularly described as
- A.Asia's Nobel Prize
- B.Asia's Booker Prize
- C.the Nobel Prize of the Pacific
- D.Asia's Pulitzer Prize
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The description is used because the award honours a lifetime of selfless service in Asia, in fields such as government service, public service and community leadership, in the manner in which the Nobel Prizes honour service to humanity.
Read the full explanation →The Pulitzer Prize is administered by which institution?
- A.Harvard University
- B.Columbia University
- C.Yale University
- D.the Library of Congress
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Joseph Pulitzer, the newspaper publisher who owned the New York World, left money in his will both for a school of journalism and for the prizes, and Columbia University in New York administers the awards on the advice of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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