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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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Asia's Nobel Prize. 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. It is the phrase newspapers and question papers both use.
Option B is wrong because the Booker Prize is a British award for a work of fiction, which is a narrow literary field and not public service. Option C is not a phrase in use for any award. Option D is wrong because the Pulitzer Prize is American and belongs to journalism, letters, drama and music; a comparison with it would not describe an award for social work in Asia. When a question asks which award is called Asia's Nobel Prize, the answer is always the Magsaysay.
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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 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.
Read the full explanation →The Pulitzer Prize was awarded for the first time in which year?
- A.1901
- B.1917
- C.1929
- D.1945
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Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911 and provided for the prizes in his will; the first awards were made in 1917 by Columbia University.
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