Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award?
- A.Mother Teresa
- B.Vinoba Bhave
- C.Jayaprakash Narayan
- D.C. D. Deshmukh
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct answer is B, Vinoba Bhave. 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. No Indian received it before him.
Option A, Mother Teresa, received the award in 1962 for peace and international understanding, four years after Bhave. Option C, Jayaprakash Narayan, received it in 1965 for public service. Option D, C. D. Deshmukh, who had been Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Finance Minister, received it in 1959 for government service, which makes him the closest distractor because he is only one year behind. The order to remember is Bhave 1958, Deshmukh 1959, Mother Teresa 1962.
Read the full article: Ramon Magsaysay, Pulitzer and Booker: Indian Winners
Practice Questions
View allThe Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after a former President of which country?
- A.Indonesia
- B.Malaysia
- C.Philippines
- D.Thailand
Show answer
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
Show answer
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 →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
Show answer
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
Show answer
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
Show answer
Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911 and provided for the prizes in his will; the first awards were made in 1917 by Columbia University.
Read the full explanation →