Awards MCQs

1. Which Indian entrepreneur was recently honoured with the Australia’s highest civilian honour,‘Order of Australia’?          

[A] Anand Mahindra

[B] Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

[C] Azim Premji

[D] Uday Kotak 

2. Veteran diplomat Ajay Bisaria was recently appointed as the next Indian High Commissioner to which country?               

[A] United Kingdom

[B] Canada

[C] Singapore

[D] Malaysia

3. Dalip Kaur Tiwana, who passed away recently, was a famous writer in which language?  

[A] Hindi

[B] Urdu

[C] Punjabi

[D] Gujarati

4. Which state bagged the award for ‘Best performance in Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana’, recently presented by the Union Minister of Women & Child Development?         

[A] Madhya Pradesh

[B] Andhra Pradesh

[C] Karnataka

[D] Gujarat         

5. Which Hollywood actor is playing Dr. Kalam in his upcoming biopic?         

[A] Nuveen Andrews

[B] Michael C. Hall

[C] Muhammad Ali

[D] Terry O’Quinn           

6. Who was recently appointed as the new President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI)?         

[A] Atul Kumar Gupta

[B] Nihar Niranjan Jambusaria

[C] Prafulla Chhajed

[D] N D Gupta   

7. Jason Davis, who recently passed away, was associated with which profession?  

[A] Politician

[B] Actor

[C] Sportsperson

[D] Writer

8. Which portal of Indian Railways has won the Silver in National e-Governance Award for excellence in providing citizen-centric delivery?

[A] Where is my Train

[B] Rail Suvidha

[C] Rail Madad

[D] Rail Saarthi

9. The duo -Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who were making news recently, are the recipients of which global award?   

[A] Booker Prize

[B] Abel Prize

[C] Pritzker Prize

[D] Fields Medal              

10. TIME Magazine has named which Indian woman as the ‘Woman of the year 1947’ in its recent recreated list of world’s 100 powerful women? 

[A] Amrit Kaur

[B] Sarojini Naidu

[C] Indira Gandhi

[D] Savitribhai Phule      

11.Which film won the ‘Best Motion picture- drama’ award in the Golden Globe awards 2020?

[A] Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

[B] 1917

[C] Missing Link

[D] Parasite

 

12.Who has been recently conferred with the ‘Harit Ratna Award 2019’ in the field of Agriculture?

[A] N Kumar

[B] Rajendran

[C] Ravi Krishnan

[D] Karthikeyan

 

13.Sher Singh Kukkal, who passed away recently, was a famous personality in which field?

[A] Politics

[B] Sports

[C] Art

[D] Business

 

14.Which Indian journalist has been selected as the outstanding media-person in a national award of Kerala Media Academy?

[A] N Ram

[B] Ravish Kumar

[C] Prannoy Roy

[D] Barkha Dutt

 

15.Which district has topped the list of aspirational districts for the month of December, released by NITI Aayog?

[A] Sahibganj (Jharkhand)

[B] Hailakandi(Assam)

[C] Belangir (Odisha)

[D] Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh)

 

16.Which Indian journalist has been chosen as the recipient of 2019-20 PEN Gauri Lankesh Award?

[A] Ravish Kumar

[B] Yusuf Jameel

[C] N Ram

[D] Prannoy Roy

 

17.Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, recently?

[A] Pranab Kumar Das

[B] Ajay Bhushan Pandey

[C] M. Ajit Kumar

[D] Atanu Chakraborty

 

18.Abidali Neemuchwala, who resigned recently, was the Chief Executive Officer of which popular Indian IT firm?

[A] Infosys

[B] Tata Consultancy Services

[C] Wipro

[D] HCL

 

19.“Babenco: Tell Me When I Die”, which won the ‘Golden Conch Award for Best Documentary Film’ at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2020, is a film of which country?

[A] Canada

[B] Brazil

[C] France

[D] South Korea

 

20.Amit Panghal, who was seen in news recently, is a famous personality associated with which sports?

[A] Archery

[B] Boxing

[C] Wrestling

[D] Tennis

21.Who has been appointed as the Director General of Border Security Force?

[A] Rakesh Asthana

[B] Nageswara Rao

[C] Rishi Kumar Shukla

[D] Ranjit Sinha

 

22.Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Press Trust of India?

[A] Vineet Jain

[B] Aveek Sarkar

[C] Viveck Goenka

[D] Mahendra Mohan Gupta

 

23.The children of which Industrial Giant have been listed in Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list of influential people?

[A] Mukesh Ambani

[B] Anil Ambani

[C] Azim Premji

[D] Adi Godrej

 

24.V.S. Gaitonde, who was seen in news recently, is associated with which profession?

[A] Sportsperson

[B] Artist

[C] Lawyer

[D] Politician

 

25.Briton Jane Fraser is set to become the first woman head of which global group?

[A] Microsoft

[B] IBM

[C] Citi Group

[D] Google

 

26.Which bureaucrat has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Asian Development Bank (ADB)?

[A] Sameer Kumar Khare

[B] Debashish Panda

[C] Dakshita Das

[D] Pankaj Jain

 

27.What is the name of the renowned scholar of art history, architecture and Indian classical dance, who has recently passed away?

[A] Kapila Vatsyayan

[B] B. Babusivan

[C] P. R. Krishna Kumar

[D] Balli Durga Prasad Rao

 

28.Who has been appointed as the life trustee of the India International Centre, to fill the vacancy created by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan?

[A] Kapil Sibal

[B] Gopalkrishna Gandhi

[C] Rajiv Ahir

[D] Sunil Mehta

 

29.Who has topped the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2020?

[A] Ratan Tata

[B] Mukesh Ambani

[C] Azim Premji

[D] Anil Ambani

 

30.Which Indian personality has been named as the state icon of Punjab by the Election Commission of India?

[A] Virat Kohli

[B] Sonu Sood

[C] Sushant Singh Rajput

[D] Ranveer Singh

 

31. Which industry has won JNA award as Manufacturer of the year 2020?

[A] Tata Motors Limited

[B] Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited

[C] Mahindra & Mahindra Limited

[D] Hindustan Unilever Limited

 

32. Who received the 2020 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize?

[A] Taslima Nasreen

[B] The Coexist Initiative

[C] Centre Resolution Conflits

[D] Manon Barbeau

 

33.  Who has been honored with the Prof. AN Bhaduri Memorial Lecture Award 2020?

[A] Dr. Jaiprakash Narayan

[B] Dr. Harsh Vardhan

[C] Dr. Abhinav Gupta

[D] Dr. Susanta Kar

 

34. Who has been awarded with Capital Foundation National Award 2020?

[A] Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra

[B] Jitendra Singh

[C] Dr Harsh Vardhan

[D] Narendra Damodardas Modi

 

 

35. Which district bagged Union Jal Shakti ministry' award 2019 for water conservation efforts?

[A] Mahe

[B] Kutch

[C] Karaikal

[D] Kadapa

 

36. Which team won IPL 2020 trophy?

[A] Sunrisers Hyderabad

[B] Kolkata Knight Rider

[C] Delhi Capitals

[D] Mumbai Indians

 

37. Who has been conferred with Tata Literature Lifetime Achievement Award?

[A] Ruskin Bond

[B] Raghu Karnad

[C] Claire Adam

[D] None of these

 

38. Who topped Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020?

[A] Shiv Nadar

[B] Mukesh Ambani

[C] Azim Premji

[D] Rohini Nilkeni

 

39.  Who won the JCB Prize for Literature?

[A] Jayshree kathilal

[B] S Hareesh

[C] Hariharan

[D] None of these

40.  Which of the following awards was recently received by PM Narendra Modi?

[A] IG Nobel prize

[B] BRIT award

[C] Pulitzer prize

[D] BAFTA award

 

41. Which award ceremony was hosted live recently?

[A] Oscar awards

[B] Grammy awards

[C] Emmy awards

[D] None of the above

 

42.  Who has presented the 1st ever "AICTE Visvesvaraya Best Teachers Award 2020"?

[A] Nirmala Sitaraman

[B] Nitin Gadkari

[C] Harsh Vardhan

[D] Ramesh Pokhriyal

 

43. Who was honoured with Asia Game Changer Award 2020?

[A] Chef Vikas Khanna

[B] Virat Kohli

[C] Amitabh Bachchan

[D] MS Dhoni

 

44. Which airport awarded the world's 1st 5-star Anti-Covid award?

[A] Fiumicino Airport

[B] Delhi Airport

[C] UAE Airport

[D] Malaysia Airport

45.  Who conferred Lifetime Achievement Award by Euromoney 2020?

[A] Anna Hazare

[B] Ratan Tata

[C] Aditya Puri

[D] None of these

 

46. Who was awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize?

[A] Sir David Attenborough

[B] Jaya Prakash Reddy

[C] Amitabh Bachchan

[D] Donald Trump

 

47. Dr S Padmavati, India's 1st Female & Oldest Cardiologist, awarded which of the following awards?

[A] Padma Vibhushan

[B] Padma Bhushan

[C] Padma Shri

[D] Both A and B

 

48. Who became the 1st Indian-origin woman to honoured with a Memorial Blue Plaque?

[A] Pratibha Patil

[B] Smriti Irani

[C] Noor Inayat Khan

[D] Kalpana Chawla

 

49. For which book Marieke Lucas Rijneveld becomes youngest author to win International Booker Prize?

[A] Milkman

[B] The blind Assassin

[C] The Discomfort of Evening

[D] None of these

 

 

50. Which organization won Swachhta Hi Seva 2019 award?

[A] NLCIL

[B] Township Administration

[C] Thermal Power Station -1

[D] None of these