Prizes, Awards and Honours General Knowledge:
Ques. In 1984, Malcolm Morley was the first winner of what prize?
(a) Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts
(b) The Booker Prize
(c) Turner Prize for Modern Art
(d) Prix Blumenthal
Ques. Who is the first Asian Winner of Nobel Prize?
(a) CV Raman
(b) Rajiv Gandhi
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Mother Teresa
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Ques. What is the field in which outstanding work may be recognized with the award of Pulitzer Prize ?
(a) Science and Technology
(b) Literature and Journalism
(c) International Understanding
(d) Environmental Studies
Ques. For outstanding contribution to which one of the following fields is Abel Prize given?
(a) Science
(b) Chemistry
(c) Physics
(d) Mathematics
Ques.With which one of the following activities, Golden Globe Awards are associated ?
(a) Journalism
(b) Social work
(c) Peace initiatives
(d) Films
Ques. What is the main qualification for being considered for the Turner Prize, which has been presented annually since 1984 and is awarded by the Tate gallery? To be…
(a) A British visual artist aged under 50
(b) A male ballet dancer
(c) A published author aged under 30
(d) A British born soccer player
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Ques. Judith Keppel was the first winner of the top prize on which UK programme?
(a) Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
(b) Pop Idol (UK)
(c) The Price is Right
(d) Deal or No Deal
Ques. What is the main qualification for being considered for the Turner Prize, which has been presented annually since 1984 and is awarded by the Tate gallery? To be…
(a) A British visual artist aged under 50
(b) A male ballet dancer
(c) A published author aged under 30
(d) A British born soccer player who wishes to turn professional
Ques. The Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO
(a) The Green Star Awards
(b) The FiFi Awards
(c) The Kalinga Prize
(d) The BAFTA award
Ques. Grammy Award is given in the field of
(a) Acting
Music
(c) Singing
(d) Boxing
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Ques. For which of the following sports the famous “Golden Ball Award” is presented.
(a) Cricket
(b) Hockey
(c) Football
(d) Tennis
Ques. Which American trumpeter and composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997, the first time it had been awarded for a jazz recording?
(a) Paul Whiteman
(b) Wynton Marsalis
(c) ”Jelly Roll” Morton
(d) Benny Goodman
Ques. ‘Orange Prize’ is given in the field of:
(a) literature
(b) sports
(c) medicine
(d) acting
Ques. Which skilled scat singer has won 5 Emmy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, and has an honorary doctorate from the Juilliard School of Dance, Drama
and Music, New York?
(a) Diana Krall
(b) Nancy Wilson
(c) Dianne Reeves
(d) Freddy Cole
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Ques. Biju Patnaik Award presented to recognize which field ?
(a) Science
(b) Literature
(c) Sports
(d) Cinema
Ques. Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?
(a) Alan Bennett
(b) Michael Frayn
(c) Doug Wright
(d) Edward Albee
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Ques. Which 20th century American composer wrote the American Festival overture in 1939, and Symphony No. 3 considered the most important new work of 1942, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943?
(a) Robert Schumann
(b) William Schuman
(c) Clara Wieck Schumann
(d) Walter Schumann
Ques. The highest civilian award of India ’Bharat Ratna’ has been awarded to only two foreigners so far. One of them is Nelson Mandela. The other is
(a) Abdul Ghaffar khan
(b) Mikhail Gorbachev
(c) Marshal Tito
(d) Abdul Wali Khan
Ques. The Man Booker prize is awarded for what?
(a) Science
(b) Sculpture
(c) Painting
(d) Literature
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Ques. A proof of what major mathematics problem was given by Grigori Perelmanin 2003, resulting in his being selected to receive the Fields Medal and being awarded the Millennium prize in March 2010?
(a) Poincare conjecture
(b) P versus NP problem
(c) Hodge’s theorem
(d) Riemann hypothesis
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