bankinterview: GENERAL AWARENESS 24 MARCH

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1.Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?
(a) Aryabhatta awards
(b) Kalinga Prize
(c) Abdus Salam Prize
(d) None of these

Answer: (b)

2.Which of the following is India’s highest decoration for valour?
(a) Param Vir Chakra
(b) Mahavir Chakra
(c) Vir Chakra
(d) Asoka Chakra

Answer: (a)

3.Which of the following is India’s highest honour in the field of literature?
(a) Vyas Samman
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Saraswathi Samman

Answer: (c)

4.Which of the following is India’s highest peace-time gallantry award?
(a) Mahavir Chakra
(b) Ashoka Chakra
(c) Vir Chakra
(d) Param Vir Chakra

Answer: (b)

5.Which of the following is the world’s top environmental conservation award?
(a) Golden Bear Award
(b) Golden Panda Award
(c) Golden Globe Award
(d) Golden Palms Award

Answer: (b)

6.Which of the following wing awards are limited only for the Asians?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru Award
(b) Alternative Nobel Prize
(c) Magsaysay Award
(d) Man Booker Prize

Answer: (c)

7.Which one of the following awards instituted by KK Birla Foundation is given to an individual for outstanding work on Indian philosophy, culture and art?
(a) Saraswathy Samman
(b) Vyas Samman
(c) Shankar Puraskar
(d) Kalidas Samman

Answer: (c)

8.Which one of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry?
(a) Kabir award
(b) Kalidas Samman
(c) Saraswathy Samman
(d) Vyas Samman

Answer: (a)

9.Which one of the following awards was instituted by the KK Birla Foundation?
(a) Saraswati Samman
(b) Kabir Award
(c) Kalidas Samman
(d) Jnanpith Award

Answer: (a)

10.Which one of the following is India’s highest civilian honour?
(a) Bharat Ratna
(b) Padma Bhushan
(c) Padama Vibhushan
(d) Padma Sri

Answer: (a)

11.Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three
times so far?
(a) Medame Curie
(b) Linus Pauling
(c) Alexender Flemming
(d) International Committee of the Redcross

Answer: (d)

12.Who among the following actors has won the Chevalier Award instituted by the French Government?
(a) MG Ramakrishnan
(b) Raj Kumar
(c) Shivaji Ganeshan
(d) Kamal Hasan

Answer: (c)

13.Who among the following has won the Polar Music Award instituted by the Royal Music Academy, Sweden?
(a) Sakir Hussein
(b) Pundit Ravi Shankar
(c) Bismillah Khan
(d) Allah Rakha Khan

Answer: (b)

14.Who was the first winner of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding?
(a) U Thant
(b) Martin Luther King
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(d) Yehudi Menuhin

Answer: (a)

15.Who among the following national leaders have won the highest civilian honours of Pakistan?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Morarji Desai
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(d) Indira Gandhi

Answer: (b)

16.Who among the following was selected for the 2001 Dada Saheb Phalke Award?
(a) Dev Anand
(b) Lata Mangeshkar
(c) Ramanand Sagar
(d) Yash Chopra

Answer: (d)

17.Who among the following was the first to win the Booker Prize?
(a) William Golding
(b) PH Newby
(c) JM Coetzee
(d) Peter Carey

Answer: (b)

18.Who among the following was/were selected for the 12th South Indian Education Society Awards in December 2009?
(a) Somnath Chatterjee
(b) M. Annadurai
(c) E. Sridharan and Satya Vrat Shastri
(d) All of the above

Answer: (d)

19.Who amongst the following was honoured with the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding fiven away recently?
(a) Mr. Umaru Yar Adua
(b) Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(c) Mr. Vladimir Putin
(d) Olafur Ragnar

Answer: (d)

20.Who amongst the following won the Men’s single title of Australian Open Tennis 2008?
(a) Novak Djokovic
(b) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(c) Jonathan Erlich
(d) Andy Ram

Answer: (a)

21.Who of the following won the Nobel Prize for his work on Photoelectric effect?
(a) Albert Einstein
(b) Werner Heisenberg
(c) Steven Weinberg
(d) Max Planck

Answer: (a)

22.The highest peace time gallantry award in India :
(a) Padma Bhushan
(b) Ashok Chakra
(c) S.S. Bhatnagar award
(d) Padma Vibhushan

Answer: (b)

23.Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna?
(a) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Nelson Madela
(d) Benazir Bhutto

Answer: (a)

24.Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?
(a) Arundathi Roy
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) VS Naipaul
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri

Answer: (b)

25.Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Mother Teresa
(c) U. Thant
(d) Dr. Jonas Salk

Answer: (a)

26.Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award?
(a) S Chandra Sekhar
(b) C V Raman
(c) J C Bose
(d) Hargobind Khorana

Answer: (b)

27.Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
(a) Albert Camus
(b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Knut Hamson
(d) Rene Sully Prudhome

Answer: (d)

28.With reference to Stree Shakti Puraskar, for which of the following is "Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award" given?
(a) Administrative skills
(b) Achievements in Scientific Research
(c) Achievements in Sports and Games
(d) Courage and valour

Answer: (a)

29.Who was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize?
(a) AT Aryaratne
(b) Julius Nerera
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) None of these

Answer: (b)

30.Who was the first winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award?
(a) Vinobha Bhave
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(d) None of these

Answer: (a)

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