Awards (Current Affairs) Part- II

Total Questions: 50

41. _________ was an Indian film sent for the 90th Oscar Awards in 2018. [SSC Online Constable GD 12.02.2019 (Shift-II)]

(a) Sanju
(b) Zero
(c) Newton
(d) Raazi

Correct Answer: (c) Newton

Solution:The film "Newton", starring actor Rajkummar Rao and directed by Amit Masurkar, was sent from India in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 90th Oscars in 2018. Suriya's Tamil socio-drama 'Jai Bhim' nominated for Best Featured Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the list of 276 films that is eligible for consideration at the 94th Oscars.

42. Name the first actor to win the Oscar Awards. [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 9.03.2020 (Shift-I)]

(a) Warner Baxter
(b) Emil Jannings
(c) Charlie Chaplin
(d) Lionel Barrymore

Correct Answer: (b) Emil Jannings

Solution:Emil Jennings is the first actor to win an Oscar. This German actor was awarded the Oscar for Best Actor in the year 1929 for his roles in the films The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

43. Resul Pookutty won Oscar for the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" in the category of _________. [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 29.01.2017 (Shift-II)]

(a) Best Sound Mixing
(b) Best Original Score
(c) Best Original Song
(d) Best Foreign Language Film

Correct Answer: (a) Best Sound Mixing

Solution:Resul Pookutty won the Oscar in the category of 'Best Sound Mixing' for the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. The film Slumdog Millionaire is based on the book 'Q&A' by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup.

44. The novelist, poet and critic of which language has been conferred with Jnanpith Award for 2015? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 9.09.2016 (Shift-II) S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 18.01.2017 (Shift-III)]

(a) Bengali
(b) Telugu
(c) Odia
(d) Gujarati

Correct Answer: (d) Gujarati

Solution:Renowned Gujarati writer Dr. Raghuveer Choudhary was awarded the Jnanpith Award (2015). The 56th Jnanpith Award has been announced to be given to Assamese story writer Nilamani Phukan and 57th Jnanpith Award to Konkani writer Damodar Moujo.

45. The 55th Jnanpith Award was given to ________. [S.S.C. Online CPO S.I. (T-I) 23.11.2020 (Shift-I)]

(a) Raghuveer Chaudhari
(b) Bhalchandra Nemade
(c) Amitav Ghosh
(d) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

Correct Answer: (d) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

Solution:Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham has been awarded the 55th Jnanpith Award. He received the 55th Jnanpith Award for the year 2019. Born in 1926, Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri is popularly known as Akkitham.

• Damodar Mauzo was a Goa-based poet and recipient of the 57th Jnanpith Award in 2022.

46. Who among the following was awarded the 55th Jnanpith Award? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 13.04.2021 (Shift-III)]

(a) Amitav Ghosh
(b) Raghuveer Chaudhari
(c) Chandrashekhara Kambara
(d) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

Correct Answer: (d) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

Damodar Mauzo was a Goa-based poet and recipient of the 57th Jnanpith Award in 2022.

47. Novelist Damodar Mauzo, who has won the 57th Jnanpith Award, is a writer in which of the following languages? [S.S.C. Online CPO SI (T-I) 09.11.2022 (Shift-I)]

(a) Assamese
(b) Odia
(c) Konkani
(d) Sanskrit

Correct Answer: (c) Konkani

Solution:Damodar Mauzo is a writer in the Konkani language, and he won the 57th Jnanpith Award for his contri-butions to Indian literature. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his novel Karmelin. He also won the Vimala V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar award for his novel Tsunami Simon in 2011. Mauzo is a renowned Konkani writer, known for his novels, short stories, and essays that explore the culture, history, and socio-economic issues of the Konkani-speaking people of Goa and the Konkan region

48. Which of the following authors received the Jnanpith Award in 2018? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 11.06.2019 (Shift-I) S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 14.10.2017 (Shift-II)]

(a) Kiran Desai
(b) Amitav Ghosh
(c) Vikram Seth
(d) Arundhati Roy

Correct Answer: (b) Amitav Ghosh

Solution:Amitabh Ghosh received the Jnanpith Award (54th) in the year 2018. He is the first English language writer to receive this award.

49. Professor Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his significant contribution in which of the following fields? [S.S.C. Online Stenographer 13.09.2017 (Shift-I)]

(a) Chemistry
(b) Global peace
(c) Economics
(d) Medicine

Correct Answer: (c) Economics

Solution:Amartya Sen has been awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 1998 for his special contribution in the field of economics. In the year 2021, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guddo W. Imbens.

50. Who won the 2016 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 30.10.2017 (Shift-I)]

(a) Mridula Garg
(b) Amar Kant
(c) Nasira Sharma
(d) Kamleshwar

Correct Answer: (c) Nasira Sharma

Solution:The Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi for the year 2016 was presented to Nasira Sharma for her novel 'Parijat'. Badri Narayan has received this award in the year 2022 for his poetry collection 'Tumdi Ke Shabd'.

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