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Awards (Current Affairs) (Part-V)

📆 April 16, 2025

Total Questions: 50

11. Who won the Nobel prize 2019 in literature? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 17.03.2020 (Shift-III)]

Correct Answer: (c) Peter Handke
Solution:Austrian writer Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize in the year 2019 for his brilliant work in exploring the range and specificity of human experience with linguistic ingenuity. The Nobel Literature Prize for the year 2020 was awarded to American author "Louise Gluck". He was awarded this award for his poetic voice that beautifully universalizes individual existence. The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 has been awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdul Razzaq Gurnah.

12. Who among the following was the first Chinese to receive the Nobel Prize for literature? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 12.06.2019 (Shift-III)]

Correct Answer: (d) Mo Yan
Solution:Mo Yan was the first Chinese person to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He received this award in the year 2012.

13. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvery J. Alter, Michael Huoghton and Charles M. Rice for: [S.S.C. JE Mechanical Exam 22.03.2021 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Discovery of hepatities C virus
Solution:The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter (American scientist), Michael Houghton (British scientist), and Charles M. Rice (American scientist) were awarded for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology for the year 2021 was awarded to two US scientists 'David Julius' and 'Ardem Patapoutian' for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.

14. In 2020, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice for the discovery of: [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 04.09.2021 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Hepatitis C virus
Solution:The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter (American scientist), Michael Houghton (British scientist), and Charles M. Rice (American scientist) were awarded for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology for the year 2021 was awarded to two US scientists 'David Julius' and 'Ardem Patapoutian' for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.

15. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his neuron doctrine? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 7.06.2019 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (c) Santiago Ramony Cajal
Solution:The Nobel Prize for Neuron Doctrine was won by Santiago Ramony Cajal and Camillo Golgi in the year 1906.

16. Har Gobind Khorana was awarded Nobel Prize in the field of _________. [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 14.09.2019 (Shift-III)]

Correct Answer: (d) Medicine
Solution:Hargobind Khurana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in the year 1968.

17. Who among the following is NOT a Nobel laureate? [S.S.C. JE Mechanical Exam 22.03.2021 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (a) Manoj Das
Solution:As per the options given in the question, Manoj Das has not received the Nobel Prize. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 2009. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. Hence option (a) is the correct answer.

18. Which of the following Indians has not been awarded the Nobel Prize? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 6.09.2019 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (a) Mahatma Gandhi
Solution:Mahatma Gandhi has not been awarded the Nobel Prize. Dr. Hargovind Khurana (of Indian origin) has been awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 1968, Rabindranath Tagore in the year 1913, and Kailash Satyarthi in the year 2014.

19. Name the physicist who is credited with the discovery of the Neutron. This 1932 discovery led to his winning the Nobel Prize. [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 3.03.2020 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (d) James Chadwick
Solution:The neutron was discovered by the physicist James Chadwick in the year 1932. He proved that in addition to the positively charged protons, there are also neutral particles in the atomic nucleus, which were named 'neutrons'.

20. Who among the following was NOT a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 12.10.2021 (Shift-III)]

Correct Answer: (a) Akira Yoshino
Solution:In the year 2019, Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists namely- John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Whereas the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 2019 are James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz
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