Awards (Current Affairs) (Part- VII)

Total Questions: 38

21. Who among the following received the "ASSOCHAM Enterprise of the Century Award' in December 2020? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 16.04.2021 (Shift-I)]

(a) Mukesh Ambani
(b) Azim Premji
(c) Ratan Tata
(d) Shiv Nadar

Correct Answer: (c) Ratan Tata

Solution:Ratan Tata received the 'ASSOCHAM Enterprise of the Century Award' in December 2020.

22. Which filmmaker won the Best Screenplay award at the Venice film festival for 'The Disciple', a Marathi drama, in 2020? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 19.04.2021 (Shift-III)]

(a) Chaitanya Tamhane
(b) Hrishikesh Joshi
(c) Sachin Kundalkar
(d) Arvind Deshpande

Correct Answer: (a) Chaitanya Tamhane

Solution:Chaitanya Tamhane (Producer) won the Best Screen-play Award at the Venice Film Festival for a Marathi play, 'The Disciple' in 2020.

Note:- Laura Poitras' documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed has won the 2022 Golden Lion for best film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.

23. Who among the following has been awarded the Bharathi award 2020? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 19.04.2021 (Shift-II)]

(a) Raj Kamal
(b) Ratan Tata
(c) Seeni Viswanathan
(d) Vidyut Mohan

Correct Answer: (c) Seeni Viswanathan

Solution:International Bharti Mahotsav 2020 was organized through video conferencing on December 11, 2020. It was organized by Tamil Nadu's Vanvil Cultural Center to commemorate the 138th birth anniversary of Tamil language poet and writer Mahakavi Subramaniam Bharathi. Seeni Viswanathan was honored with the 'Bharti Puraskar for the year 2020' during this festival.

24. Which of the following voluntary organization has won the Skoll Prize for Social Entrepreneurship 2020? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 11.10.2021 (Shift-III)]

(a) Greenpeace
(b) ARMMAN
(c) Goonj
(d) CRY

Correct Answer: (b) ARMMAN

Solution:Voluntary Organization (NGO) Armaan has won the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship of the Year 2020 for its exceptional work in the field of maternal and child health.

25. The 'Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award' is given for: [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 12.10.2021 (Shift-I)]

(a) environment protection
(b) energy protection
(c) wildlife protection
(d) biodiversity protection

Correct Answer: (c) wildlife protection

Solution:The 'Amrita Devi Vishnoi National Award' is given by the Government of India for its contribution to the field of wildlife conservation.

26. Who among the following was awarded the French honour of 'Chevalier d l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in January 2020? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 14.10.2021 (Shift-I)]

(a) Sanjna Kapoor
(b) Aishwarya Rai
(c) Ebrahim Alkazi
(d) Hariprasad Chaurasia

Correct Answer: (a) Sanjna Kapoor

Solution:Renowned theater artist Sanjana Kapoor was honored with the prestigious French honor 'Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters' in January 2020.

Note:- Riding high on the remarkable success of her recent Hindi feature film Pagglait, acclaimed filmmaker Guneet Monga is conferred with the honor of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres), the second-highest civilian French honor by H.E.

27. Which Indian author was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 'The Room on the Roof in 1957, a book which he wrote at the age of 17? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 14.10.2021 (Shift-II)]

(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Amitav Ghosh
(d) Khushwant Singh

Correct Answer: (a) Ruskin Bond

Solution:Ruskin Bond was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957 for the book 'The Room on the Roof. He wrote this book at the age of 17.

28. Who among the following was NOT a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2019? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 14.10.2021 (Shift-III)]

(a) Tapas Kumar Maji
(b) Soumen Basak
(c) Kayarat Saikrishnan
(d) Sakya Singha Sen

Correct Answer: (d) Sakya Singha Sen

Solution:Sakya Sinha Sen did not receive the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Science and Technology Award for the year 2019. Tapas Kumar Majhi and Raghavan B Sunoj were awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the year 2019 for their remarkable contribution in the field of chemistry and Soumen Basak and Kairat Saikrishnan in the field of biology.

Note: In the field of Chemical Sciences, Prof Kanishka Biswas and Prof T Govindaraju of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, were awarded in 2022.

29. Who among the following was the first Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee? [S.S.C. Online CGL (T-I) 13.04.2022 (Shift-I)]

(a) S Chandrasekhar
(b) CV Raman
(c) KS Krishnan
(d) MN Saha

Correct Answer: (c) KS Krishnan

Solution:The first Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Physical Sciences was awarded in 1958 to Indian physicist Kariyamanikam Srinivasa Krishnan for his work on Raman scattering, which he discovered with his mentor C. V. Raman. He was also awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1954.

30. Who won the World Food Prize in June 2020 for his contribution towards developing soil saving techniques to increase food production? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 18.10.2021 (Shift-I)]

(a) I Sekar
(b) M. Krishna Reddy
(c) A Gopalakrishnan
(d) Rattan Lal

Correct Answer: (d) Rattan Lal

Solution:In June 2020, Indian-American soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal won the prestigious World Food Prize for the year 2020. He has been awarded this award for his contribution to the development of soil-saving techniques to increase food production. The prestigious World Food Prize for the year 2021 has been conferred on Dr. Shakuntala Harak Singh Thilsted, a renowned nutrition scientist of Indian origin.

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