Awards (Part-IV)

21. Who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2019? [Chhattisgarh P.C.S. (Pre) 2019]

(a) Dalai Lama, Tibet
(b) Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan
(c) Abi Ahmed Ali, Ethiopia
(d) Nadia Murad Basi Taha, Iraq

Correct Answer: (c) Abi Ahmed Ali, Ethiopia

Solution:The Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2019 was awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. He was awarded this award for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and especially for his decisive initiative to resolve disputes with neighboring countries.

22. Ravindra Nath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize, in the year? [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2017]

(a) 1913
(b) 1920
(c) 1922
(d)1936

Correct Answer: (a) 1913

Solution:Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize (Literature) in the year 1913. He was the first Indian to receive this award.

23. Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2014 was given to which invention? [Chhattisgarh P.C.S. (Pre) 2014]

Correct Answer: (c) White LED

Solution:Three Japanese-born researchers 'Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura' on 7th October 2014, won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. They were honoured for inventing efficient blue Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) lamps that worked as a bright and energy-saving white light sources. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded jointly to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L' Huillier.

24. T. Kajita and A. Mc Donald, winner of year 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics, belong to which of the following countries respectively? [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2016]

(a) U.S.A. and Japan
(b) Japan and U.S.A.
(c) Japan and Canada
(d) Canada and U.S.A.

Correct Answer: (c) Japan and Canada

Solution:T. Kajita and A. Mc Donald, winner of year 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics, belong to Japan and Canada respectively. Hence, option (c) is correct.

25. Who is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018? [U.P.R.O./A.R.O. (Mains) 2017]

(a) KazuoIshiguro
(b) Bob Dylan
(c) Patrick Modiano
(d) None of these

Correct Answer: (d) None of these

Solution:The Nobel Prize for Literature was cancelled in the year 2018 by the Notable Nobel Prize Committee after the sexual assault scandal. In 2023 it was given to Norwegian auther Jon Fosse.

26. Who got the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature? [60th to 62nd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2016]

Correct Answer: (c) Bob Dylan

Solution:Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan earned the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". In 2022 French writer Annie Ernaux won for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, strangemets and collective restrains of personal memory.

27. Who among the following has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature? [56th to 59th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2015]

(a) Kailash Satyarthi
(b) Malala Yousafzai
(c) Jean Tirole
(d) Patrick Modiano

Correct Answer: (d) Patrick Modiano

28. Novelist 'Doris Lessing' has won the Nobel Prize for the year 2007. Which country is this novelist from? [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2004]

(a) U.S.A.
(b) Spain
(c) U.K.
(d) France

Correct Answer: (c) U.K.

Solution:Novelist 'Doris Lessing' from U.K. has won the Nobel Prize for the year 2007. Hence, option (c) is correct.

29. Which book won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2004]

(a) Fasting and Feasting
(b) My Childhood days
(c) Development and Freedom
(d) The Tin Drum

Correct Answer: (d) The Tin Drum

Solution:'The Tin Drum' won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Hence, option (d) is correct.

30. Who among the following has been given the Nobel Prize for Economics, 2015? [U.P. Lower. Sub. (Pre), 2015]

(a) Angus Deaton
(b) Lars Peter Hansen
(c) Paul Modrich
(d) Arthur B. McDonald

Correct Answer: (a) Angus Deaton

Solution:Angus Deaton of Scotland was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics. Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. In 2023 it was given to Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understading of the gender gap in the labour market.