Honours And Awards (Railway)

Total Questions: 42

11. Which of the following Indian cricketer got "Padam Bhusan" Price in 2018? [RRB-CBT for ALP & Technicians Exam, 22.01.2019 Shift-I]

(1) Saurav Ganguly
(2) Sachin Tendulkar
(3) Virat Kohli
(4) M.S. Dhoni

Correct Answer: (4) M.S. Dhoni

Solution:M.S. Dhoni received country's third highest civilian award, Padma Bhusan in 2018, from President Ram Nath Kovind.

12. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest award for recognising contributions of famous personalities in the field of: [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 22.01.2021 (Shift-I)]

(1) Social work
(2) Education
(3) Cinema
(4) sports

Correct Answer: (3) Cinema

Solution:The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest honour in cinema, presented by the Directorate of Film Festivals for the recipient's contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema.

• The award, named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who is revered as the father of Indian cinema, was instituted in 1969.

• Rajinikanth has been conferred with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2021.

13. Who among the following was the recipient of Bharat Ratna in 2019? [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 25.01.2021 (Shift-I)]

(1) Virat Kohli
(2) Teejan Bal
(3) Nanaji Deshmukh
(4) Rajeshwar Acharya

Correct Answer: (3) Nanaji Deshmukh

Solution:Bharat Ratna 2019 was conferred on former President Pranab Mukherjee, late social activist Nanaji Deshmukh and late singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika.

• The provision of Bharat Ratna was introduced in 1954.

• The first award was conferred on the famous scientist, Dr. ChandrasekharaVenkata Raman. C. Raj Goplachari and Dr. Sarvepall Radhakrishnan.

14. Who won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 for Literature? [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 03.02.2021 (Shift-I)]

(1) Manoj Michigan
(2) NK Salil
(3) Swapan Saha
(4) Rana Dasgupta

Correct Answer: (4) Rana Dasgupta

Solution:The 2019 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize in literature was awarded to Rana Dasgupta for the literary novel "Solo".

• The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was founded in 2018 by US-based publisher Bundalo as a platform for world peace, literature, art, education and human rights.

15. ________is one of the recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award. [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 04.02.2021 (Shift-II)]

(1) Arvind Kejriwal
(2) Suprabha Seshan
(3) CNR Rao
(4) Nirmala Deshpande

Correct Answer: (1) Arvind Kejriwal

Solution:In 2006, Arvind Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his involvement in the grass-roots level movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against government corruption.

• He donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation.

16. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to: [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 03.03.2021 (Shift-I)]

(1) Dadabhai Naoroji
(2) Sukumar Sen
(3) Jai Prakash Narayan
(4) Amartya Sen

Correct Answer: (4) Amartya Sen

Solution:Amartya Sen, Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his. interest in the problems of society's poorest members.

17. Bengali writer, Rabindranath Tagore became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize _________for Literature in the year for his collection of poems called 'Gitanjali. [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 13.03.2021 (Shift-I)]

(1) 1910
(2) 1913
(3) 1917
(4) 1953

Correct Answer: (2) 1913

Solution:Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded Nobel Prize in 1913.

• He won the award in literature. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse".

• He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

18. Which of the following Indian NGOs has won the UN's Equator Prize for 2019? [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 14.03.2021 (Shift-II)]

(1) Save Your Soul Society
(2) Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra
(3) Jeeva Karunya Trust
(4) Deccan Development Society

Correct Answer: (4) Deccan Development Society

Solution:Deccan Development Society

• The women sangams (groups) of the Deccan Development Society, in June 2019, bagged the United Nation's Equator Prize for 2019.

• They were selected for standing as 'an outstanding example of a local, nature-based solution to climate change and sustainable development."

19. For which book has the Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 been awarded to Shashi Tharoor? [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 14.03.2021 (Shift-II)]

(1) An era of Darkness
(2) The Small Town Sea
(3) The Vicks Mango Tree
(4) Vanity Bagh

Correct Answer: (1) An era of Darkness

Solution:An Era of Darkness

Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Shashi Tharoor, on 18 December 2019, won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his book, 'An Era of Darkness'.

• The book was published in 2016.

• Tharoor's book talks about the effect of British rule in India and how the colonizers exploited the country.

20. Which of the following awards was conferred to former Foreign Secretary of India, Shyam Saran by Japan? [RRB NTPC CBT-1 Exam, 14.03.2021 (Shift-II)]

(1) Order of the Rising Sun
(2) Person of Cultural Merit
(3) Order of the Paulownia Flowers
(4) Order of the Precious Crown

Correct Answer: (1) Order of the Rising Sun

Solution:Order of the Rising Sun

• Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran was, in May 2019. conferred with Japan's second highest national award - 'the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star'.

• Saran, who was India's Foreign Secretary during 2004-2006, played an important role to elevate Japan-India relationship to strategic partnership.

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