GK QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER set 2
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· NOBEL PRIZE
· World most coveted international award known as NOBEL
prize .
· Inventor of dynamite, sir Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96) in
1895, this award is given on Dec. 10, which is the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel.
· Nobel Prize is given
every year to those eminent persons who have made
pioneering achievements in the field of
Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature and Economics.
· NOBEL prize is given in 6 fields.
· Economics Nobel Prize was
instituted in 1967 and was first given in 1969.
· NOBEL prize is given for Literature.
· NOBEL prizes are awarded
yearly and each recipient, or laureate, receives
a gold medal, a sum of money, which
is decided by the Nobel Foundation.
· Each NOBEL prize was worth 8
million SEK (US$1.2 million),(as of 2012)
· There are the nominees
for each NOBEL prize for each year is up to 100 to 250.
· If someone nominated himself/ herself, he/she
would automatically be disqualified.
· Due to the outbreak of
the World War-II, the Nobel Prize
was not awarded between 1940 and 1942 .
· John Bardeen, twice recipient of NOBEL prizes
in same subject Physics (1956),
(1972).
· Frederic sanger, twice recipient of NOBEL prizes
in same subject Chemistry (1958)
, (1980).
· Marie Curie twice recipient of NOBEL prize in different subject Physics (1903) Chemistry (1911).
· Linus Pauling, twice recipient of NOBEL
prizes in different subject Chemistry
(1954),Peace (1962)
· United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees has been
awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace two times: In 1954 and 1981.
· Swedish Academy of
Science( Sweden) received the NOBEL prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
· Stockholm Faculty of
Medicine (capital of Sweden) received the NOBEL in Medicine.
· Swedish Academy of
Literature (Sweden) received NOBEL in Literature.
· Panel of 5-parliaments
of Norwegian Parliament (Norway) received
NOBEL in Peace.
· Bank of Sweden (Sweden) received NOBEL in Economics.
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List of INDIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
Rabindranath Tagore -Literature- 1913
Dr. C.V. Raman -Physics -1930
Dr. Hargovind Khurana - Medicine -1968
Mother Teresa- Peace -1979
V.S. Naipaul - Literature- 2001
Dr. S. Chandrashekhar- Physics -1983
Dr. Amartya Sen- Economics- 1999
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -Chemistry- 2009
Kailash Satyarthi -Peace- 2014
Abhijit Banerjee -Economics -2019
Some
American president who received NOBEL prize-
· Theodore
Roosevelt for peace in 1906.
· Woodrow
Wilson
for peace in1973.
· Jimmy
Carter for peace in 2002.
· Barack
Obama for peace in 2009.
SOME PERSONS WHO
REFUSING NOBEL PRIZE-
· Jean-Paul Sartre forLiterature in 1964.
Le Duc Tho for piece in 1973.
· Henry A Kissinger for peace in 1973.
§ POSTHUMOUS WINNERS: Erik
Axel Karlfeldt for Literature in
1931,Dag Hammarskjold for Peace in 1961.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER ORGANISATIONS:
· Institute of International Law -1904
· International Committee of the Red
Cross -1917,1944,1963
United Nations Peace Keeping Forces -1988
· United Nations High Commissioner for
Refuges-1954, 1981
· UNICEF - 1965
· International Labour Organisation
(ILO)- 1969
· Amnesty International- 1977
International Physicians for Nuclear Prevention of War-1985
· Doctors Without Border,
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-1999
· International Atomic Energy Agency -2005
· Grameen Bank (Bangladesh)- 2006
RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARDS
§ Ramon Magsaysay, the late President
of Philippines, who died in an air crash. It was instituted in 1957 and award is given annually on August 31. •
The Magsaysay awards are given in six categories:
· Government Service
· Public Service
·
Community Leadership
· Journalism, Literature, and
The
Creative Communication Arts
· Peace and International Understanding
· Emergent Leadership
§ RAMON
MAGSAYSAY AWARDS regarded as the Nobel Prize of Asia.
§ Vinoba Bhave was the first Indian to
receive Magsaysay award.
§ Magsaysay award is
known as "Alternative Nobel Prize.
§ Magsaysay award was established in 1980 by
German-Swedish philanthropist
Jakob von Uexkull, and is presented annually in
early December.
§ Ela Bhatt-first Indian to received
Magsaysay award in 1984 .
§ World Food Prize: It was instituted by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO),
one of the branches of UNO, recognizing the achievements of individuals who
have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity availability
of food in the world.
§ Norman Borlaug is known as Father of Green Revolution .
§ Prof. M.S. Swaminathan
was the first Indian who won world food prize in 1987. •
§ Mother Teresa was the first person
who received Templeton prize , in 1973, six years before she received the Nobel Peace
Prize.
§ Hoover Medal: An American engineering prize and has been given since 1930 .
§ Kyoto Prize: A Japanese award related with outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and
technology.
§ Abel Prize named after great Norwegian mathematical genius Niels Henrik Abel , presented by the King of Norway for outstanding mathematicians.
§ International Gandhi Peace Prize:
Indian Government launched this in 1995 on the occasion of the 125th birth
anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
§ International Gandhi
Peace award carries Rs 10 million in cash, convertible in any currency in the world.
§ Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding :
It was instituted in 1965 and the prize
money is Rs 1 crore. •
§ Indira Gandhi Award for International Peace, Disarmament &
Development: Awarded annually, it carries a cash award of Rs 25 lakh .
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LITERARY AND JOURNALISM
AWARDS
§ Man Booker Prize: A full-length novel, written in the English
language, by a citizen of any country.
§ The first Indian recipient
was V.S. Naipaul, for his
book In a Free State.
§ Pulitzer Prize: It is a US award for achievements in newspaper and online
journalism, literature and musical composition.
§ Pulitzer prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories,American publisher Joseph Pulitzer .
INDIAN LITERARY AWARDS
§ Sahitya Akademi Fellowship: It is the
highest literary honour conferred by the Government of India.
§ Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first
recipient of Sahitya Academi in 1968. •
§
Jnanpith Award: is one of the
most prestigious literary honours in the country and was instituted in 1961.
§ Any Indian citizen who
writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the Jnanpith award.
§ Founder of Jnanpith award Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.
§
Saraswati Samman: It was instituted in
1991 by the K.K. Birla Foundation
and is given for literary work made during last 10 years in any of the Indian language listed in
Schedule VIII of the Constitution.
§ The award consists of Rs
7.5 lakh, a citation and a plaque.
• Vyas Samman: is awarded annually by the K.K. Birla for literary work must be in the Hindi language and have been published in the past 10 years.
§
Miss Universe: is an annual
international beauty
contest run by
the Miss Universe Organization.
§ Sushmita Sen (1994) and
Lara Dutta (2000) were the two winners at
Miss Universe.
§
Miss World: It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951.
§
Reita Faria is the first indian who
won miss world Award in 1966.
§ Indian winners at Miss
World: Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai (1994), Diana Hayden
§ (1997), Vukta Mookhey
(1999), Priyanka Chopra (2000) & Manushi Chhillar (2017). •
§
Miss Earth:Started in 2001, it is
an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness.
§ Indian winner at Miss
Earth: Nicole Faria (2010). •
§
Miss India : or Femina
Miss
India is a national beauty pageant in India that annually selects three
winners to compete globally at Miss World.
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NATIONAL AWARDS
§
BHARAT RATNA is the highest civilian award of India.
§ BHARAT RATNA is presented by the
Government of India for exceptional public service and achievements in the field of art, literature
and science.
§ C. Rajagopalachari, C.V.
Raman & S Radhakrishnan were the first recipients in 1954.
§ Bharat Ratna`s decoration is in the
form of a peepal leaf, about 5.8 cm
long, 4.7 cm wide and 3.1 mm thick.
§ Bharat Ratna are embossed in Devanagari script. The emblem, the sun
and the rim are of platinum.
§ Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in India. It ranks behind the Bharat Ratna and comes before
the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
§ Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in India,
after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma
Shri.
§ Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the
Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma
Bhushan.
SPORTS AWARDS
§ Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is India's highest honour given for
achievement in sports. It carries a
medal, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs 7,50,000.
§ Chess wizard Viswanathan
Anand was the first recipient of
Rajib Gandhi Khel Ratna.
§ Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the Government of
India to recognize
outstanding achievement in National
sports( prize of Rs 5,00,000), a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.
§ Dronacharya Award: excellence in sports coaching. This award comprises a bronze
statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs
5,00,000.
§ Dhyan Chand Award: (2002), is India's
highest award for lifetime achievement in sports
and games, given by the Government of India.
§ The award is named after the legendary Indian hockey player Dhyan Chand(cash prize of Rs 5,00,000).
SCIENCE AWARDS
§ Jamnalal Bajaj Award: is a award for promoting Gandhian values, social work and social development.
§ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize:
It is the highest award for science in India.
§ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is
awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
§ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was the founder Director
of CSIR, awarded in 1958.
§
Borlaug Award: It is an honour of Nobel Laureate Norman E. Borlaug award recognition for their research and
contribution in the field of agriculture
and environment.
§ Dr B.C. Roy Award: Bidhan Chandra Roy Award was instituted in 1976 in memory of
B.C. Roy by Medical Council of India.
§ G.D. Birla Award: GD Birla Award for Scientific
Research is conferred by KK Birla Foundation.
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GALLANTRY AWARDS
§ Param Vir Chakra :It is India's highest military decoration awarded for
the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy. •
§ Param Vir Chakra is the second highest award of the government
of India after Bharat Ratna.
§
On the rear, around a
plain center, are two legends separated by lotus
flowers on Param Vir Chakra.
§ The words Param Vir Chakra
are written in Hindi and English.
§ Param Vir Chakra medal
symbolizes Rishi Dadhichi, who had donated his bones to the Gods for making
Vajra.
§ Major Somnath Sharma was the first recipient of Param Vir
Chakra in 1947.
§ Maha Vir Chakra: It is the second highest
military decoration in India and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallan
in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air.
§ Vir Chakra is the third gallantry awards in the war time .
§ Ashok Chakra: This military
decoration is awarded for valor,
courageous action or self- sacrifice away from field of battle.
§ Kirti Chakra: This military
decoration is awarded for valour, courageous action or self- sacrifice away from
the field of battle.
§ Shaurya Chakra is awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice, while not engaged in
direct action with the enemy.
§ Sena Medal is awarded to members of the Indian army, of
all ranks.
FILM AND MUSIC AWARDS
§
Oscar Awards was instituted in 1929, they
are conferred annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in
USA.
§ Oscar award considered the most prestigious awards in the
cinema world.
Indian Winners-
o Satyajit Ray (first Indian to be awarded Oscar fo lifetime achievements in cinema, in 1992)
Bhanu Athalya (as Costume Designer for the movie 'Gandhi' in 1982)
A.R. Rahman (two Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song 'Jai ho' for 'Slumdog Millionaire; in 2009)
· Gulzar (for Best Original Song
Jai ho' for 'Slumdog Millionaire, in 2009 along with A.R. Rahman)
· Resul Pookutty (Best Sound Mixing for
'Slumdog Millionaire', in 2009).
· A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) is an accolade by the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States.
Indian Winners:
· Pt. Ravi Shankar (4-time
Grammy winner, along with Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award)
· Zakir Hussain (2-time
Grammy winner)
· Vikku Vinayak
·
AR Rehman
· Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
·
PA Deepak
· SH Shreedhar.
§ National Film Awards: in 1954, National Film
Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony
in India. (held in New Delhi), where the President of India
presents the awards.
§ Dadasaheb Phalke Award: It is India's highest award in
cinema given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
§ Actress Devika Rani was
the first recipient of
Dadasaheb Phalke award in 1969.
§ Filmfare Awards : honour both artistic and
technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi film industry of India.
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