Awards and Honours MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Awards and Honours - Download Free PDF

The correct answer is 1954.

Key Points

• Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour in India.
• Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex is eligible for these awards. 
• Bharat Ratna was instituted in the year 1954.
• It is not mandatory that Bharat Ratna be awarded every year.

Additional Information 

• The first three recipients of Bharat Ratna are:
  • C. Rajagopalachari.
  • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
  • C V Raman.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first person to be awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously.
• There is no written provision that Bharat Ratna should be awarded to Indian citizens only.
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the first foreigner to get Bharat Ratna.
• Indira Gandhi was the first woman to get Bharat Ratna.
• Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to get Bharat Ratna.
• Bharat Ratna was last awarded on 25 January 2019.
• The 2019 recipients of the Bharat Ratna award are:
  • Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumous).
  • Bhupen Hazarika (Posthumous).
  • Pranab Mukherjee.
• There is no Bharat Ratna for year 2020 to 2023.

Bharat Ratna Award in 2024

• Karpoori Thakur
• Lal Krishna Advani
• PV Narasimha Rao
• Chaudhary Charan Singh
• MS Swaminathan

The correct answer is Grammy Life Time Achievement Award.

• The first Indian to receive the Grammy Life Time Achievement Award is Pandit Ravi Shankar.​

Key Points 

• Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar was honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously, organizers of the Recording Academy announced, the first Indian to get the prestigious award.
• The award was presented on February 10 2013 at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
• Shankar was a true pioneer in introducing Indian music to the West, he said, adding the music icon influenced artists across classical, jazz, pop, rock, and world music genres, including the Beatles, John Coltrane, Philip Glass, and his daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar.
• Other recipients of this year's lifetime achievement Grammy awards are
  • Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightning Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page, and the Temptations

The correct answer is Medicine.

Key Points

• Presented by the President, the Bidhan Chandra Roy Award is an annual award that is given by the Medical Council of India in each of the following categories:
  • Medical man-cum-Statesman
  • Statesmanship of Highest Order in India
  • Eminent Person in Philosophy
  • Eminent Medical Person
  • Eminent Person in Science
  • Eminent Person in Arts
• The award is given every year in New Delhi on July 1, National Doctor's Day.

The correct answer is 1999.

Key Points

• Pt .Ravi Shankar was a renowned Sitarist who was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
• He was also an Indian composer and musician born on 7 April 1920.
• He has been honored with prestigious awards such as Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Bharat Ratna, and Grammy Award.
• The "Sitar maestro" was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world including Beatles guitarist George Harrison.

The correct answer is Spiritualism.

• Shri Kalbe Sadiq, a Padma Bushan awardee has won this prestigious award in Spiritualism.
• Kalbe Sadiq was an Indian Islamic scholar, reformer, educationist, philanthropist, and preacher.
• He was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India in a Shia family.
• He has lectured overseas mostly in the Islamic month of Muharram.

Key Points

• Padma Bhushan is India's third-highest civilian award.
• Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award.

Additional Information

• Shri Kalbe Sadiq founded the Tauheedul Muslimeen Trust on 18 April 1984 with an aim to give educational assistance and scholarships to needy and poor students. 

The correct answer is option 4 i.e Abhinav Bindra.

Key Points

• The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna now named Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna Award is the highest sports award in India.
  • Award is named after Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India.
  • Awarded by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
  • Instituted in 1991.
  • Viswanathan Anand is the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
  • Sport shooter Abhinav Bindra is the youngest recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
  • Last awarded in 2019.
  • Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award winners 2019: Deepa Malik and Bajrang Punia.

Additional Information

• Abhinav Bindra is a former Indian sport shooter.
  • He is India's individual Olympic gold medalist.
  • He won India's first individual Olympic gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
• Virat Kohli is an Indian Cricketer.
  • He was honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2018.
• Geet Sethi is a professional player of English billiards.
  • He was honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1992.

The correct answer is Vinesh Phogat.

Important Points

• She became the first Indian athlete to be nominated for the Laureus world sports Awards.
• The Laureus World Sports Award
  • It is an annual award ceremony honoring individuals and teams from the world of sports along with sporting achievements throughout the year.
  • Established in 1999.
• Vinesh Phogat
  • She is an Indian woman wrestler.
  • The first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in Commonwealth and Asian games.

The correct answer is wildlife protection.

Key Points

• Amrita Devi Bishnoi Award is given to the people for their courage and dedication to protecting wildlife.
• In 1731, the king of Jodhpur in Rajasthan asked one of his ministers to arrange wood for constructing a new palace.
• The minister and workers went to a forest near a village, inhabited by Bishnois, to cut down trees.
• The Bishnoi community is known for its peaceful co-existence with nature.
• The effort to cut down trees by the kings was thwarted by the Bishnois.
• A Bishnoi woman Amrita Devi showed exemplary courage by hugging a tree and daring the king’s men to cut her first before cutting the tree.
• The tree mattered much more to her than her own life.

There are six categories of prizes, out of which all are given each year. There are six eligible prizes every year. They are awarded for Outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, economics, literature, peace, physics, Physiology or Medicine.

The correct answer is Indira Gandhi.

Key Points

• Indira Gandhi -
  • She was the first female Prime Minister of India and was conferred with the Bharat Ratna in 1971.
  • She was elected as the president of the Congress party in 1959.
  • In 1966, she was elected as the Prime Minister of India.​

Additional Information

• Sushma Swaraj -
  • She was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
  • She served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Modi government (2014–2019).
• Sarojini Naidu -
  • She was an Indian political activist and poet.
  • She was the first Indian woman to be the president of the Indian National Congress.
• Pratima Puri -
  • She was an Indian news anchor who was Doordarshan's first newsreader. 

Important Points

• Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour of our country.
• It is awarded for exceptional service in the fields of arts, literature, and science and to recognize the highest level of public service.
• The tradition of the Bharat Ratna Award was started in 1954. 

The correct answer is Afghanistan.

Key Points

• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has been conferred with Amir Amanullah Khan Award, Afghanistan’s highest civilian honor.
  • He has bestowed the honor of President Ashraf Ghani after the inauguration of the landmark Afghan-India Friendship Dam in Herat.
  • As the first Indian, and amongst only a handful of foreign leaders to receive the award, it signifies the strength of a unique relationship and is a testament to the personal commitment of the PM in advancing India-Afghan ties.
• Background:
  • The Amir Amanullah Khan medal is the highest civilian honor of Afghanistan.
  • The award is named after the Afghan national hero, Amanullah Khan (Ghazi), who championed the cause of Afghanistan’s freedom.
  • He was the ruler of the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1919-1929 who led Afghanistan to independence.

Additional Information

The Correct Answer is Cricket.

Important Points

• The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 was won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad.
• The award has been presented to the two figures who have worked to bring attention to ending sexual violence.
• Mukwege is a gynecologist helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Nadia is a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State.

The correct answer is Peepal.

Important Points 

• Bharat Ratna " is India's highest civilian award.
• The award is given "in recognition of exceptional service of the highest order" and is treated without distinction as to race, profession, place, sex, and nationality.
• This award was initially limited to the arts, literature, research, and public services, but in December 2011, the government extended the requirements to include "any field of human endeavour"
• Recipients receive a certificate named Sanad, signed by the President, and a Peepal leaf-shaped medallion made of gold with a circular diameter of 35 mm, with a bursting sun pattern in the middle of the medallion's obverse side.
• Also, in the bottom of the sun design written in Devanagiri script, the words Bharat Ratna are engraved in silver tilt; this was an old design; the new design is also of Peepal leaf made of gold about 59 mm in length, 49 mm in width, and 3.9 mm thickness rimmed with Platinum.
• The inscription on the front side was the same but made of platinum; the reverse side of the medallion has an Indian emblem etched in a bronze tilt and the Indian motto "Satyameva Jayate" is inscribed under the Indian emblem.
• All the configurations of the medallion remained the same except that it has a 59 mm wide ribbon attached to it so that it can be worn around the neck with a few improvements discussed above.
• Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Sir C.V. Raman, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari were the first recipients of the Bharat Ratna Award in 1954.

Bharat Ratna:

The correct answer is 1999.

Key Points

• Pt .Ravi Shankar was a renowned Sitarist who was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
• He was also an Indian composer and musician born on 7 April 1920.
• He has been honored with prestigious awards such as Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Bharat Ratna, and Grammy Award.
• The "Sitar maestro" was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world including Beatles guitarist George Harrison.