11)

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is accorded annually by the:

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A)

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India

B)

Indian National Congress

C)

Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Trust

D)

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India

12)

Which of the following persons was the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize for Social Sciences – History, 2009?

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A)

Amlan Datta

B)

Upinder Singh

C)

Krishna Kumar

D)

Hari Vasudevan

13)

Which of the following persons won the Sultan Padamsee Playwriting Award for his first play ‘Larins Sahib’?

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A)

Ramchandra Guha

B)

Gurcharan Das

C)

Amitav Ghosh

D)

Shashi Tharoor

14)

Who is the first Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics?

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A)

Har Gobind Khorana

B)

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

C)

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

D)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

15)

‘Those Days’ is the translated version of a Sahitya Akademi Award winning historical novel originally written by:

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A)

Sumitranandan Pant

B)

Nandita Das

C)

Bhartendu Harishchandra

D)

Sunil Gangopadhyay

16)

The Sahitya Akademi Award was instituted in the year ______.

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A)

1960

B)

1954

C)

1989

D)

1992

17)

The first Star Guild Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai in the year:

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A)

2007

B)

2004

C)

2006

D)

2005

18)

Anilkumar Manibhai Naik was awarded the Padma Vibhushan Award, 2019 for his contribution in the field of ______.

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A)

Art-Vocals-Folk

B)

Trade and Industry - Infrastructure

C)

Art-Acting-Theatre

D)

Public Affairs

19)

Who among the following became the first Indian to win the Miss Deaf World title?

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A)

Arunima Sinha

B)

Vidisha Baliyan

C)

Raghavi Shankar

D)

Preethi Srinivasan

20)

Who among the following was the first Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee?

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A)

CV Raman

B)

MN Saha

C)

KS Krishnan

D)

S Chandrasekhar