1)

Who is the first Indian to have won the Pulitzer Prize?

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Gobind Behari Lal

B)

Geeta Anand

C)

Sanghamitra Kalita

D)

Jhumpa Lahiri

2)

The Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration is accorded by the:

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Indian National Congress

B)

Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

C)

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

D)

Indira Gandhi National Open University

3)

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is accorded annually by the:

SSC CPO 2020

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

4)

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

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Amlan Datta

B)

Upinder Singh

C)

Krishna Kumar

D)

Hari Vasudevan

5)

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

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Ramchandra Guha

B)

Gurcharan Das

C)

Amitav Ghosh

D)

Shashi Tharoor

6)

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

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Har Gobind Khorana

B)

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

C)

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

D)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

7)

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

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Sumitranandan Pant

B)

Nandita Das

C)

Bhartendu Harishchandra

D)

Sunil Gangopadhyay

8)

The Sahitya Akademi Award was instituted in the year ______.

SSC CPO 2020

A)

1960

B)

1954

C)

1989

D)

1992

9)

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

SSC CPO 2020

A)

2007

B)

2004

C)

2006

D)

2005

10)

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

SSC CPO 2020

A)

Art-Vocals-Folk

B)

Trade and Industry - Infrastructure

C)

Art-Acting-Theatre

D)

Public Affairs