Awards and Awardees
Awards and Awardees: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Awards and Awardees, Oscars Awards, Man Booker Prize and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award etc.
Important Questions on Awards and Awardees
Who of the following was recently conferred the Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2020?

Who among the following has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize?

The ‘Champions of the Earth’ Award is presented by :

Who among the following has won the International Woman of Courage (IWOC) Award ?

Who among the following won the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards in the ‘Best Actor(Female) category?

Who won the Academy Award for ‘Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role’?

Rajnikant Devidas Shroff was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of ______ in January .

Who among the following received the 'Global Goalkeeper' Award in ?

Which of the following is an award for contribution in the field of science and technology?

The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to recognise outstanding achievement in sports and games. It was instituted in _____.

Which of the following civic bodies was declared as the 'Best Performing Municipal Corporation' in India in December for implementing the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban Mission?

Which Ministry of the Government of India received the SKOCH Challenger Award for 'Best Performance in e-Governance' in ?

Who among the following is a Padma Vibhushan awardee of ?

Who among the following won the 'rd Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize' for his novel 'The City and The Sea' in ?

The ICTP Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually for excellence in _______.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in the year _____?

Which Tennis star is the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year for

Match the relevant recipient with the correct category of awards received for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna .
List-I (Recipients) | List-II (Category) | ||
Rohit Sharma | Cricket | ||
Mariyappan Thangavelu | Para Athletics | ||
Rani Rampal | Hockey | ||
Vinesh Phogat | Wrestling |

Who was the first Indian to receive Nobel Prize?

Consider the following statements
1. The biennial Green Star Awards recognize individuals, organizations, governments and companies who have demonstrated achievements in prevention, preparedness and response to environmental emergencies.
2. A Joint initiative between Green Cross lntemational (GCf). the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Green Star Awards seek, to increase awareness of environmental emergencies by drawing attention to efforts made to prevent. prepare for and respond to such emergencies.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
