AWARDS / HONORS-MCQs

AWARDS / HONORS

AH1. Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics for his studies in Welfare Economics?

(1) Eugene F. Fama

(2) Robert J. Shiller

(3) Amartya Sen

(4) Lars Peter Hansen

AH2. Which is the highest gallantry award in India?

(1) Ashok Chakra

(2) Maha Vir Chakra

(3) Param Vir Chakra

(4) Shaurya Chakra

AH3. For which of the following disciplines, Nobel Prize is not awarded?

(1) Physics and chemistry

(2) Physiology or Medicine

(3) Literature, Peace and Economics

(4) None of these

AH4. Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes individually for

(1) Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962

(2) Peace prize in 1954, Chemistry in 1962

(3) Physics in 1954, Medicine in 1962

(4) Medicine in 1954, Physics in 1962

AH5. Who won the first Nobel Prize for literature?

(1) Mother Teresa

(2) Barrack Obama

(3) Nelson Mandela

(4) Sully Prodhomme

AH6. Who is the first Indian girl to get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in Badminton?

(1) Saina Nehwal

(2) Sania Mirza

(3) Alka Tomar

(4) Jwala Gutta

AH7. Who was the first Indian to be honored by the Royal Society in the field of Science?

(1) Sir Ronald Ross

(2) Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose

(3) Sir Isaac Newton

(4) Sir Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay