Awards and Honours Current Affairs MCQs : This section focuses on the "Awards and Honours Current Affairs". These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Awards and Honours Current Affairs skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
How many awardees have been conferred with the Arjuna Awards in 2021 for outstanding performance in Sports and Games?
A. 12
B. 35
C. 40
D. 28
Question 2
How many startups have been declared the winners of the National Startup Awards 2021?
A. 59
B. 60
C. 46
D. 50
Question 3
Who has been given the 'Indian Film Personality of the Year' award?
A. Prasoon Joshi
B. Hema Malini
C. Amitabh Bachchan
D. Both A and B
Question 4
Name the Chairman of Aditya Birla Group, who has been conferred with the Mola Global Entrepreneur of the Year Award?
A. Ratna Tata
B. Azim Premji
C. Kumar Mangalam Birla
D. Mukesh Ambani
Question 5
Who has won the Sushila Devi Award 2021 for the best book of fiction by a woman author?
A. Anukrti Upadhyay
B. Shubhangi Swarup
C. Avni Doshi
D. Namita Gokhale
Question 6
Who among the following has won the 56th Jnanpith Award?
A. Shrilal Shukla
B. Kedarnath Singh
C. Krishna Sobti
D. Nilmani Phookan Jr
Question 7
Who has been conferred with the 2021 International Emmy Awards for Best Actor?
A. David Tennant
B. Matt Smith
C. Michael Sheen
D. Peter Capaldi
Question 8
Name the winner of the Best Director Award at the 52nd IFFI festival?
A. Radu Muntean
B. Nikhil Mahajan
C. Branko Schmidt
D. Vaclav Kadrnka
Question 9
Which Indian actor has recently won the International Association of Working Women Award at the DC South Asian Film Festival 2021?
A. Gauahar Khan
B. Sushmita Sen
C. Kirti Kulhari
D. Tisca Chopra
Question 10
The Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports and Games 2021 has been conferred upon how many awardees?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 3
D. 7
Question 11
Which Indian woman has been given UN Women's Award 2021?
A. Arunima Sinha
B. Divya Hegde
C. Shila Dawre
D. Roshini Sharma
Question 12
Professor Dr. Satish Adiga of which of these medical colleges has been selected by ICMR for the National Award?
A. Kasturba Medical College
B. Pune Medical College
C. AIIMS Medical College
D. Kharagpur Medical College
Question 13
Who has been honoured with the 56th Jnanpith Award?
A. Amitav Ghosh
B. Krishna Sobti
C. Damodar Mauzo
D. Nilmani Phookan
Question 14
Environmentalist Dr Anil Prakash Joshi has been honoured with which award for Social Justice 2021?
A. Sardar Patel Award
B. Indira Gandhi Award
C. Mahatma Gandhi Award
D. Mother Teresa Memorial Award
Question 15
Who has won the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2021?
A. Saurab Rawat
B. Sushil Kumar
C. Anil Prakash Joshi
D. Vipin Tiwari
Question 16
Which institute has been honoured with Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar in the Institutional category for 2022?
A. Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre, Uttarakhand
B. Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management
C. 8th Battalion of National Disaster Response Force
D. Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society
Question 17
Who has been named for the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 by the Badminton World Federation?
A. Prakash Padukone
B. Jwala Gutta
C. Nandu Natekar
D. Pullela Gopichand
Question 18
Who has become the fourth Indian mathematician to win Ramanujan Prize 2021?
A. Neena Gupta
B. Prerna Sengupta
C. Shaily Singh
D. Seema Sharma
Question 19
Which Indian Mathematician has been honoured with the Ramanujan Prize 2021?
A. Neena Gupta
B. NeenaVerma
C. Neena Datta
D. Neena Sharma
Question 20
Who has won the Mandi Lok Sabha by-election 2021?
A. Gyaneshwar Patil
B. Pratibha Singh
C. Khushal Singh Thakur
D. Rajnarayan Singh Purni
Question 21
Name of the participant who received the Best National Costume award at the Mrs World 2022 pageant?
A. Hardeep Kaur
B. Harneet Kaur
C. Navdeep Kaur
D. Pooja Sharma
Question 22
Who has bagged the bronze medal at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing Competition 2021?
A. Manika Batra
B. Archana Kamath
C. Akash Kumar
D. Aanchal Thakur
Question 23
Name the Indian-American mathematician who has been nominated by AMS for the first Ciprian Foias Award in Operator Theory?
A. P C Mahalanobis
B. Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan
C. C.S. Seshadri
D. Nikhil Srivastava
Question 24
India's first Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat will be posthumously honoured with which among the following awards?
A. Padma Vibhushan
B. Bharat Ratna
C. Padma Bhushan
D. None of the Above
Question 25
Who has been crowned with the Miss Universe 2021?
A. Harnaaz Sandhu
B. Lalela Lali Mswane
C. Valeria Maria
D. Nadia Ferreira
Question 26
Who is the winner of the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021?
A. Arundhati Roy
B. Anita Desai
C. Vikram Seth
D. Salman Rushdie
Question 27
Dr. Jitendra Singh launches Web Portal for PM's Excellence Award, says prize money doubled. What is the new Prize money for PM's Excellence Award?
A. 10 Lakh
B. 5 Lakh
C. 50 Lakh
D. 20 Lakh
Question 28
Who will be posthumously conferred the Basavashree award 2021?
A. Chiranjeevi Sarja
B. Bullet Prakash
C. Puneeth Rajkumar
D. Kishori Ballal
Question 29
Who has won the title of Miss Trans Global Universe 2021?
A. Sruthy Sithara
B. Miriam Stevenson
C. Armi Kuusela
D. Hillevi Rombin
Question 30
Who has been honoured with the 57th Jnanpith Award 2022?
A. Ravindra Prabhat
B. Nilmani Phookan
C. Mulk Raj Anand
D. Damodar Mauzo
Question 31
Who among the following has won the 57th Jnanpith Award?
A. Shankha Ghosh
B. Amitav Ghosh
C. Damodar Mauzo
D. Bhalchandra Nemade
Question 32
Apart from American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, which other filmmaker has been honoured with the inaugural Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd IFFI?
A. Istvan Szabo
B. Andorai Peter
C. Klaus Maria Brandauer
D. Lajos Koltai
Question 33
Who has received knighthood at Windsor Castle, London?
A. Max Verstappen
B. Yuki Tsunoda
C. Carlos Sainz Jr.
D. Lewis Hamilton
Question 34
Who has won the Ballon d'Or 2019 award?
A. Kaka
B. Lionel Messi
C. Cristiano Ronaldo
D. Luka Modric
Question 35
How many times Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or prize?
A. 7
B. 10
C. 5
D. 3
Question 36
Which Indian actor has been felicitated with the Best Actor award at the Dhaka International Film Festival 2022?
A. Dhanush
B. Jayasurya
C. Ram Charan
D. Prabhas
Question 37
Who is the winner of the Mrs World 2022 beauty pageant?
A. Mrs America
B. Mrs India
C. Mrs Jordan
D. Mrs UAE
Question 38
Who received the Sahitya Academy Awards 2021 in the English language?
A. Namita Gokhale
B. Anuradha Sarma
C. Niranjan Hansda
D. Sanjiv Verenkar
Question 39
Who has been honoured with SJFI Sportsman of the year 2021?
A. Bajrang Punia
B. Neeraj Chopra
C. Yogeshwar Dutt
D. Ravi Dahiya
Question 40
Who has received the 12th Manipur State Award for Literature 2020 for his book "Ei Amadi Adungeigi Ithat"?
A. Pacha Meetei
B. L. Samarendra Singh
C. N. Kunjamohan Singh
D. Beryl Thanga
Question 41
Name the winner of the RedInk Award for 'Journalist of the Year' 2020?
A. Rana Ayyub
B. Rohit Sardana
C. Danish Siddiqui
D. Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Question 42
Who has been posthumously awarded the Mumbai Press Club's 'Journalist of the Year' award?
A. Danish Siddiqui
B. Shujaat Bukhari
C. Isravel Moses
D. Rakesh Singh
Question 43
Who will distribute National Sports Awards 2021 to the recipients?
A. Home Minister
B. Sports Minister
C. Prime Minister
D. President of India
Question 44
Which Indian scientist has won the 'Young Geospatial Scientist' award?
A. Jayant Narlikar
B. Ropesh Goyal
C. Ashoke Sen
D. Ritu Karidhal
Question 45
Who has been named Time magazine's 2021 Athlete of the Year?
A. Sofia Kenin
B. Simone Biles
C. Victoria Azarenka
D. Jen Brady
Question 46
Who has won the 2021 Booker Prize?
A. Khaled Hosseini
B. Damon Galgut
C. Paulo Coelho
D. Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Question 47
Who has been awarded the Golden Peacock Environmental Management Award 2021?
A. Defense Research and Development Organization
B. Small Industries Development Bank of India
C. Indian Space Research Organization
D. Steel Authority of India Limited
Question 48
Who has won the 'Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award 2021'?
A. Viral Desai
B. Pritam Tiwari
C. Pankaj Dewan
D. Virat Shekhawat
Question 49
Who among these has been awarded the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022?
A. Janhvi Kapoor
B. Sara Ali Khan
C. Harshaali Malhotra
D. Nora Fatehi
Question 50
Which actress has received the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022 for her performance in Bajrangi Bhaijaan?
A. Koel Mallik
B. B. Saroja Devi
C. Harshaali Malhotra
D. Sridevi
Question 51
How many people have been conferred with the Padma Awards in 2022?
A. 275
B. 174
C. 328
D. 128
Question 52
Which of these leaders has been conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by the Netaji Research Bureau?
A. Vladimir Putin
B. Xi Jinping
C. Shinzo Abe
D. Joe Biden
Question 53
Who has been topped the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021?
A. Azim Premji
B. Mukesh Ambani
C. Shiv Nadar
D. Ratan Tata
Question 54
Who is the winner of Genesis Prize 2022?
A. Steven Spielberg
B. Rabbi Lord
C. Albert Bourla
D. Natan Sharansky
Question 55
Who is the winner of the International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism for 2021?
A. Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi
B. Lakshmi Subramanian and Bhanu Praksh Chandra
C. Mariyam Alavi
D. Both A and B
Question 56
Which journalist has been honoured with the International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism for 2020?
A. Ritika Chopra
B. Nidhi Razdan
C. Shereen Bhan
D. Neha Dixit
Question 57
Who has recently been given the World CEO Winner of the Year 2021 Award?
A. Vinod Bhandari
B. Kanak Sharma
C. Vinay Prakash
D. Kishore Kumar Yedam
Question 58
Who is the winner of the 2021 JCB Prize for literature?
A. M Mukundan
B. T. Padmanabhan
C. P. Valsala
D. K. Satchidanandan
Question 59
Which Indian film has won the Best Film Award at the Dhaka International Film Festival 2022?
A. Dikkiloona
B. Thalaivi
C. Koozhangal
D. Jai Bhim
Question 60
Who has been conferred with the Tata Literature Live! Poet Laureate Award for 2021?
A. Vikram Seth
B. Adil Jussawala
C. Meena Kandasamy
D. Jeet Thayil
Question 61
How many Gallantry awards have been conferred by the President of India in 2022?
A. 223
B. 400
C. 384
D. 190
Question 62
Who has been honoured with the Sports Journalists' Federation of India Medal 2021?
A. Rahul Dravid
B. Ravi Shastri
C. Sunil Gavaskar
D. Anil Kumble
Question 63
Who has been conferred with the Assam's highest civilian honour 'Assam Baibhav' for the year 2021?
A. Ratan Tata
B. Narendra Modi
C. Cyrus Mistry
D. Azim Premji
Question 64
Who has been awarded the 2021 International Children's Peace Prize award?
A. Vihaan Agarwal and Nav Agarwal
B. Jivin Sehgal and Lakshit Sehgal
C. Neha Gupta and Om Prakash Gupta
D. Advik Soni and Ehsaan Soni
Question 65
Who among the following are the winners of the Indian Personality of the Year award for 2021?
A. Juhi Chawla and Farhan Akhtar
B. Sridevi and Vishal Bhardwaj
C. Kajol and Aamir Khan
D. Hema Malini and Prasoon Joshi
Question 66
Who has won the 7th Dr M S Swaminathan Award for the period 2017-19?
A. Prakhar Kumar
B. Nishant Sharma
C. V Praveen Rao
D. Shikhar Agrawal
Question 67
Who has won the Ballon d'Or Striker of the Year award 2021?
A. Cristiano Ronaldo
B. Robert Lewandowski
C. Pedri
D. Lionel Messi
Question 68
Who has won Nizami Ganjavi Award?
A. Jim Yong Kim
B. Tedros Ghebreyesus
C. Kristalina Georgieva
D. Antonio Guterress
Question 69
Who has been awarded the Woman of the Year by World Athletics?
A. Dutee Chand
B. PT Usha
C. Hima Das
D. Anju Bobby George
Question 70
Who has won the Ramnath Goenka Award in Photo Journalism?
A. Zishaan A Latif
B. Vikram Seth
C. Amrita Pritam
D. Sarat Chandra