The Jawaharlal Nehru Award is given for _______.

(1) Government service

(2) Literary work

(3) International understanding

(4) Social work

Which of the following is the world’s top environmental conservation award?

(1) Golden Bear Award

(2) Golden Panda Award

(3) Golden Globe Award

(4) Golden Palms Award

Which Indian author in May 2016 won the prestigious 2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award for her work ‘Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus’?

(1) Anita Desai

(2) Aditi Krishna Kumar

(3) Rupa Iyer

(4) Preethi Nair

In which field did Amartya Sen win the Nobel Prize?

(1) Micro Economics

(2) Welfare Economics

(3) Economic Growth Model

(4) Input-Output Model

. The novelist, poet, and critic of which language has been conferred with Jnanpith Award for 2015?

(1) Bengali

(2) Telugu

(3) Odia

(4) Gujarati

Who among the following is a renowned campaigner against manual scavenging who was recently conferred with the prestigious Magsaysay award?

(1) T.M. Krishna

(2) Bezwada Wilson

(3) Anshu Gupta

(4) Sanjiv Chaturvedi

Which Indian won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014?

(1) Kailash Satyarthi

(2) Venkat Raman

(3) Ram Krishnan

(4) Mother Teresa

Who was the first American to win the Nobel Peace prize?

(1) Abraham Lincoln

(2) George Bush Sr

(3) Theodore Roosevelt

(4) Franklin Roosevelt

Which action movie star was awarded in November 2016 the honorary Academy (Oscar) Award for his extraordinary achievements in the movies?

(1) Anil Kapoor

(2) Guy Ryder

(3) Ferdinand Marcos

(4) Jackie Chan

The author of the book ‘Cosmos’ is —

(1) Carl Sagan

(2) Issaq Asimov

(3) Arthur C. Clarke

(4) Michael Christian

The author of the famous Indian book of astrology ‘Panchsiddhantika’ is —

(1) Varahmihir

(2) Bhaskar

(3) Aryabhatta

(4) Brahma Gupta