Awards Current Affairs Quiz - December 2014

1. __ government won Krishi Karman Award for the second consecutive year for better quality and improved Grain Production?

Arunachal Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Kerala Tamilnadu

2. In the BBC Sports Personality Awards 2014, Sports Personality of the Year was given to ____ ?

Roger Federer Sachin Tendulkar Lewis Hamilton Rafael Nadal Tiger Woods

3. __ has been honored by Chinese Confucius Peace Prize 2014 for his contribution in eliminating nuclear war in His Country ?

Auns San Suu Kyi Fidel Castro Abdul Kadiri Nelson Mandela Xi Jinping

4. India's Higehst Civil Honour Bharat Ratna was recently conferred on which two famous Personalities ?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Bahadur Shshtri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Rabindra Nath Tagore Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malaviya Madan Mohan Malaviya and Jawahar Lal Nehru Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Swami Vivekanand

5. Golden Peacock Award (Best Movie) was Given to __ in the India's 45th International Film Festival was Held in Goa?

Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave Christopher Nolan for The Interstellar Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity Russian director Andrey Zvyaginstev for Leviatha David O. Russell for American Hustle

6. India's DRDO won Thomson Reuters India Innovation Award for 2014 for its work in the field of filing patents and research. DRDO Stands for __ ?

Defence Restructuring & Deployment Organisation Defence Restructuring & Development Organisation Defence Research & Deployment Organisation Defence Restoration & Development Organisation Defence Research & Development Organisation

7. Indian Music Composer that has been nominated for Oscar Awards 2015 for Music in three films ‚­ Million Dollar Arm, Hundred‚­Foot Journey and Kochadaiiyaan ?

Vishal Dadlani Himesh Reshammiya Honey Singh Pritam chakraborty AR Rahman

8. Indian film ___ has been nominated for Oscar contenders of 2014 in two categories‚­ Best Picture and Best Original Score. ?

Jal PK Happy New Year Barfi None of These

9. Film Artist ___ won Turner Prize 2014 for his video called It For Others?

Christopher Nolan Duncan Campbell Steve McQueen Alfonso Cuaron Paulo Coelho

10. ___ has been named as Business Standard Banker of the Year 2013‚­14.?

Raghuram G Rajan S. S. Mundra R Gandhi Romesh Sobti Urjit R. Patel

11. Miss Earth 2014 Title has been won by Jamie Herrell of ___ in a ceremony held in Philippines ?

Russia Japan Philippines UK USA

12. Miss World 2014 Title has been won by Rolene Strauss of ___ in a ceremony held in UK?

UK Australia France Italy South Africa

13. ____ Has been named as Asian of the Year 2014 by The Straits Times for being a development ‚­ focused leader?

Xi Jinping Narendra Modi Shinzo Abe Akihito Pranab Mukherjee

14. Imtiaz Dharker from __ has been honored by Queens Gold Medal for Poetry 2014 for her poetry collection Over the Moon ?

Pakistan India Bangladesh Malaysia Indonesia

15. Pro‚­democracy activist, Xu Youyu of ___ has been given the Olof Palme Human Rights Prize 2014 given by Stockholm‚­based Olof Palme Memorial Fund of Sweden ?

China Japan Phillipinnes Russia Vietnam

16. ___ of India won Miss Universal Peace & Humanity 2014 at ceremony held in Beirut, Lebanon?

Koyal Rana Ruhi Singh Noyonita Lodh Jhataleka Malhotra Gail Nicole Da Silva

17. Indian Singer __ has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award at 11th Dubai International Film Festival in Dubai.?

Lata Mangeshkar Jagjit Singh Kishore Kumar Asha Bhosle Mohammad Rafi

18. Sumitra Charatram Award has been given to classical vocalist ___ ?

K J Yesudas Usha Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar Pandit Jasraj Alka Yagnik

19. Indian Person ____ has been given honorary Citizenship of Busan (Korea) for his efforts to enhance friendship and cooperation between India and Korea ?

Azeem Premji Vishal Sikka Satya Nadella Ratan Tata Venu Srinivasan

20. Time magazine named its Person of the Year 2014 title to ______ ?

Ebola Epidemic Outbreak Fighters OPCW Narendra modi Bill Gates Shinzo Abe

21. _____ Government passed a Resolution to recognise Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai as symbols of peace ?

Russia China Japan UK USA

22. Indian Person _____ was awarded Swiss Ambassador's Award for inspirational and socially responsible leadership.?

Azim Premji Ratan Tata Mukesh Ambani Satya Nadella Anand Mahindra

23. _____ has been given the first Harikrishna Devsare Children's Literature Award ?

Lois Lowry Khushwant Singh Chetan Bhagat Salman Rushdie Zakir Ali Rajneesh

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