Awards Current Affairs Quiz - March 2016

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1. In 10th Asian film Awards (______), Best Film - The Assassin. Director - Hou Hsiao‚­Hsien (The Assassin), Actor - Lee Byung‚­hun (The Inside Men), Actress - Shu Qi (The Assassin) ?

Vietnam
China
Thailand
Malaysia
None of These


2. In 2016 Hockey India Annual Award, Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award was given to _______ ?

Shankar Laxman
Preeti Dubey
Ritu Rani
P.R Sreejesh
None of These


3. In 63rd National Film Awards for year 2015, Best film ‚­ Baahubali : The Beginning, Best Actor ‚­ ________ (Piku), Best Actress ‚­ Kangana Ranaut (Tanu Weds Manu Returns) ?

Irrfan Khan
Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan
Amitabh Bachchan
None of These


4. Advertising Club Madras conferred its 1st Distinguished Service Award on ______, for contribution to advertising industry ?

Baljit Singh
Srinivasan K Swamy
Harjeet Singh
Dhruv Batra
None of These


5. ______ conferred with prestigious 2016 Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri Lifetime Achievement Award also known as Krishi Shiromani Samman ?

P.R Sreejesh
Tanvi Azmi
Ritu Rani
Pargat Singh
Amrita Patel


6. _____ won award for Laadli Media and Advertising Gender Sensitivity 2014‚­2015 for Her Telugu blog Vivakshaku Mugimpu Palakaali, selected under web category for bringing to fore core issues faced by women in agriculture sector. ?

Gaurav Menon
Neeraj Ghaywan
Aruna Gali
Remo D'Souza
None of These


7. _______ mathematician Andrew Wiles won prestigious 2016 Abel Prize. He was selected by Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters for solving a centuries old hypothesis (equation), Fermat's Last Theorem ?

British
American
Australian
French
None of These


8. _____________ poetess and writer Padma Sachdev is awarded by Krutitava Smagra Samman 2015 ?

Punjabi
Hindi
Tamil
Dogri
None of These


9. In 5th National Photography Awards ‚­ Life Time Achievement was given to _______. ?

Rajat Sharma
Raj Nayak
Sanjay Gupta
‚­Javed Ahmed Dar
Bhawan Singh


10. India's ______ won first prize in UN #LinksSDGs Data Visualization Challenge. He is awarded for his submission Links to Sustainable Cities, an interactive visualization that identifies links between Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and other 16 Goals ?

Sanjay Gupta
Abdulqadir Rashik
Raj Nayak
Nanak Shah Fakir
None of These


11. Indian _____ has been awarded First Noor Inayat Khan Prize for her excellent dissertation on Goddess Myths in Graphic Novels: Reimagining Indian Feminity ?

Geetakshi Arora
Shobha De
Chetan Bhagat
Robin Sharma
None of These


12. Indian author Jerry Pinto won 2016 Windham‚­Campbell Prize for his novel Em and The Big Hoom in fiction category at Yale University (_____) ?

China
Australia
USA
UK
France


13. ____ Tourism's campaign New Worlds won Golden City Gate Award at Internationale Tourismus‚­Borse Berlin (ITB‚­Berlin) 2016 ?

Karnataka
Rajasthan
Himachal Pradesh
Kerala
Haryana


14. Mahindra & Mahindra Group CMD Anand G Mahindra conferred with Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by _____.?

Polana
Germany
Spain
USA
France


15. Media Foundation's _____ award for 2015‚­16 has been jointly awarded to Priyanka Kakodkar and Raksha Kumar ?

Rajat Sharma
Chameli Devi Jain
Raj Nayak
Sanjay Gupta
None of These


16. ______ won Research Investor Communication Award among Large Corporates in an independent poll of over 3000 Fund Managers/Analysts/Non Institutional Investors ?

SAIL
BEL
NTPC
BHEL
None of These


17. Noted Actor ____ selected for 47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2015 ?

Dilip Kumar
Manoj Kumar
Kader Khan
Shammi Kapoor
None of These


18. Noted American singer ______ honoured with Global Green Hero award at 13th Annual Global Green USA Pre Oscar party. ?

Taylor Swift
Stevie Wonder
Stephanie Taylor
Shakira
None of These


19. Noted ____ writer M Sukumaran has been chosen for CV Kunhiraman Literary Prize ?

Hindi
Tamil
Punjabi
Malayalam
Marathi


20. Noted playwright and director ____ has been selected for prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016 at Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) ?

Ratan Thiyam
Javed Akhtar
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Sameer Anjaan
None of These

 

21. Noted poet _____ has been selected for 2015 Bihari Puraskar for his anthology of Rajasthani poems Katha Sun Aawe Hai Sabad, published in 2010. ?

Bhagwati Lal Vyas
Haldhar Nag
Javed Akhtar
Shobha De
None of These


22. Government conferred 2014 - 15 Krishi Karman Awards during Krishi Unnati Mela in Delhi. In Total foodgrain production, _____ was awarded for Highest production in Over 10 million tonnes Catgeory?

Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
None of These


23. ______ teacher Hanan Al Hroub has been awarded with one million dollar 2016 Global Teacher Prize . India's Robin Chaurasiya was among the finalists ?

Syrian
Israeli
Lebonese
Palestinian
None of These


24. Pranab Mukherjee conferred Padma Awards 2016. It Included Haldhar Nag, 66‚­year‚­old poet from Odisha, who writes in _____ language and highlightened as he used to be a 3rd Class passout and now acclaimed among top Poets with 5 Thesis written for him ?

Dogri
Hindi
Punjab
Marathi
Kosli


25. Sirshendu De of IIT _____ selected for Innovation Award 2016 by Indian Desalination Association (IDA) South Zone for developing ultra low‚­cost eco‚­friendly laterite based arsenic water filter. ?

Delhi
Ropar
Kharagpur
Roorkee
None of These


26. South Asian Public Affairs Council (SAPAC) in _____ honored Actor Randeep Hooda with achievement award for making his mark in film industry. ?

Australia
USA
UK
Russia
Spain


27. _____ University won annual Visitor’s Award for ‘Best University’ and Prof. Rakesh Bhatnagar and Molecular Parasitology Group of JNU won Visitor’s Awards for ‘Research’ and ‘Innovation' ?

Hyderabad
Tezpur
Bilaspur
Surguja
None of These


28. Three ______ scientists Timothy Bliss, Graham Collingridge and Graham Collingridge have won 2016 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize (also known as Brain Prize) for giving vital insight how human brain remembers, learns and navigates ?

American
Spanish
British
Russian
None of These


29. Tikka Shatrujit Singh is conferred with Knight of the Legion of Honour by _____ Government ?

Israeli
Lebonese
Polish
Spanish
French


30. ____ and Martin Hellman honoured with Association for Computing Machinery's 2015 A.M. Turing Award ?

Joe Biden
Paul Ryan
Whitfield Diffie
Donald Trump
None of These


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