Awards Current Affairs Quiz - November 2016

1. 11 year old Pune girl _______________ named winner of Doodle 4 Google contest 2016. Her Doodle's theme is If I could teach anyone anything, it would be. Doodle will be featured on the Google India homepage on November 14 to celebrate Children’s Day ?

Anvita Prashant Telang P Karthik Sudarshan Patnaik Audrey Zhang None of These

2. 2016 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ­ TV5 Monde Press Freedom Prize will be awarded to __________ reporter Hadi Abdullah, Chinese news website 64Tianwang and Chinese citizen journalists Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu ?

Libyan Egyptian Syrian  Lebanese None of These

3. 39th Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation Awards 2016 ­ Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi (Gandhian and President of ___________’s Ennahdha Party), Mohan Hirabai Hiralal (founder of Vrikshamitra), BonBehari Vishnu Nimbkar (founder of Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute), Nannapaneni Manga Devi (founder secretary of Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer and Chetana Charitable Trust) ?

Poland Libya UAE Tunisia None of These

4. _________ actor Jackie Chan has been bestowed with honorary Academy Award (or Oscar) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the 8th Hollywood Annual Governors Awards ?

Vietnamese Japanese Cambodian Laos Chinese

5. Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE 2016 Competition Awards 2016 Presented by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi. This year, _____________ students have been awarded for their ideas ?

13 14 31  16 None of These

6. __________'s Katherine Elizabeth Espín won 2016 Miss Earth Title, held at Philippines ?

Ecuador Paraguay Uruguay Poland None of These

7. Fortune magazine named Facebook CEO ___________ as Business Person of Year, 2016 ?

Satya Nadella Mark Zuckerberg Sunder Pichai Shantanu Narayen None of These

8. ___________ Won Business Woman of the year award 2016, from Indian Australian Business and Community Awards (IABCA) ?

Uppma Virdi Kamala Harri Pramila Jayapal  Ami Berra None of These

9. Indian researcher Shamik Chowdhury named among 25 young researchers selected for _________ Green Talent Award ?

German Japanese French Spanish None of These

10. Indian­origin man in ________ ­ Imtiaz Sooliman has been awarded Global Citizen Award by international citizenship advisory firm Henley & Partners ?

USA UK Russia South Africa None of These

11. Lyricist _________ will be honoured with 2016 Tata Literature Live! Poet Laureate Award ?

Kumaar Prason Joshi Sameer Anjaan Gulzar None of These

12. Mike McCormack from ___________ won 2016 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Solar Bones. This annual British literary prize has £10,000 remuneration ?

Scotland Ireland England Switzerland None of These

13. Noted Bollywood actress and Rajya Sabha MP ___________ will be honoured by upcoming Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) with a Lifetime Achievement Award. ?

Jaya Bachchan Hema Malini Sushma Swaraj Jayalalitha Rekha

14. Noted author _________ will be honored by 2016 Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award ?

Amitav Ghosh Chetan Bhagat Amish Tripathi Salman Khurshid None of These

15. ____________­born Marta Jakimowicz elected for Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 by Karnataka Lalithakala Academy, along with Baburao V Nadoni and KK Makali. ?

Russia Spain Bolivia Poland None of These

16. Rashtriya Kalidas Samman will be conferred to Banshi Kaul for 2016 ­ 17 and Raj Bisaria for 2015 ­ 16. Kalidas Samman is annual award presented annually by _________ government. ?

Rajasthan Goa Madhya Pradesh Gujarat None of These

17. ___________ awarded 8 scientist Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water UN headquarters in New York. This bi­annual prize was established in 2002 ?

Libya Saudi Arabia Egypt Russia None of These

18. ___________ won 2016 Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance during the 16th London Global Convention on Corporate Governance and Sustainability in London (UK) ?

BHEL SAIL BEL GAIL None of These

19. Swiss Tennis Star ________ won Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award at ATP awards 2016. It is 12th time in his career that he has won this award. ?

Andy Murray Rafael Nadal Novak Djokovic Roger Federer  None of These

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