Awards Current Affairs Quiz - September 2015

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1. _____ Government won Skoch Order-of-Merit national award for e-Governance and IT initiatives in state ?

Punjab
Gujarat
Andhra Pradesh
Mizoram
Haryana


2. Indian-Australian _____ has been named as Australian of the Day by Commonwealth Bank for feeding homeless in Darwin for past three years ?

Tejinder Pal Singh
Lisa Sthalekar
Pallavi Sharda
Peter Vargese
None of These


3. ____ Government announced annual State Best Teachers Awards on the occasion of Teacher's Day 2015 (Sep 5, 2015) ?

Uttar Pradesh
Puducherry
Gujarat
Goa
None of These


4. ____ Government won highest capacity addition in grid connected solar rooftop power in the country during the financial year 2014-15 ?

Gujarat
Maharashtra
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
None of These


5. Indian-American author ______(Nilanjana Sudesana) has been selected for 2014 National Humanities Medal of White House ?

Jhumpa Lahiri
Sunjeev Sahota
Amish Tripathi
Chetan Bhagat
None of These


6. India won UNESCO prize ¹Award of Excellence 2015 for conservation efforts of Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in ____ ?

Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Kerala
None of These


7. President Pranab Mukherjee presented Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to ___ . ?

BEL
Indian Space Research Organization
GAIL
SAIL
None of These


8. Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) of ____ has been selected for 2015 UNEP Champions of the Earth award in inspiration and action category. ?

New Zealand
Australia
South Africa
Syria
None of These


9. Kopparapu kavula National Eminence award 2015 will be given to classical flutist _____ ?

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Palladam Sanjiva Rao
Sikkil Neela
K. Bhaskaran
None of These


10. Bollywood actor ______ has been conferred with Honoured Guest of Texas award for his contribution to cinema. ?

Shahrukh Khan
Aamir Khan
Amitabh Bachchan
Salman Khan
Anupam Kher


11. Royal Aeronautical Society London conferred Indian Missile Scientist ______ with prestigious Silver Medal ?

G Satheesh reddy
A P J Abdul Kalam
Tessy Thomas
K Radhakrishnan
None of These


12. _____ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been selected for United Nations Champions of Earth award for her leadership and vision in tackling climate change issues in her Country ?

Pakistan
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Turkmenistan
None of These


13. USA's ____ won 1 million USD ¹Powering the Future We Want grant by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) for providing low cost renewable energy and medical device to prevent complications during labour in areas without electricity ?

Solar is Next
We Care Solar
Solar Power
Solar Revolution
None of These


14. India's ______ is among 11 winners of Champions of Change award by USA's White House for Founding Everybody Code Now non profit organization to make youth efficient in Coding ?

Devendra Chaudhary
Anup K. Pujari
Nripendra Mishra
Swetha Prabhakaran
None of These


15. Indian author _______ has been short-listed for prestigious Man Booker Prize 2015 for Fiction for his novel The Year of the Runaways about life experience of illegal immigrants from Indian subcontinent in Britain ?

Jhumpa Lahiri
Ruskin Bond
Chetan Bhagat
Ashok Kumar Angurana
Sunjeev Sahota


16. Indian Actor ______ received Certificate of Recognition from California legislature for his dedication to helping Kashmiri Hindu community ?

Amitabh Bachchan
Salman Khan
Anupam Kher
Shahrukh Khan
None of These


17. Indian Organization _____ has been conferred with SEED Special Recognition Award in Nairobi, Kenya on the 10th anniversary of annual SEED Awards. SEED is a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy ?

Anil Swarup
Tambul Leaf Plates
C.R. Viswanath
Rajive Kumar
None of These


18. West Indian Test cricketer ____ has been honoured with Icon Award by Indo-Caribbean Alliance ?

Chris Gayle
Shiv Chanderpaul
Dineh Ramdin
Darren Sammy
None of These


19. Afghan refugee teacher ____ has been awarded with 2015 Nansen Refugee Award by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ?

Mohammed Akbaruddin
Malala Yousafzai
Syed Akbaruddin
Aqeela Asifi
None of These


20. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of Earth Award 2015 in climate change has been given to Sheikh Hasina (Prime Minister of ______) ?

Bangladesh
Nepal
Bhutan
Pakistan
None of These

21. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of Earth Award 2015 in ENTREPRENEURIAL VISION has been given to Natura Brasil and ____ ?

Paul Polman
Amber Rudd
Malcolm Turnbull
Courtney Walsh
None of These


22. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of Earth Award 2015 in SCIENCE AND INNOVATION has been given to ____ ?

Discovery Channel
National Geographic Society
Animal Planet
Travel and Living
None of These


23. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of Earth Award 2015 in INSPIRATION AND ACTION has been given to Black Mamba APU Anti-Poaching Unit (____) ?

Sudan
Nigeria
CAF
South Africa
None of These


24. Indian-American ______ at Columbia Engineering has been named as a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, along with grant of 625000 USD for working on a novel for world's need for food, clean water and energy ?

K. VijayRaghavan‚ 
Vijay Chhibber
Devendra Chaudhary‚ 
Anita Agnihotri
Kartik Chandran


25. M.R. Poovamma (Athletics ) and Babita Kumari (_____) have been conferred with Arjuna Award 2015. ?

Archery
Boxing
Wrestling
Lov Verma
None of These


26. Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman from ____ has been chosen for 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his research work in field of Number Theory and surrounding topics ?

Canada
USA
UK
Iran
None of These


27. _____ awarded Indian van driver Dee Patel with Pride of ___ Award for risking his life to save others. ?

USA
Britain
Iran
Iraq
None of These


28. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) - 2014 to _____ Lucknow) ?

IARI
CCNB
Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
CFTRI
None of These


29. Indian film ____ won first runner-up at 40th Toronto International Film Festival. ?

Baahubali
Water
Ran
Jal
Angry Indian Goddesses


30. ____'s fantasy drama television series,Game of Thrones won 12 awards at 67th Primetime Emmy Awards including best drama series. ?

UK
Iran
USA
Canada
None of These


31. Hindustan Times chairperson ________ and PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi have been awarded 2015 Global Leadership Award of US-India Business Council (USIBC). Indian-American artist Natvar Bhavsar has been awarded the Artistic Achievement Award. ?

Rajiv Yadav
Arun Jha
T. C. A. Anant
Shobhana Bharatia
None of These


32. Jury under Amol Palekar picked Marathi Film _____ directed by Chaitanya Tamhane as India's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at 88th Oscars Awards 2016 ?

Water
Court
Piku
Baahubali
None of These


33. President Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards 2013-14. Gujarat has been awarded as Best State for Comprehensive Tourism Development and Best Film Promotion Friendly State, while ____ in Madhya Pradesh is named as Best Heritage City ?

Gwalior
Jabalpur
Indore
Lucknow
None of These


34. ___, Director of CVRDE (Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment), Tamilnadu has been elevated as Distinguished Scientist (Scientist H) by Ministry of Defense. It is highest honour conferred on a scientist in India. ?

V. Somasundaran
Rakesh Singh
Rajeev Gupta
Arun Jha‚ 
P Sivakumar


35. Urdu litterateur ______ has been conferred with inaugural Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award of Bharatiya Jnanpith. ?

Madhusudhan Prasad
Shamim Hanfi
Rakesh Singh
Rajiv Yadav
None of These


36. Hindi writer ______ has been presented with 24th Vyaas Samman (2014) for his work 'Premchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayan'.?

Kamal Kishore Goenka
A. S. Kiran Kumar
Rajiv Yadav
Rajive Kumar
None of These


37. ______ received SKOCH Award for smart governance for its initiatives on UAN programme and transformation of social security agenda in India. ?

ESIC
SBI
LIC
RBI
Employees' Provident Fund Organisation


38. Odisha's _____ won Community Impact Award at fifth Google Science Fair in California ?

Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai
Pradeep Kumar Pujari
Vijay Shankar Madan
Sanjay Kothari
None of These


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