Awards, Honours and Persons in News (MCQs)
Categories: Current Affairs
Q.1. Who has been sworn in as the Chief Information Commissioner of India?
(A) Praveen Kumar Srivastava
(B) Heeralal Samariya
(C) Nitin Agarwal
(D) R Hari Kumar
Ans. (B) Heeralal Samariya
Q.2. Who is the singer of ‘Abundance in Millets’ song, which has been nominated for the Grammy award?
(A) Falguni Shah
(B) Udit Narayan
(C) Asha Bhosle
(D) Shankar Mahadevan
Ans. (A) Falguni Shah
Q.3. Which writer won the JCB Prize for Literature for his novel ‘Fire Bird’?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Perumal Murugan
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Jeya Mohan
Ans. (B) Perumal Murugan
Q.4. Which Indian has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the UN Panel of Auditors?
(A) K Venugopal
(B) Girish Chandra Murmu
(C) Vinod Rai
(D) Shashikant Sharma
Ans. (B) Girish Chandra Murmu
Q.5. Who is the first Indian woman to receive the ‘International Emmy Directorate Award’?
(A) Ekta Kapoor
(B) Zoya Akhtar
(C) Sudha Kongara
(D) Juhi Chawla
Ans. (A) Ekta Kapoor
Q.6. Who is the first woman judge of the Supreme Court?
(A) Justice Fathima Beevi
(B) Justice Sujata Manohar
(C) Justice Ruma Pal
(D) Justice Gyan Sudha Misra
Ans. (A) Justice Fathima Beevi
Q.7. Which Union Ministry is associated with ‘National Gopal Ratna Awards’?
(A) Ministry of Agriculture
(B) Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
(C) Ministry of MSME
(D) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Ans. (B) Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
Q.8. Who is / was the first tribal Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh?
(A) Vishnu Deo Sai
(B) Ajit Jogi
(C) Bhupesh Baghel
(D) Arun Sao
Ans. (B) Ajit Jogi
Q.9. Who is the treasurer of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Trust overseeing Ram temple preparations?
(A) Mahant Nrityagopal Das
(B) Govind Devagiri
(C) Champat Rai
(D) Nripendra Mishra
Ans. (B) Govind Devagiri
Q.10. Recently, Indian Lawyer Uma Sekhar was elected to the governing council of International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) . UNIDROIT is based at which city?
(A) Geneva
(B) Paris
(C) Rome
(D) Washington DC
Ans. (C) Rome