Awards, Personalities, Books

Question 1

Who got NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE 2020 & FOR WHAT?

Answer 1

Harvey J ALTER(usa),Michael M RICE(usa),HOUGHTON(britain) = for Discovering HEPATITIS C Virus.

Question 2

NOBEL PRIZE In Physics 2020 & FOR WHAT?

Answer 2

PENROSE(UK, for Black hole formarion), GENZEL(germany) jointly with GHEZ(usa) for discovery of object at milky way.

Question 3

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2020 & FOR WHAT?

Answer 3

EMMANULLE (france), Jennifer (usa) for discovery of Genetic scissor CRISPR-CAS9- both WOMEN

Question 4

NOBEL PRIZE IN Literature 2020 & FOR WHAT?

Answer 4

LOUSIE GLUCK- for Poetic voice

Question 5

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2020 & FOR WHAT?

Answer 5

World Food Program (HQ- Rome italy, UN bodyfor hunger )

Question 6

NOBEL PRIZE ECONOMICS 2020 & FOR WHAT?

Answer 6

PAUL MILGRAM & WILSON- for Auction Theory

Question 7

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2020

Answer 7

Rohit sharma(cricket),Mariyappam(para atheletic), Vinesh Phogat(wrestling),Rani Rampal(hockey),Manika batra(table tennis)

Question 8

Padma Vibhusan 2021 (2nd highest award)

Answer 8

Shizo abe, SP Balasburmaniam, Dr. Hegde,B B Lal,

Question 9

Padma Bhushan 2021(3rd highest award)

Answer 9

Sumitra Mahajan, Tarun Gogoi, Ram Vilas Paswan, Nirpendra Mishra, Rajnikant Shroff( trade & Industry), Nair Shantikumari chitra(art)

Question 10

Bharta Ratna (highest civilian award)

Answer 10

Pranab Mukherjee, Bhupendra Hazarika(singer,poet,film), Nana ji Deshmukh(social activist)

Question 11

Arjuna Award 2020

Answer 11

Ishant sharma(cricket), Saurabh chaudhary & Manu bhaker(shooting), Dutee chand(sprinter),Sandesh jhingan(footballer),Lovlina Boroghain(boxer),Shiva keshavan(Sport Luge)

Question 12

Dronacharya award 2020

Answer 12

Purshotam rai(atheletics), Romesh Pathania (hockey)

Question 13

Booker Prize 2020

Answer 13

Douglas Stuart- for novel “Shuggie Bain”

Question 14

Prdhan Mantri Awas Yojna 2019 award

Answer 14

Winner - Kanchipuram TN, Best performing State- UP, in NE- Tripura

Question 15

2020 UNCTAD Investment award

Answer 15

Winner- Invest India

Question 16

Central Bank of year 2020 & CB Governor of Year

Answer 16

Bank of Ghana & Mark Carney(governor of Bank of England)

Question 17

Asia Safest Bank 2020

Answer 17

DBS bank Singapore, Worlds safest(KFW bank Germany), India’s safest(SBI)

Question 18

Human Capital Mgmt Exellence award

Answer 18

SBI

Question 19

International Emmiy Awards 2020

Answer 19

Delhi crime

Question 20

2020 World Food Laurette Nobel (prize)

Answer 20

Dr Rattan Lal(soil sceintist)

Question 21

Author of Purna Abhinandan is___

Answer 21

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Question 22

Book “Yes Man- Untold story of Rana Kapoor” authored by __

Answer 22

Pavan C. Lall

Question 23

Who was awarded with BHARAT Asmita National Award 2021 __

Answer 23

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Question 24

India’s first Centre for Wetland Conservation & Mgmt

Answer 24

in Chennai

Question 25

Who authored book " The Little book of encouragement "

Answer 25

by Dalai Lama

Question 26

World Cancer day

Answer 26

4 Feb

Question 27

Allan Border Medal associated with ____and who won it recently for 3rd time...

Answer 27

Cricket (given by australian), Steve Smith won it.

Question 28

ASSOCHAM Enterprise of Century award

Answer 28

Ratan TATA

Question 29

2020 Dada saheb phalke award...

Answer 29

Kezang D Thaongdok

Question 30

ICC Mens Test & ODI , t20 cricketer of the Decade

Answer 30

Steve smith (TEST) Virat Kohli(ODI), Rashid khna(T20)

Question 31

OSCARS 2020 1-Best Picture 2-Best Actor 3-Best Animated Film

Answer 31

1-Parasite 2-Phoenix for joker 3-Toy Story 4

Question 32

``` Who authored book - 1-The Battle of belonging 2- Child of destiny 3-Shuttling to the top(story of p v sindhu) 4-Relentless 5- Pandemonim : Great Indian Baking Tragedy 6-A Promised land 7-"Louiz Banks: A symphony of love" ```

Answer 32

``` 1- Shahsi tharoor 2- Prof K Ramakrishna Rao 3- V Krishnamurthy 4-Yashwant sinha 5-T Bandyopadhyay 6- Barack obama 7-Ashis Ghatak ```

Question 33

India's ranking in Index 2020 ``` a-Ease of Doing Business Index = b-Global Innovation Index = c-Human development Index = d-Human Capital Index = e-Global gender gap Index = f-Global Competitiveness Index= g-Sustainable development Index= h-Climate change performance Index (2021)= ```

Answer 33

Ranking & (prepared by) ``` a-63 (by World Bank) b-48(by WIPO & Cornell) c-131 (by UNDP, topped=Norway Last=Niger) d-116 (World bank) e-112 (WEF) f-46 (WEF) g-117 h-10 ```

Question 34

Soil health card day celebrated on ...

Answer 34

19 Feb

Question 35

Who has authored the Book " Indian Economy's Greatest Crisis : impact of Coronavirus & Road ahead"

Answer 35

Arun Kumar

Question 36

Good governance day (Susasan diwas) celebrated on ...

Answer 36

25 dec on memory of Atal B Bajpyee.