Test: Current Affairs (Awards and Honours Part 1) - Software Development MCQ

The correct answer is Tulsi Gowda.

Key Points

• President Ram Nath Kovind presents Padmashri to Smt Tulsi Gowda for social work.
• She is an environmentalist from Karnataka.
• She has planted more than 30000 saplings.
• She has been involved in environmental conservation activities for the past six decades.

Important Points 

• Padma Shri award List (Nov 2021)​

Additional Information 

• Padma Awards ( Jan 2021) are split into three categories:
  • Padma Vibhushan (highest civilian honors.): 7
  • Padma Bhushan: 10
  • Padma Shri: 102
  • Women Awardees: 29
  • Category of foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI: 10
  • Posthumous: 16
  • Transgender Awardee: 1

The correct answer is ​Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Key Points

• The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. 
• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." 
• The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).
• Gurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.
• He was born in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah arrived in England as a refugee in the late 1960s.
• He was Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury, until his recent retirement.
• Gurnah is the first black African author to have won the award since Wole Soyinka in 1986.

The correct answer is Rajasthan.

Key Points

• Avani Lekhara is from Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Important Points

•  As 19-year-old Avani Lekhara won the gold medal in women’s 10 m air rifle Standing event in the SH 1 category at the Tokyo Paralympics.
• She became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics.
• Avani shot 249.6 points in the R2 women’s 10m air rifle SH1 category for a Paralympic Record and equal the World Record.
• In the final, she led from the start and edged out China’s Zhang C and Ukraine’s I Shchetnik in the medal series to win the gold.
• Avani has won many World Cup medals since 2017 including a Silver with a Junior World Record in R2 at the WSPS World Cup 2017, bronze at the WSPS World Cup Bangkok 2017, silver in the WSPS World Cup in Osijek, Croatia 2019, and silver in the WSPS World Cup Al-Ain 2021. She won the Tokyo Paralympics quota in February 2019 in the UAE.
• In 2012, the whole Lekhara family met with an accident on their way to Dholpur from Jaipur.
• The then 11-year-old Avani suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralysed below the waist.

The correct answer is Maria Ressa.

Key Points

• Investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines has received the 2021 laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
• The Award Ceremony took place on 2 May in Windhoek, Namibia, on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day Global Conference.
• Over a career spanning more than thirty years, Ressa has worked as CNN’s lead investigative reporter for Asia and the head of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. She has also been involved in many international initiatives to promote press freedom. 

Additional Information

The correct answer is ​Anand Kumar.

Key Points 

• Mathematician Anand Kumar has been conferred with the Swami Brahmanand Award 2021 for his contribution in the field of education through his Super 30 initiative.
• The award carries Rs. 10,000 in cash, a bronze medal, a bronze statue of Swami Brahmanand, and a certificate.
• The award is given every year to people who have done special work in the education sector or for the welfare of the cow.​

Additional Information 

The correct answer is László Lovász and ​Avi Wigderson.

Key Points

• The Abel Prize 2021 was awarded to Avi Wigderson, and Laszlo Lovasz.
• László Lovász is a mathematician of Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (ELKH, MTA Institute of Excellence) and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and Avi Wigderson a mathematician of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.

Important Points

• Abel Prize is presented by the King of Norway and is often called the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
• The Abel Prize was established on 1 January 2002.
• The purpose is to award the Abel Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics.
• The prize amount is 7.5 million NOK and was awarded for the first time on 3 June 2003.
• The prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh.

Key Points

• Republic Day 2021:
  • This is the 72nd Republic Day to mark the day India became a sovereign republic
  • This time, there would not be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade.
  • Bhawana Kanth becomes the first woman fighter pilot to be part of IAF's tableau.
  • Uttar Pradesh tableau was given the first award for best tableau out of a total of 32 with the theme Ayodha: Cultural Heritage of Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is P.V Sindhu.

Key Points

• President Ram Nath Kovind presents Padma Bhushan to shuttler PV Sindhu.
• She is the first Indian to become a badminton World champion.
• She also won the silver medal at Rio Olympics.​

Mistake Points

• PV Sindhu received the Padma Bhushan.
• She had been conferred the national awards in 2020 but the ceremony was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was conducted in 2021.

Additional Information

• M.C Mary Kom (Boxing) recently received Padma Vibhushana (2020) for Sports.
• Adnan Sami recently received the Padma Shri award in the category of Singing and Song Writer.
• Kangna Ranaut recently received the Padma Shri award for Art
• Padma Awards (2020) are split into three categories:
  • Padma Vibhushan (highest civilian honours.): 7
  • Padma Bhushan: 16
  • Padma Shri: 118
  • Women Awardees: 33
  • Category of foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI: 18
  • Posthumous: 12
  • Transgender Awardee: 1
• Padma Awards (2021) are split into three categories:
  • Padma Vibhushan (highest civilian honors.): 7
  • Padma Bhushan: 10
  • Padma Shri: 102
  • Women Awardees: 29
  • Category of foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI: 10
  • Posthumous: 16
  • Transgender Awardee: 1

The correct answer is R. Ashwin.

In News

• 12 sportspersons will be conferred the country's highest sporting honour the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2021.
• The felicitation ceremony will take place on 13 November at the Rashtrapati Bhawan with the President of India.
• The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award is the highest sports honour awarded by the government and is given for outstanding performances in the field of sports.
  • The Arjuna Award is to recognise consistent performances and qualities like leadership and discipline.
• Both awards consider performances over a period of four years and include a trophy, a citation, and a cash award.
• The original list of sportspersons initially recommended for the Khel Ratna by the selection committee comprised only 11 names,
• Indian men's hockey captain Manpreet Singh was added to the final list by the Government.

Additional Information

Important Points

•  The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had nominated R Ashwin for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

The correct answer is ​Naomi Osaka.

Key Points

• World number two tennis player Naomi Osaka of Japan has been named “Sportswoman of the Year” at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards.
• This is Osaka’s second recognition at the Laureus Sports Awards. She won the “Breakthrough of the Year” award in 2019.

Important Points

• Due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the 22nd Laureus World Sports Awards was held in a virtual ceremony in Seville, Spain.
• The awards show, which included presentations and related news reports, was broadcast live on Laureus social media sites and was open to the world's media. 
• Rafael Nadal won the Sportsman of the Year.
• Patrick Mahomes won the Breakthrough of the Year Award.
• Max Parrot won the Comeback of the Year Award.
• Billie Jean King won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Mohamed Salah won the Sporting Inspiration Award.
• Chris Nikic won the Sporting Moment of the Year Award.
• Jamaican sprint star Elaine Thompson-Herah is named sportswoman of the year at the Laureus World Sports Awards during a digital ceremony held in 2022.

Additional Information

•  World Singles Rankings - (May 2021)