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1. Laureus Sports Awards 2016 - Sportsman of the Year - Novak Djokovic (Serbia),
Sportswoman of the Year - Serena Williams (______) ?
USA
UK
Russia

( Ans - 1)

Spain
France

2. 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction (The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen),
Drama (Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda), History (Custers Trials: A Life on the
Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles), Biography (Barbarian Days: A Surfing
Life by _______________), Poetry(Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian), Music (In
for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill) ?
Leonora LaPeter Anton
Anthony Cormier
William Finnegan

( Ans - 3)

Christian Miller
None of These

3. 5 times world chess champion _________ will be honoured with Hridaynath

Award ?
Magnus Carlsen
Vladimir Kramnik
Bobby Feischer
Viswanathan Anand
None of These

( Ans - 4)

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4. Actor _________ chosen for Dadasaheb Phalke Award in Best Actor (Critics
Choice) category for his role in Aligarh Movie ?
Jeetendra
Amitabh Bachchan
Irrfan Khan

( Ans - 5)

Ranveer Singh
Manoj Bajpayee

5. Actor ______ will be Honored as 'Lokmat Maharashtrian of The Year' award ?

Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan
Ranveer Singh

( Ans - 3)

Ranbir Kapoor
None of These

6. Actress ___________won Global Indian of the Year award at NRI of the Year
awards. ?
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Deepika Padukone
Priyanka Chopra

( Ans - 1)

Rekha
None of These

7. Bollywood actress _________ won best actress in an international narrative

feature honour at Tribeca Film Festival 2016 for her performance in anthology
film Madly. ?
Deepika Padukone

( Ans - 2)

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Radhika Apte
Priyanka Chopra
Katrina Kaif
None of These

8. ________ Poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev has been chosen for prestigious
Saraswati Samman for 2015 for her autobiography Chitt-Chete, published in 2007 ?
Dogri
Hindi
Urdu

( Ans - 1)

Gujarati
Marathi

9. Former Indian Army Chief ______ conferred with Officer of the Legion of
Honour, highest French civilian distinction ?
JJ Singh
V K Singh
Bikram Singh

( Ans - 1)

Deepak Kumar
None of These

10. ___________ won National Intellectual Property (IP) Award in academic

institutes category. Institute will be awarded Top prize for Academic Institute for
Patents 2016 on World IP Day (26 April 2016) ?
IIT Ropar
( Ans - 4)
IIT Kanpur

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IIT Delhi
IIT Kharagpur
None of These

11. In ____________ , Balamallupalli village in Karimanagar district has been

awarded as the best Panchayat in India ?
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh

( Ans - 4)

Telangana
None of These

12. India's Nand Kishore Singh has been selected for prestigious Order of
the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver, _________s highest civilian award ?
France
Japan
Germany

( Ans - 2)

South Africa
None of These

13. Indian diplomat in UK, Amitav Banerji has been conferred with one of highest
awards of _________(Island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea) ?
UK
( Ans - 5)
USA
France
Japan

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Cyprus

14. Indian-origin researcher _________ has been recently selected for NASAs
Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) programme for his concept Venus Interior
Probe Using In-situ Power and Propulsion . Purpose of programme is to
revolutionise future space missions to Mars and beyond ?
Ratnakumar Bugga
Vivek Murthy
Bobby Jindal

( Ans - 1)

Geeta Menon
None of These

15. Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova of ___________ has been chosen

for 2016 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. ?
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan

( Ans - 4)

Azerbaijan
None of These

16. K Ashok Kumar, a research scholar from ________ won prestigious

International Plant Nutrition Scholar Award for his work on project aimed at
studing soil nutrient dynamics under organic and inorganic nutrient management
to improve crop yield and quality of rice-chickpea cropping system in lateritic soil. ?
IIT Ropar
( Ans - 3)
IIT kanpur
IIT Kharagpur
IIT Delhi

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None of These

17. MK Gandhi's granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee is conferred with Order

of Arts and Letters, one of __________' s top honours, for her work for promoting
peace, solidarity, culture, education, and development. ?
Germany
France
Spain

( Ans - 2)

Russia
None of These

18. _____ conferred its highest civilian award "North Star" to 2 noted Indian
scholars-Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider for their contribution to studies ?
China
Mongolia
Japan

( Ans - 2)

USA
None of These

19. Mumbai Press Club selected _____ for RedInk Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Journalism 2016 ?
Barkha Dutt
Arnab Goswami
Rajat Sharma
T N Ninan
None of These

( Ans - 4)

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20. _____________'s $5 polymer note won IBNS Bank Note of the Year
Award 2015. This award is an initiative of International Bank Note Society (IBNS)
to recognize an exceptional banknote issued each year. ?
New Zealand
Australia
Japan

( Ans - 1)

China
None of These

21. Noted Actor ________ is honoured with 2016 Lifetime Achievement of Master
Dinanath Mangeshkar Award ?
Jeetendra
Amitabh Bachchan
Vinod Khanna

( Ans - 1)

Dharmendra
None of These

22. Noted _________ scholar Vijayveer Vidyalankar is selected for 25th Yudhvir
Foundation Memorial Award for his work on the Rasa Sddhant and Vedas. ?
Hindi
Sanskrit
Urdu
Tamils
None of These

( Ans - 2)

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23. PEN America will confer PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award upon
imprisoned ____________ novelist Ahmed Naji.
PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award will be given to Harry Potter creator
J.K. Rowling ?
Iraqi
Libyan
Syrian

( Ans - 4)

Egyptian
None of These

24. President Pranab Mukherjee Presented Hindi Sevi Samman Awards for years
2012, 2013 and 2014 t0 42 people in 7 categories. Under These Awards, George
Grieson Award was given to Alka Dhanpat (2012), Ge Fuping (2013), __________
(2014 )?
Shirda Kumar Shakya
B Satyanarayan
Radhakant Mishra

( Ans - 5)

R Surendran
Shichiro Soma

25. President Pranab Mukherjee presented National Geoscience Awards - 2014 to

honour scientists for their outstanding contributions in Geosciences, Mining and
Allied areas. For 2014, _____________ was conferred with highest honour
National Geoscience Award for Excellence for his contributions in sedimentary
technologies. 32 other geoscientists were honored on this Occasion ?
Sekhar Basu
( Ans - 3)
K. Radhakrishnan
Ashok Kumar Singhvi
C R Rao

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None of These

26. Under Prime Minister Awards for Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan
Yojana (PMJSY) - Nagaon (________) won in North East and Hill States,
Chandigarh in UTs and North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) in Other States. ?
Assam
Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh

( Ans - 1)

Goa
None of These

27. Under Prime Minister Awards for Implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission
(Gramin) - ____________ in North East & Hill states and Bikaner (Rajasthan)
awarded in Other States category. ?
East Sikkim
West Sikkim
North Sikkim

( Ans - 2)

South Sikkim
None of These

28. ___________ won FBB Femina Miss India World 2016. She will represent
India at Miss World 2016 pageant. ?
Pankhuri Gidwani
Sushruthi Krishna
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
Navpreet Kaur
None of These

( Ans - 3)

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29. _______ will be given Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundations Best Actress of the
Year award. ?
Kangana Ranaut
Radhika Apte
Konkona Sen

( Ans - 5)

Deepika Padukone
Priyanka Chopra

30. _________, renowned sand artist from India has won gold medal at 9th
Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship The magical world of sand at Moscow
(Russia) ?
Nitish Bharti
Prakash Lohia
Sudarsan Pattnaik

( Ans - 3)

Asif Kapadia
None of These

31. United Kingdoms Awards 2016 for recognition of exemplary achievements of

people within the global Asian community - ______ (Founders Award ), Rami
Ranger (Community Service), Prakash Lohia (Business Leader), Asif Kapadia
(Outstanding Achievement in Cinema), Anil Agrawal (Entrepreneur) ?
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
M K Gandhi
Mother Teresa
None of These

( Ans - 4)

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1. In 10th Asian film Awards (______), Best Film - The Assassin. Director - Hou
HsiaoHsien (The Assassin), Actor - Lee Byunghun (The Inside Men), Actress - Shu
Qi (The Assassin) ?
Vietnam
China
Thailand

( Ans - 2)

Malaysia
None of These

2. In 2016 Hockey India Annual Award, Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement
Award was given to _______ ?
Shankar Laxman
Preeti Dubey
Ritu Rani

( Ans - 1)

P.R Sreejesh
None of These

3. In 63rd National Film Awards for year 2015, Best film Baahubali : The
Beginning, Best Actor ________ (Piku), Best Actress Kangana Ranaut (Tanu
Weds Manu Returns) ?
Irrfan Khan
Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan
Amitabh Bachchan
None of These

( Ans - 4)

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4. Advertising Club Madras conferred its 1st Distinguished Service Award on
______, for contribution to advertising industry ?
Baljit Singh
Srinivasan K Swamy
Harjeet Singh

( Ans - 2)

Dhruv Batra
None of These

5. ______ conferred with prestigious 2016 Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri

Lifetime Achievement Award also known as Krishi Shiromani Samman ?
P.R Sreejesh
Tanvi Azmi
Ritu Rani

( Ans - 5)

Pargat Singh
Amrita Patel

6. _____ won award for Laadli Media and Advertising Gender Sensitivity 20142015
for Her Telugu blog Vivakshaku Mugimpu Palakaali, selected under web category
for bringing to fore core issues faced by women in agriculture sector. ?
Gaurav Menon
Neeraj Ghaywan
Aruna Gali

( Ans - 3)

Remo D'Souza
None of These

7. _______ mathematician Andrew Wiles won prestigious 2016 Abel Prize. He was
selected by Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters for solving a centuries old
hypothesis (equation), Fermat's Last Theorem ?

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British
American
Australian

( Ans - 1)

French
None of These

8. _____________ poetess and writer Padma Sachdev is awarded by Krutitava

Smagra Samman 2015 ?
Punjabi
Hindi
Tamil

( Ans - 4)

Dogri
None of These

9. In 5th National Photography Awards Life Time Achievement was given to

_______. ?
Rajat Sharma
Raj Nayak
Sanjay Gupta

( Ans - 5)

Javed Ahmed Dar

Bhawan Singh

10. India's ______ won first prize in UN #LinksSDGs Data Visualization Challenge.
He is awarded for his submission Links to Sustainable Cities, an interactive
visualization that identifies links between Sustainable Development Goal 11
(Sustainable Cities and Communities) and other 16 Goals ?
Sanjay Gupta
( Ans - 2)

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Abdulqadir Rashik
Raj Nayak
Nanak Shah Fakir
None of These

11. Indian _____ has been awarded First Noor Inayat Khan Prize for her excellent
dissertation on Goddess Myths in Graphic Novels: Reimagining Indian Feminity ?
Geetakshi Arora
Shobha De
Chetan Bhagat

( Ans - 1)

Robin Sharma
None of These

12. Indian author Jerry Pinto won 2016 WindhamCampbell Prize for his novel Em
and The Big Hoom in fiction category at Yale University (_____) ?
China
Australia
USA

( Ans - 3)

UK
France

13. ____ Tourism's campaign New Worlds won Golden City Gate Award at
Internationale TourismusBorse Berlin (ITBBerlin) 2016 ?
Karnataka
( Ans - 4)
Rajasthan
Himachal Pradesh

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Kerala
Haryana

14. Mahindra & Mahindra Group CMD Anand G Mahindra conferred with Chevalier
de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by _____.?
Polana
Germany
Spain

( Ans - 5)

USA
France

15. Media Foundation's _____ award for 201516 has been jointly awarded to
Priyanka Kakodkar and Raksha Kumar ?
Rajat Sharma
Chameli Devi Jain
Raj Nayak

( Ans - 2)

Sanjay Gupta
None of These

16. ______ won Research Investor Communication Award among Large

Corporates in an independent poll of over 3000 Fund Managers/Analysts/Non
Institutional Investors ?
SAIL
BEL
NTPC
BHEL

( Ans - 3)

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None of These

17. Noted Actor ____ selected for 47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2015 ?
Dilip Kumar
Manoj Kumar
Kader Khan

( Ans - 2)

Shammi Kapoor
None of These

18. Noted American singer ______ honoured with Global Green Hero award at
13th Annual Global Green USA Pre Oscar party. ?
Taylor Swift
Stevie Wonder
Stephanie Taylor

( Ans - 2)

Shakira
None of These

19. Noted ____ writer M Sukumaran has been chosen for CV Kunhiraman Literary
Prize ?
Hindi
Tamil
Punjabi
Malayalam
Marathi

( Ans - 4)

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20. Noted playwright and director ____ has been selected for prestigious Lifetime
Achievement Award for 2016 at Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) ?
Ratan Thiyam
Javed Akhtar
Vidhu Vinod Chopra

( Ans - 1)

Sameer Anjaan
None of These

21. Noted poet _____ has been selected for 2015 Bihari Puraskar for his anthology
of Rajasthani poems Katha Sun Aawe Hai Sabad, published in 2010. ?
Bhagwati Lal Vyas
Haldhar Nag
Javed Akhtar

( Ans - 1)

Shobha De
None of These

22. Government conferred 2014 - 15 Krishi Karman Awards during Krishi Unnati
Mela in Delhi. In Total foodgrain production, _____ was awarded for Highest
production in Over 10 million tonnes Catgeory?
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan

( Ans - 2)

Uttar Pradesh
None of These

23. ______ teacher Hanan Al Hroub has been awarded with one million dollar
2016 Global Teacher Prize . India's Robin Chaurasiya was among the finalists ?
Syrian
( Ans - 4)

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Israeli
Lebonese
Palestinian
None of These

24. Pranab Mukherjee conferred Padma Awards 2016. It Included Haldhar Nag, 66yearold poet from Odisha, who writes in _____ language and highlightened as he
used to be a 3rd Class passout and now acclaimed among top Poets with 5 Thesis
written for him ?
Dogri
Hindi
Punjab

( Ans - 5)

Marathi
Kosli

25. Sirshendu De of IIT _____ selected for Innovation Award 2016 by Indian
Desalination Association (IDA) South Zone for developing ultra lowcost ecofriendly
laterite based arsenic water filter. ?
Delhi
Ropar
Kharagpur

( Ans - 3)

Roorkee
None of These

26. South Asian Public Affairs Council (SAPAC) in _____ honored Actor Randeep
Hooda with achievement award for making his mark in film industry. ?
Australia
( Ans - 1)

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USA
UK
Russia
Spain

27. _____ University won annual Visitors Award for Best University and Prof.
Rakesh Bhatnagar and Molecular Parasitology Group of JNU won Visitors Awards
for Research and Innovation' ?
Hyderabad
Tezpur
Bilaspur

( Ans - 2)

Surguja
None of These

28. Three ______ scientists Timothy Bliss, Graham Collingridge and Graham
Collingridge have won 2016 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize (also
known as Brain Prize) for giving vital insight how human brain remembers, learns
and navigates ?
American
Spanish
British

( Ans - 3)

Russian
None of These

29. Tikka Shatrujit Singh is conferred with Knight of the Legion of Honour by
_____ Government ?
Israeli

( Ans - 5)

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Lebonese
Polish
Spanish
French

30. ____ and Martin Hellman honoured with Association for Computing
Machinery's 2015 A.M. Turing Award ?
Joe Biden
Paul Ryan
Whitfield Diffie

( Ans - 3)

Donald Trump
None of These
1. 58th Annual Grammy Award for Best album of the year has been given to
Album 1989by ______ ?
Taylor Swift
Adele
Lll Wayne

( Ans - 1)

Pitbull
None of These

2. In 66th Berlin International Film Festival, Golden Bear award for best film was
given to Italian documentary Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea). India's _____ film Ottal
(The Trap) won best feature-length and best short films in childrens category ?
Hindi
( Ans - 3)
Kannada
Malayalam
Urdu

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None of These

3. 9th British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards named Best
Film award to _______ ?
Steve Jobs
Brooklyn
Room

( Ans - 4)

The Revenant
None of These

4. 88th Academy Awards (Oscars) - Picture - Spotlight, Actor - _______ (The

Revenant). Actress - Brie Larson (Room). Supporting Actor - Mark Rylance (Bridge
of Spies), Supporting Actress - Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl). Director Alejandro G. Irritu (The Revenant) ?
Alfonso Cuarn
Eddie Redmayne
Jared Leto

( Ans - 5)

Matthew McConaughey
Leonardo DiCaprio

5. Actor _____ is honoured with lifetime achievement at NDTV Indian of the Year
2015 awards ?
Aamir Khan
Shahrukh Khan
Amitabh Bachchan
Salman Khan
None of These

( Ans - 3)

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6. American publishing company Time announced winners of inaugural TIME India

awards - Best in class manufacturing - Tata Steel AND Manufacturing innovator ____ ?
Hero MotoCorp
Maruti Suzuki Motors
Honda Auto

( Ans - 1)

Volkswagen Auto
None of These

7. Bollywood actress ______ has been awarded with Pride of Kerala Award by
World Malayalee Council and Kairali TV. ?
Deepika Padukone
Vidya Balan
Priyanka Chopra

( Ans - 2)

Rekha
None of These

8. Chemical scientist Goverdhan Mehta has been conferred with _________s

prestigious Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) Award ?
Germany
Spain
Russia
France
None of These

( Ans - 1)

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9. ______ Command Hospital , Kolkata awarded with Best Service Hospital in
Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). ?
Eastern
Western
Northern

( Ans - 1)

Southern
None of These

10. Fashion designer Manish Arora awarded with Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur
(Knight of the Legion of Honour), ___________'s highest civilian honour ?
USA
Germany
UK

( Ans - 4)

France
None of These

11. Former DRDO Director-General (DG) ___________ is awarded prestigious

Aryabhata Award of Astronautical Society of India. He was chief architect of Agni
series of ballistic missiles and is known as Agni man of India. ?
A J Abdul Kalam
Selvin Christopher
Jagjivan Ram

( Ans - 4)

Avinash Chander
None of These

12. Hyderabad-based _________ awarded Global CSR Excellence & Leadership

Award in category of Best Environment Friendly Project for its Go Green, Grow
Green plantation drive ?

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Sun Pharma
GVK Biosciences
Lupin

( Ans - 2)

Cipla
None of These

13. India conferred honorary General of the Indian Army rank to _____ Army
Chief General Rajendra Chettri. ?
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Myanmar

( Ans - 5)

Bhutan
Nepal

14. India's _________, who runs a not-for-profit school in Mumbai for girls has
been named in top 10 shortlisted for $1 Million Global Teacher Prize 2016 ?
Robin Chaurasiya
Amar Sinha
Anil Wadhwa

( Ans - 1)

Amarendra Khatua
None of These

15. India's ___________ awarded with inaugural Green Bond Pioneer Award in
United Kingdom for its efforts in Green Bonds market including issuance of India's
first ever Green Infrastructure Bonds ?
State Bank of India

( Ans - 4)

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HDFC
RBI
Yes Bank
None of These

16. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) named ____ as

Global Recording Artist of 2015 across all music format ?
Taylor Swift
Shakira
Adele

( Ans - 3)

Pitbull
None of These

17. Kanu Behl directed ________ won Best First Foreign Film Award in French
Syndicate of Cinema Critics 2016 (FSCC) ?
Jal
Titli
Ottal

( Ans - 2)

Rang
None of These

18. _____ won IBA Banking Technology Award in category of Best Risk and Fraud
Management Initiative - Runner Up ?
ICICI Bank
( Ans - 2)
Karnataka Bank
SBI

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HDFC
None of These

19. _______'s flagship mobile-one governance application won gold medal at

fourth World Government Summit in Dubai (UAE) in m-governance category. ?
Kerala
Manipur
Mizoram

( Ans - 4)

Karnataka
None of These

20.______'s taxi cab service 'She-Taxi', country's first 24x7 taxi network by women
for women, has won Chief Minister's Award for Innovation in Public Policy 2014 in
'developmental interventions' category. ?
Kerala
Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh

( Ans - 1)

Mizoram
Manipur

21. ________'s CEO Vinita Gupta and MD Nilesh Gupta have been chosen for EY
Entrepreneur Of Year India 2015. They will now represent India at EY World
Entrepreneur of Year Award (WEOY) in Monte Carlo in June 2016 ?
Lupin
( Ans - 1)
Flipkart
PayTm
Snapdeal

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None of These

22. __________ actress Geetu Mohandas won 2016 Global Filmmaking award at
Sundance Film Festival 2016 for script of her upcoming film Insha Allah ?
Kannada
Malayalam
Matarhi

( Ans - 2)

Bengali
None of these

23. ___________ documentary film Phum Shang won Golden Conch Award for
best documentary at 14th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 2016 ?
Marathi
Punjabi
Tamil

( Ans - 4)

Manipuri
None of These

24. Noted Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and actor _________ have been chosen
for 2016 Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar Award ?
Akshay Kumar
Ranbir Kapoor
Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan
Ranveer Singh

( Ans - 5)

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25. Popular lyricist ___________ incuded into Guinness Book of World Records
for writing most number of Bollywood songs. He wrote 3,524 songs for 650
Bollywood movies ?
Prasoon Joshi
Guljar
Sameer Anjaan

( Ans - 3)

Javed Akhtar
None of These

26. Renowned Indologist Professor _________ won prestigious Israel Prize for
Religious Studies for his research into literature and culture of southern India ?
David Shulman
Ajit M Sharan
Soumya Swaminathan

( Ans - 1)

Anoop Kumar Srivastava

None of These

27. ____________ from India won Miss Asia (Best in Asia Continent) at 2016
World Miss University pageant in Beijing (China) ?
Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Rewati Chetri
Sobhita Dhulipala
Zoya Afroz
None of These

( Ans - 2)

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28. _________ maestro Pandit Ram Narayan is chosen for prestigious Pandit
Bhimsen Joshi Classical Music Award for 2015-2016. ?
Tabla
Shehnai
Sarangi

( Ans - 3)

Guitar
None of These

29. Scriptwriter _________ to be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at

2nd International Film Festival of Prayag (IFFP) ?
Sameer Anjaan
Prasoon Joshi
Javed Akhtar

( Ans - 5)

Farhan Akhtar
Sagar Sarhadi

30. Sound designer Resul Pookutty won prestigious American Motion Picture
Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Award for documentary _______________ ?
Jal
Ottal
Indias Daughter

( Ans - 3)

India's Heritage
None of These

31. ___ film Kanavu Variyam won 2016 Remi Award in United States. It has been
directed and produced by Arun Chidambaram and Karthik Chidambaram. ?
Hindi
( Ans - 4)

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Telugu
Punjabi
Tamil
Gujarati

32. _____________'s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has been conferred with
first world Sanskrit Award. ?
Malaysia
Thailand
Singapore

( Ans - 2)

Sri Lanka
None of These

33. Warren Richardson (_____________) Won World Press Photo of 2015. ?

Australia
USA
UK

( Ans - 1)

France
Russia

1. 14th Tripadvisor Travelers Choice Awards named Umaid Bhawan Palace of

______ (Rajasthan) As best hotel of 2016 ?
Jodhpur
( Ans - 1)
Bikaner
Jaipur
Udaipur

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None of These

2. In 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards, Film ______ won most awards (8) ?
Piku
PK
Bajirao Mastani

( Ans - 3)

Bajrangi Bhaijaan
None of These

3. 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards - Best Actor: ______ , Best Actress: Deepika
Padukone, Best Film : Bajirao Mastani and Best Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali ?
Salman Khan
Aamir Khan
Akshay Kumar

( Ans - 4)

Ranveer Singh
None of These

4. In 73rd Golden Globe Awards, Best Picture (Drama) - The Revenant and Best
Picture (Musical/Comedy) - ______ ?
Jurassic World
Interstellar
Avengers 2
Furious 7
The Martian

( Ans - 5)

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5. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (OSCAR Academy) presented
Technical Award to Indian - origin actor ____ and Cottalango Leon ?
Priyanka Chopra
Bobby Jindal
Rahul Thakkar

( Ans - 3)

Kal Penn
None of These

6. Alejandro Aravena (_____) won 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He will

receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medal ?
Chile
USA
Brazil

( Ans - 1)

Argentina
None of These

7.____ Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been chosen for K Veeramani Social
Justice Award for his contribution for upliftment of weaker and marginalised
sections. ?
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Madhya Pradesh

( Ans - 2)

Andhra Pradesh
None of These

8. In Costa Book Awards 2015 - First Novel Award has been won by _____ for The
Loney?

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Andrew Michael Hurley
Andrea Wulf
Kate Atkinson

( Ans - 1)

Don Paterson
None of These

9. _______ has been awarded 2016 Allan Border Medal by Cricket Australia ?
David Warner
Steve Smith
Shaun Marsh

( Ans - 1)

Andrew Symonds
None of These

10. For 2012 - 13, RakshaMantri Awards for Excellence in performance was given
to HAL and Best performance in Exports given to _______ ?
BHEL
SAIL
GAIL

( Ans - 4)

BEML
BEL

11. For 2013 - 14, RakshaMantri Awards for Excellence in performance was and
Best performance in Exports has been given to _______ ?
NMDC
( Ans - 4)
BEML

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SAIL
BEL
GAIL

12. Delhi-based Journalist-writer ____ won Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for 2015
under Asia Pacific Amateur category for her article Stirrings beneath the peepul ?
Chetan Bhagat
Ankita Anand
Nandan Nilekani

( Ans - 2)

Shobha De
None of These

13. Easterine Kire from ____ won Hindu Literary Prize 2015 for her novel When
the River Sleeps. ?
Assam
Meghalaya
Manipur

( Ans - 5)

Mizoram
Nagaland

14. ______ won National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 for launching Universal
Account Number (UAN) ?
Employees' Provident Fund
( Ans - 1)
Organisation
LIC
RBI

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SBI
None of These

15._____ is selected for 2016 Prof MV Pylee Award as best academician of India. ?
A P J Abdul Kalam
E Sridharan
Sunder Pichai

( Ans - 4)

Jancy James
None of These

16. President approved 365 Gallantry awards to Armed Forces personnel including
1 Ashoka Chakra (______), 4 Kirti Chakras and 11 Shaurya Chakras ?
Satish Kumar
Santosh Yashwant Mahadik
Mohan Nath Goswami

( Ans - 3)

Mahendra Singh
None of These

17. Government Issued list of 20 Smart Cities winning smart city challenge. ______
(Odisha) placed at Top. Government will invest Rs 50,802 crore in the 20 cities and
towns over five years ?
Cuttack
Bhubaneswar
Angul
Balasore
None of These

( Ans - 2)

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18. Government conferred Jeevan Raksha Padak Awards 2015 on ______ persons
Including 3 Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padaks - Ullas Unnikrishnan, Ramdars
Sisodiya, Ankit Kumar Mishra ?
60
50
70

( Ans - 2)

80
100

19. Government will introduce a new category of award - Most _______ under
National Film Awards to be conferred at the 63rd National Film Awards in May
2016 ?
Peoplr Friendly State/UT
Rural Friendly State/UT
Environment Friendly State/UT

( Ans - 4)

Film Friendly State/UT

None of These

20. Ilaiyaraja has been selected for _____ Tourisms Nishagandhi Puraskaram
2016. Award carries Rs 150000, citation and a statuette ?
Kerala
Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
None of These

( Ans - 1)

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21. Indian Author and foreign affairs expert _____ won 2016 William E. Colby
Award for his book Midnights Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition ?
Nisid Hajari
Ravi Subramanian
Ashwin Sanghi

( Ans - 1)

Salman Rushdie
Khushwant Singh

22. Indian lawyer and human rights defender ______ has been selected for 2016
Amnesty International Human Rights Award. ?
Kailash Satyarthy
Henri Tiphagne
Anant Pai

( Ans - 2)

Subroto Bagchi
None of These

23. Indian writer ____ won $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her
novel 'Sleeping on Jupiter' ?
Rashmi Bansal
Shobha De
Jhumpa Lahiri

( Ans - 4)

Anuradha Roy
Nita Mehta

24. Indian-origin cancer research expert _______ has been honoured with
Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his influential work on prevention and
treatment of cancer ?

AWARDS JAN TO APRAIL 2016

Bobby Jindal
Deepak Chopra
Ram Charan

( Ans - 5)

Girish Karnad
Harpal Singh Kumar

25. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy and Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb won 2015
_______ for their fight against occupation and violence ?
Pritkzer Prize
UN Peace Prize
Olof Palme human rights prize

( Ans - 3)

Nobel Peace Prize

None of These

26. _____ won Government's Krishi Karman Award in maximum food grains
production for 2014-15 for 4th consecutive year ?
Madhya Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Punjab

( Ans - 1)

Haryana
Uttar Pradesh

27. Morton Mower (______), Michael Marmot (UK) won 2015 Prince Mahidol
Award for their achievements in healthcare sector ?
Germany
( Ans - 2)
USA

AWARDS JAN TO APRAIL 2016

Spain
France
Russia

28. Noted Actress ____ has been conferred with third Yash Chopra Memorial
Award. ?
Jayaprada
Deepika Padukone
Rekha

( Ans - 3)

Priyanka Chopra
None of These

29. Noted Classical vocalist _____ has been conferred with prestigious 2015
Sangita Kalanidhi award by Madras Music Academy in Chennai ?
Dr Balamuralikrishna
Bhimsen Joshi
M S Subbulakshmi

( Ans - 5)

Pandit Jasraj
Sanjay Subrahmanyam

30. Noted poet _____ has been honoured with second Harikrishna Devsare
Baalsahitya Award 2015 for his collection of poems for children - BaalGeet ?
Ravinder Singh
( Ans - 3)
Amitav Ghosh
Balkrishna Garg
Ravi Subramanian

AWARDS JAN TO APRAIL 2016

None of These

31. PEN American Center gave its 2016 PEN/Allen award to author ______ ?
Jonathan Franzen
Richard Ford
Jonathan Safran Foer

( Ans - 4)

J.K. Rowling
None of These

32. In Padma Awards 2016 - Government honored 10 People with Padma Vibhusan,
29 with Padma Bhushan and 112 as Padma Shri Decorations. Noted Actor ____
received Padma Vibhushan ?
Anupam kher
Rajnikanth
Akshay Kumar

( Ans - 2)

Amitabh Bachchan
None of These

33. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented National Bravery Awards to __

children. He also released book Life progression of ICCW National Bravery
Awardees. ?
25
35
45
55
None of These

( Ans - 1)

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34. Reserve Bank of India Governor ______ has been conferred with Central
Banker of the Year Award (Global and Asia Pacific) 2016 by The Banker, a monthly
publication of Financial Times Group ?
R Gandhi
H R Khan
Urijit Patel

( Ans - 5)

Arvind Mayaram
Raghuram Rajan

35. _____ honoured with Neerja Bhanot Award for her endeavour to help people in
distress and for empowering widows of martyrs and their families ?
Arunima Sinha
Subhashini Vasanth
Sushma Swaraj

( Ans - 2)

Smriti Irani
None of These

36. _____ Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali received World Peace
and Prosperity Foundation Award 2016 from World Peace and Prosperity
Foundation (London) ?
Telangana
Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Tamilnadu
Rajasthan

( Ans - 1)

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37. Three persons of Indian-origin - Chennupati Jagadis, Jay Chandra and Sajeev
Koshy have been awarded 2016 Medal of Order, ______s highest civilian honour
for their contribution in various fields. ?
USA
UK
UAE

( Ans - 5)

Spain
Australia

38. Wildlife filmmaker _____ has been conferred with V Shantaram Life Time
Acheivement Award at 14th edition of 2016 Mumbai International Festival (MIFF),
Mumbai ?
Naresh Bedi
Shekar Dattatri
Ashish Chandola
Tarun Gogoi
None of These

( Ans - 1)