Expected GK Questions from recent Awards and Honors 2015

1). Who among the following conferred ‘Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award’ for his outstanding support for the country’s independence from Pakistan?
a) Morarji Desai
b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
c) Indira Gandhi
d) P. V. Narashima Rao

2). Eminent scientist CNR Rao recently received the ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ award. It is the highest civilian award of ____________.
a) China
b) Australia
c) France
d) Japan


3). Who recently won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015?
a) Ali Smith
b) Anne Tyler
c) Hilary Mantel
d) Rachel Cusk

4). Mazen Darwish who recently received the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 is a journalist from which country?
a) Syria
b) Egypt
c) Peru
d) Yemen

5). India origin schoolboy Pratap Singh was recently awarded the Institute of Physics Prize for conducting an experiment that verified which of the following theories?
a) Experiment theory
b) Theory of special relativity
c) Raman Effect
d) None of these

6). Who emerged as the winner of the 2015 Time Magazine’s 100 reader’s poll?
a) Xi Jinping
b) Narendra Modi
c) Lady Gaga
d) Vladimir Putin

7). Veteran actor-filmmaker Shashi Kapoor was presented the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award on 10th May 2015 by?
a) Hamid Ansari
b) Amitabh Bachchan
c) Pranab Mukherjee
d) Arun Jaitley

8). On 25th April 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Jnanpith award to renowned literary figure Bhalchandra Nemade. He is famous for his works in which language?
a) Kannada
b) Marathi
c) Hindi
d) Malayalam

9). Which bank has won the Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015?
a) State Bank of India
b) Bank of India
c) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
d) Punjab National Bank

10). Ramachandra Guha who was recently selected for Japan’s Fukuoka Prize in the Academic category is what by profession?
a) Historian
b) Architect
c) Scientist
d) Mathematician