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(Q1) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Mrinalini Sarabhai was awarded the ___________ in 1992.

A

Bharat Ratna

B

Padma Shri

C

Padma Bhushan

D

Padma Vibhushan

(Q2) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Who won the Saraswati Samman for the year 2020?

A

Amitabha Bagchi

B

Padma Sachdev

C

Sharankumar Limbale

D

Leeladhar Jagudi

(Q3) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Malka Jaan of Agra Gharana was the court musician at the durbar of which of the following Nawabs of Calcutta?

A

Asaf-ud-Daula

B

Shuza-ud-Daula

C

Wajid Ali Shah

D

Mohammad Ali Shah

(Q4) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Uma Sharma was conferred the Padma Bhushan award for enriching which of the following forms of Classical Dances in India?

A

Kathak

B

Bharatanatyam

C

Manipuri

D

Odissi

(Q5) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Which group was given the name ‘paraffin’ earlier?

A

 Alkanes  

B

Acids 

C

 Aldehydes 

D

 Alcohols 

(Q6) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran was conferred the Padma Shri award for her contribution to which of the following dance forms?

A

Mohiniyattam

B

Bharatanatyam

C

Kuchipudi

D

Kathak

(Q7) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

The famous folk musician Bhupen Hazarika belongs to which of the following states?

A

Karnataka

B

Odisha

C

Madhya Pradesh

D

Assam

(Q8) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Who among the following authors won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in the year 2019?

A

Jairam Ramesh

B

Dinyar Patel

C

Ornit Shani

D

Milan Vaishnav

(Q9) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, a renowned musician from India is known for playing which of the following instruments?

A

Veena

B

Jaltarang

C

Sarod

D

Sarangi

(Q10) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Which of the following Carnatic instruments is performed by Rajna Swaminathan?

A

Flute

B

Violin

C

Mridangam

D

Veena

(Q11) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Which of the following instruments is played by P Mani Iyer?

A

Mridangam

B

Mandolin

C

Sarangi

D

Violin

(Q12) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

C V Chandra Shekhar was conferred the Padma Bhushan for his contributions to which of the following forms of Dance?

A

Manipuri

B

Kathak

C

Kathakali

D

Bharatanatyam

(Q13) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Three Indians were named amongst Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ of 2021. Who among the following is NOT one of them?

A

 Mamata Banerjee 

B

Narendra Modi

C

 Adar Poonawalla 

D

Gautam Adani

(Q14) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Which Indian musician won the Grammys in 2015 in the Best New Age Album category, his album Winds of Samsara was a collaboration with a South African falutist Wouter Kellerman?

A

Alokananda Dasgupta

B

Sadhu Kokila

C

Rickey Kej

D

Stephen Devassy

(Q15) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

In February 2022, which of the following persons was nominated for Laureus ‘World Breakthrough of the Year’ award?

A

Vinesh Phogat 

B

Neeraj Chopra 

C

 Sachin Tendulkar 

D

Max Parrot 

(Q16) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Which of the following Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancers received the honours of Padma Shri in 1981 and Padma Bhushan in 2003?

A

Mallika Sarabhai

B

Padma Subrahmanyam

C

Savitha Sastry

D

Rukmini Devi

(Q17) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Which of the following Indian classical singers was known as Mallika-e-Ghazal or the Queen of Ghazal and got appreciations by the Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu at the age of fifteen?

A

Suraiya

B

Amrutha Suresh

C

Chitra Singh

D

Begum Akhtar

(Q18) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Sonal Mansingh, the classical dance legend, has NOT received which of the following awards?

A

Padma Shri

B

Padma Bhushan

C

Padma Vibhushan

D

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

(Q19) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Who among the following Indian musicians introduced shehnai to the concert stage and was selected to perform for the ceremony at Delhi’s historic Red Fort on the occasion of India’s Independence Day on 15 August 1947?

A

Ali Ahmad Hussain

B

Ali Bakhsh

C

Bismillah Khan

D

Anant Lal

(Q20) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors

Mallika Sarabhai, a Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer, was awarded with the Padma Bhushan in which of the following years?

A

2012

B

2008

C

2010

D

2006