Awards and Honors - General Knowledge Questions and Answers

Mrinalini Sarabhai was awarded the ___________ in 1992.

Who won the Saraswati Samman for the year 2020?

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

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

Which group was given the name ‘paraffin’ earlier?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

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?

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