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(Q) Midnight's Children won which prestigious award ?

A) Jnanpith Award
B) Booker Prize
C) Sahitya Akademi Award
D) Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

View Answer B) Booker Prize

Explanation : Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 and later the Booker of Bookers in 2008.
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(Q) Which Indian author is known for his work on the Indian diaspora and won the Pulitzer Prize ?

A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Kiran Desai

View Answer A) Jhumpa Lahiri

Explanation : Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for her collection of short stories, "Interpreter of Maladies."
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(Q) Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Jnanpith Award ?

A) Kamala Das
B) Mahadevi Verma
C) Ashapoorna Devi
D) Amrita Pritam

View Answer C) Ashapoorna Devi

Explanation : Ashapoorna Devi was the first woman to win the Jnanpith Award in 1976.
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(Q) Which Indian author is known for his book 'The Inheritance of Loss' ?

A) Arundhati Roy
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Vikram Seth
D) Kiran Desai

View Answer D) Kiran Desai

Explanation : Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for "The Inheritance of Loss" in 2006.
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(Q) Which prestigious award did Yellapragada Subbarow receive posthumously for his contributions to medical science ?

A) Nobel Prize in Medicine
B) Bharat Ratna
C) Padma Bhushan
D) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

View Answer D) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Explanation : Yellapragada Subbarow was posthumously awarded the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his significant contributions to medical science.
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(Q) Which award has been named in honor of Savitribai Phule to recognize women's contributions to social work and education ?

A) Bharat Ratna
B) Savitribai Phule Award
C) Padma Shri
D) Jyotirao Phule Award

View Answer B) Savitribai Phule Award

Explanation : The Savitribai Phule Award is given to women for their outstanding contributions to social work and education.
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(Q) What is the field of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Social Service ?

A) Medicine
B) Science
C) Social Work
D) Education

View Answer B) Environmental Science

Explanation : Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes are awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding work in the field of Science. The award is named after the founder Director of CSIR, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. He is also known as the Father of Indian Research Laboratories, remembered for having established various chemical labs in the country.
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