Awards and honours MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

In the January 2022 Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar context, Gauri Maheshwari of Rajasthan was one of the recognised children, noted for art and culture, especially calligraphy. Kiran Sharma, Deepika Gupta and Namita Singh are not the Rajasthan awardee named in this question's source set. The item is period-bound: it refers to the January 2022 award announcement and interaction, not later Bal Puraskar lists. The published key therefore correctly points to Gauri Maheshwari for this past paper.

Dr. Aditi Sen De is the correct answer because she became the first woman scientist to receive the G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research. The award recognises outstanding scientific work by Indian scientists below the specified age ceiling. Sipra Guha Mukherjee is known for pioneering work in plant tissue culture, but she is not the awardee asked here. Dr. Rani Chatterjee is not associated with this specific award in the given context. M. Fatima Bibi was a noted jurist and the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India, not a scientist receiving this research award.

As the question was set in the 2024 CET cycle, it refers to the 41st Lokmanya Tilak National Award announced for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who received it in Pune in 2023. Narendra Modi therefore matches the award asked in the stem. Dr. K. Sivan and Dr. Mayilsamy Annadurai are noted for their work in India's space programme, but they are not the named recipient of the 41st award. Amit Shah is a senior political leader, yet the cited award was not conferred on him.

Ravi Kannan, an Indian surgical oncologist known for cancer care work in Assam, was among the 2023 Ramon Magsaysay Award recipients, so he matches the question. Kailash Vidyarthi, as printed, is not the Indian named for this award in 2023. Ghazal Alagh is known as an entrepreneur and was not the 2023 Ramon Magsaysay awardee. Gautam Adani is an industrialist and is unrelated to this award. Among the four names, only Ravi Kannan fits the 2023 Ramon Magsaysay Award.

The official key identifies India as the country whose armed forces received the coveted Golden Owl award for outstanding performance in December 2023. This is a current-affairs recall item, so the answer follows the event as framed in the 2024 CET paper. China is not linked with the award in this question. Sri Lanka appears relevant only because the award context is often connected with military training institutions there, not as the awarded country's armed forces. Singapore is also not the awarded country in the official framing.