Awards and Honours CUET General Test MCQs

Question: Which film has won the Best Picture award at the 94th Academy Awards?
a) Belfast
b) CODA
c) The Power of the Dog
d) King Richard

Answer: b

Question: Who has been conferred with the Assam’s highest civilian honour ‘Assam Baibhav’ for the year 2021?
a) Ratan Tata
b) Adar Poonawalla
c) Azim Premji
d) Narayana Murthy

Answer: a

Question: Who among the following has won Pulitzer Prize 2021 in ‘International Reporting category’ for reporting on China’s detention camps for Muslims?
a) Megha Rajagopalan
b) Alison Killing
c) Christo Buschek
d) All of the above

Answer: d

Question: Match the following columns :

Codes
    A B C D
a) 3 4 2 1
b) 4 2 3 1
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 4 3 1 2

Answer: c

Question: Which state has topped under the Best State category at the third National Water Awards?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Karnataka
d) Gujarat

Answer: a

Question: Which Indian mathematician was conferred ‘Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2021’?
a) Neena Gupta
b) R. Praggnanandhaa
c) Dr. B. Uma Shankar
d) Dr. Kuntal Ghosh

Answer: a

Question: Consider the following statements :
1. Bill Gates has been conferred with ‘Hilal-e-Pakistan’.
2. Hilal-e-Pakistan is the highest civilian award of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Of the above correct statement(s) is/are
a) Both 1 and 2
b) Only 1
c) Only 2
d) None of these

Answer: b

Question: Who has won the award for the Best National Costume at the Mrs. World 2022 pageant?
a) Suman Rao
b) Sanjana Vij
c) Vartika Singh
d) Navdeep Kaur

Answer: d

Question: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with which country’s highest civilian award, Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo [Order of the Dragon King (Druk Gyalpo)]?
a) Vietnam
b) Bhutan
c) Japan
d) Thailand

Answer: b

Question: Name the winner of Miss World 2021beauty pageant?
a) Milena Sadowska
b) Karolina Bielawska
c) Izabella Krzan
d) Rozalia Mancewicz

Answer: b

Question: Name the Sahitya Akademi and Padma Shri awardee Assamese poet who has won the 56th Jnanpith Award.
a) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
b) Amitav Ghosh
c) Shanka Ghosh
d) Nilmani Phookan

Answer: d

Question: Who has won the 2021 Miss Universe crown?
a) Adline Castelino
b) Vartika Singh
c) Andrea Meza
d) Harnaaz Sandhu

Answer: d

Question: Which film won Best Film award at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2022?
a) Shershaah
b) 83
c) Mimi
d) Pushpa

Answer: b

Question: Match the following columns :

Codes
    A B C D
a) 3 4 2 1
b) 4 2 3 1
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 4 3 1 2

Answer: c

Question: How many peoples have been awarded ‘Padma Bhushan’ in Padma Awards 2022?
a) 4
b) 17
c) 52
d) 74

Answer: b

Question: Which city has received the Swachh Survekshan Award 2021 for being the Cleanest City of India?
a) Ahmedabad
b) Indore
c) Mumbai
d) Surat

Answer: b

Question: Who won the Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2021?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Lata Mangeshkar
c) Asha Bhosle
d) Ratan Tata

Answer: c

Question: Match the following columns :

Codes
    A B C D
a) 3 4 2 1
b) 4 2 3 1
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 4 3 1 2

Answer: c

Question: Name the winners of the 2021 Global Leadership Award, by the US India Business Council (USIBC)?
a) Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan
b) N. Chandrasekaran and Jim Taiclet
c) Sundar Pichai and Adena Friedman
d) Adar Poonawalla and Adil Zainulbhai

Answer: a

Question: Which programme has won the outstanding drama series at the 2021 Emmy Award?
a) Mare of East town
b) The Crown
c) Ted Lasso
d) Hacks

Answer: b

Question: Dr. Firdausi Qadri and Muhammad Amjad Saqib, who were seen in the news recently, are the recipients of which award?
a) Booker Prize
b) Ramon Magsaysay Award
c) Pulitzer Award
d) Abel Prize

Answer: b

Question: Name the winner of Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) 2021?
a) Felipe Foncueva
b) Alejandro Prieto
c) Jonas Classon
d) Maofeng Shen

Answer: b

Question: Who has won “Woman of the Year Award” at World Athletics Awards 2021?
a) Manasi Joshi
b) Koneru Humpy
c) PV Sindhu
d) Anju Bobby George

Answer: d

Question: Name the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.
a) Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
b) Andrea M. Ghez, Jim Peebles and Michel Mayor
c) Reinhard Genzel, Didier Queloz and Kip Thorne
d) Arthur
b) McDonald, Peter Higgs and Adam Riess

Answer: a

Question: Who has been awarded the Best Actor award at the BRICS Film Festival 2021?
a) Vikram Gokhale
b) Jitendra Bhikulal Joshi
c) Kunal Kapoor
d) Dhanush

Answer: d

Question: Name the Indian activist who has been felicitated w ith the prestigious Commonwealth Points of Light award by the UK government recently?
a) Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi
b) Hucheshwar Gurusidha Mudgal
c) Bharat Bhushan Tyagi
d) Syed Osman Azhar Maqsusi

Answer: d

Question: Which airport has been adjudged as the ‘Best Airport’ under the General Category at Wings India 2022?
a) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
b) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
c) Kempegowda International Airport
d) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

Answer: c

Question: Which amongst the following is not included in the India-based enterprises announced Best Small Business by United Nations?
a) Edible Routes Private Limited
b) Oorja Development Solutions India
c) Taru Naturals
d) Zydus Wellness

Answer: d

Question: The European Union’s Sakharov Prize 2020 has been awarded to the opposition movement of which country?
a) Belarus
b) Chile
c) Argentina
d) Singapore

Answer: a

Question: Name the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction.
a) Richard Powers
b) Maggie Shipstead
c) Marion Hänsel
d) Damon Galgut

Answer: d

Question: Who has been awarded the Saraswati Samman, 2020?
a) K. Siva Reddy
b) Sharankumar Limbale
c) Vasdev Mohi
d) Sitanshu Yashaschandra

Answer: b

Question: Who won the Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2021?
a) Sanjay Gupta
b) Deepak Tilak
c) Cyrus Poonawalla
d) Adar Pooonawalla

Answer: c

Question: Who is the winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize?
a) David Diop
b) Olga Tokarczuk
c) Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
d) Han Kang

Answer: a

Question: Name the female player who has bagged “The Best FIFA Women’s Player” for 2020?
a) Ellen White
b) Jill Scott
c) Lucy Bronze
d) Toni Duggan

Answer: c

Question: Who among the following has won the Miss Universe title 2020?
a) Julia Gama
b) Andrea Meza
c) Adline Castelino
d) Kimberly Jimenez

Answer: b

Question: Which nation honoured Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen with its top award in social sciences?
a) Denmark
b) France
c) Spain
d) Germany

Answer: c

Question: Who has been chosen as the “People’s Advocate” of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)?
a) Louis Theroux
b) Steve Backshall
c) Trevor McDonald
d) David Attenborough

Answer: d

Question: Name the Indian film which has won the Best Foreign Language Feature award at Moscow International Film Festival
a) Choked
b) Panga
c) Bulbbul
d) Puglya

Answer: d

Question: Who has won the title of Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade 2020?
a) Kumar Sangakkara
b) Ravi Ashwin
c) Virat Kohli
d) Steve Smith

Answer: c

Question: Which film has won the Best Picture Award at the 93rd Academy Awards or Oscars 2021?
a) The Father
b) Judas And The Black Messiah
c) Nomadland
d) Minari

Answer: c

Question: Name the winner of the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for the 2020-21 season at the New Zealand Cricket Awards?
a) Glenn Turner
b) Ross Taylor
c) Kane Williamson
d) Chris Cairns

Answer: c

Question: Name the Indian filmmaker who has been honored with the second highest French civilian honour “Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters”.
a) Sunil Bohra
b) Anurag Kashyap
c) Shaan Vyas
d) Guneet Monga

Answer: d

Question: Who has been conferred with the Tansen Samman for 2020?
a) Pt. Satish Vyas
b) Pt. Vidyadhar Vyas
c) Pt. Ulhaas Kashalkar
d) Pt. Dalchan Sharma

Answer: a

Question: Name the winner of the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Award
a) Sreenivas Karanam
b) Sreelakshmi Suresh
c) Deepanjali Dalmia
d) Ranveer Allahbadia

Answer: a

Question: Who has been awarded the prestigious Central European University (CEU) Open Society Prize for 2021?
a) Sharankumar Limbale
b) Rumana Sinha Sehgal
c) KK Shailaja
d) Guneet Monga

Answer: c

Question: Who is the winner of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2021?
a) Cheche Lazaro
b) Rodrigo Duterte
c) Maria Ressa
d) Mike Enriquez

Answer: c

Question: Which film has won the best film award at the 66th Filmfare Awards for the year 2021?
a) Thappad
b) Tanhaji : The Unsung Warrior
c) Angrezi Medium
d) Ludo

Answer: a